Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
3.4 Time and Memory Historical Authority in Pausanias Book I Monica Park 147
3.2 Time and Memory Dancing in the Dark: Nocturnal Pantomime Performances at Greek and Roman Festivals Mali Skotheim 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
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
8.3 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Riddling toward Knowledge Tom Hawkins 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
8.5 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Hell to Pay: Classics and Radical Inclusion in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Ruling of Men” Harriet Fertik 147
83.1 Herculaneum in Word and Text Editing in three dimensions: the papyri from Herculaneum Richard Janko 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
83.4 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Latin Papyri from Herculaneum Sarah Hendriks 147
83.5 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Herculaneum Graffiti Project: Ancient Wall Inscriptions and Digital Humanities Erika Damer 147
56.1 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Laura Cereta’s In asinarium funus oratio Quinn Radziszewski Griffin 147
56.2 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Summum ius, summa injuria: The Function of aequitas in Thomas More’s Utopia and Christopher St. Germain’s Dialogus De Fundamentis Legum Anglie et de Conscientia Roger S. Fisher 147
56.3 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Calvin’s Latin Carl P. E. Springer 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
56.5 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research The Vernacular in a Latin Guise: Neo-Latin Grammars of the Vernaculars throughout Europe” Clementina Marsico 147
56.6 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Aeneid 13: Four Vergilian Imitators Patrick M. Owens 147
58.4 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Law’s Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Republican Statutes Carlos F. Noreña 147
58.1 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Seeing the elephant: beyond the querelle of “Roman imperialism” in the Hellenistic world John Ma 147
58.2 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Beyond Polybios: quantifying Roman imperialism East and West Jonathan R. W. Prag 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
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
24.1 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE Amy Richlin 147
24.2 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Don’t Consult the hariolus: Slave Religions in the Rome of Plautus and Cato the Elder Dan-el Padilla Peralta 147
24.3 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Libertas plebis: The Metaphor of Slavery in Popular Protest Ellen O'Gorman 147
24.4 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World The Official and Hidden Transcripts of Callirhoe’s Enslavement William Owens 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
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
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
14.1 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 Anchoring Epic: Vergilian Quotations in Paulinus’ Epic on John and the Christian Tradition Roald Dijkstra 147
14.3 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 A Still Triumphant Empire with the Barbarians at the Gates: Imperial Epic and Ethnographic Discourse in the Bellum Geticum of Claudian Randolph Ford 147
43.1 Fragments from Theory to Practice Pleasure-Loving Plato: Asking the Right Questions of the Greek Comic Fragments Matthew C. Farmer 147
43.2 Fragments from Theory to Practice These Are the Lucilian Breaks: Already Fragmentary in the Roman Republic? Ian Goh 147
43.3 Fragments from Theory to Practice Speaking in Fragments: Narrators and the Roman Historiographic Tradition in Livy's Third Decade Charles Westfall Oughton 147
42.4 Fragments from Theory to Practice Sifting through the textual ruins of antiquity: fragment and body in Montaigne's "On some lines of Virgil" Ariane Schwartz 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
18.2 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Violating the City: Plutarch’s Use of Religious Landscape in the Life of Sulla Mohammed Bhatti 147
18.3 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Sulla and the Creation of Roman Athens Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 147
18.4 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Plutarch’s Caesar and the Historical Tradition Regarding Caesar’s Gallic War Rex Stem 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
78.5 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Deserts Called Peace: Towards a New Roman Way of War Lawrence Tritle 147
78.3 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World The Advent of the Night Sortie in Siege Warfare Michael G. Seaman 147
78.1 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
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
72.1 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Towards an Irresponsible Classics James I. Porter 147
72.2 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Socrates, Gandhi, Derrida Phiroze Vasunia 147
72.3 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Situated Knowledges and the Dynamics of the Field Brooke Holmes 147
53.5 Epistolary Epigraphy A Letter of Claudius, the Boundary Between Tymbrianassos and Sagalassos, and the Via Sebaste Paul Iversen 147
53.1 Epistolary Epigraphy Epistles on Granite: Ptolemaic Authority and the Superlative at Philae Patricia Butz 147