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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
81.5 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Returning to Novelistic Biography with Sesonchosis Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 146
81.4 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Between Biography and Commentary: The Ancient Horizon of Expectations of Virgil’s Vita Irene Peirano Garrison 146
81.3 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Art of Suetonius’ Nero: Focus, (In)Consistency and Character Molly Pryzwansky 146
81.2 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Use and Abuse of History: Xenophon and Plutarch’s Lives Revisited Eran Almagor 146
81.1 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Death by a Thousand Sources: Biographical Fragmentation and Authorial Inventio in Livy’s AUC Ayelet Haimson Lushkov 146
80.5 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Elegiac Amor and Mors in Vergil’s ‘Italian Aeneid’ Sarah McCallum 146
80.4 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Elegy and Epic in the Aeneid Deborah Beck 146
80.3 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Dido, Epigram, and Authorship, before and after the Aeneid Michael Tueller 146
80.2 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Vergil and Propertius: Literary Influence and Genre Amy Leonard 146
80.1 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Poetic Constraints: Gallus and the Limits of Generics Exploration in the Eclogues Aaron Seider 146
79.5 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Dialectic and Proof in Topics 1.2 Charles George 146
79.4 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Listening to the logos: harmonia and syntax in Heraclitus Luke Parker 146
79.3 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects All in a δή’s work: Discourse-cohesive δή in Herodotus’ Thermopylae narrative Coulter George 146
79.2 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects The Semantic Evolution of Δίγλωσσος Robert Groves 146
79.1 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Not-so-impersonal passives in Plautus Hans Bork 146
78.5 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions A “Performative” Lacuna in Petronius’s Affair of Circe and Encolpius (Satyricon 132.1-2) Timothy Haase 146
78.4 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions A New Work By Apuleius Justin Stover 146
78.3 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions The Hippocratic Critical Days: Texts and Education in Greek Late Antiquity James Patterson 146
78.2 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions Alexander's Persian Pillow Christopher Brunelle 146
78.1 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions New Readings in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 146
77.6 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Josephus and Judah Ben-Hur Jon Solomon 146
77.5 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions How to Read Isis: Apuleius and Plato’s Myth of Er Byron MacDougall 146
77.4 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Monica as Socrates in Augustine's Confessions IX Thomas Miller 146
77.3 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Constantine on the “Rise” of Adam Timothy Heckenlively 146
77.2 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Animals and Worship in the Temple of Isis at Pompeii Frederick E. Brenk 146
77.1 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Why was Socrates charged with “introducing religious innovations”? Kirk R. Sanders 146
76.6 Civic Responsibility Artistic license and civic responsibility in Greek and Roman declamation Craig Gibson 146
76.5 Civic Responsibility Non ut historicum sed ut oratorem: The contio and Sallust’s historiography Lydia Spielberg 146
76.4 Civic Responsibility The Rhetoric of Cicero's Laudatio Sapientiae: de Legibus 1.58-62 David West 146
76.3 Civic Responsibility Aristotle on Community and Exchange David J. Riesbeck 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
75.6 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World The Armenian Factor in Constantine’s Foreign Policy Lee E. Patterson 146
75.5 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World “By Any Other Name” – Disgrace, Defeat and the Loss of Legionary History Graeme Ward 146
75.4 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World Handling slaves in the wake of war: a closer look at the Roman slave supply. Matthieu Abgrall 146
75.3 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World Staging Revolt: Theater in the Sicilian Slave Wars Grace Gillies 146
75.2 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World The Pirate Connection: Rome’s Servile Wars and Eastern Campaigns Aaron Beek 146
75.1 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World REMEMBERING TO FORGET: THE BATTLE OF OENOE David Yates 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
74.5 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
74.3 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
74.1 Comedy and Comic Receptions Sophocles, Polemon and fifth-century comedy Sebastiana Nervegna 146
73.6 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Exegetic Backgrounds to Aristotle’s "Homeric Problems" Benjamin Sammons 146
73.5 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The way to Ithaca lies through Hades: Odysseus’ nostos and the Nekyia George Gazis 146
73.4 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Shield and the Bow: Arms, Authority and Identity in the Iliad and the Odyssey Aara Suksi 146
73.3 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Athena hetairos: the replacement of warrior-companionship in the Odyssey John Esposito 146
73.2 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Limits of Lament: Grief, Consummation, and Homeric Narrative Tyler Flatt 146
73.1 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Death of Achilles and The Meaning and Antiquity of Formulas in Homer Chiara Bozzone 146