Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
70.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry De Rerum Natura 1.44-49: A Spoiler in Lucretius’ first proem? Seth Holm 147
61.4 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Horace's Unified, Epicurean Persona in the "Diatribe Satires" (1.1-3) Sergio Yona 147
19.2 Poster Session A Library with a Garden: The Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome Sebastian Hierl 147
71.1 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Epistolary Reflections on Philosophical Translation Sean McConnell 147
52.2 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Choreography and Competition in Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 3 Sarah Olsen 147
83.4 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Latin Papyri from Herculaneum Sarah Hendriks 147
67.5 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Plato’s Self-Moving Myth: Tracking the migration of Plato’s Myth in late antique text networks Sara Rappe 147
16.4 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival The Philology of Fragments Sander Goldberg 147
62.3 Truth and Lies The Fool's World in Seneca's Epistle 58 Sam McVane 147
42.2 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Megabyxus in the Constitutional Debate Rosaria V. Munson 147
66.3 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Antigone, Once Again: The Right to Live and To Die with Dignity Rosanna Lauriola 147
56.2 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Summum ius, summa injuria: The Function of aequitas in Thomas More’s Utopia and Christopher St. Germain’s Dialogus De Fundamentis Legum Anglie et de Conscientia Roger S. Fisher 147
12.4 Money Matters The End of Hegemony? Revisiting Athenian Finance and Foreign Policy after the Social War Robert Sing 147
35.1 Standardization and the State Materiality and Performance in the Use of Standardized Measures Robert Schon 147
39.5 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Dependency Syntax Trees in the Latin 1 Classroom Robert Gorman 147
14.1 Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia Anchoring Epic: Vergilian Quotations in Paulinus’ Epic on John and the Christian Tradition Roald Dijkstra 147
5.2 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Interpreting the Omens for Caesar's Assassination Richard Westall 147
83.1 Herculaneum in Word and Text Editing in three dimensions: the papyri from Herculaneum Richard Janko 147
49.2 Athenian Unity? The Hoplite Class as a Complex Category in Greek Thought Richard Fernando Buxton 147
18.4 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Plutarch’s Caesar and the Historical Tradition Regarding Caesar’s Gallic War Rex Stem 147
4.2 Herodotus at 2500 Rewriting the North: Herodotus, Aristeas, and the Construction of Authority Renaud Gagné 147
77.3 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Making Livia Divine: Carmentis, Hersilia, and Ovid’s Poetic Power Reina Callier 147
36.5 Fides in Flavian Poetry Affirmatio Religiosa: Piety and Fides in Silius Italicus’ Punica Ray Marks 147
14.3 Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia A Still Triumphant Empire with the Barbarians at the Gates: Imperial Epic and Ethnographic Discourse in the Bellum Geticum of Claudian Randolph Ford 147
85.3 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Hippocratic Experimentation and Poetic Simile in Homer Ralph Rosen 147
84.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Incertas Umbras: The Mysterious Pastoral in Virgil's Eclogues Rachelle Ferguson 147
17.2 Rome: The City as Text Utopian Rome in Ovid’s Externalized View from Exile Rachel Philbrick 147
55.5 Sexuality in Ancient Art Beyond the Male Gaze: The Power of the Knidian Aphrodite in Her Narrative Context Rachel H. Lesser 147
56.1 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Laura Cereta’s In asinarium funus oratio Quinn Radziszewski Griffin 147
69.4 Language and Meter What Can Computers Do for Philology? A Case Study in Pseudo-Seneca Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 147
72.2 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Socrates, Gandhi, Derrida Phiroze Vasunia 147
54.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Accenting Sequences of Enclitics in Ancient Greek: Rediscovering an Ancient Rule Philomen Probert 147
35.2 Standardization and the State Who Benefits? Incentive and Coercion in the Selection of Greek Monetary Standards Peter van Alfen 147
31.3 Gender and Identity The Gender Ratio in the Attic Stelai Peter Hunt 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
30.2 Euripides Musical Language and Performance in Euripides' Troades Peter Blandino 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
76.3 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Archpoet’s Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications Pedro Baroni Schmidt 147
79.5 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Pagan Vision and Christian Voice in Eudocia’s De martyrio sancti Cypriani Pavlos Avlamis 147
2.5 Republican Literature Tusculan Villas as Political Tools in Cicero’s Writings: More than Meets the Eye Paula Rondon-Burgos 147
21.6 Ancient Kingship The Inception of the Seleukid Empire Paul Vadan 147
32.4 Friendship and Affection Friendship and θυμός in Aristotle Paul Ludwig 147
85.2 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine The Sliding Scale of Experiment-Kinds Paul Keyser 147
53.5 Epistolary Epigraphy A Letter of Claudius, the Boundary Between Tymbrianassos and Sagalassos, and the Via Sebaste Paul Iversen 147
80.1 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Pulling the Pieces Together: Social Capital and the Olympics, Ancient and Modern Paul Christesen 147
56.6 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Aeneid 13: Four Vergilian Imitators Patrick M. Owens 147
70.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Aristaeus Epyllion in Georgics 4 and the Instability of Didactic Knowledge Patrick Glauthier 147
51.1 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority First as History, and Again as Farce: Ironic Echoes in Herodian’s Description of Commodus Patrick Cook 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
77.6 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum Civile Patrick Burns 147