Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
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
63.6 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime “Cupid and Psyche” in South Korean Manhwa H. Christian Blood 147
65.2 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity “A Splendid Theater”: Courtly Epithets in a Provincial Society Ariel Lopez 147
54.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics ‘To Have’ and ‘To Hold’ in Mycenaean Hans Bork 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
60.2 Poetry and Place ‘Here we lie’: The Landscape of Actium and Memories of War in The Greek Anthology Bettina Reitz-Joosse 147
21.1 Ancient Kingship Σκηπτοῦχος Βασιλεύς: the Σκῆπτρον and Odysseus’ Kingship in the Odyssey Marie La Fond 147
20.2 How (Not) to Write Xenophon’s Hiero as Literary Criticism: A Revisionary Perspective on Epinician Advice-Giving Laura Takakjy 147
49.6 Athenian Unity? Xenophon and the Unequal Phalanx: A 4th-Century View on Political Egalitarianism Simone Agrimonti 147
55.6 Sexuality in Ancient Art Women’s Desire, Archaeology and Feminist Theory: the Case of the Sandal-Binder Hérica Valladares 147
82.4 Women and Water Women, Water, and Politics in Aristophanic Comedy Carl Anderson and Maryline Parca 147
20.6 How (Not) to Write Whose Hymns?: The Architecture and Authorship of the Homeric Hymn Collection Alexander Hall 147
7.2 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Who Owns the Past? Evidence, Interpretation and the Use of Digital Archaeological Data Jon Frey 147
35.2 Standardization and the State Who Benefits? Incentive and Coercion in the Selection of Greek Monetary Standards Peter van Alfen 147
61.2 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Where is 'Here'? Analogies of Physical and Literary Space in Catullus 42 and 55 Jessica Seidman 147
10.3 Ancient Music and the Emotions When Sounds Become Song: Thauma as a Response to Musical Transformations Amy Lather 147
16.1 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival When is a Fragment not a Fragment? The Problem of Fragmentary Roman Oratory Catherine Steel 147
32.3 Friendship and Affection What Must We Know to Benefit From Aristotle's Lectures on Ethics? Carlo DaVia 147
69.4 Language and Meter What Can Computers Do for Philology? A Case Study in Pseudo-Seneca Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 147
15.1 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Werner Jaeger: The Chicago Years Stanley Burstein 147
82.1 Women and Water Well-washed Whores: Prostitutes, Brothels and Water Usage in the Roman Empire Anise K. Strong 147
77.2 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Weaving, Writing, and Failed Communication in Ovid's Heroides Caitlin Halasz 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
18.2 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Violating the City: Plutarch’s Use of Religious Landscape in the Life of Sulla Mohammed Bhatti 147
62.2 Truth and Lies View to a Deception: Distrust and “Cretan Behavior” in Polyb. 8.15-21 Stephanie Craven 147
51.3 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Vespasian and the Uses of Humor in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars Michael Konieczny 147
70.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry Vergil's Third Eclogue at the Dawn of Roman Literature John Oksanish 147
45.4 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Vergil's Pessimism: A Reappraisal of the Harvard School and Augustan Poetry Barbara P. Weinlich 147
17.2 Rome: The City as Text Utopian Rome in Ovid’s Externalized View from Exile Rachel Philbrick 147
39.2 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Using Online Tools to Teach Classics in a Small or Non-Existent Classics Program Kristina Chew 147
1.5 Texts and Transmission Using an Epitome to Decode Byzantine Reception of Planoudes’ Translation of Macrobius’ "Commentarii" Karen Carducci 147
69.3 Language and Meter Unmetrical Mamurra: The Impure Iambs of Catullus c. 29 Michael Wheeler 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
49.3 Athenian Unity? Unanimous Gods, Unanimous Athens? Voting and Divinities in the Oresteia Amit Shilo 147
2.5 Republican Literature Tusculan Villas as Political Tools in Cicero’s Writings: More than Meets the Eye Paula Rondon-Burgos 147
40.2 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue Trends in Teachings the Classics to Undergraduates Mary Pendergraft 147
63.5 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Tragic Self-forgetting as True Culture: On Nietzsche and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound Leon Wash 147
28.1 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Tragic Phaidra: A Diachronic Case Study between Antiquity and Early Modern Age Lothar Willms 147
72.1 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Towards an Irresponsible Classics James I. Porter 147
28.3 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Totus Ulixes: Versions of Ulysses in the neo-Latin Ulysses Redux Emma Buckley 147
43.2 Fragments from Theory to Practice These Are the Lucilian Breaks: Already Fragmentary in the Roman Republic? Ian Goh 147
61.5 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire There and Back Again: Inverting the Virgilian Career in Juvenal's Third Satire James Taylor 147
57.4 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Theorizing Closeness in Classical Reception Studies: Renaissance Supplements and Continuations Leah Whittington 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
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
34.2 Architecture and Self-Definition The Tyrant as Liberator: The Treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi Matthew Sears 147
1.2 Texts and Transmission The Text of the Aegritudo Perdicae Louis Zweig 147
25.4 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Study of Republican Rome and (the Phantom Menace of) the German ‘Sonderforschungsbereich’ Hans Beck 147
84.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Sparrow before Catullus Emma Vanderpool 147