Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
46.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy Identifying with Liars in Plato's Republic Laura Ward 147
46.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on the Emotions and Body-Soul Unity Myrna Gabbe 147
46.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy Epitasis and Anesis in De Caelo 2.6 Stephen Kidd 147
47.1 The Emperor Julian The making of the emperor: Julian and the succession of 361 Kevin Feeney 147
47.2 The Emperor Julian Julian and Basil of Caesarea on Impostor Philosophers Stefan Hodges-Kluck 147
47.3 The Emperor Julian Julian as Citizen: Attic Oratory and the Misopogon Joshua J. Hartman 147
47.4 The Emperor Julian In Search of a Western Julian: Ammianus and the Latin Tradition Alan Ross 147
48.1 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Trader in Song: Hesiod at the funeral games for Amphidamas Alexander Dale 147
48.2 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Between Oral and Written: Archaic Epigram & Elegiac Formulae Alan Sheppard 147
48.3 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Invisible Stones: Perses and the beginning of book-epigram Michael A. Tueller 147
48.4 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar, Hieron and the Persian Wars. An Intertextual Reading of Pi. Pyth. 1.71-80 Almut Fries 147
48.5 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar and Diodorus on Sicilian mixis Virginia Lewis 147
48.6 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Winter’s Paian: Generic Interdependence and Autonomy in Bacchylides 16 Margaret Foster 147
49.1 Athenian Unity? Territoriality and the Making of Community in the Archaic Period Lisa Pilar Eberle 147
49.2 Athenian Unity? The Hoplite Class as a Complex Category in Greek Thought Richard Fernando Buxton 147
49.3 Athenian Unity? Unanimous Gods, Unanimous Athens? Voting and Divinities in the Oresteia Amit Shilo 147
49.4 Athenian Unity? A Deeper Look into the Quarries at Syracuse: Thucydides 7.84-7 in Connection to the Plague Holly Maggiore 147
49.5 Athenian Unity? The Invisible Noose Around a Speaker’s Neck: The Nomos Eisangeltikos and the Dangers of Speaking in the Ecclēsia Michael Zimm 147
49.6 Athenian Unity? Xenophon and the Unequal Phalanx: A 4th-Century View on Political Egalitarianism Simone Agrimonti 147
50.1 Identity and Ethnicity Making rhetoric Roman in the first preface of Cicero’s de Inventione (1.1–5) Kyle Helms 147
50.2 Identity and Ethnicity The National Origins of Phoenician Ethnicity Josephine Quinn 147
50.3 Identity and Ethnicity Bilingualism and Youth in the Roman army Egizia-Maria Felice 147
50.4 Identity and Ethnicity Identity and Erasure in the Sepulchral Relief of Fonteia Helena and Fonteia Eleusis Grace Gillies 147
50.5 Identity and Ethnicity Brahmans and Gymnoi: Autochthony and Cultural Memory in the Life of Apollonius Edward Kelting 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
51.2 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority The Argonautica of Diodorus Siculus Charles Muntz 147
51.3 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Vespasian and the Uses of Humor in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars Michael Konieczny 147
51.4 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Staging Morality: Augustan Adultery Law and Public Spectacle Mary Deminion 147
51.5 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Landscapes of Authority: Roman Officials in Second-Century Ephesus Garrett Ryan 147
51.6 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Tertullian the "Jurist" and the Language of Roman Law Anna Dolganov 147
52.1 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing with Pentheus: Pantomime at the Convivium in Roman Gaul Elizabeth Mitchell 147
52.2 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Choreography and Competition in Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 3 Sarah Olsen 147
52.3 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Saltatores vel Pantomimi: Where and How did the Cinaedi Perform? Thomas Sapsford 147
52.4 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing on the Borders of Empire: The Wandering Thiasus in Catullus 63 Basil Dufallo 147
52.5 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Communicating Emotion in Tragic Pantomime Helen Slaney 147
52.6 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Pantomime Dancing and the Development of New Modes of Subjectivity Alessandra Zanobi 147
53.1 Epistolary Epigraphy Epistles on Granite: Ptolemaic Authority and the Superlative at Philae Patricia Butz 147
53.2 Epistolary Epigraphy Law Set in Stone: Inscribing Private Rescripts in Imperial Roman Greece Kaius Tuori 147
53.3 Epistolary Epigraphy Filiation Expressions and the Language of Official Roman Letters Inscribed in Greek Christopher Haddad 147
53.4 Epistolary Epigraphy Documenting Travel in Imperial Egypt: Papyrus vs. Inscribed Letters Patricia Rosenmeyer 147
53.5 Epistolary Epigraphy A Letter of Claudius, the Boundary Between Tymbrianassos and Sagalassos, and the Via Sebaste Paul Iversen 147
54.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics A New Type of Ring Composition? Toward a Technique of Inherited Poetics Alexander Forte 147
54.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Quickening Course and Watery Ways: Deriving Greek κέλευθος ‘path’ from PIE *h1léwdh- Todd Clary 147
54.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics ‘To Have’ and ‘To Hold’ in Mycenaean Hans Bork 147
54.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Archaisms and Innovations in Homeric Accentuation Jesse Lundquist 147
54.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Accenting Sequences of Enclitics in Ancient Greek: Rediscovering an Ancient Rule Philomen Probert 147
55.1 Sexuality in Ancient Art Boys, Herms, and the Symposiast’s Gaze Jorge J. Bravo III 147
55.2 Sexuality in Ancient Art Baubo and the Question of the Obscene Frederika Tevebring 147
55.3 Sexuality in Ancient Art The Mirror, Narrative, and Erotic Desire in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Jeffrey Ulrich 147
55.4 Sexuality in Ancient Art Hercules and the Stability of Gender Matthew P. Loar 147