Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
45.3 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Happy Vergil Goes North: Aeneid in Russian Letters Zara M. Torlone 147
58.3 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Rome at Sea: the Beginnings of Roman Naval Power William V. Harris 147
73.2 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Diachronicity and Metaphor in Roman Conceptions of Courage William Short 147
24.4 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World The Official and Hidden Transcripts of Callirhoe’s Enslavement William Owens 147
62.1 Truth and Lies Chasing a Silenos: Deceptive Appearances in Theopompos’ Thaumasia William Morison 147
66.4 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama How New is Aristophanes in New Orleans Wilfred Major 147
56.4 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research The Praise of a Pagan: Pseudo-Longinus in 17th‑century Dutch Scholarship Wieneke Jansen 147
48.5 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar and Diodorus on Sicilian mixis Virginia Lewis 147
27.1 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Stone into Smoke: Mortality and Materiality in Euripides' Troades Victoria Wohl 147
60.3 Poetry and Place The Fragments of Rhianus’ Messeniaca: An Iliad for the Messenian People? Veronica Shi 147
19.1 Poster Session Deriving Digital Thumbprints through Syntactic Analyses: New Paths for Greek Historiography Vanessa B. Gorman 147
57.2 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Affective Interests: Ancient Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Concept of Character Vanda Zajko 147
3.5 Time and Memory Before Athenian Thalassocracy: Minos’ Sea Power in Archaic and Non-Athenian Traditions Valerio Caldesi Valeri 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
75.3 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Healing Emperors and Healing Gods Trevor Luke 147
8.3 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Riddling toward Knowledge Tom Hawkins 147
41.2 Marx and Antiquity Marxing out on Fundus: Salvaging the Slave from Virgil’s Farm Tom Geue 147
54.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Quickening Course and Watery Ways: Deriving Greek κέλευθος ‘path’ from PIE *h1léwdh- Todd Clary 147
12.3 Money Matters The Imperial Shuffle: Markets and Land Allotment on the Syracusan Frontier Timothy Sorg 147
34.1 Architecture and Self-Definition How Syracusan Was The Carthaginian Treasury? Timothy Smith 147
13.2 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Sophocles after Ferguson: Antigone in St. Louis, 2014 Timothy J. Moore 147
74.2 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Population Politics and Spartan Imperialism Timothy Doran 147
79.4 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Maronian Nectar: Nonnus, Homer and Vergil Tim Whitmarsh 147
36.3 Fides in Flavian Poetry Nulla fides, nulli super Hercule fletus? Shifting Loyalties in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus Tim Stover 147
52.3 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Saltatores vel Pantomimi: Where and How did the Cinaedi Perform? Thomas Sapsford 147
4.1 Herodotus at 2500 Spoofing Herodotus Thomas Harrison 147
20.5 How (Not) to Write The Anti-Program of Thucydides' Archaeology Thomas Beasley 147
20.3 How (Not) to Write Playing Phthonos: Epinician Genre and Choreia in Plato Theodora Hadjimichael 147
60.4 Poetry and Place Dialect and Poetic Self-Fashioning in Hellenistic Book Epigram Taylor Coughlan 147
28.4 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Merope's Legacy on the Italian Stage Tatiana Korneeva 147
25.2 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic “Memory, mémoire, erinnerung”: Interdependencies in French and German Scholarship in Classics—and their Echoes in the Anglophone World Tanja Itgenshorst 147
15.4 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Ernst Badian on Fritz Schachermeyr's Interpretation of Alexander the Great T. Corey Brennan 147
23.1 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Imperial Authority and Saeculum Rhetoric from Augustus to Constantine Susan Dunning 147
20.1 How (Not) to Write How Not to Compose Prose: Hegesias of Magnesia as an Antimodel of Style Steven Ooms 147
8.2 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois’s Foundation Myth of At(a)lanta Stephen Wheeler and Irenae Aigbedion 147
62.6 Truth and Lies History, Fiction and Genre in Kaminiates’ Sack of Thessaloniki Stephen Trzaskoma 147
70.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan's Hesiod: Erictho as Typhon in Bellum Civile 6.685-94 Stephen Sansom 147
46.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy Epitasis and Anesis in De Caelo 2.6 Stephen Kidd 147
34.4 Architecture and Self-Definition Ritual and Identity at the Restored Epidauran Asklepieion Stephen Ahearne-Kroll 147
6.2 The List as Genre An finitus sit mundus et an unus: Reading Pliny’s Lists of Nature Stephanie Frampton 147
62.2 Truth and Lies View to a Deception: Distrust and “Cretan Behavior” in Polyb. 8.15-21 Stephanie Craven 147
47.2 The Emperor Julian Julian and Basil of Caesarea on Impostor Philosophers Stefan Hodges-Kluck 147
15.1 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Werner Jaeger: The Chicago Years Stanley Burstein 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
83.2 Herculaneum in Word and Text Philodemus’ De dis 1 and Understanding Epicurean πρόληψις Sonya Wurster 147
49.6 Athenian Unity? Xenophon and the Unequal Phalanx: A 4th-Century View on Political Egalitarianism Simone Agrimonti 147
57.1 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Reception and Staying in the Field of Play Simon Goldhill 147
29.4 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present “Everything Here is Conflictual”: American Women Poets Read the Iliad Sheila Murnaghan 147
29.2 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Reading Homer in Troubled Times: Rachel Bespaloff’s On the Iliad Seth Schein 147