Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
58.2 Poster Session Learning through Performance: Using Role-Playing Pedagogy to Structure the Introductory Classical Culture Class Christine L. Albright 145
58.3 Poster Session Distant Reading Alliteration in Latin Literature Patrick J. Burns 145
58.4 Poster Session Plato Goes to China: Participles, Ontology, and Chinese Translations of the Euthyphro 10a-11b Jialin Li 145
58.5 Poster Session How Do Epic Poets Construct their Lines? A Study of the Verb προσέειπεν in Homer, Hesiod, Batrachomyomachia, Apollonius Rhodius, and Quintus Smyrnaeus Chiara Bozzone 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
58.7 Poster Session Roman Epitaphs and the Poetics of Quantification Andrew M. Riggsby 145
58.8 Poster Session From Hebrew to Latin: Verbs in Translation in the Book of Ecclesiastes Luke Gorton 145
59.1 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Friends in Low Places: Cleon’s philia in Aristophanes Robert Holschuh Simmons 145
59.2 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes’ Ecclesizusae and the Remaking of the patrios politeia Alan Sheppard 145
59.3 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy History, Memory, and the soteria Theme in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Robert Tordoff 145
59.4 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes the Actor? Jennifer Starkey 145
59.5 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Give Me a Bit of Paratragedy: Strattis’ Phoenician Women Matthew C. Farmer 145
60.1 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World What Makes a Law “Unfitting”? Edwin Carawan 145
60.2 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The History and Rhetoric of Disarming Greek Citizens Jeffrey Yeakel 145
60.3 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The Mercenary, the Polis, and an Athenian Inscription from the Fourth Century BC Jake Nabel 145
60.4 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Security and cura in the Georgics Michèle Lowrie 145
60.5 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Arcana imperii Reconsidered: Tacitus and the Ethics of State Secrecy Matthew Taylor 145
61.1 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Alternate Alcinoi: Evidence for a Distinctive Version of the Phaeacians in the Argonautic Tradition William Duffy 145
61.2 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Reader of Xenophon: Ethnography, Travel, and Greekness in the Argonautica and the Anabasis Mark Thatcher 145
61.3 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Hipparchus Philologus John Ryan 145
61.4 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Books Received: Encounters with Texts in Callimachus' Aetia and Iambi Robin J. Greene 145
61.5 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry The Addressee and Date of Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis Leanna Boychenko 145
62.1 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Who Sees? A Narratological Approach to Propertius 3.6 Mitch Brown 145
62.2 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Culture, Corruption, and the View from Rome: Propertius 3.21 and 3.22 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 145
62.3 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Horace and Vergil in Dialogue in Odes 4.12 Philip Thibodeau 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
62.5 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Greek and Roman Eyes: the Cultural Politics of Ekphrastic Epigram in Imperial Rome Carolyn MacDonald 145
63.1 What We Do When We Do Outreach The Big Read Jennifer A. Rea 145
63.2 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reading Homer with Combat Veterans Roberta L. Stewart 145
63.3 What We Do When We Do Outreach Making a MOOC of Greek History Andrew Szegedy-Maszak 145
63.4 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reaching Out with Print and Web Ellen A. Bauerle 145
64.1 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Color and Variety in Stoic Physics Thomas Habinek 145
64.2 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Valerius Maximus, Stoicism, and Roman Practices of Exemplarity Ermanno Malaspina 145
64.3 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Precept(or), Example, and Politics in Seneca Matthew Roller 145
64.4 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Dion of Prusa and the Later Stoics on Participation in Politics Gretchen Reydams-Schils 145
64.5 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Politics of Friendship in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Jula Wildberger 145
65.1 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Religion in Aegean-Hittite Diplomacy: The Evidence of the Hittite Ahhiyawa Texts Ian Rutherford 145
65.2 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages On the Prehistory of Lesbos’ Relations with Lydia: When and Where Did the Greeks First Encounter the Lydians? Rostislav Oreshko 145
65.3 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Greeks and Anatolians on Lesbos: The Linguistic Evidence Alexander Dale 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
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
66.2 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Actors and Theaters, Rabbis and Synagogues: The Use of Public Performances in Shaping Communal Behavior in Late Antique Palestine Zeev Weiss 145
66.3 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Sharing Letters, Sharing Friendship: Public Readings in Synesius Mathilde Cambron-Goulet 145
66.4 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Performance and Petitions: A Game of Justice in Roman Egypt Martin Reznick 145
66.5 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity The Performance of Diplomacy: Verbal and Non-verbal Communication at the Imperial Court of the Late Roman Empire Audrey Becker 145
67.1 Stifling Sexuality? “Stupra et caedes: Homosexuality, Women’s Rituals, and the State in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative” Vassiliki Panoussi 145
67.2 Stifling Sexuality? “Mature Praeceptor Amoris Seeks Tops (Discreet): Desire and Deniability in Tibullus 1.4” Robert Matera 145
67.3 Stifling Sexuality? “The Art of Not Loving” E.Del Chrol 145
67.4 Stifling Sexuality? “Sex and Homosexuality in Suetonius’ Caesares” Molly M. Pryzwansky 145
67.5 Stifling Sexuality? Stifling ‘Scare Figures’ H. Christian Blood 145