Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
74.2 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact In Sickness and in Health: Roman and Late Antique Amulets from Syria-Palestine Megan Nutzman 145
74.1 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact The Use of Biblical Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Texts, Functions, and Contexts Joseph Sanzo 145
73.3 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Shadows, Dust, and Simulacra in Propertius Book Four Hunter Gardner 145
73.2 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Elegy, Aetia, and the Conquest of the Feminine in Propertius Book 4 Serena Witzke 145
73.1 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Propertius 4.7: Cynthia Re-Reads the Elegiac Affair Jessica Wise 145
72.4 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Ctesias at the Crossroads: Integrating Greek and Near Eastern Traditions in the Persica Matt Waters 145
72.3 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Mortuary Traditions and Cultural Exchange in Anatolia Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre 145
72.2 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Athens, Cyprus, and Phoenicia: Trade Relations and Official Policies in the Fourth Century BC Brian Rutishauser 145
72.1 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Freedom and Its Relationship to the Greco-Persian Conflict Harold Vedeler 145
71.4 History in Classics / Classics in History Graduate and Undergraduate Training for the Ancient History Job Market Jennifer Roberts 145
71.3 History in Classics / Classics in History Strengthening a Classics Department with Ancient History Dennis P. Kehoe 145
71.2 History in Classics / Classics in History Bread and Circuses: How an Ancient Historian Put the Classics Back into the Gen. Ed. Cheryl Golden 145
71.1 History in Classics / Classics in History Investigating the Past: The Teaching of Ancient History in Liberal Arts Colleges Eric K. Dugdale 145
70.4 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity “How many mouths could tell ...?” An Epigram by the Empress Eudocia and Cento Poetics Timo Christian 145
70.3 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity Eden Is the Paradise of Truphē Vanessa Gorman 145
70.2 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity The So-called Calliopian Recension of Terence Benjamin Victor 145
70.1 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity A New Fragment of Ovid’s Medea Pierluigi Leone Gatti 145
69.4 Documentary Fallacies The Circulation of the Historia Augusta: Reconsidering its Anonymity Kathryn Langenfeld 145
69.3 Documentary Fallacies The Fog of Peace: (Pseudo)-Alliances on the Coinage of Late Roman Usurpers Tristan Taylor 145
69.1 Documentary Fallacies The Documentary Letters of the Alexander Romance Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 145
68.4 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Astyanax and the Discus: Athletic Discourse in Euripides’ Troades Owen Goslin 145
68.3 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Laughter and Blood: A Homeric Echo in Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Allen-Hornblower 145
68.2 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Mapping the World in Greek Tragedy Aara Suksi 145
68.2 Documentary Fallacies The Medium is (Part of) the Message: Cicero on the Use of Tabellae by the Catilinarian Conspirators Robert McCutcheon 145
68.1 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Rhetorical Aeschylus Allannah Karas 145
67.5 Stifling Sexuality? Stifling ‘Scare Figures’ H. Christian Blood 145
67.4 Stifling Sexuality? “Sex and Homosexuality in Suetonius’ Caesares” Molly M. Pryzwansky 145
67.3 Stifling Sexuality? “The Art of Not Loving” E.Del Chrol 145
67.2 Stifling Sexuality? “Mature Praeceptor Amoris Seeks Tops (Discreet): Desire and Deniability in Tibullus 1.4” Robert Matera 145
67.1 Stifling Sexuality? “Stupra et caedes: Homosexuality, Women’s Rituals, and the State in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative” Vassiliki Panoussi 145
66.5 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity The Performance of Diplomacy: Verbal and Non-verbal Communication at the Imperial Court of the Late Roman Empire Audrey Becker 145
66.4 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Performance and Petitions: A Game of Justice in Roman Egypt Martin Reznick 145
66.3 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Sharing Letters, Sharing Friendship: Public Readings in Synesius Mathilde Cambron-Goulet 145
66.2 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Actors and Theaters, Rabbis and Synagogues: The Use of Public Performances in Shaping Communal Behavior in Late Antique Palestine Zeev Weiss 145
66.1 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Why Are We Told Which Language Was Spoken? Performative Strategies and Languages in Christian Narratives of Late Antiquity Yuliya Minets 145
65.4 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Textual and Archaeological Evidence for Late Bronze Age Lesbos, Mycenaean Hegemony, and the Name of a Great King of the Achaeans Annette Teffeteller 145
65.3 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Greeks and Anatolians on Lesbos: The Linguistic Evidence Alexander Dale 145
65.2 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages On the Prehistory of Lesbos’ Relations with Lydia: When and Where Did the Greeks First Encounter the Lydians? Rostislav Oreshko 145
65.1 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Religion in Aegean-Hittite Diplomacy: The Evidence of the Hittite Ahhiyawa Texts Ian Rutherford 145
64.5 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Politics of Friendship in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Jula Wildberger 145
64.4 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Dion of Prusa and the Later Stoics on Participation in Politics Gretchen Reydams-Schils 145
64.3 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Precept(or), Example, and Politics in Seneca Matthew Roller 145
64.2 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Valerius Maximus, Stoicism, and Roman Practices of Exemplarity Ermanno Malaspina 145
64.1 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Color and Variety in Stoic Physics Thomas Habinek 145
63.4 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reaching Out with Print and Web Ellen A. Bauerle 145
63.3 What We Do When We Do Outreach Making a MOOC of Greek History Andrew Szegedy-Maszak 145
63.2 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reading Homer with Combat Veterans Roberta L. Stewart 145
63.1 What We Do When We Do Outreach The Big Read Jennifer A. Rea 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
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