Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
54.1 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context Richard Fernando Buxton 145
54.2 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Reading the Future in Xenophon’s Anabasis Emily Baragwanath 145
54.3 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Piety in Xenophon’s Theory of Leadership Michael Flower 145
54.4 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Bad Leaders in Xenophon’s Hellenica Frances Pownall 145
4.1 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrificing and Purifying in Greek Poleis. Reassessments and Perspectives Stella Georgoudi 145
4.2 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Anger and Honorary Shares: The Promethean Division Revisited Charles Stocking 145
4.3 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrifice as Literary Construct? The Gap Between God and Sacrifice, Poetry and Cult Sarah Hitch 145
4.4 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrificing “In the Greek Fashion” F. S. Naiden 145
5.4 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek Pausanias Politicus: Reflections on Theseus, Themistocles, and Athenian Democracy in Book 1 of the Periegesis Patrick Paul Hogan 145
5.5 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek Christians, Money, and the Politics of Intellectual Life under the Severans Jared Secord 145
5.1 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Face of the Emperor in Philo's Embassy to Gaius Daniel W. Leon 145
5.2 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Glory Without the Glamour: Shared Political Rhetoric in Plutarch and Tacitus Adam Kemezis 145
5.3 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Political Geography of Dionysius’ Periegesis and Arrian’s Periplus Ponti Euxini Janet Downie 145
47.3 Women of the Roman Empire Women in the Treason Trials of Tacitus' Annales Laura Van Abbema 145
47.1 Women of the Roman Empire Public Roles of Provincial Women: Flaminicae of the Imperial Cult Judith Lynn Sebesta 145
47.2 Women of the Roman Empire Self-Image of Provincial Women in Roman Britain and Roman Egypt Kelli Thomerson 145
63.1 What We Do When We Do Outreach The Big Read Jennifer A. Rea 145
63.2 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reading Homer with Combat Veterans Roberta L. Stewart 145
63.3 What We Do When We Do Outreach Making a MOOC of Greek History Andrew Szegedy-Maszak 145
63.4 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reaching Out with Print and Web Ellen A. Bauerle 145
27.1 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism The Neoplatonic Answer to Socrates' 'What is X? Danielle Layne 145
27.2 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism The Dialectic of One and Many in the Development of Neoplatonic Metaphysics Sara Ahbel-Rappe 145
27.3 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism The oikeiōsis Doctrine in Christian Neoplatonism between Ethics and Theology Ilaria Ramelli 145
27.4 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism Diotima’s Ladder and Derrida’s L’Autre: Neoplatonism for a Post-Metaphysical Age Vishwa Adluri 145
62.1 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Who Sees? A Narratological Approach to Propertius 3.6 Mitch Brown 145
62.2 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Culture, Corruption, and the View from Rome: Propertius 3.21 and 3.22 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 145
62.3 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Horace and Vergil in Dialogue in Odes 4.12 Philip Thibodeau 145
62.4 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Sidera testes: Masculinity and the Power of the Ancestral Gaze in Cicero, Tacitus, and Juvenal Julie Langford and Heather Vincent 145
62.5 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Greek and Roman Eyes: the Cultural Politics of Ekphrastic Epigram in Imperial Rome Carolyn MacDonald 145
19.1 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall The End of an Era: Seventeenth-Century Aeneid Commentaries M.H.K. (Maarten) Jansen 145
19.2 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall The Virgile français in the Napoleonic Era: Delille's Commented Edition of the Aeneid Marco Mistretta Romani 145
19.3 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall Notes on the Greater Work: The Iliadic Aeneid and the Commentary Tradition Lee Fratantuono 145
50.1 Vergil’s Aeneid Causas memora: Overdetermination and Undermotivation in the Aeneid Bill Beck 145
50.2 Vergil’s Aeneid Persian Dido Elena Giusti 145
50.3 Vergil’s Aeneid Boxing and Siege Engines in Vergil’s Aeneid George Fredric Franko 145
50.4 Vergil’s Aeneid Pallas Goes Off to War: a Portentum in Virgil’s Aeneid James Townshend 145
50.5 Vergil’s Aeneid Inscribing Fate: Epigraphic Conventions and Virgil's Aeneas Morgan E. Palmer 145
57.1 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Varro on the Kinship of Things and of Words David Blank 145
57.2 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Creeping Roots: Varro on Latin Across Time and Space Adam Gitner 145
57.3 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic The Time, the Place: a Year with Varro Diana Spencer 145
57.4 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic The Antiquities of the Latin Language: Varro's Excavations of the Roman Past Katharina Volk 145
42.4 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Creation by Reduction: Alice Oswald’s Use of the Iliad in Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 145
42.1 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Hairy Iopas: Virgil and the Gigantomachy in Joyce’s Ulysses Randall Pogorzelski 145
42.2 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Working Women Weaving Tales in Ovid's Metamorphoses and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cynthia Hornbeck 145
42.3 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Scholars, Metalepsis, and Queer Unhistoricism: Interventions of the Unruly Past in Reed’s 'Boy Caesar' and De Juan’s 'Este latente mundo' Sebastian Matzner 145
22.1 Unauthorized Receptions Latin, Greek, and Other Classical Nonsense in the Work of Edward Lear Marian Makins 145
22.2 Unauthorized Receptions Mortal Heroes: Homeric Themes and Classical Allusions in Sidney Nolan’s ‘Gallipoli Series’ Sarah Midford 145
22.3 Unauthorized Receptions Aurelio G. Amatucci’s Codex Fori Mussolini and the Prospective Memory of Italian Fascism Bettina Reitz-Joosse 145
22.4 Unauthorized Receptions The Anti-Oedipus: Strella and a Queer Re-imagining of the Tragic Family Lynn Kozak 145
6.1 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Love’s Journeys: Corcyra in Propertius 1.17 and Tibullus 1.3 Micah Young Myers 145