Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
51.6 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Tertullian the "Jurist" and the Language of Roman Law Anna Dolganov 147
51.5 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Landscapes of Authority: Roman Officials in Second-Century Ephesus Garrett Ryan 147
51.4 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Staging Morality: Augustan Adultery Law and Public Spectacle Mary Deminion 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
51.3 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Vespasian and the Uses of Humor in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars Michael Konieczny 147
51.2 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority The Argonautica of Diodorus Siculus Charles Muntz 147
59.3 Men and War Suetonius Περὶ Βλασφημιῶν, and the invective of masculinity Konstantinos Kapparis 147
59.1 Men and War Elisions of Death and the Ethics of Warfare in Apollonius’ Argonautica Nicholas Kauffman 147
59.2 Men and War Cicero’s Post-Exile Recovery of Masculinity Melanie Racette-Campbell 147
59.6 Men and War Justifying Violence in Herodotus’ Histories 3.38: Nomos, King of All, and Pindaric Poetics K. Scarlett Kingsley 147
59.5 Men and War The death of Marcellus in Silius Italicus Punica 15.334-398 John Jacobs 147
59.4 Men and War Myth and History Entangled: Female Influence and Male Usurpation in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath 147
60.6 Poetry and Place Poetry and Place in Poliziano's Nutricia Luke Roman 147
60.1 Poetry and Place Ethnographic excursus as narrative device in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica Emily Allen-Hornblower 147
60.3 Poetry and Place The Fragments of Rhianus’ Messeniaca: An Iliad for the Messenian People? Veronica Shi 147
60.2 Poetry and Place ‘Here we lie’: The Landscape of Actium and Memories of War in The Greek Anthology Bettina Reitz-Joosse 147
60.4 Poetry and Place Dialect and Poetic Self-Fashioning in Hellenistic Book Epigram Taylor Coughlan 147
60.5 Poetry and Place ‘Powerful Rhyme’ on an ‘Unswept Stone’: Alkmeonides’ Epigram IG I³ 1469 = CEG 302 and (Re)performance Cameron G. Pearson 147
62.6 Truth and Lies History, Fiction and Genre in Kaminiates’ Sack of Thessaloniki Stephen Trzaskoma 147
62.3 Truth and Lies The Fool's World in Seneca's Epistle 58 Sam McVane 147
62.2 Truth and Lies View to a Deception: Distrust and “Cretan Behavior” in Polyb. 8.15-21 Stephanie Craven 147
62.5 Truth and Lies Christian Cues in The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 147
62.1 Truth and Lies Chasing a Silenos: Deceptive Appearances in Theopompos’ Thaumasia William Morison 147
62.4 Truth and Lies Teaching Romance: Gnômai and Didacticism in Aethiopica Daniel Dooley 147
63.5 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Tragic Self-forgetting as True Culture: On Nietzsche and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound Leon Wash 147
63.3 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Mr. Munford's Iliad David Pollio 147
63.4 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Antique Undead: Gothic Horror, Romanticism, and the Grand Tour James Uden 147
63.6 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime “Cupid and Psyche” in South Korean Manhwa H. Christian Blood 147
63.2 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Historiē in Palimpsest: Ethnographic Wonders in the Old English Orosius Kyle Khellaf 147
63.1 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Sublime Failure John Tennant 147
68.4 Free Speech Eyes to See, Hands to Serve: Ambrose's Transformation of Liberalitas Erin Galgay Walsh 147
68.3 Free Speech The Rhetoric of παρρησία in Greek Imperial Writers Matthew Taylor 147
68.2 Free Speech On Inoffensive Criticism: The Multiple Addressees of Plutarch’s De Adulatore et Amico Dana Fields 147
68.1 Free Speech Freedom as Self-Mastery in Plato's Laws Carl Young 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
77.6 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum Civile Patrick Burns 147
77.4 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Non opus est verbis: An Imperial Reading of Lucretia in Fasti 2 Amy Koenig 147
77.5 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Reporting an Underreported Crime: Arethusa in the Metamorphoses Anna Beek 147
77.3 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Making Livia Divine: Carmentis, Hersilia, and Ovid’s Poetic Power Reina Callier 147
70.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry De Rerum Natura 1.44-49: A Spoiler in Lucretius’ first proem? Seth Holm 147
70.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan's Hesiod: Erictho as Typhon in Bellum Civile 6.685-94 Stephen Sansom 147
70.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry Vergil's Third Eclogue at the Dawn of Roman Literature John Oksanish 147
70.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Aristaeus Epyllion in Georgics 4 and the Instability of Didactic Knowledge Patrick Glauthier 147
27.1 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Stone into Smoke: Mortality and Materiality in Euripides' Troades Victoria Wohl 147
27.3 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Objects, Emotions, Words: Orestes and the Empty Urn Joshua Billings 147
27.2 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand Nancy Worman 147
27.4 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Noses in the Orchestra: Sense and Substance in Athenian Satyr Drama Anna Uhlig 147
27.5 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Material Ghosts: Recycled Theatrical Equipment in Fifth-Century Athens Al Duncan 147