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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
85.4 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: The Scientific Self at Ptolemaic Courts Marquis Berrey 147
85.3 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Hippocratic Experimentation and Poetic Simile in Homer Ralph Rosen 147
85.2 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine The Sliding Scale of Experiment-Kinds Paul Keyser 147
85.1 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments Luis Alejandro Salas 147
84.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Lack of a Rogator and Its Implications in Pompeian Electoral Programmata Hayley Barnett 147
84.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Incertas Umbras: The Mysterious Pastoral in Virgil's Eclogues Rachelle Ferguson 147
84.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Sparrow before Catullus Emma Vanderpool 147
84.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Subdivisions: The Containment of Femininity in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae Mason Johnson 147
84.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "ἵνα κλέος ἐσθλὸν ἄροιτο κεῖσ’ ἐλθών": Kleos in the Voyage of Telemachus Joshua Benjamins 147
83.5 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Herculaneum Graffiti Project: Ancient Wall Inscriptions and Digital Humanities Erika Damer 147
83.4 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Latin Papyri from Herculaneum Sarah Hendriks 147
83.3 Herculaneum in Word and Text Demetrius Laco's Citations and Literary Culture Michael McOsker 147
83.2 Herculaneum in Word and Text Philodemus’ De dis 1 and Understanding Epicurean πρόληψις Sonya Wurster 147
83.1 Herculaneum in Word and Text Editing in three dimensions: the papyri from Herculaneum Richard Janko 147
82.5 Women and Water Female Plumbers in the Metamorphoses: Women Talking Water Bridget Langley 147
82.4 Women and Water Women, Water, and Politics in Aristophanic Comedy Carl Anderson and Maryline Parca 147
82.3 Women and Water Fluid Dynamics: Interpreting Reproductive Risk in Greco-Roman Medicine Anna Bonnell-Freidin 147
82.2 Women and Water Annie Get Your Jug: Anna Perenna and Water in the Aeneid David Wright 147
82.1 Women and Water Well-washed Whores: Prostitutes, Brothels and Water Usage in the Roman Empire Anise K. Strong 147
81.5 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Silence as a Sign of Personal Contact with God(s): New Perspectives on a Religious Attitude Lucia Maddalena Tissi 147
81.4 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Testing the Limits of Personal Religion and Civic Identity: The Case of Xenophon at Scillus Hannah Willey 147
81.3 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Greek Divination as Personal Religion: The Divining Self as Independent of Polis Religion Matthew Paul James Dillon 147
81.2 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Appeasing Souls and Removing Hindering Daimones: Column VI of the Derveni Papyrus and its Religious Significance Valeria Piano 147
81.1 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Recipes for Domestic Rituals in the Greek Magical Handbooks Christopher Faraone 147
80.4 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Pindar in 1896 and the Poetics of the First Modern Olympiad Stamatia Dova 147
80.3 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Minas Minoides, Philostratus’ Gymnastikos and the Nineteenth Century Greek Olympic Movement Zinon Papakonstantinou 147
80.2 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology The Aesthetics of Hellenism in the Modern Olympics Charles H. Stocking 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
79.5 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Pagan Vision and Christian Voice in Eudocia’s De martyrio sancti Cypriani Pavlos Avlamis 147
79.4 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Maronian Nectar: Nonnus, Homer and Vergil Tim Whitmarsh 147
79.3 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Circling Time: Aion in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Emily Kneebone 147
79.2 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Sophistication and Homeric Citation in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim 147
79.1 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Quintus’ Homer Illusion and the Proem of the Posthomerica Emma Greensmith 147
78.5 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Deserts Called Peace: Towards a New Roman Way of War Lawrence Tritle 147
78.4 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Insurgency and its Application in the Ancient World Lee L. Brice 147
78.3 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World The Advent of the Night Sortie in Siege Warfare Michael G. Seaman 147
78.2 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Unfulfilled Potential? The Skirmisher in Greek Warfare ca. 431-362 B.C. John Friend 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
77.6 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum Civile Patrick Burns 147
77.5 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Reporting an Underreported Crime: Arethusa in the Metamorphoses Anna Beek 147
77.4 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Non opus est verbis: An Imperial Reading of Lucretia in Fasti 2 Amy Koenig 147
77.3 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Making Livia Divine: Carmentis, Hersilia, and Ovid’s Poetic Power Reina Callier 147
77.2 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Weaving, Writing, and Failed Communication in Ovid's Heroides Caitlin Halasz 147
77.1 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Camilla and the Name and Fame of Ornytus the Beast-rouser at Aeneid 11.686-689 Alexandra Daly 147
76.4 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Interpreting Twelfth-Century Imitation of the Classics: Walter of Châtillon’s Imitation of the Aeneid in the Exordium of the Alexandreis Justin Haynes 147
76.3 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Archpoet’s Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications Pedro Baroni Schmidt 147
76.2 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Classical Poetry & a Carolingian Problem: Ermoldus Nigellus (829) and His Adaptation of Exile Poetry in his Verse-Epistle Ad Pippinum Regnum Carey Fleiner 147
76.1 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Imitation as reincarnation? Rutilius, Messalla, and ‘Ouidius rediuiuus’ at the Thermae Taurinae Ian Fielding 147
75.4 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Pagan Monotheism and Pagan Cult Frederick Brenk 147
75.3 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Healing Emperors and Healing Gods Trevor Luke 147