Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
36.3 Fides in Flavian Poetry Nulla fides, nulli super Hercule fletus? Shifting Loyalties in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus Tim Stover 147
36.4 Fides in Flavian Poetry Fides in Statius’ Silvae Neil Bernstein 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
66.3 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Antigone, Once Again: The Right to Live and To Die with Dignity Rosanna Lauriola 147
66.1 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Flippin’ the Oedipus Record: Will Power’s Seven and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes Casey Dué 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
71.3 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Pythagoreanising Tendencies in Cicero’s Translation of the Timaeus Georgina Frances White 147
71.1 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Epistolary Reflections on Philosophical Translation Sean McConnell 147
71.2 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Cicero’s Platonic Methodology Christina Maria Hoenig 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
76.3 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Archpoet’s Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications Pedro Baroni Schmidt 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
76.1 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Imitation as reincarnation? Rutilius, Messalla, and ‘Ouidius rediuiuus’ at the Thermae Taurinae Ian Fielding 147
17.4 Rome: The City as Text A Fool for the City? Images of Rome in St. Perpetua's Diary Jennifer A. Rea 147
17.1 Rome: The City as Text Gateways to Rome in Aeneid 6 and 7 Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 147
17.2 Rome: The City as Text Utopian Rome in Ovid’s Externalized View from Exile Rachel Philbrick 147
17.3 Rome: The City as Text Reproducing Rome: Campania and the Imperial City in Statius' Silvae Amanda Klause 147
42.3 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Darius the Would-Be King: Ambition, Power, and the 'Best Man' in Herodotus' Histories Carolyn Dewald 147
42.4 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Herodotus and the “Constitutional Debate” (3.80-82) Brian M. Lavelle 147
42.1 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out The Fairest of Constitutions? Democracy and Its Discontents in Herodotus’ Histories Ellen G. Millender 147
42.2 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Megabyxus in the Constitutional Debate Rosaria V. Munson 147
67.5 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Plato’s Self-Moving Myth: Tracking the migration of Plato’s Myth in late antique text networks Sara Rappe 147
67.2 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Inspired Commentator: Plotinus’ Doxographical Ascent Michael Griffin 147
67.3 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Commentary and doctrinal integration: Olympiodorus on self-knowledge in the First Alcibiades Albert Joosse 147
67.4 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy and the Reception of Plato Danielle Alexandra Layne 147
67.1 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Commentaries: Intersections between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism in Late Antiquity Ilaria Ramelli 147
26.2 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Getting Produce to Market: Farming and the Technology of Transport in Classical Attica David Lewis 147
26.3 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Middlemen: the Villains and Secret Heroes of the Ancient Greek market Alain Bresson 147
26.4 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Marketing Mende: Athenaeus 11.784c and the Archaeology of Mendaian Amphoras Mark Lawall and Dylan Townshend 147
26.5 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy ShoEconomics: Market size and Supply of Footwear in Classical Athens Graham Oliver 147
26.1 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Contracts and Market-Exchange in Classical Athens Edward M. Harris 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
45.3 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Happy Vergil Goes North: Aeneid in Russian Letters Zara M. Torlone 147
45.4 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Vergil's Pessimism: A Reappraisal of the Harvard School and Augustan Poetry Barbara P. Weinlich 147
45.1 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Kennedy’s Dialect Twist—Could This Really Be the End? Elena Giusti 147
11.1 Prophecy The Meanings of Nature: Philosophy, Science and Divination between Lucretius and Seneca Daniele Federico Maras 147
11.3 Prophecy Signs and Patterns in Aratus' Myth of Ages Kathryn Wilson 147
11.2 Prophecy "Trusty" Oracles of Zeus? The Pragmatics of Prophecies in Sophocles' Trachiniae Amy Pistone 147
11.4 Prophecy Riddling Recipes: The Elegiac Instructions of Philo (SH 690) and Aglaias (SH 18) Floris Overduin 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
55.5 Sexuality in Ancient Art Beyond the Male Gaze: The Power of the Knidian Aphrodite in Her Narrative Context Rachel H. Lesser 147
55.6 Sexuality in Ancient Art Women’s Desire, Archaeology and Feminist Theory: the Case of the Sandal-Binder Hérica Valladares 147
64.1 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Distribution of Victoriati in the Po River Valley during the Second Century B.C.E. Dominic Machado 147
64.2 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage Silver and Power: The Three-fold Roman Impact on the Monetary System of the Provincia Asia (133 B.C.E. – 96 C.E.) Lucia Francesca Carbone 147
64.3 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage Kleopatra VII’s Empire and the Bronze Coinages of Ituraean Chalkis Katie Cupello 147
64.4 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage Coinage and the Client Prince: Philip the Tetrarch’s Homage to the Roman Emperor Katheryn Whitcomb 147
64.5 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Imperial Physician: Asclepius and Roman Coinage Caroline Wazer 147