Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
31.4 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Scribes, language, and education in Petra in the 6th century CE Marja Vierros 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
32.1 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Classics and the Precipice of Time Simon Goldhill 146
32.2 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing The Untimely Scholar: Radicalism and Tradition Constanze Güthenke 146
32.3 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Tragedy and the Intrusion of Time: Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba Miriam Leonard 146
32.4 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Quantum Classics: Untimely Chronologies and Postclassical Literary Histories Tim Whitmarsh 146
33.1 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Gastronomy and Slavery under Caesar: the Politics of an Epicurean Cliché (Ad Fam. 15.18) Nathan Gilbert 146
33.2 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Code-switching for Epicurus in the Late Republic Pamela Gordon 146
33.3 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Horace’s Philosophical Upbringing in Satires 1.4 Sergio Yona 146
33.4 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Tibullus On Property Management Benjamin Vines Hicks 146
33.5 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Virgilian Enargeia: Hellenistic Epistemology and Rhetoric in Aeneas’ Gaze Robert Hedrick 146
34.1 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Reconsidering choral projection in Aeschylus through performance Simone Oppen 146
34.2 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Behind the façade: Staging the house in Euripides’ Orestes Megan Wilson 146
34.3 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance Chris Bungard 146
34.3 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance Christopher Bungard 146
34.4 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Doubling in practice and pedagogy Amy R. Cohen 146
34.5 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Aristophanes in performance in the 21st-century classroom Lily Kelting 146
35.1 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational Parts of the Soul “Against Nature” in Christian Neoplatonism? Gregory Nyssen with Antecedents in Origen and Aftermath in Evagrius Ilaria Ramelli 146
35.2 Platonism and the Irrational From Plato to Philo: On the Psychology and Physiology of Prophetic Dreaming Jason Reddoch 146
35.3 Platonism and the Irrational Dialectic as autopsia: a lesson in Neoplatonic rationality Donka Marcus 146
35.4 Platonism and the Irrational Astrology for Neoplatonists: Rational or Irrational? Marilynn Lawrence 146
35.5 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational and the Paranormal: the legacy of E. R. Dodds Greg Shaw 146
36.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Seal of Theognis and Oral-Traditional Signature Maxwell A. Gray 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
36.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Foreign Voices: Caesar's Use of 'Enemy' Speech in the Helvetii Campaign Haley Flagg 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
36.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "Et Legebat et Mutabatur Intus:" Reading and Conversion in Augustine's Confessions Joshua Benjamins 146
37.1 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World An Empire of Allotment: Imperial Stability and the Athenian Frontier in Fifth-Century Euboea Timothy Sorg 146
37.2 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World The Practice of Diplomacy: Sidonian Kings and Greek States in the Fourth Century BCE Denise Demetriou 146
37.3 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World The Seleucids in Babylon: royal euergetism and local elites M.S. (Marijn) Visscher 146
37.4 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World Rhodes, the Cyclades, and the Second Nesiotic League John Tully 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
38.3 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution Disenchanting Odysseus: Auerbach and Adorno on the Philhellenic Enlightenment Mathura Umachandran 146
39.1 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Debasement and Inflation in the western Empire during the third century CE Daniel Hoyer 146
39.2 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Bronze Currency and Local Authority in 4th-century Egypt Irene Soto 146
39.3 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Currency and Inflation in Late Antiquity Filippo Carlà 146
39.4 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Roman Coinage, between Commodity and Currency Gilles Bransbourg 146
40.1 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History “Reacting to the Past Pedagogy and ‘Beware the Ides of March, Rome in 44 BCE’” Carl A. Anderson and T. Keith Dix 146
40.2 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History “Reconvening the Senate: Learning Outcomes after Using Reacting to the Past in the Intermediate Latin Course” Christine Loren Albright 146
40.3 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History “Making History Come Alive: Reflections on 20-years’ Worth of Role-Playing Simulation Games, Exercises, and Paper Assignments” Gregory Aldrete 146
40.4 Interactive Pedagogy and the Teaching of Ancient History “More than Bringing History to Life: Experimental History as an Interactive Pedagogy” Lee Brice 146
42.1 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century Quae quibus anteferam? The grouping and ordering of works in modern editions of classical texts Richard Tarrant 146
42.3 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century Beyond variants: Some digital desiderata for the critical apparatus of ancient Greek and Latin texts Cynthia Damon 146
42.4 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century Philology and Textual Editing in the Classroom (and Beyond) Francesca Schironi 146
43.1 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius’ Book of Trans* Formations: A Transgender Studies Reappraisal of Met. 8.24-30 and 11.17-30 H. Christian Blood 146
43.2 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius and the ‘Impossible Tasks’: Linking together the Heavens and the Earth Elsa Giovanna Simonetti 146
43.3 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius’ Use and Abuse of Platonic Myth in the Metamorphoses Jeffrey Ulrich 146
43.4 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship The Mantle of Humanity: Met. 11.24 and Apuleian Ethics Sasha-Mae Eccleston 146
44.1 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Birth and the Many-Legged Womb Anna Bonnell-Freidin 146