Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
73.3 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Shadows, Dust, and Simulacra in Propertius Book Four Hunter Gardner 145
66.3 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Sharing Letters, Sharing Friendship: Public Readings in Synesius Mathilde Cambron-Goulet 145
48.5 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Show and Tell: Genre and Deixis in Lucian Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 145
21.2 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Show and Tell: Satire and the Spread of Vice in Juvenal 14 Timothy Haase 145
80.1 Roman Politics and Culture Sic semper tyrannis: Domitian, damnatio memoriae and the Imperial Cult at Ephesus Abigail S Graham 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
35.1 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece Verity Platt 145
79.5 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Situating a Lost Greek Historian: The Works and Days of Hippias of Erythrae Matthew Simonton 145
26.1 Getting Started with Digital Classics Social Network Analysis and Ancient History Diane Cline 145
21.5 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Social Status and Strategies of Discourse: Lucius' Asinine Communications in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Evelyn Adkins 145
17.1 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Solon, ainos, and Herodotus Alexander J. Hollmann 145
13.4 Monsters and Giants Solve nefas: Crime, Expiation, and the Unspeakable in Ovid's Fasti 2 Caleb M. X. Dance 145
75.4 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: The Theme of Civil War in Punica 14 Raymond Marks 145
14.1 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Starting from Scratch: a Collaborative Approach to First-Year Greek Kristina A. Meinking 145
82.4 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire Statius vortit barbare: Menander, the Achilleid, and the Second Sophistic Mathias Hanses 145
67.5 Stifling Sexuality? Stifling ‘Scare Figures’ H. Christian Blood 145
71.3 History in Classics / Classics in History Strengthening a Classics Department with Ancient History Dennis P. Kehoe 145
33.4 Study Abroad and Classics Study Abroad in the Pre-Collegiate Curriculum Sally Morris 145
30.1 Performance and Space in Ancient Drama Talking about Choruses. Χορεία in fourth-Century BC Comedy. Lucy Jackson 145
46.4 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Talking Sense Robert Patrick 145
52.3 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Tenure-System and Non Tenure-System Faculty: The 'Community of Interest' Scott McFarland 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
61.5 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry The Addressee and Date of Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis Leanna Boychenko 145
26.4 Getting Started with Digital Classics The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank Francesco Mambrini 145
22.4 Unauthorized Receptions The Anti-Oedipus: Strella and a Queer Re-imagining of the Tragic Family Lynn Kozak 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
10.1 The Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 B.C.) The Battle of the Aegates Islands: Discovery of the Battle Zone and Major Finds Sebastiano Tusa 145
63.1 What We Do When We Do Outreach The Big Read Jennifer A. Rea 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
29.5 Athenian Frontiers The Children of Athena: International Participation in the Hellenistic Panathenaia Julia L. Shear 145
69.4 Documentary Fallacies The Circulation of the Historia Augusta: Reconsidering its Anonymity Kathryn Langenfeld 145
82.3 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire The Comic Fashioning and Self-Fashioning of the Eunuch Sophist Favorinus Ryan Samuels 145
84.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research The De Arte Poetica (1705) of Theophanes Prokopovich (1681-1736) Albert R. Baca 145
8.1 Tragic Interruptions The Death of the Character Page duBois 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
69.1 Documentary Fallacies The Documentary Letters of the Alexander Romance Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 145
83.1 Graffiti and Their Supports: Informal Texts in Context The Drawings on the Rock Inscriptions of Archaic Thera (IG XII 3, 536-601; IG XII 3 Suppl. 1410-1493) Elena Martin Gonzalez 145
31.5 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry The Dupe of Destiny? The Oath of Hannibal in Silius Italicus’ Punica Anja Bettenworth 145
10.6 The Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 B.C.) The Egadi Islands Survey: A Partnership between Marine Ecology and Underwater Archaeology Derek Smith 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
19.1 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall The End of an Era: Seventeenth-Century Aeneid Commentaries M.H.K. (Maarten) Jansen 145
2.5 Epicurean Philosophy in Roman Poetry The Epicurean Calculus of Pleasure and Pain in Horace Satires 2.6 Benjamin Vines Hicks 145
5.1 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Face of the Emperor in Philo's Embassy to Gaius Daniel W. Leon 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
69.3 Documentary Fallacies The Fog of Peace: (Pseudo)-Alliances on the Coinage of Late Roman Usurpers Tristan Taylor 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
5.2 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Glory Without the Glamour: Shared Political Rhetoric in Plutarch and Tacitus Adam Kemezis 145
21.3 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic The Gothic Juvenal: Matthew Lewis and the Roman Roots of the Gothic James Uden 145
53.2 Refracting the Great War The Great War and Modernism’s Siren Songs Leah Culligan Flack 145
36.5 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West The Hermeneutics of Recovery: Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Reception of the Western Classics in China Michael Puett 145