Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
48.7 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy More than Meets the Eye: Public Attention and Moral Conduct in Seneca Erica Bexley 146
48.3 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Lucretian Temporality: the problem of the Epicurean Past in the De Rerum Natura Georgina White 146
48.4 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Love and the Structure of Emotion in Lucretius Pamela Zinn 146
48.5 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Reason in Philodemus's De dis 1 Sonya Wurster 146
56.2 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Revolutionary Horaces Jeri DeBrohun 146
56.4 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Varium et mutabile semper femina: Aeneid 4.569-70 and Odyssey 15.20-3 Kevin Muse 146
56.5 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics The Rule of Three or fere tria? Authorial Artifice in Propertius 4.10 Rebecca Katz 146
56.6 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Fashion Victim? Domination and the Arts of Coiffure in Augustan Elegy Nandini Pandey 146
56.1 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Horace and Hypothêkai Andrew Horne 146
56.3 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Cupid, Minerva, and Lyric Consciousness: Two Readings of Odes 3.12 Brian McPhee 146
67.1 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Funding Greek Warfare: From Reciprocity and Redistribution to Profit and Wages Matthew Trundle 146
67.2 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Athenian Generals: Private Profit and the Problem of Agency Michael S. Leese 146
67.3 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare The Perils of Plunder: Sparta’s Uneasy Relationship with the Spoils of War Ellen Millender 146
67.4 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare War, Profit, Loss, and the Hellenistic Greek Polis: A Balance Sheet Graham Oliver 146
31.1 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Arguing through analogy in Pollux' "Onomastikon" Stylianos Chronopoulos 146
31.5 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship A Byzantine Scholar at Work: Demetrius Triclinius and Responsion between Separated Strophes in Greek Drama Almut Fries 146
31.2 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Atticist Lexica and Atticistic Pronunciation Carlo Vessella 146
31.3 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Dating the Catalepton: How Servius Misread Donatus and Created the Collection Dave Oosterhuis 146
31.4 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Scribes, language, and education in Petra in the 6th century CE Marja Vierros 146
38.2 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution An Aristotelian Verfremdungseffekt; or, the rejection of the Poetics in Postdramatic Theatre Emma Cole 146
38.3 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution Disenchanting Odysseus: Auerbach and Adorno on the Philhellenic Enlightenment Mathura Umachandran 146
38.1 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution The tragedy of Aimé Césaire: building a future from the ruins of antiquity Adam Edward Lecznar 146
20.2 Religion, Ritual, and Identity Curses, Class, and Gender: Psychological and Demographic Aspects of Roman “Magic” Andreas Bendlin 146
20.4 Religion, Ritual, and Identity A New Latin Inscription from Cetamura del Chianti: Private Ritual at a Sacred Well Lora Holland 146
20.1 Religion, Ritual, and Identity The Heloreia Festival at Halaisa Archonideia, Tauromenion, and Syracuse Paul Iversen 146
20.5 Religion, Ritual, and Identity Philostratus, prognōsis, and the alternatives to divination Roshan Abraham 146
20.3 Religion, Ritual, and Identity A new paradigm for Roman imperial priesthoods? Reconsidering the religious elements in associative life in early imperial Italy Zsuzsanna Varhelyi 146
11.3 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time Barbara Sattler 146
11.1 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World The Greco-Roman Sundial as Virtuoso Greek Mathematics Alexander Jones 146
11.2 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World A Doctor on the Clock: The Roles of Clocks and Hours in Galen’s Medical Treatises Kassandra Jackson 146
11.4 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World The Unity of Time in Plautus’ Captivi Robert Germany 146
50.2 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics The Exile of Coriolanus: Space, Identity, and Memory in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Alexandra Kennedy 146
50.5 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Ira Caesaris and Ovid’s Exile Epistles: A New Reading Jayne Knight 146
50.3 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Acti Fati … Romanam Condere Gentem: The Politics of Exile in Vergil’s Aeneid Kenneth Sammond 146
50.4 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Resonances of Tiberius’ Exile in Ovidian Literature Sanjaya Thakur 146
50.1 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Exile as a Mode of Genius: Metellus Numidicus and the Performance of Exile W. Jeffrey Tatum 146
29.1 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Why can't a woman be more like a bee? Poetic persona and Hesiod's bee simile in Semonides Fr. 7 Anna Conser 146
29.4 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Keeping Luxury At Bay: Elephants in Megasthenes’ Indika Clara Bosak-Schroeder 146
29.2 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society The Curious Case of Chaerephilus & Sons: Vertical Integration and the Ancient Greek Economy Ephraim Lytle 146
29.3 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Specialization Among Citizens in Classical Greece Mark Pyzyk 146
29.5 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Sicily and the Eclogues of Vergil Matthew Leigh 146
29.6 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Xenophon of Ephesus’ Critique of Stoic Thinking about Slavery William Owens 146
1.5 The Body in Question Somaesthetics and the Sublime: The rhetoric of the ‘clinical body’ in Longinus’ Περὶ ὕψους Ursula M. Poole 146
1.1 The Body in Question Physiology of Matricide: Revenge and Metabolism Imagery in Aeschylus’ Choephoroe Goran Vidovic 146
1.4 The Body in Question Apollonius the Pantomime: Silence and Dance in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana Mali Skotheim 146
1.3 The Body in Question Body Horror and Biopolitics in Livy’s Third Decade Paul Hay 146
1.6 The Body in Question The Gilded Maggot: the disgusting beauty of Christian ascetic bodies Tom Hawkins 146
1.2 The Body in Question Ethiopian Blackness: Aristotelian Commentators on “Affective Qualities” and Racial Characteristics Thomas Cirillo 146
68.1 The Classics and Early Anthropology Culture and Classics: Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization Eliza Gettel 146
68.3 The Classics and Early Anthropology Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other Franco De Angelis 146