Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
21.6 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Regulating and ‘Romanizing’ the Environment Cynthia Bannon 146
21.5 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Who Controls the Imperial Mint at Rome? An Epigraphic Perspective on Bureaucrats David Schwei 146
21.2 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Rome and the “Immortal Gods”: an Ideology for Empire Larisa Masri 146
21.1 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Roman Senatorial Reactions to the Extortion and Abuse of Provincials and Foreigners before 149 B.C.E. Lekha Shupeck 146
21.4 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Crinagoras of Mytilene and the Construction of Empire in Greek Epigrams of the Augustan Period Thomas Keith 146
45.5 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Reflexivity and Integrity in Sophocles' Philoctetes John Gibert 146
45.4 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Generalizing Force: The Breakdown of Creon’s Authority in Sophocles’ Antigone Lucy Van Essen-Fishman 146
45.3 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Playing the Volcano: Prometheus Bound and Fifth Century Volcanic Theory Patrick Glauthier 146
45.6 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Dead Man Walking: The Use of Funerary Motifs in Euripides’ Orestes Wendy Closterman 146
45.1 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Performing Relationships: Aeschylus’ Use of Mousikē and Choreia in the Oresteia Valerie Hannon Smitherman 146
45.2 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Night of the Waking Dead: The Ghost of Clytemnestra and Collective Vengeance in Aeschylus’ Eumenides Robert Cioffi 146
58.4 Demystifying Assessment Assessment at the Secondary Level: Demands and Benefits Keely Lake 146
58.5 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Learning Outcomes Online: A longitudinal, collaborative, inter-institutional case study Ryan Fowler and Amy Singer 146
58.3 Demystifying Assessment The Teagle Assessment Project: A Study of the Learning Outcomes for Majors in Classics Michael Arnush and Kenny Morrell 146
58.2 Demystifying Assessment Rethinking the Latin Classroom: Changing the Role of Translation in Assessment Jacquelie Carlon 146
58.1 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Translingual and Transcultural Competence David Johnson and Yasuko Taoka 146
63.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Village Elites in Roman Egypt: The Case of First-Century Tebtunis Micaela Langellotti 146
63.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Child Labor in Greco-Roman Egypt: New Texts from the Archive of Harthotes W. Graham Claytor and Elizabeth Nabney 146
63.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A Christian Amulet in Context: Report on a Re-edition and Study of P.Oxy. VIII 1151 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 146
63.6 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A New Text from the Dossier of the Descendants of Flavius Eulogius C. Michael Sampson 146
63.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt The Account of Demosthenes’ Death in P.Berol. inv. 13045 Davide Amendola 146
63.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Translation as a Means of Textual Composition in the Bilingual Funerary Papyri Rhind I and II Emily Cole 146
74.3 Comedy and Comic Receptions Boogeymen in the Playwright’s Closet: Mormolukeia, Generic Aesthetics, and Adolescent Outreach in Old Comedy Al Duncan 146
74.2 Comedy and Comic Receptions Paracomic Costuming: Euripides' Helen as a Response to Aristophanes' Acharnians Craig Jendza 146
74.5 Comedy and Comic Receptions Lucretius at the Ludi: Comedy and Other Drama in Book Four of De rerum natura Mathias Hanses 146
74.4 Comedy and Comic Receptions Spectator Courts: Metatheater and Program in Terence’s Prologues Patrick Dombrowski 146
74.6 Comedy and Comic Receptions Alfonso Sastre's Los Dioses y los Cuernos (1995) as a rewriting of Plautus' Amphitruo Rodrigo Goncalves 146
74.1 Comedy and Comic Receptions Sophocles, Polemon and fifth-century comedy Sebastiana Nervegna 146
23.4 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Embodied Historiography: Models for Reasoning in Tacitus' Annals Jennifer Devereaux 146
23.3 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Cognitive Structure of Roman Ritual Practice Jacob Mackey 146
23.2 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Crowds in the Corcyraean Stasis Garrett Fagan 146
23.1 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Why a Mind is Necessary for Classical Studies William Short 146
23.5 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Affective Sciences and Greek Drama Peter Meineck 146
76.5 Civic Responsibility Non ut historicum sed ut oratorem: The contio and Sallust’s historiography Lydia Spielberg 146
76.2 Civic Responsibility Demosthenic influences in early rhetorical education: Hellenistic rhetores and Athenian imagination Mirko Canevaro 146
76.1 Civic Responsibility Isocrates’ Letter to Archidamus in Its Literary Context Mitchell Parks 146
76.6 Civic Responsibility Artistic license and civic responsibility in Greek and Roman declamation Craig Gibson 146
76.3 Civic Responsibility Aristotle on Community and Exchange David J. Riesbeck 146
76.4 Civic Responsibility The Rhetoric of Cicero's Laudatio Sapientiae: de Legibus 1.58-62 David West 146
64.3 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary The Turning Post and the Finish Line: False Boundaries in the Iliad Bill Beck 146
64.1 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary The Race at Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.9.1409a32-34 Stadion or Diaulos? E. Christian Kopff 146
64.4 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary RUN FOR YOU LIFE: FOOTRACES, CHARIOTS AND THE MYTH OF HIPPODAMEIA Olga Levaniouk 146
64.2 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary Medea's Exit: Dramatic Necessity through Inverted Ritual Eric Dodson-Robinson 146
16.2 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity The Wet-Nurses of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Maryline Parca 146
16.3 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Adult Breastfeeding in Ancient Rome Tara Mulder 146
16.4 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Lactation Cessation and the Realities of Martyrdom in the Passion of Saint Perpetua Stamatia Dova 146
16.1 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Clytemnestra’s Breast as a Receptacle of Memory in Aeschylus’ _Libation Bearers_ Catalina Popescu 146
81.2 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Use and Abuse of History: Xenophon and Plutarch’s Lives Revisited Eran Almagor 146
81.3 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Art of Suetonius’ Nero: Focus, (In)Consistency and Character Molly Pryzwansky 146
81.5 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Returning to Novelistic Biography with Sesonchosis Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 146