Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
62.3 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Horace and Vergil in Dialogue in Odes 4.12 Philip Thibodeau 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
62.1 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Who Sees? A Narratological Approach to Propertius 3.6 Mitch Brown 145
61.5 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry The Addressee and Date of Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis Leanna Boychenko 145
61.4 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Books Received: Encounters with Texts in Callimachus' Aetia and Iambi Robin J. Greene 145
61.3 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Hipparchus Philologus John Ryan 145
61.2 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Reader of Xenophon: Ethnography, Travel, and Greekness in the Argonautica and the Anabasis Mark Thatcher 145
61.1 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Alternate Alcinoi: Evidence for a Distinctive Version of the Phaeacians in the Argonautic Tradition William Duffy 145
60.5 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Arcana imperii Reconsidered: Tacitus and the Ethics of State Secrecy Matthew Taylor 145
60.4 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Security and cura in the Georgics Michèle Lowrie 145
60.3 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The Mercenary, the Polis, and an Athenian Inscription from the Fourth Century BC Jake Nabel 145
60.2 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The History and Rhetoric of Disarming Greek Citizens Jeffrey Yeakel 145
60.1 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World What Makes a Law “Unfitting”? Edwin Carawan 145
59.5 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Give Me a Bit of Paratragedy: Strattis’ Phoenician Women Matthew C. Farmer 145
59.4 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes the Actor? Jennifer Starkey 145
59.3 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy History, Memory, and the soteria Theme in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Robert Tordoff 145
59.2 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes’ Ecclesizusae and the Remaking of the patrios politeia Alan Sheppard 145
59.1 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Friends in Low Places: Cleon’s philia in Aristophanes Robert Holschuh Simmons 145
58.8 Poster Session From Hebrew to Latin: Verbs in Translation in the Book of Ecclesiastes Luke Gorton 145
58.7 Poster Session Roman Epitaphs and the Poetics of Quantification Andrew M. Riggsby 145
58.6 Poster Session The Chairman’s Patronymic in an Athenian Alliance with Dionysius of Syracuse (IG II² 105 and 523) Marcaline J. Boyd 145
58.5 Poster Session How Do Epic Poets Construct their Lines? A Study of the Verb προσέειπεν in Homer, Hesiod, Batrachomyomachia, Apollonius Rhodius, and Quintus Smyrnaeus Chiara Bozzone 145
58.4 Poster Session Plato Goes to China: Participles, Ontology, and Chinese Translations of the Euthyphro 10a-11b Jialin Li 145
58.3 Poster Session Distant Reading Alliteration in Latin Literature Patrick J. Burns 145
58.2 Poster Session Learning through Performance: Using Role-Playing Pedagogy to Structure the Introductory Classical Culture Class Christine L. Albright 145
58.1 Poster Session The Semantics of ἔγχος and βέλος in Tragedy and the Date of Sophocles' Ajax Bob Corthals 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
57.3 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic The Time, the Place: a Year with Varro Diana Spencer 145
57.2 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Creeping Roots: Varro on Latin Across Time and Space Adam Gitner 145
57.1 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Varro on the Kinship of Things and of Words David Blank 145
56.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt More Land, More Produce, or Higher Taxes? Explaining Revenue Growth on the Apion Estate Ryan McConnell 145
56.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Comites rei militaris and duces in Late Antique Egypt Anna Maria Kaiser 145
56.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Water Scarcity, Local Adaptability, and the Changing Landscape of the Fayyum Brendan Haug 145
56.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt “No One Can Claim the Priestly Land”: P.Tebt. 2.302 and Egyptian Temples under Rome in Context Andrew Connor 145
56.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Composing Demotic Funerary Texts: Textual Criticism, Orality, and Memory in the Demotic Funerary Papyri Foy Scalf 145
55.6 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Fantasizing Philosophers: Thecla and the Symbolic Imagination in Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium Dawn LaValle 145
55.5 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Encomium of Demosthenes: A Dialogue Worthy of Lucian Brad L. Cook 145
55.4 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Revelation Dialogue in Plutarch and Hermetism: A "Divine Encounter" with the Truth Elsa Simonetti 145
55.3 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues I’ll Tell You When I’m Older: Comparing Plutarchs in De E apud Delphos and Amatorius Anne McDonald 145
55.2 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Persona "Plutarch" in The Dialogue on Love Frederick Brenk 145
55.1 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Self-Divided Dialogical Self in Seneca's De Ira Caroline Stark 145
54.4 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Bad Leaders in Xenophon’s Hellenica Frances Pownall 145
54.3 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Piety in Xenophon’s Theory of Leadership Michael Flower 145
54.2 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Reading the Future in Xenophon’s Anabasis Emily Baragwanath 145
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
53.4 Refracting the Great War “Pursued by an Infinite Legion of Eumenides”: Richard Aldington and the Trauma of Survival Elizabeth Vandiver 145
53.3 Refracting the Great War Latin, Class, and Gender in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End David Scourfield 145
53.2 Refracting the Great War The Great War and Modernism’s Siren Songs Leah Culligan Flack 145
53.1 Refracting the Great War The Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses as Post-war Epics Stephanie Nelson 145
52.4 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Faculty Extinction, Loss of Habitat, Adcon Vigor: Can the Trends Be Reversed? Alan Trevithick 145