Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
35.2 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Pausanias’ Dead Poets Society Johanna Hanink 145
35.3 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature The Tomb as Metapoetic Space in Hellenistic Epigram Irene Peirano 145
35.4 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Ennius’ imago Between Tomb and Text Francesca Martelli 145
35.5 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Ovid’s Tombs: Afterlives of the Poetic Corpus Nora Goldschmidt 145
36.1 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Plato and Nationalism: Utilizing Classics in the Age of Globalization Leihua Weng 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
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
36.4 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West How China May Gain from Comparative Studies in Confronting the Ancient West Jenny Jingyi Zhao 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
37.1 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination Becoming Romanae: Apuleius and the Identity of Provincial Women Laura Brant 145
37.2 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination Re-presenting Reality: Provincial Women as Tools of Roman Social Reproduction Shelley Haley 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
37.4 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination Iudaea capta: Berenice in Suetonius' Life of Titus Rachael Cullick 145
37.5 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination Matrona Romana: Non-Roman Libertinae Funerary Monuments in Roman Britain Hillary Conley 145
38.1 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Archaic Small Change and the Logic of Political Survival Peter van Alfen 145
38.2 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Embedded Denominations: Patterns in the hoard evidence from fourth-century Southern Anatolia Lisa Pilar Eberle 145
38.3 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Reconsidering the Impact of the Ptolemaic Closed Monetary Zone outside of Egypt Paul Keen 145
38.4 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage The School of Alexandria? Rethinking the Closed Currency System Outside Egypt Noah Kaye 145
38.5 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Numismatics, Economics, and the Hellenistic Cyclades, - or How Numismatic Evidence Can Reveal New Sub-regional Dynamics John A N Z Tully 145
39.1 Greek Lyric The Δυσκολώτερον Σκόλιον: A New Model of the Skolion Game in Antiquity Amy Pistone 145
39.2 Greek Lyric Fine Weather and Outdoor Symposia in Alcaeus Vanessa Cazzato 145
39.3 Greek Lyric Alcaeus the Tyrant Slayer: Re-performance and identity in the Symposium Kristen Ehrhardt 145
40.1 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Naevius’ Bellum Punicum and Manius Valerius Messalla: Art and Text at the Beginnings of Latin Literature Thomas Biggs 145
40.2 Art, Text, & the City of Rome urbs amoena: Sex and Violence in the Ovidian City Bridget Langley 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
40.4 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Ancestors in Adrastus’ Atria: Multivalent Retrospection in Statius’ Thebaid Laura Garofalo 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
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
41.3 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries Biography, Portraiture, and the Birth of the Author Thomas Hendrickson 145
42.1 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Hairy Iopas: Virgil and the Gigantomachy in Joyce’s Ulysses Randall Pogorzelski 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
42.3 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
42.4 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Creation by Reduction: Alice Oswald’s Use of the Iliad in Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 145
43.1 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Lycurgan Ephebeia as Social Performance Richard Persky 145
43.2 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training From Abolition to Renewal: The Ephebeia after Lycurgus John Lennard Friend 145
43.3 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Significance of Ephebic Siblings Nigel Kennell 145
43.4 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training Bull-Lifting, Initiation, and the Athenian Ephebeia Thomas R. Henderson II 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
44.2 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Greeks in Meleagro and Dionísio esfacelado Andrea Kouklanakis 145
44.3 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
44.4 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
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
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
45.3 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
45.4 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
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
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
46.3 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
46.4 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Talking Sense Robert Patrick 145