Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
1.1 Texts and Transmission Spurning Glosses: Etymological Interpretation of Poetry as a Social Phenomenon at Plutarch’s Symposia David F. Driscoll 147
1.2 Texts and Transmission The Text of the Aegritudo Perdicae Louis Zweig 147
1.3 Texts and Transmission Aeschylus’ ‘Semele or Water-Bearers’: Manuscripts and Plot Enrico Emanuele Prodi 147
1.4 Texts and Transmission An Entwicklungsgeschichte of a Text? Werner Jaeger and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Mirjam Kotwick 147
1.5 Texts and Transmission Using an Epitome to Decode Byzantine Reception of Planoudes’ Translation of Macrobius’ "Commentarii" Karen Carducci 147
2.1 Republican Literature The Epistula ad Tiburtes and Roman-Latin Relations in the 2nd Century BCE Elizabeth Palazzolo 147
2.2 Republican Literature Messalla Corvinus’ Ciceronian Career Joanna Kenty 147
2.3 Republican Literature Defamiliarizing Cicero's De Re Publica Laura Viidebaum 147
2.4 Republican Literature Cicero’s Paternal Grief: Public Commemoration for a Personal Loss Aaron Seider 147
2.5 Republican Literature Tusculan Villas as Political Tools in Cicero’s Writings: More than Meets the Eye Paula Rondon-Burgos 147
3.1 Time and Memory Man of the Hour: The Impact of Hourly Timekeeping in Galen’s Fever Case Histories Kassandra Jackson 147
3.2 Time and Memory Dancing in the Dark: Nocturnal Pantomime Performances at Greek and Roman Festivals Mali Skotheim 147
3.3 Time and Memory Constructing Time under the Roman Empire: The Politics of Time-Reckoning in Herakleia Pontika, Amastris, and Sinope Ching-Yuan Wu 147
3.4 Time and Memory Historical Authority in Pausanias Book I Monica Park 147
3.5 Time and Memory Before Athenian Thalassocracy: Minos’ Sea Power in Archaic and Non-Athenian Traditions Valerio Caldesi Valeri 147
4.1 Herodotus at 2500 Spoofing Herodotus Thomas Harrison 147
4.2 Herodotus at 2500 Rewriting the North: Herodotus, Aristeas, and the Construction of Authority Renaud Gagné 147
4.3 Herodotus at 2500 Herodotus on the Ethics of Retaliation Elizabeth Irwin 147
4.4 Herodotus at 2500 A Pre-post-human Herodotus: Distributed Knowledge in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Greenwood 147
5.1 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Damned with Feigned Praise: The Role of Architecture in the Death of Julius Caesar Penelope Davies 147
5.2 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Interpreting the Omens for Caesar's Assassination Richard Westall 147
5.3 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Calpurnia and the Ides of March Josiah Osgood 147
5.4 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Murder on Display: Performance and Persuasion at Caesar's funeral Ida Östenberg 147
6.1 The List as Genre Divergent Series: A Poetics of Greek Inventories Athena Kirk 147
6.2 The List as Genre An finitus sit mundus et an unus: Reading Pliny’s Lists of Nature Stephanie Frampton 147
6.3 The List as Genre Jerome’s De Viris Illustribus and the Beginnings of a Christian Curriculum Irene SanPietro 147
6.4 The List as Genre Consular Lists as Genre Alan Cameron 147
6.5 The List as Genre Lists & Roman Law John Matthews 147
7.1 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections The Giza Project at Harvard: Consolidated Access to the Pyramids Peter Der Manuelian 147
7.2 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Who Owns the Past? Evidence, Interpretation and the Use of Digital Archaeological Data Jon Frey 147
7.3 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Online Coins of the Roman Empire: An Open Resource for Roman Numismatics Andrew Robert Meadows 147
7.4 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Expanding the Archive: The Creation of the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Carolyn Heitman, Salmon Pueblo, and Paul Reed 147
8.1 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Cicero Crosses the Color Line: The Pro Archia Poeta and W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk Mathias Hanses 147
8.2 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois’s Foundation Myth of At(a)lanta Stephen Wheeler and Irenae Aigbedion 147
8.3 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Riddling toward Knowledge Tom Hawkins 147
8.4 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Classical Tradition and Black Nationalism in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Star of Ethiopia Evan Lee 147
8.5 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Hell to Pay: Classics and Radical Inclusion in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Ruling of Men” Harriet Fertik 147
9.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Eurypylus and beyond: Groups and sub-groups of fragments in P.Oxy. IX 1175 + XVII 2081(b) Giulio Iovine 147
9.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt P.Mich. inv. 975 and papyri involving the town council of Antinoopolis François Gerardin 147
9.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Taxes, petitions, and the formulation of the ideal relationship between citizen and state in the late Roman empire Patrick Clark 147
9.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Late Byzantine legal practice and prosopography in a contract from the Princeton collection Nicholas Venable 147
9.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Prayers for protection against heretics? Two Greek amulets reconsidered Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 147
10.1 Ancient Music and the Emotions Is the Idea of “Musical Emotion” Present in Classical Antiquity? Andreas Kramarz 147
10.2 Ancient Music and the Emotions Aristotle on Musical Emotions Juan Pablo Mira 147
10.3 Ancient Music and the Emotions When Sounds Become Song: Thauma as a Response to Musical Transformations Amy Lather 147
10.4 Ancient Music and the Emotions Lament in the Land of logos Naomi Weiss 147
10.5 Ancient Music and the Emotions The Experience of the Other: Dance and Empathy in Ancient Mystery Rites Karin Schlapbach 147
11.1 Prophecy The Meanings of Nature: Philosophy, Science and Divination between Lucretius and Seneca Daniele Federico Maras 147
11.2 Prophecy "Trusty" Oracles of Zeus? The Pragmatics of Prophecies in Sophocles' Trachiniae Amy Pistone 147
11.3 Prophecy Signs and Patterns in Aratus' Myth of Ages Kathryn Wilson 147