Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
78.3 Greek Philosophy “The Man with Arms” at Aristotle, Politics 1.2.1253a34 E. Christian Kopff 145
67.3 Stifling Sexuality? “The Art of Not Loving” E.Del Chrol 145
67.1 Stifling Sexuality? “Stupra et caedes: Homosexuality, Women’s Rituals, and the State in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative” Vassiliki Panoussi 145
67.4 Stifling Sexuality? “Sex and Homosexuality in Suetonius’ Caesares” Molly M. Pryzwansky 145
7.5 Re-Creating the House of Pansa “Reconsidering "Hyperreality": ‘Roman’ Houses and their Gardens (1892-1974) Katharine T. von Stackelberg 145
53.4 Refracting the Great War “Pursued by an Infinite Legion of Eumenides”: Richard Aldington and the Trauma of Survival Elizabeth Vandiver 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
67.2 Stifling Sexuality? “Mature Praeceptor Amoris Seeks Tops (Discreet): Desire and Deniability in Tibullus 1.4” Robert Matera 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
80.3 Roman Politics and Culture “Brutal” Honesty or Rhetorical Rewrite? Brut. Cic. ad Brut. 1.16 and 1.17 Tom Keeline 145
24.1 Epistolary Fictions and Realities “A Sort of Living Dead Man”: Cicero’s Self-Representation in Att. IX-X Elizabeth Keitel 145
1.2 Greek Language and Linguistics μασχαλισμός Francis Dunn 145
24.3 Epistolary Fictions and Realities You Can Go Home Again: Pliny Writes to Comum Jacqueline Carlon 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
6.2 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Women’s Travels in Latin Elegy Alison Keith 145
1.3 Greek Language and Linguistics Women’s Playthings: Contextualizing the Meaning of “Douleuma” Roger S. Fisher 145
47.3 Women of the Roman Empire Women in the Treason Trials of Tacitus' Annales Laura Van Abbema 145
31.4 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Witch’s Song: Morality, Name-calling and Poetic Authority in the Argonautica Jessica Blum 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
62.1 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Who Sees? A Narratological Approach to Propertius 3.6 Mitch Brown 145
60.1 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World What Makes a Law “Unfitting”? Edwin Carawan 145
36.2 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West What Do Greece and Rome Have to Do with a "Confucian-Socialist" Republic? Yiqun Zhou 145
51.1 Roman Imperial Interactions Weathering the Wheel of Fortune: On Enduring tyche in Polybius' Histories Rebecca Katz 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
23.3 Diaspora and Migration Wanderings and eddies: migration, diaspora and mobility in Messenia Sue Alcock 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
45.4 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
36.3 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Virgil (or His Absence) in China and the Viability of Western Classics in Non-Western Context Jinyu Liu 145
32.2 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History Varro’s Dystopian Rome: Masquerade and Murder in the First Book of De Rebus Rusticis Sarah Culpepper Stroup 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
64.2 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Valerius Maximus, Stoicism, and Roman Practices of Exemplarity Ermanno Malaspina 145
75.2 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe Darcy Krasne 145
51.4 Roman Imperial Interactions Valerian Tradition and the Ludi Saeculares of 17 BCE Susan Dunning 145
40.2 Art, Text, & the City of Rome urbs amoena: Sex and Violence in the Ovidian City Bridget Langley 145
82.5 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos' Allusions to Aristophanes' Nubes in Letters 2.3 and 2.12 Emilia Barbiero 145
84.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Tradition and Innovation in Some Paraphrases of Psalm 1: Hessus, Buchanan, Beza Eric Hutchinson 145
79.4 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Thucydides’ History and the Myth of the Athenian Tyrannicides Sarah Miller Esposito 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
39.1 Greek Lyric The Δυσκολώτερον Σκόλιον: A New Model of the Skolion Game in Antiquity Amy Pistone 145
37.3 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination The Wolf and the Hare: Boudica’s Political Bodies in Tacitus and Dio Caitlin Gillespie 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
77.4 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual The View from Hades: Tyro’s Story in Odyssey 11 George Gazis 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
48.2 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Two Kinds of Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias Andrew Beer 145
35.3 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature The Tomb as Metapoetic Space in Hellenistic Epigram Irene Peirano 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
33.1 Study Abroad and Classics The Study Abroad Experience: Developing Realistic Expectations Thomas McGinn 145
70.2 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity The So-called Calliopian Recension of Terence Benjamin Victor 145
15.1 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance The Significance of Skin Color in Aristophanes (Ecclesiazousae, Thesmophoriazousae) Velvet L. Yates 145
43.3 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Significance of Ephebic Siblings Nigel Kennell 145