Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
15.2 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Between three worlds: the Odyssey of a Protestant German-Jewish Classicist: Friedrich W. Lenz Hans-Peter Obermayer 147
33.4 Livy and the Construction of the Past Between senatus and populus: Contested contiones in Livy’s Third Decade Anne Truetzel 147
48.2 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Between Oral and Written: Archaic Epigram & Elegiac Formulae Alan Sheppard 147
58.5 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Bellum se ipsum alet? Financing Republican Imperialism Nathan Rosenstein 147
3.5 Time and Memory Before Athenian Thalassocracy: Minos’ Sea Power in Archaic and Non-Athenian Traditions Valerio Caldesi Valeri 147
55.2 Sexuality in Ancient Art Baubo and the Question of the Obscene Frederika Tevebring 147
46.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on the Emotions and Body-Soul Unity Myrna Gabbe 147
10.2 Ancient Music and the Emotions Aristotle on Musical Emotions Juan Pablo Mira 147
38.3 Cicero across Genres Arguments for Political Participation in Cicero’s pro Sestio and de Republica David West 147
76.3 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Archpoet’s Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications Pedro Baroni Schmidt 147
54.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Archaisms and Innovations in Homeric Accentuation Jesse Lundquist 147
81.2 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Appeasing Souls and Removing Hindering Daimones: Column VI of the Derveni Papyrus and its Religious Significance Valeria Piano 147
63.4 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Antique Undead: Gothic Horror, Romanticism, and the Grand Tour James Uden 147
21.5 Ancient Kingship Antioch in the Antonine cultural milieu: reception and construction of Seleukid civic past Chiara Grigolin 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
82.2 Women and Water Annie Get Your Jug: Anna Perenna and Water in the Aeneid David Wright 147
22.3 Perception and the Senses Ancient Greek Lullabies: Magic or Mundane? Abbe Walker 147
14.1 Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia Anchoring Epic: Vergilian Quotations in Paulinus’ Epic on John and the Christian Tradition Roald Dijkstra 147
6.2 The List as Genre An finitus sit mundus et an unus: Reading Pliny’s Lists of Nature Stephanie Frampton 147
1.4 Texts and Transmission An Entwicklungsgeschichte of a Text? Werner Jaeger and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Mirjam Kotwick 147
36.5 Fides in Flavian Poetry Affirmatio Religiosa: Piety and Fides in Silius Italicus’ Punica Ray Marks 147
57.2 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Affective Interests: Ancient Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Concept of Character Vanda Zajko 147
1.3 Texts and Transmission Aeschylus’ ‘Semele or Water-Bearers’: Manuscripts and Plot Enrico Emanuele Prodi 147
56.6 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Aeneid 13: Four Vergilian Imitators Patrick M. Owens 147
54.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Accenting Sequences of Enclitics in Ancient Greek: Rediscovering an Ancient Rule Philomen Probert 147
48.6 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Winter’s Paian: Generic Interdependence and Autonomy in Bacchylides 16 Margaret Foster 147
48.1 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Trader in Song: Hesiod at the funeral games for Amphidamas Alexander Dale 147
14.3 Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia A Still Triumphant Empire with the Barbarians at the Gates: Imperial Epic and Ethnographic Discourse in the Bellum Geticum of Claudian Randolph Ford 147
21.2 Ancient Kingship A Spartan Ghost at Pistoria: Xenophon's Agesilaus and the End of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae Marian Makins 147
4.4 Herodotus at 2500 A Pre-post-human Herodotus: Distributed Knowledge in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Greenwood 147
54.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics A New Type of Ring Composition? Toward a Technique of Inherited Poetics Alexander Forte 147
21.4 Ancient Kingship A New Approach to the Jewish Antiquities: Flavius Josephus' Philosophy of Monarchy Jacob Feeley 147
40.4 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue A Liberal Art for the Future Nigel Nicholson 147
53.5 Epistolary Epigraphy A Letter of Claudius, the Boundary Between Tymbrianassos and Sagalassos, and the Via Sebaste Paul Iversen 147
33.3 Livy and the Construction of the Past A Head on the Body Politic? Figuring Authority in Livy's First Pentad Julia Mebane 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
49.4 Athenian Unity? A Deeper Look into the Quarries at Syracuse: Thucydides 7.84-7 in Connection to the Plague Holly Maggiore 147
84.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "ἵνα κλέος ἐσθλὸν ἄροιτο κεῖσ’ ἐλθών": Kleos in the Voyage of Telemachus Joshua Benjamins 147
11.2 Prophecy "Trusty" Oracles of Zeus? The Pragmatics of Prophecies in Sophocles' Trachiniae Amy Pistone 147
32.5 Friendship and Affection "Bloom for Me": The Letters of Nikephoros Ouranos and the Greek Anthology Mark Masterson 147
52.5 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Communicating Emotion in Tragic Pantomime Helen Slaney 147
19.2 Poster Session A Library with a Garden: The Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome Sebastian Hierl 147