Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
10.1 The Performance of Greek Poetry The Songs of the Deliades: Multilingualism in Ritual Contexts Annette Teffeteller 146
10.2 The Performance of Greek Poetry Between Athens and Delphi: The Pragmatics of the Delphic Hymns Claas Lattmann 146
10.3 The Performance of Greek Poetry On the “Scribe as Performer” and the Homeric Text Jonathan Ready 146
10.4 The Performance of Greek Poetry Composing Archaic Greek Elegy in the Roman Empire: Theognidea 1-18 Lawrence Kowerski 146
26.5 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Remembering the ‘Greatest Shame’: Roman, Persian, and Christian Responses to the Emperor Valerian as Prisoner of War Craig Caldwell 146
26.2 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat John Hyland 146
26.1 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Demosthenes Epitaphios (60), Chaeronea and the Rhetoric of Defeat Max L. Goldman 146
26.4 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World The Sale of Captives on the Comic Stage: Communal Memory in the 200s BC Amy Richlin 146
26.3 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World “No Strength to Stand”: Defeat at Panion, the Macedonian class, and Ptolemaic Decline Paul Johstono 146
36.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "Et Legebat et Mutabatur Intus:" Reading and Conversion in Augustine's Confessions Joshua Benjamins 146
36.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "To Laugh at One's Enemies:" Vengeance by Humiliation and the Tyranny of the Stronger in Sophocles' Ajax J. LaRae Ferguson 146
36.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Seal of Theognis and Oral-Traditional Signature Maxwell A. Gray 146
36.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Towards a New Lexicon of Fear: A Statistical and Grammatical Analysis of pertimescere in Cicero Emma Vanderpool 146
36.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Foreign Voices: Caesar's Use of 'Enemy' Speech in the Helvetii Campaign Haley Flagg 146
17.4 The Matter of Thebes A Look at Thebes's Place in American Fiction (1962-2010) Michele Valerie Ronnick 146
17.2 The Matter of Thebes The Comic and the Tragic Birth of Heracles Dustin Dixon 146
17.3 The Matter of Thebes A Theban Odyssey: Family, Identity, and Finitude in the Epic Cycle Ella Haselswerdt 146
17.1 The Matter of Thebes Eteocles and the Sound of Silence Patrick Lambdin 146
60.2 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Parodic Pedants: Satire in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 1.6 and Varro’s De Lingua Latina 8–9 Curtis Dozier 146
60.4 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Varro and His Influence in the Fourth and Fifth Century Latin West Michele Renee Salzman 146
60.1 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture The Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and the Creation of the Roman National Identity Isaia Crosson 146
60.3 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Monumenta rerum ac disciplinarum? Varro’s Reception and the Case of Gellius’ Noctes Atticae Book 3 Scott DiGiulio 146
60.5 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Varro’s theologia tripertita in Augustus and Augustine Steven J. Lundy 146
65.3 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Lactantius’s Plato: Rethinking the Role of Philosophers in De ira Dei Kristina A. Meinking 146
65.4 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Naming God, Defining Heretics, and the Development of a Textual Culture: Gregory of Nyssa and the Eunomian Controversy Matthew Lootens 146
65.1 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Style, Posture and Deportment in the Frame Narrative of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew Allan Georgia 146
65.2 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Diogenes Laertius and Cross-Cultural Intellectual Debates in the Third Century Jared Secord 146
13.3 The Impact of Moses Finley Finley in Britain Dorothy Thompson 146
13.2 The Impact of Moses Finley Finley in America Fred Naiden 146
46.4 The Figure of the Tyrant “You, too, son, must die!”: Caesar’s prophecy and the death of Brutus Ioannis Ziogas 146
46.5 The Figure of the Tyrant A Bridge to Nowhere: Caligula’s Baiae Procession and Its Models Jake Nabel 146
46.3 The Figure of the Tyrant Tyrant labeling and modes of sole rulership in Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke Marcaline Boyd 146
46.1 The Figure of the Tyrant Inheriting War: Father and Son in the Peloponnesian War Rachel Bruzzone 146
46.2 The Figure of the Tyrant Demosthenes and the Financial Power of Philip II Robert Sing 146
46.6 The Figure of the Tyrant Liberator or Tyrannus? The Ideology of Libertas in Usurpation and Civil War Tristan Taylor 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
68.2 The Classics and Early Anthropology Colourblind: The Use of Homeric Greek in Cultural Linguistics Melissa Funke 146
68.4 The Classics and Early Anthropology Towards a New Comparativism in Classics Maurizio Bettini and William Short 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
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