Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
50.4 Identity and Ethnicity Identity and Erasure in the Sepulchral Relief of Fonteia Helena and Fonteia Eleusis Grace Gillies 147
31.2 Gender and Identity Heroic Action and Exogamy in Homeric Catalogues of Women Goda Thangada 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
71.3 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Pythagoreanising Tendencies in Cicero’s Translation of the Timaeus Georgina Frances White 147
61.6 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Talking Donkeys: A Seriocomic Interpretation of Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.2 Geoffrey Benson 147
18.1 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Plutarch's Usable (But Not Too Usable) Late Republican Past in the Praecepta rei publicae gerendae Gavin Weaire 147
51.5 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Landscapes of Authority: Roman Officials in Second-Century Ephesus Garrett Ryan 147
55.2 Sexuality in Ancient Art Baubo and the Question of the Obscene Frederika Tevebring 147
75.4 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Pagan Monotheism and Pagan Cult Frederick Brenk 147
78.1 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World The Wolves of Attica: Xenophon and the Evolution of Cavalry in Asymmetric Warfare Frank S. Russell 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
38.4 Cicero across Genres Epistolary Style and Rhetorical Style: A Path Across Letters and Rhetorical Treatises Francesco Ginelli 147
11.4 Prophecy Riddling Recipes: The Elegiac Instructions of Philo (SH 690) and Aglaias (SH 18) Floris Overduin 147
44.2 The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry The Conflict between Spring and Winter: A Pseudo-Vergilian Bucolic Poem Fabian Zogg 147
34.3 Architecture and Self-Definition Self-Definition of Alexander the Great F. S. Naiden 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
68.4 Free Speech Eyes to See, Hands to Serve: Ambrose's Transformation of Liberalitas Erin Galgay Walsh 147
83.5 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Herculaneum Graffiti Project: Ancient Wall Inscriptions and Digital Humanities Erika Damer 147
14.4 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 George of Pisidia’s Depiction of the Persians and its Classical Antecedents Erik Hermans 147
1.3 Texts and Transmission Aeschylus’ ‘Semele or Water-Bearers’: Manuscripts and Plot Enrico Emanuele Prodi 147
84.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Sparrow before Catullus Emma Vanderpool 147
79.1 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Quintus’ Homer Illusion and the Proem of the Posthomerica Emma Greensmith 147
28.3 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Totus Ulixes: Versions of Ulysses in the neo-Latin Ulysses Redux Emma Buckley 147
79.3 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Circling Time: Aion in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Emily Kneebone 147
4.4 Herodotus at 2500 A Pre-post-human Herodotus: Distributed Knowledge in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Greenwood 147
59.4 Men and War Myth and History Entangled: Female Influence and Male Usurpation in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath 147
60.1 Poetry and Place Ethnographic excursus as narrative device in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica Emily Allen-Hornblower 147
22.6 Perception and the Senses Rewriting the Conversion of Knemon in Menander’s "Dyskolos": Aelian’s "Letter" 15 Emilio Carlo Maria Capettini 147
24.3 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Libertas plebis: The Metaphor of Slavery in Popular Protest Ellen O'Gorman 147
42.1 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out The Fairest of Constitutions? Democracy and Its Discontents in Herodotus’ Histories Ellen G. Millender 147
2.1 Republican Literature The Epistula ad Tiburtes and Roman-Latin Relations in the 2nd Century BCE Elizabeth Palazzolo 147
52.1 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing with Pentheus: Pantomime at the Convivium in Roman Gaul Elizabeth Mitchell 147
4.3 Herodotus at 2500 Herodotus on the Ethics of Retaliation Elizabeth Irwin 147
45.1 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Kennedy’s Dialect Twist—Could This Really Be the End? Elena Giusti 147
50.3 Identity and Ethnicity Bilingualism and Youth in the Roman army Egizia-Maria Felice 147
26.1 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Contracts and Market-Exchange in Classical Athens Edward M. Harris 147
50.5 Identity and Ethnicity Brahmans and Gymnoi: Autochthony and Cultural Memory in the Life of Apollonius Edward Kelting 147
30.5 Euripides Euripides’ Comic Muse: Cratinus’ Nemesis in Euripides’ Helen Dustin Dixon 147
69.1 Language and Meter Rethinking Dactylo-Epitrite in Euripides' Medea Doug Fraleigh 147
64.1 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Distribution of Victoriati in the Po River Valley during the Second Century B.C.E. Dominic Machado 147
14.2 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 The Satirical and Epical Basis of Damasus’ Anti-pagan Invective Carmen Contra Paganos Diederik Burgersdijk 147
82.2 Women and Water Annie Get Your Jug: Anna Perenna and Water in the Aeneid David Wright 147
38.3 Cicero across Genres Arguments for Political Participation in Cicero’s pro Sestio and de Republica David West 147
74.3 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare The Athenian Navy and Democracy: Top-Down, Bottom Up or Topsy Turvy? David Rosenbloom 147
63.3 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Mr. Munford's Iliad David Pollio 147
26.2 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Getting Produce to Market: Farming and the Technology of Transport in Classical Attica David Lewis 147
22.4 Perception and the Senses Plato and the Stoics on Non-Rational Feelings and Desires David Kaufman 147
1.1 Texts and Transmission Spurning Glosses: Etymological Interpretation of Poetry as a Social Phenomenon at Plutarch’s Symposia David F. Driscoll 147
20.4 How (Not) to Write Herodotus and the Laws of Thurii David Blair Pass 147
67.4 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy and the Reception of Plato Danielle Alexandra Layne 147