Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
29.6 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Xenophon of Ephesus’ Critique of Stoic Thinking about Slavery William Owens 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
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
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
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
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
38.2 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution An Aristotelian Verfremdungseffekt; or, the rejection of the Poetics in Postdramatic Theatre Emma Cole 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
31.1 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Arguing through analogy in Pollux' "Onomastikon" Stylianos Chronopoulos 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
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
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
48.5 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Reason in Philodemus's De dis 1 Sonya Wurster 146
48.1 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Method in the Nicomachean Ethics Carlo DaVia 146
48.2 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy The Pre-Emotions of the Stoic Wise Man David Kaufman 146
48.6 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Real Harm, not Slight: the Prerequisites for "Natural Anger" in Philodemus' On Anger and their Influence on Vergil David Armstrong 146
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
0.2 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Literature and the Irreducible Problem of Value Stephen Halliwell 146
0.3 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic The Utility of the Aesthetic and the Aesthetics of Life James I. Porter 146
0.4 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Reading like a Roman Rhetorician Joy Connolly 146
0.1 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Debates about the Value of Literature from Homer to Aristotle Andrew Ford 146
8.4 Practice and Personal Experience Incubation & Individual Experience in Sanctuaries of Asklepios Jessica Lamont 146
8.2 Practice and Personal Experience Methodological Challenges of Studying Personal Experience in Early Christianity Robyn Walsh 146
8.1 Practice and Personal Experience Durkheim, Weber, and Some Problems in the Recent Turn Toward the Individual in Ancient Greek Religion Kenneth Yu 146
8.5 Practice and Personal Experience Vicarious religious healing in the Greco-Roman world Steven Muir 146
8.3 Practice and Personal Experience Cybele and Attis in Domestic Cult at Olynthos: Evidence for Flexibility in Household Ritual Debby Sneed 146
54.6 Poster Session Multiple Explanations and Unresolved Ambiguity in Porphyrio’s Commentary on Horace Bram van der Velden 146