Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
69.3 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Epic Manipulation: Restructuring Livy’s Hannibalic war in Silius Italicus’ Punica Salvador Bartera and Claire Stocks 146
53.3 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe … quae mihi satis liberalis et humana visa K. T. S. Klos 146
46.4 The Figure of the Tyrant “You, too, son, must die!”: Caesar’s prophecy and the death of Brutus Ioannis Ziogas 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
19.4 Philosophical Poetics “Since we are two alone:” Profaning the Patrios Nomos in Plato's Menexenus Clifford Robinson 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
40.1 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
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
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
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
52.2 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games “Future Archaeology”: modular roleplay in material-culture courses Robyn Le Blanc 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
61.3 Ancient Greek and Roman Music: Current Approaches and New Perspectives ‘East Faces of Early Greek Music' John Franklin 146
28.4 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Χάρις in the Epinician Odes of Pindar and Bacchylides Chris Eckerman 146
29.6 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Xenophon of Ephesus’ Critique of Stoic Thinking about Slavery William Owens 146
28.2 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Wile-loving Aphrodite in archaic poetry Elsa Bouchard 146
77.1 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Why was Socrates charged with “introducing religious innovations”? Kirk R. Sanders 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
23.1 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Why a Mind is Necessary for Classical Studies William Short 146
27.4 Humoerotica Who Loves You, Baby? Martial as Priapic Seducer in the Epigrams Eugene O'Connor 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
19.5 Philosophical Poetics Where is the Good? The Place of Agathon in the Symposium Phillip Horky 146
6.1 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? What kind of Language did Ancient Romans Speak? A Fifteenth-century Debate Christopher S. Celenza 146
62.1 Making Meaning from Data What Do You Do with a Million Links? Elton Barker, Pau de Soto, Leif Isaksen, and Rainer Simon 146
67.4 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare War, Profit, Loss, and the Hellenistic Greek Polis: A Balance Sheet Graham Oliver 146
44.3 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Vivisection and Revelation: Some Narratives from Latin Literature Michael Goyette 146
14.2 Aristotle Virtue and External Goods in Aristotle Jay Elliott 146
18.6 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Virgil’s Nomina Flexa: Tityrus, Amaryllis, Meliboeus Aaron Kachuck 146
33.5 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Virgilian Enargeia: Hellenistic Epistemology and Rhetoric in Aeneas’ Gaze Robert Hedrick 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
34.3 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance Chris Bungard 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
8.5 Practice and Personal Experience Vicarious religious healing in the Greco-Roman world Steven Muir 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
80.2 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Vergil and Propertius: Literary Influence and Genre Amy Leonard 146
60.5 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Varro’s theologia tripertita in Augustus and Augustine Steven J. Lundy 146
60.4 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Varro and His Influence in the Fourth and Fifth Century Latin West Michele Renee Salzman 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
7.5 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Unintended Audiences: Ovid and the Tomitans in Ex Ponto 4.13 and 4.14 Angeline Chiu 146
3.5 Law and Empire in the Roman World Ulpian and the Criminalization of Divination David M. Ratzan 146
46.3 The Figure of the Tyrant Tyrant labeling and modes of sole rulership in Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke Marcaline Boyd 146
62.3 Making Meaning from Data Trees into Nets: Network-based Approaches to Ancient Greek Treebanks Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti 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
70.2 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Trance-former/Performer: Shamanistic Elements in Late Bronze Age Minoan Cult Caroline Jane Tully 146
59.3 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics Tragic Realities: What Kind of History Do Fictional Women Let Us Write? Sheila Murnaghan 146
32.3 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Tragedy and the Intrusion of Time: Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba Miriam Leonard 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
68.4 The Classics and Early Anthropology Towards a New Comparativism in Classics Maurizio Bettini and William Short 146
33.4 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Tibullus On Property Management Benjamin Vines Hicks 146
18.4 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Theocritus and Fan Fiction: Idylls 8 and 9 Nita Krevans 146