Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
72.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Motivating Osthoff's Law in Latin Anthony Yates 146
48.7 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy More than Meets the Eye: Public Attention and Moral Conduct in Seneca Erica Bexley 146
57.1 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Moralizing kinship in the Flavian era: animal families in the Elder Pliny Neil Bernstein 146
60.3 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture Monumenta rerum ac disciplinarum? Varro’s Reception and the Case of Gellius’ Noctes Atticae Book 3 Scott DiGiulio 146
77.4 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Monica as Socrates in Augustine's Confessions IX Thomas Miller 146
24.2 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Modern Ancient History James Romm 146
8.2 Practice and Personal Experience Methodological Challenges of Studying Personal Experience in Early Christianity Robyn Walsh 146
48.1 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Method in the Nicomachean Ethics Carlo DaVia 146
64.2 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary Medea's Exit: Dramatic Necessity through Inverted Ritual Eric Dodson-Robinson 146
57.3 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Male Lament in Statius’ Thebaid Antonios Augoustakis 146
49.2 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Lycurgus and Other Lies: Plutarch's "Agis and Cleomenes" and the Rhetoric of Political Revival Mallory Monaco Caterine 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
48.3 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Lucretian Temporality: the problem of the Epicurean Past in the De Rerum Natura Georgina White 146
30.2 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Lucan’s Introduction and the Limits of Intertextual Analysis Christopher Caterine 146
53.4 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Love's Imperium in Garcilaso's Third Latin Ode Joseph D. Reed 146
48.4 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Love and the Structure of Emotion in Lucretius Pamela Zinn 146
0.2 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Literature and the Irreducible Problem of Value Stephen Halliwell 146
15.4 Medieval Latin Poetry Literary Criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Frank Coulson 146
79.4 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Listening to the logos: harmonia and syntax in Heraclitus Luke Parker 146
46.6 The Figure of the Tyrant Liberator or Tyrannus? The Ideology of Libertas in Usurpation and Civil War Tristan Taylor 146
3.2 Law and Empire in the Roman World Lex or Leges?: Augustus' Judiciary Reforms Emily Master 146
16.4 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Lactation Cessation and the Realities of Martyrdom in the Passion of Saint Perpetua Stamatia Dova 146
65.3 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Lactantius’s Plato: Rethinking the Role of Philosophers in De ira Dei Kristina A. Meinking 146
61.2 Ancient Greek and Roman Music: Current Approaches and New Perspectives Kinesthetic Choreia: Music, Dance, and Memory in Ancient Greece Sarah Olsen 146
29.4 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Keeping Luxury At Bay: Elephants in Megasthenes’ Indika Clara Bosak-Schroeder 146
77.6 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Josephus and Judah Ben-Hur Jon Solomon 146
53.6 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe José Manuel Peramás’ De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio (1777): [world]views of America in a little-known Neo-Latin epic on Columbus’ voyages to the "New World" Maya Feile Tomes 146
76.1 Civic Responsibility Isocrates’ Letter to Archidamus in Its Literary Context Mitchell Parks 146
50.5 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Ira Caesaris and Ovid’s Exile Epistles: A New Reading Jayne Knight 146
15.1 Medieval Latin Poetry Ipse senatorum meminit clarissimus ordo: Memory, Identity, and Spatial Polemic in Prudentius' Contra Symmachum Joshua J Hartman 146
62.4 Making Meaning from Data (Joint SCS/AIA Panel) Inside-out and Outside-In: Improving and Extending Digital Models for Archaeological Interpretation Rachel Opitz, James Newhard, Marcello Mogetta, Tyler Johnson, Samantha Lash, and Matt Naglak 146
46.1 The Figure of the Tyrant Inheriting War: Father and Son in the Peloponnesian War Rachel Bruzzone 146
8.4 Practice and Personal Experience Incubation & Individual Experience in Sanctuaries of Asklepios Jessica Lamont 146
25.3 Ancient Literacy Reprised Incompletion, Revision, and the Ethics of Reading: Cicero on Appropriate Action Sean Gurd 146
2.4 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Humanist horti: the poetics of innovation in Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum Luke Roman 146
77.5 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions How to Read Isis: Apuleius and Plato’s Myth of Er Byron MacDougall 146
33.3 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Horace’s Philosophical Upbringing in Satires 1.4 Sergio Yona 146
56.1 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Horace and Hypothêkai Andrew Horne 146
18.1 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Hipponax’ Poetic Initiation and Herodas’ ‘Dream’ Vanessa Cazzato 146
9.1 Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Herodotus 1.64.3 and Alkmeonides' Dedications IG I^3 597 and 1469: A Case for Alkmaionid Exile Cameron Pearson 146
55.2 Truth and Untruth Hannibal the Historian at Ticinus and Cannae Charles Oughton 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
69.2 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Gregory of Nazianzus' De vita sua (Poema 2.1.11): Tragedy's Emotion and Historiography Suzanne Abrams-Rebillard 146
72.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek εἱαμενή Alexander Nikolaev 146
53.2 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Greek and Roman Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae apodictica methodus Eric Hutchinson 146
72.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek -σι- Abstracts and the Reconstruction of Proterokinetic *-tí- in Proto-Indo-European Jesse Lundquist 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
45.4 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Generalizing Force: The Breakdown of Creon’s Authority in Sophocles’ Antigone Lucy Van Essen-Fishman 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
67.1 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Funding Greek Warfare: From Reciprocity and Redistribution to Profit and Wages Matthew Trundle 146