Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
11.4 Prophecy Riddling Recipes: The Elegiac Instructions of Philo (SH 690) and Aglaias (SH 18) Floris Overduin 147
12.1 Money Matters Patronage and the Athenian Democracy Andrew Alwine 147
12.2 Money Matters Kapêloi and Economic Rationality in Fourth-Century BCE Athens Michael Leese 147
12.3 Money Matters The Imperial Shuffle: Markets and Land Allotment on the Syracusan Frontier Timothy Sorg 147
12.4 Money Matters The End of Hegemony? Revisiting Athenian Finance and Foreign Policy after the Social War Robert Sing 147
13.1 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Raising the Stakes: Mary-Kay Gamel and the Academic Stage Amy R. Cohen 147
13.2 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Sophocles after Ferguson: Antigone in St. Louis, 2014 Timothy J. Moore 147
13.3 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Navigating Tricky Topics: The Benefits of Performance Pedagogy Christopher Bungard 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
14.2 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 The Satirical and Epical Basis of Damasus’ Anti-pagan Invective Carmen Contra Paganos Diederik Burgersdijk 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
14.4 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 George of Pisidia’s Depiction of the Persians and its Classical Antecedents Erik Hermans 147
15.1 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Werner Jaeger: The Chicago Years Stanley Burstein 147
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
15.3 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Gendering the Study of Germanophone Refugee Classicists Judith P. Hallett 147
15.4 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Ernst Badian on Fritz Schachermeyr's Interpretation of Alexander the Great T. Corey Brennan 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
16.2 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival Fragmentary Furii and Latin Historical Epic Jessica H. Clark 147
16.3 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival Fragmentary Texts, Contradictory Narrative, and the Roman Historical Tradition Christopher Simon 147
16.4 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival The Philology of Fragments Sander Goldberg 147
17.1 Rome: The City as Text Gateways to Rome in Aeneid 6 and 7 Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 147
17.2 Rome: The City as Text Utopian Rome in Ovid’s Externalized View from Exile Rachel Philbrick 147
17.3 Rome: The City as Text Reproducing Rome: Campania and the Imperial City in Statius' Silvae Amanda Klause 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
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
18.2 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Violating the City: Plutarch’s Use of Religious Landscape in the Life of Sulla Mohammed Bhatti 147
18.3 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Sulla and the Creation of Roman Athens Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 147
18.4 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Plutarch’s Caesar and the Historical Tradition Regarding Caesar’s Gallic War Rex Stem 147
19.1 Poster Session Deriving Digital Thumbprints through Syntactic Analyses: New Paths for Greek Historiography Vanessa B. Gorman 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
20.1 How (Not) to Write How Not to Compose Prose: Hegesias of Magnesia as an Antimodel of Style Steven Ooms 147
20.2 How (Not) to Write Xenophon’s Hiero as Literary Criticism: A Revisionary Perspective on Epinician Advice-Giving Laura Takakjy 147
20.3 How (Not) to Write Playing Phthonos: Epinician Genre and Choreia in Plato Theodora Hadjimichael 147
20.4 How (Not) to Write Herodotus and the Laws of Thurii David Blair Pass 147
20.5 How (Not) to Write The Anti-Program of Thucydides' Archaeology Thomas Beasley 147
20.6 How (Not) to Write Whose Hymns?: The Architecture and Authorship of the Homeric Hymn Collection Alexander Hall 147
21.1 Ancient Kingship Σκηπτοῦχος Βασιλεύς: the Σκῆπτρον and Odysseus’ Kingship in the Odyssey Marie La Fond 147
21.2 Ancient Kingship A Spartan Ghost at Pistoria: Xenophon's Agesilaus and the End of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae Marian Makins 147
21.3 Ancient Kingship Dionysos, Sympotic Ships, and Empire: Banqueting aboard the Thalamegos of Ptolemy IV Kathryn Topper 147
21.4 Ancient Kingship A New Approach to the Jewish Antiquities: Flavius Josephus' Philosophy of Monarchy Jacob Feeley 147
21.5 Ancient Kingship Antioch in the Antonine cultural milieu: reception and construction of Seleukid civic past Chiara Grigolin 147
21.6 Ancient Kingship The Inception of the Seleukid Empire Paul Vadan 147
22.1 Perception and the Senses Scent in the Magical Papyri Britta Ager 147
22.2 Perception and the Senses Thaumastic Acoustics: Typhon and the poetics of sight and sound Oliver Passmore 147
22.3 Perception and the Senses Ancient Greek Lullabies: Magic or Mundane? Abbe Walker 147
22.4 Perception and the Senses Plato and the Stoics on Non-Rational Feelings and Desires David Kaufman 147
22.5 Perception and the Senses Cicero vs. Lucretius on Thought and Imagination Nathan Gilbert 147
22.6 Perception and the Senses Rewriting the Conversion of Knemon in Menander’s "Dyskolos": Aelian’s "Letter" 15 Emilio Carlo Maria Capettini 147
23.1 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Imperial Authority and Saeculum Rhetoric from Augustus to Constantine Susan Dunning 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