Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
47.1 Women of the Roman Empire Public Roles of Provincial Women: Flaminicae of the Imperial Cult Judith Lynn Sebesta 145
47.2 Women of the Roman Empire Self-Image of Provincial Women in Roman Britain and Roman Egypt Kelli Thomerson 145
47.3 Women of the Roman Empire Women in the Treason Trials of Tacitus' Annales Laura Van Abbema 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
48.2 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Two Kinds of Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias Andrew Beer 145
48.3 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Meidias Tyrannos: Meidias’ Tyrannical Attributes in Dem. 21 T. George Hendren 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
48.5 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Show and Tell: Genre and Deixis in Lucian Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 145
49.1 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Does Euclid's Optics Correct False Appearances? Colin Webster 145
49.2 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression The Mathematician Sees Double: Egyptian in Eratosthenes Marquis Berrey 145
49.3 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Color Terminology in Pliny’s NH 37 Emi C. Brown 145
49.4 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Flavor and the Elder Pliny John Paulas 145
50.1 Vergil’s Aeneid Causas memora: Overdetermination and Undermotivation in the Aeneid Bill Beck 145
50.2 Vergil’s Aeneid Persian Dido Elena Giusti 145
50.3 Vergil’s Aeneid Boxing and Siege Engines in Vergil’s Aeneid George Fredric Franko 145
50.4 Vergil’s Aeneid Pallas Goes Off to War: a Portentum in Virgil’s Aeneid James Townshend 145
50.5 Vergil’s Aeneid Inscribing Fate: Epigraphic Conventions and Virgil's Aeneas Morgan E. Palmer 145
51.1 Roman Imperial Interactions Weathering the Wheel of Fortune: On Enduring tyche in Polybius' Histories Rebecca Katz 145
51.2 Roman Imperial Interactions Religious Ritual and the Configuration of Power in Interstate Alliances: Elaea and Rome, 129 BCE Larisa Masri 145
51.3 Roman Imperial Interactions Local and Translocal Networks: Contact between Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities of the Empire Sailakshmi Ramgopal 145
51.4 Roman Imperial Interactions Valerian Tradition and the Ludi Saeculares of 17 BCE Susan Dunning 145
51.5 Roman Imperial Interactions CIL VIII 14683 and the North African Curiae Chris Dawson 145
52.1 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Non-Contingent but Not Tenure-Track Ruth Scodel 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
52.3 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Tenure-System and Non Tenure-System Faculty: The 'Community of Interest' Scott McFarland 145
52.4 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Faculty Extinction, Loss of Habitat, Adcon Vigor: Can the Trends Be Reversed? Alan Trevithick 145
53.1 Refracting the Great War The Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses as Post-war Epics Stephanie Nelson 145
53.2 Refracting the Great War The Great War and Modernism’s Siren Songs Leah Culligan Flack 145
53.3 Refracting the Great War Latin, Class, and Gender in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End David Scourfield 145
53.4 Refracting the Great War “Pursued by an Infinite Legion of Eumenides”: Richard Aldington and the Trauma of Survival Elizabeth Vandiver 145
54.1 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context Richard Fernando Buxton 145
54.2 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Reading the Future in Xenophon’s Anabasis Emily Baragwanath 145
54.3 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Piety in Xenophon’s Theory of Leadership Michael Flower 145
54.4 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Bad Leaders in Xenophon’s Hellenica Frances Pownall 145
55.1 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Self-Divided Dialogical Self in Seneca's De Ira Caroline Stark 145
55.2 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Persona "Plutarch" in The Dialogue on Love Frederick Brenk 145
55.3 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues I’ll Tell You When I’m Older: Comparing Plutarchs in De E apud Delphos and Amatorius Anne McDonald 145
55.4 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Revelation Dialogue in Plutarch and Hermetism: A "Divine Encounter" with the Truth Elsa Simonetti 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
55.6 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Fantasizing Philosophers: Thecla and the Symbolic Imagination in Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium Dawn LaValle 145
56.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Composing Demotic Funerary Texts: Textual Criticism, Orality, and Memory in the Demotic Funerary Papyri Foy Scalf 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
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
56.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Comites rei militaris and duces in Late Antique Egypt Anna Maria Kaiser 145
56.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt More Land, More Produce, or Higher Taxes? Explaining Revenue Growth on the Apion Estate Ryan McConnell 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
57.2 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Creeping Roots: Varro on Latin Across Time and Space Adam Gitner 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
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
58.1 Poster Session The Semantics of ἔγχος and βέλος in Tragedy and the Date of Sophocles' Ajax Bob Corthals 145