Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
6.1 The List as Genre Divergent Series: A Poetics of Greek Inventories Athena Kirk 147
21.3 Ancient Kingship Dionysos, Sympotic Ships, and Empire: Banqueting aboard the Thalamegos of Ptolemy IV Kathryn Topper 147
60.4 Poetry and Place Dialect and Poetic Self-Fashioning in Hellenistic Book Epigram Taylor Coughlan 147
73.2 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Diachronicity and Metaphor in Roman Conceptions of Courage William Short 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
19.1 Poster Session Deriving Digital Thumbprints through Syntactic Analyses: New Paths for Greek Historiography Vanessa B. Gorman 147
39.5 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Dependency Syntax Trees in the Latin 1 Classroom Robert Gorman 147
83.3 Herculaneum in Word and Text Demetrius Laco's Citations and Literary Culture Michael McOsker 147
2.3 Republican Literature Defamiliarizing Cicero's De Re Publica Laura Viidebaum 147
70.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry De Rerum Natura 1.44-49: A Spoiler in Lucretius’ first proem? Seth Holm 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
52.1 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing with Pentheus: Pantomime at the Convivium in Roman Gaul Elizabeth Mitchell 147
52.4 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing on the Borders of Empire: The Wandering Thiasus in Catullus 63 Basil Dufallo 147
3.2 Time and Memory Dancing in the Dark: Nocturnal Pantomime Performances at Greek and Roman Festivals Mali Skotheim 147
5.1 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Damned with Feigned Praise: The Role of Architecture in the Death of Julius Caesar Penelope Davies 147
85.1 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments Luis Alejandro Salas 147
38.2 Cicero across Genres Cum solitudine loqui: Ciceronian Solitude across Generic Lines Aaron Kachuck 147
26.1 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Contracts and Market-Exchange in Classical Athens Edward M. Harris 147
6.4 The List as Genre Consular Lists as Genre Alan Cameron 147
3.3 Time and Memory Constructing Time under the Roman Empire: The Politics of Time-Reckoning in Herakleia Pontika, Amastris, and Sinope Ching-Yuan Wu 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
67.1 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Commentaries: Intersections between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism in Late Antiquity Ilaria Ramelli 147
39.3 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Collaborative Annotation and Latin Pedagogy J. Bert Lott 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
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
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
40.1 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue Classical Education in the UK: Boom or Bust? Arlene Holmes-Henderson 147
79.3 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Circling Time: Aion in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Emily Kneebone 147
59.2 Men and War Cicero’s Post-Exile Recovery of Masculinity Melanie Racette-Campbell 147
71.2 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Cicero’s Platonic Methodology Christina Maria Hoenig 147
2.4 Republican Literature Cicero’s Paternal Grief: Public Commemoration for a Personal Loss Aaron Seider 147
22.5 Perception and the Senses Cicero vs. Lucretius on Thought and Imagination Nathan Gilbert 147
38.5 Cicero across Genres Cicero the Satirist? Generic Variation and Allusion in the Letters Amanda Wilcox 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
62.5 Truth and Lies Christian Cues in The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 147
29.3 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Christa Wolf’s Cassandra: Different Times, Different Views Nancy Rabinowitz 147
52.2 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Choreography and Competition in Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 3 Sarah Olsen 147
33.5 Livy and the Construction of the Past Choral Dynamics in Livy's AUC XXIII Kyle Sanders 147
62.1 Truth and Lies Chasing a Silenos: Deceptive Appearances in Theopompos’ Thaumasia William Morison 147
61.1 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Catullus the Mathematician Mary Jaeger 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
56.3 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Calvin’s Latin Carl P. E. Springer 147
5.3 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Calpurnia and the Ides of March Josiah Osgood 147
23.3 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Callidior ceteris persecutor: The Emperor Julian and his Place in Christian Historiography Moysés Marcos 147
50.5 Identity and Ethnicity Brahmans and Gymnoi: Autochthony and Cultural Memory in the Life of Apollonius Edward Kelting 147
55.1 Sexuality in Ancient Art Boys, Herms, and the Symposiast’s Gaze Jorge J. Bravo III 147
57.3 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Borges’ Classical Receptions in Theory Laura Jansen 147
50.3 Identity and Ethnicity Bilingualism and Youth in the Roman army Egizia-Maria Felice 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
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