Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
52.3 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Tenure-System and Non Tenure-System Faculty: The 'Community of Interest' Scott McFarland 145
52.2 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Contingencies for Contingency: A Non Tenure-track Perspective within the Classics Debra Freas 145
52.1 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Non-Contingent but Not Tenure-Track Ruth Scodel 145
51.5 Roman Imperial Interactions CIL VIII 14683 and the North African Curiae Chris Dawson 145
51.4 Roman Imperial Interactions Valerian Tradition and the Ludi Saeculares of 17 BCE Susan Dunning 145
51.3 Roman Imperial Interactions Local and Translocal Networks: Contact between Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities of the Empire Sailakshmi Ramgopal 145
51.2 Roman Imperial Interactions Religious Ritual and the Configuration of Power in Interstate Alliances: Elaea and Rome, 129 BCE Larisa Masri 145
51.1 Roman Imperial Interactions Weathering the Wheel of Fortune: On Enduring tyche in Polybius' Histories Rebecca Katz 145
50.5 Vergil’s Aeneid Inscribing Fate: Epigraphic Conventions and Virgil's Aeneas Morgan E. Palmer 145
50.4 Vergil’s Aeneid Pallas Goes Off to War: a Portentum in Virgil’s Aeneid James Townshend 145
50.3 Vergil’s Aeneid Boxing and Siege Engines in Vergil’s Aeneid George Fredric Franko 145
50.2 Vergil’s Aeneid Persian Dido Elena Giusti 145
50.1 Vergil’s Aeneid Causas memora: Overdetermination and Undermotivation in the Aeneid Bill Beck 145
49.4 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Flavor and the Elder Pliny John Paulas 145
49.3 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Color Terminology in Pliny’s NH 37 Emi C. Brown 145
49.2 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression The Mathematician Sees Double: Egyptian in Eratosthenes Marquis Berrey 145
49.1 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Does Euclid's Optics Correct False Appearances? Colin Webster 145
48.5 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Show and Tell: Genre and Deixis in Lucian Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 145
48.4 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Ille suppositus: The Genealogical Plots of Panegyric 12(9) W. Josiah Edwards Davis 145
48.3 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Meidias Tyrannos: Meidias’ Tyrannical Attributes in Dem. 21 T. George Hendren 145
48.2 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Two Kinds of Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias Andrew Beer 145
48.1 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Rhetoric of Visibility and Invisibility in Antiphon 5, On the Murder of Herodes Peter O'Connell 145
47.3 Women of the Roman Empire Women in the Treason Trials of Tacitus' Annales Laura Van Abbema 145
47.2 Women of the Roman Empire Self-Image of Provincial Women in Roman Britain and Roman Egypt Kelli Thomerson 145
47.1 Women of the Roman Empire Public Roles of Provincial Women: Flaminicae of the Imperial Cult Judith Lynn Sebesta 145
46.4 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Talking Sense Robert Patrick 145
46.3 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Explain, Translate, Perform: A Podcasting Approach to Greek and Latin Orality Christopher Francese 145
46.2 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae… et scholae: A Teacher’s Case for Performing Classical Drama in Greek and Latin Matthew McGowan 145
46.1 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom How Did People Back Then Understand This? Robert Dudley 145
45.4 Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Virgil in Virgil: Representations of the Poet in the Bodleian Georgics MS Rawl. G. 98 Alden Smith 145
45.3 Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Performative Devotion and ductus in the Illustrations of Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 Thomas Meacham 145
45.2 Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Visualizing Horace in Medieval Europe: Reading between Commentary and Text Ariane S. Schwartz 145
45.1 Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages 'Laying it on the Line': Layout and Diagrammatic Notation in an Eleventh-Century Rhetorical Manuscript of Cicero (Oxford Bod. Laud Lat. 49)
 Irene A. O'Daly 145
44.4 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics The First New World Tragedy of Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Changó, the Biggest Badass John Maddox 145
44.3 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Reenacting Death: Aristotelian Catharsis and Afro-Cuban Subjectivity in Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos 145
44.2 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Greeks in Meleagro and Dionísio esfacelado Andrea Kouklanakis 145
44.1 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores 145
43.4 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training Bull-Lifting, Initiation, and the Athenian Ephebeia Thomas R. Henderson II 145
43.3 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Significance of Ephebic Siblings Nigel Kennell 145
43.2 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training From Abolition to Renewal: The Ephebeia after Lycurgus John Lennard Friend 145
43.1 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Lycurgan Ephebeia as Social Performance Richard Persky 145
42.4 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Creation by Reduction: Alice Oswald’s Use of the Iliad in Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 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
42.2 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Working Women Weaving Tales in Ovid's Metamorphoses and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cynthia Hornbeck 145
42.1 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Hairy Iopas: Virgil and the Gigantomachy in Joyce’s Ulysses Randall Pogorzelski 145
41.3 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries Biography, Portraiture, and the Birth of the Author Thomas Hendrickson 145
41.2 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries Don’t Read in the Library!: Cicero’s Cato (De Finibus 3-4) and copia librorum in Other Latin Authors Stephanie Ann Frampton 145
41.1 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries The “Letter of Aristeas,” the Alexandrian Library and Near Eastern Suzerainty Treaties Daniel B. Levine 145
40.4 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Ancestors in Adrastus’ Atria: Multivalent Retrospection in Statius’ Thebaid Laura Garofalo 145
40.3 Art, Text, & the City of Rome The Forum Augustum from the Farther Shore: Vergil's Reader as Interpretive Hero in Augustus' Hall of Fame Nandini B. Pandey 145