Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
48.5 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Reason in Philodemus's De dis 1 Sonya Wurster 146
48.6 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Real Harm, not Slight: the Prerequisites for "Natural Anger" in Philodemus' On Anger and their Influence on Vergil David Armstrong 146
0.4 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Reading like a Roman Rhetorician Joy Connolly 146
69.1 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry QUIA VIDETUR HISTORIAM COMPOSUISSE, NON POEMA: ROMAN EPIC AS ROMAN HISTORY Thomas Biggs 146
32.4 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Quantum Classics: Untimely Chronologies and Postclassical Literary Histories Tim Whitmarsh 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
5.1 New Fragments of Sappho Provenance, authenticity, and the text of the New Sappho papyri Dirk Obbink 146
9.4 Inscriptions and Literary Sources Pride of Place: Remembering Herodotos in Late Hellenistic Halikarnassos Jeremy LaBuff 146
18.2 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Prenatal Power in Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos and the Mendes Stela Leanna Boychenko 146
7.1 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Polyeideia and the Intended Audience of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Jason Nethercut 146
69.4 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Poetry in Polybius: The Source Material of Hellenistic Historiography Scott Farrington 146
6.4 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Poetry between Latin and the vernacular: literature and literalism in the classical tradition Stephen Hinds 146
80.1 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Poetic Constraints: Gallus and the Limits of Generics Exploration in the Eclogues Aaron Seider 146
57.5 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Pliny’s Telemacheia: Epic and Exemplarity Under Vesuvius Jacques Bromberg 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
19.3 Philosophical Poetics Plato's Protagoras as a Comedy of Pleasure James Andrews 146
49.6 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Plague in the Time of Procopius: Thucydides, Intertextuality, and Historical Memory Jessica Moore 146
1.1 The Body in Question Physiology of Matricide: Revenge and Metabolism Imagery in Aeschylus’ Choephoroe Goran Vidovic 146
20.5 Religion, Ritual, and Identity Philostratus, prognōsis, and the alternatives to divination Roshan Abraham 146
19.1 Philosophical Poetics Philosophy as a Reinterpretation of Poetry in Plato’s Republic Samuel Flores 146
71.2 Travel, Travelers and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture Philosophy and Travel in the Letters of Synesius Alex Petkas 146
42.4 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century Philology and Textual Editing in the Classroom (and Beyond) Francesca Schironi 146
28.3 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Persuasion on Aegina in Pindar's Eighth Nemean David Kovacs 146
52.1 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games Persona grata: Role-playing games in language and civilization instruction Sarah Landis, Maxwell Teitel Paule, and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 146
19.6 Philosophical Poetics Persius 4 & 5: Pedagogy and the failure of philosophy Kate Meng Brassel 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
21.3 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Pax, the Senate, and Augustus in 13 BCE: a new look at the Ara Pacis Augustae Amy Russell 146
60.2 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Parodic Pedants: Satire in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 1.6 and Varro’s De Lingua Latina 8–9 Curtis Dozier 146
70.3 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Parmenides’ Proem: Divine Inspiration as a Form of Expression Kenneth Thomas Munro Mackenzie 146
74.2 Comedy and Comic Receptions Paracomic Costuming: Euripides' Helen as a Response to Aristophanes' Acharnians Craig Jendza 146
53.1 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Out of the Pietist Labyrinth: Susanna Sprögel’s Latin Verses Owen Ewald 146
44.2 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Organs Personified: Their Form and Function in the Empathetic Medical System of Aretaeus of Cappadocia Amber Porter 146
27.3 Humoerotica Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Hermaphrodites, Invagination, and Kinaesthetic Humor in Pompeian Houses David Fredrick 146
9.3 Inscriptions and Literary Sources Opinions About Honorific Statues: the Case of Dion vs. Rhodians Jelle Stoop 146
57.2 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Opibusque ultra ne crede paternis: Fathers and Sons on the Wrong Side of History in Valerius’ Argonautica Timothy Stover 146
10.3 The Performance of Greek Poetry On the “Scribe as Performer” and the Homeric Text Jonathan Ready 146
59.4 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics On Knowing and Not Knowing Kristina Milnor 146
79.1 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Not-so-impersonal passives in Plautus Hans Bork 146
27.5 Humoerotica Not a Freak but a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis in Martial, Epigram 7.67 Sandra Boehringer 146
76.5 Civic Responsibility Non ut historicum sed ut oratorem: The contio and Sallust’s historiography Lydia Spielberg 146
4.3 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Nomen Echionium: Theban narratives in Virgil's Aeneid Stefano Rebeggiani 146
55.1 Truth and Untruth No Place Like Home: Narratorial Participation in Lucian’s True Histories Bryant Kirkland 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
78.1 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions New Readings in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 146
15.3 Medieval Latin Poetry Navigating the Gaze in the Paderborn Epic Eb Joseph Daniels 146
65.4 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Naming God, Defining Heretics, and the Development of a Textual Culture: Gregory of Nyssa and the Eunomian Controversy Matthew Lootens 146
53.5 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Myths of Poetry and Praise: Orpheus in Poliziano's and Statius' Silvae Marco Romani Mistretta 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
61.5 Ancient Greek and Roman Music: Current Approaches and New Perspectives Musica Prisca Caput: Ancient Greek Music Theory, Vitruvius, and Enharmonicism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Daniel Walden 146
54.6 Poster Session Multiple Explanations and Unresolved Ambiguity in Porphyrio’s Commentary on Horace Bram van der Velden 146