Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
84.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Subdivisions: The Containment of Femininity in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae Mason Johnson 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
74.1 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Political Hoplites: Infantry against Oligarchy in Classical Greece Matt Simonton 147
43.1 Fragments from Theory to Practice Pleasure-Loving Plato: Asking the Right Questions of the Greek Comic Fragments Matthew C. Farmer 147
24.5 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Speaking up for the Slave in Quintilian, Minor Declamations 340 and 342 Matthew Leigh 147
55.4 Sexuality in Ancient Art Hercules and the Stability of Gender Matthew P. Loar 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
34.2 Architecture and Self-Definition The Tyrant as Liberator: The Treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi Matthew Sears 147
68.3 Free Speech The Rhetoric of παρρησία in Greek Imperial Writers Matthew Taylor 147
23.2 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Public and private in fourth-century paganism: Firmicus Maternus' aristocratic Roman audience Mattias Gassman 147
59.2 Men and War Cicero’s Post-Exile Recovery of Masculinity Melanie Racette-Campbell 147
35.5 Standardization and the State Performing Measurement in the Roman East Melissa Bailey 147
48.3 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Invisible Stones: Perses and the beginning of book-epigram Michael A. Tueller 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
67.2 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Inspired Commentator: Plotinus’ Doxographical Ascent Michael Griffin 147
23.5 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Narrative Time and the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris. Michael Hanaghan 147
74.4 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Suffragium legionis: Popular Politics and the Army in the Middle-Republic Michael J. Taylor 147
51.3 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Vespasian and the Uses of Humor in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars Michael Konieczny 147
12.2 Money Matters Kapêloi and Economic Rationality in Fourth-Century BCE Athens Michael Leese 147
83.3 Herculaneum in Word and Text Demetrius Laco's Citations and Literary Culture Michael McOsker 147
69.3 Language and Meter Unmetrical Mamurra: The Impure Iambs of Catullus c. 29 Michael Wheeler 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
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
66.2 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Do Something Addy Man: Herbert Marshall’s Black Alcestis Michele Valerie Ronnick 147
1.4 Texts and Transmission An Entwicklungsgeschichte of a Text? Werner Jaeger and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Mirjam Kotwick 147
18.2 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Violating the City: Plutarch’s Use of Religious Landscape in the Life of Sulla Mohammed Bhatti 147
3.4 Time and Memory Historical Authority in Pausanias Book I Monica Park 147
23.3 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Callidior ceteris persecutor: The Emperor Julian and his Place in Christian Historiography Moysés Marcos 147
46.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on the Emotions and Body-Soul Unity Myrna Gabbe 147
29.3 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Christa Wolf’s Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views Nancy Rabinowitz 147
27.2 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand Nancy Worman 147
45.2 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Happy Un-Birthday, Harvard School!: The Aeneid’s Pre-History of Dialectical Interpretation Nandini B. Pandey 147
10.4 Ancient Music and the Emotions Lament in the Land of logos Naomi Weiss 147
22.5 Perception and the Senses Cicero vs. Lucretius on Thought and Imagination Nathan Gilbert 147
58.5 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Bellum se ipsum alet? Financing Republican Imperialism Nathan Rosenstein 147
36.4 Fides in Flavian Poetry Fides in Statius’ Silvae Neil Bernstein 147
59.1 Men and War Elisions of Death and the Ethics of Warfare in Apollonius’ Argonautica Nicholas Kauffman 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
40.4 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue A Liberal Art for the Future Nigel Nicholson 147
22.2 Perception and the Senses Thaumastic Acoustics: Typhon and the poetics of sight and sound Oliver Passmore 147
53.1 Epistolary Epigraphy Epistles on Granite: Ptolemaic Authority and the Superlative at Philae Patricia Butz 147
53.4 Epistolary Epigraphy Documenting Travel in Imperial Egypt: Papyrus vs. Inscribed Letters Patricia Rosenmeyer 147
77.6 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum Civile Patrick Burns 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
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
70.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Aristaeus Epyllion in Georgics 4 and the Instability of Didactic Knowledge Patrick Glauthier 147
56.6 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Aeneid 13: Four Vergilian Imitators Patrick M. Owens 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
53.5 Epistolary Epigraphy A Letter of Claudius, the Boundary Between Tymbrianassos and Sagalassos, and the Via Sebaste Paul Iversen 147
85.2 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine The Sliding Scale of Experiment-Kinds Paul Keyser 147