Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
11.3 The Second Sophistic Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae Book 2 and the Didactic Logic of Miscellany Scott J. DiGiulio 145
12.1 Fertility/Birth Ritual Space and Gendered Healing: The Delphic Oracle Cures Male Infertility Polyxeni Strolonga 145
12.2 Fertility/Birth A Five Year Pregnancy? Women in the Epidaurian Iamata Calloway Scott 145
12.3 Fertility/Birth Pain, Rhetoric, and the Fetus Sarah Scullin 145
13.1 Monsters and Giants The Hesiodic Shield of Herakles: Monstrous Texts and the Art of the Nightmare William Brockliss 145
13.2 Monsters and Giants Gigantomachic Imagery and Autochthonous Growth in Vergil’s Georgics Zack Rider 145
13.3 Monsters and Giants Playing the Giant: Tristia 2 and Parody Redefined Christine E. Lechelt 145
13.4 Monsters and Giants Solve nefas: Crime, Expiation, and the Unspeakable in Ovid's Fasti 2 Caleb M. X. Dance 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
14.2 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Bridging the Gap Between First and Third Year Greek Courses with an Online Commentary to Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus Norman B. Sandridge 145
14.3 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Advanced Greek and Latin in a Limited, Personalized Online Setting Ryan C. Fowler 145
15.1 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance The Significance of Skin Color in Aristophanes (Ecclesiazousae, Thesmophoriazousae) Velvet L. Yates 145
15.2 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance Are Aeschylus’ Suppliants Women of Color? Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 145
15.3 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance Shades of Euripides: the Use of Colour Terms in Staging Ancient Plays Melissa Funke 145
17.1 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Solon, ainos, and Herodotus Alexander J. Hollmann 145
17.2 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Lucian, epainos, and the Model Historian Stamatia Dova 145
17.3 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Caesar and Sisenna: Some Debts, Some Parallels Christopher B. Krebs 145
17.4 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Burial Scenes: Silius Italicus’ Punica and Greco-Roman Historiography Antonios Augoustakis 145
18.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Roman Use of Concrete on Trajan’s Column and Modern Cinder Block Construction R. Michael Cook 145
18.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Reception of Cicero and Roman Culture in Theodor Mommsen’s Römische Geschichte Emily S. Goodling 145
18.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Noble Lie in Terence’s Hecyra Alexander Karsten 145
18.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Privacy in the Iliad Kelly Schmidt 145
19.1 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall The End of an Era: Seventeenth-Century Aeneid Commentaries M.H.K. (Maarten) Jansen 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
19.3 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall Notes on the Greater Work: The Iliadic Aeneid and the Commentary Tradition Lee Fratantuono 145
20.1 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Ileus the ‘Benevolent’ in the Catalogue of Women:The Intersection of Epic Traditions Elda Granata 145
20.2 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Hesiod and the Pythia: The Didactic/Oracular Literary Complex Ella H. Haselswerdt 145
20.3 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Question and Answer: Truth, Lies, and Narrative Innovation in the Odyssey Justin Arft 145
20.4 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Revenons à nos moutons: The Resolution of Corrupted Herding in the Odyssey Adrienne Hagen 145
20.5 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic A Skillful and Guarded Rhetoric: Interpreting Agamemnon in the Homeric Scholia Benjamin Sammons 145
21.1 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Is There Anything purus in Horace’s sermo merus?: Rhetorical Categories and Plautine Diction in Horace Satires 1.4.38-62 Ben Jerue 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
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
21.4 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Persius' Polenta and Apuleius' Metamorphoses Sasha-Mae Eccleston 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
22.1 Unauthorized Receptions Latin, Greek, and Other Classical Nonsense in the Work of Edward Lear Marian Makins 145
22.2 Unauthorized Receptions Mortal Heroes: Homeric Themes and Classical Allusions in Sidney Nolan’s ‘Gallipoli Series’ Sarah Midford 145
22.3 Unauthorized Receptions Aurelio G. Amatucci’s Codex Fori Mussolini and the Prospective Memory of Italian Fascism Bettina Reitz-Joosse 145
22.4 Unauthorized Receptions The Anti-Oedipus: Strella and a Queer Re-imagining of the Tragic Family Lynn Kozak 145
23.1 Diaspora and Migration Citizen Scatters and Uneasy Statuses in the Roman World Nicholas Purcell 145
23.2 Diaspora and Migration Greek apoikismos, migration and diaspora Carla M. Antonaccio 145
23.3 Diaspora and Migration Wanderings and eddies: migration, diaspora and mobility in Messenia Sue Alcock 145
23.4 Diaspora and Migration Diaspora as a State of Mind: An Impossibility for Pre-imperial Italy? Elena Isayev 145
24.1 Epistolary Fictions and Realities “A Sort of Living Dead Man”: Cicero’s Self-Representation in Att. IX-X Elizabeth Keitel 145
24.2 Epistolary Fictions and Realities Master of Letters: Linguistic Competence in Fronto’s Correspondence Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael 145
24.3 Epistolary Fictions and Realities You Can Go Home Again: Pliny Writes to Comum Jacqueline Carlon 145
24.4 Epistolary Fictions and Realities Pliny’s Tacitus: The Politics of Representation Rebecca Edwards 145
24.5 Epistolary Fictions and Realities The Letters of Symmachus: Remembering a Roman Aristocrat and His Family Michele Salzman 145
25.1 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Ancient Gender Studies: The Situation in France Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 145
25.2 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Classics and Gender Studies in 21st Century North America Barbara Gold 145