Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
80.1 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Pulling the Pieces Together: Social Capital and the Olympics, Ancient and Modern Paul Christesen 147
25.3 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic Publicity, öffentlichkeit, and the Populus Romanus: Finding ‘the public’ in English and German Scholarship on the Late Republic Amy Russell 147
23.2 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Public and private in fourth-century paganism: Firmicus Maternus' aristocratic Roman audience Mattias Gassman 147
9.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Prayers for protection against heretics? Two Greek amulets reconsidered Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 147
74.2 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Population Politics and Spartan Imperialism Timothy Doran 147
23.4 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Politics, the Brain, and Public Health in Late Antiquity Jessica Wright 147
74.1 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Political Hoplites: Infantry against Oligarchy in Classical Greece Matt Simonton 147
24.1 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE Amy Richlin 147
60.6 Poetry and Place Poetry and Place in Poliziano's Nutricia Luke Roman 147
18.4 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Plutarch’s Caesar and the Historical Tradition Regarding Caesar’s Gallic War Rex Stem 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
43.1 Fragments from Theory to Practice Pleasure-Loving Plato: Asking the Right Questions of the Greek Comic Fragments Matthew C. Farmer 147
20.3 How (Not) to Write Playing Phthonos: Epinician Genre and Choreia in Plato Theodora Hadjimichael 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
22.4 Perception and the Senses Plato and the Stoics on Non-Rational Feelings and Desires David Kaufman 147
48.4 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar, Hieron and the Persian Wars. An Intertextual Reading of Pi. Pyth. 1.71-80 Almut Fries 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
48.5 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar and Diodorus on Sicilian mixis Virginia Lewis 147
83.2 Herculaneum in Word and Text Philodemus’ De dis 1 and Understanding Epicurean πρόληψις Sonya Wurster 147
35.5 Standardization and the State Performing Measurement in the Roman East Melissa Bailey 147
12.1 Money Matters Patronage and the Athenian Democracy Andrew Alwine 147
73.1 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Paradigm Shifts in Archaic Rome’s ‘Social Life of Things’ Cristiano Viglietti 147
52.6 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Pantomime Dancing and the Development of New Modes of Subjectivity Alessandra Zanobi 147
79.5 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Pagan Vision and Christian Voice in Eudocia’s De martyrio sancti Cypriani Pavlos Avlamis 147
75.4 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Pagan Monotheism and Pagan Cult Frederick Brenk 147
9.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt P.Mich. inv. 975 and papyri involving the town council of Antinoopolis François Gerardin 147
7.3 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Online Coins of the Roman Empire: An Open Resource for Roman Numismatics Andrew Robert Meadows 147
68.2 Free Speech On Inoffensive Criticism: The Multiple Addressees of Plutarch’s De Adulatore et Amico Dana Fields 147
41.1 Marx and Antiquity Ode on a Grecian Printing-Press: Marx and the possibility of antiquity Adam Edward Lecznar 147
27.3 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Objects, Emotions, Words: Orestes and the Empty Urn Joshua Billings 147
36.3 Fides in Flavian Poetry Nulla fides, nulli super Hercule fletus? Shifting Loyalties in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus Tim Stover 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
40.3 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue Nondum Arabes Seresque rogant: Classics Looks East Kathleen Coleman 147
77.4 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Non opus est verbis: An Imperial Reading of Lucretia in Fasti 2 Amy Koenig 147
13.3 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Navigating Tricky Topics: The Benefits of Performance Pedagogy Christopher Bungard 147
23.5 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Narrative Time and the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris. Michael Hanaghan 147
59.4 Men and War Myth and History Entangled: Female Influence and Male Usurpation in Herodotus Emily Baragwanath 147
30.2 Euripides Musical Language and Performance in Euripides' Troades Peter Blandino 147
5.4 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Murder on Display: Performance and Persuasion at Caesar's funeral Ida Östenberg 147
63.3 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Mr. Munford's Iliad David Pollio 147
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
26.3 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Middlemen: the Villains and Secret Heroes of the Ancient Greek market Alain Bresson 147
2.2 Republican Literature Messalla Corvinus’ Ciceronian Career Joanna Kenty 147
28.4 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Merope's Legacy on the Italian Stage Tatiana Korneeva 147
31.4 Gender and Identity Merchant Matronae: Women, Ships, and Trade in the Hellenistic and Roman World Carrie Fulton 147
42.2 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Megabyxus in the Constitutional Debate Rosaria V. Munson 147
35.3 Standardization and the State Measures and Standards in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily D. Alex Walthall 147
35.1 Standardization and the State Materiality and Performance in the Use of Standardized Measures Robert Schon 147
27.5 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Material Ghosts: Recycled Theatrical Equipment in Fifth-Century Athens Al Duncan 147