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
22.1 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Choral Whispers Timothy Power 146
22.2 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Mythologies of the Voice: Plato’s Cicadas and the Nature of the Voice Pauline LeVen 146
22.3 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Choral Ventriloquism in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Sarah Nooter 146
22.4 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Acoustic Ironies in Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Allen-Hornblower 146
22.5 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece “The Deep-Voiced Lord of Thunder”: Thunder and the Poetic Voice in Pindar Owen Goslin 146
23.1 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Why a Mind is Necessary for Classical Studies William Short 146
23.2 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Crowds in the Corcyraean Stasis Garrett Fagan 146
23.3 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Cognitive Structure of Roman Ritual Practice Jacob Mackey 146
23.4 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Embodied Historiography: Models for Reasoning in Tacitus' Annals Jennifer Devereaux 146
23.5 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Affective Sciences and Greek Drama Peter Meineck 146
24.1 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Classics in a Different Voice Carol Gilligan 146
24.2 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Modern Ancient History James Romm 146
24.3 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences The Art of Love/The Love of Art Jane Alison 146
24.4 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Classics and the 21st-Century Poem Carl Phillips 146
24.5 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Audiences Beyond the Box: Presenting Classics to Orchestra and Balcony Emily Wilson 146
25.1 Ancient Literacy Reprised Ancient Illiteracy Gregory Woolf 146
25.2 Ancient Literacy Reprised A Further Look at Literacy and Education in Greek and Roman Egypt Raffaella Cribiore 146
25.3 Ancient Literacy Reprised Incompletion, Revision, and the Ethics of Reading: Cicero on Appropriate Action Sean Gurd 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
26.2 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat John Hyland 146
26.3 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
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
26.5 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
27.1 Humoerotica The Wolfish Lover: The Dog as a Comic Metaphor in Homoerotic Symposium Pottery Marina Haworth 146
27.2 Humoerotica The Consequences of Laughter in Aeschines’ Against Timarchos Deborah Kamen 146
27.3 Humoerotica Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Hermaphrodites, Invagination, and Kinaesthetic Humor in Pompeian Houses David Fredrick 146
27.4 Humoerotica Who Loves You, Baby? Martial as Priapic Seducer in the Epigrams Eugene O'Connor 146
27.5 Humoerotica Not a Freak but a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis in Martial, Epigram 7.67 Sandra Boehringer 146
28.1 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Rocking the Boat: The Iambic Sappho in the New Sappho Fragment David Wright 146
28.2 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Wile-loving Aphrodite in archaic poetry Elsa Bouchard 146
28.3 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Persuasion on Aegina in Pindar's Eighth Nemean David Kovacs 146
28.4 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Χάρις in the Epinician Odes of Pindar and Bacchylides Chris Eckerman 146
28.5 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Bacchylides’ Imitation of Art and Cult in Ode 17 Gregory Jones 146
28.6 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Colonial Narrative and the Excision of the Seer: The Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides’ Ode 11 Margaret Foster 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
29.2 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
29.4 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Keeping Luxury At Bay: Elephants in Megasthenes’ Indika Clara Bosak-Schroeder 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
30.1 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Vergil's Shield of Aeneas and Its Legacy in Lucan Catherine Mardula 146
30.2 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Lucan’s Introduction and the Limits of Intertextual Analysis Christopher Caterine 146
30.3 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic The Turn of the Screw: Lucan, Tacitus and the Sublime Machine Siobhan Chomse 146
30.4 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic A New Interpretation of Tacitus Historiae 2.70: Lucan's Caesar and Tacitus' Vitellius Giulio Celotto 146
30.5 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Silius Italicus and Homer Arthur Pomeroy 146
30.6 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Going for the Gold: Virtus and Luxuria in the Argonautica Jessica Blum 146
31.1 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Arguing through analogy in Pollux' "Onomastikon" Stylianos Chronopoulos 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