Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
23.3 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Callidior ceteris persecutor: The Emperor Julian and his Place in Christian Historiography Moysés Marcos 147
23.4 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Politics, the Brain, and Public Health in Late Antiquity Jessica Wright 147
23.5 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Narrative Time and the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris. Michael Hanaghan 147
24.1 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Political Culture from Below in the 200s BCE Amy Richlin 147
24.2 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Don’t Consult the hariolus: Slave Religions in the Rome of Plautus and Cato the Elder Dan-el Padilla Peralta 147
24.3 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Libertas plebis: The Metaphor of Slavery in Popular Protest Ellen O'Gorman 147
24.4 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World The Official and Hidden Transcripts of Callirhoe’s Enslavement William Owens 147
24.5 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Speaking up for the Slave in Quintilian, Minor Declamations 340 and 342 Matthew Leigh 147
25.1 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Politics of Elitism: The Roman Republic—Then and Now, in Old Europe and the Brave New Anglophone World Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp 147
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
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
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
25.5 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Economics of Roman Political Culture James K. Tan 147
26.1 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Contracts and Market-Exchange in Classical Athens Edward M. Harris 147
26.2 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Getting Produce to Market: Farming and the Technology of Transport in Classical Attica David Lewis 147
26.3 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Middlemen: the Villains and Secret Heroes of the Ancient Greek market Alain Bresson 147
26.4 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Marketing Mende: Athenaeus 11.784c and the Archaeology of Mendaian Amphoras Mark Lawall and Dylan Townshend 147
26.5 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy ShoEconomics: Market size and Supply of Footwear in Classical Athens Graham Oliver 147
27.1 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Stone into Smoke: Mortality and Materiality in Euripides' Troades Victoria Wohl 147
27.2 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand Nancy Worman 147
27.3 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Objects, Emotions, Words: Orestes and the Empty Urn Joshua Billings 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
27.5 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Material Ghosts: Recycled Theatrical Equipment in Fifth-Century Athens Al Duncan 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
28.2 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Hanc fabulam nescio an tragoediam vocare debeam: Florent Chrestien, Isaac Casaubon, tragedy and Euripides' Cyclops Malika Bastin-Hammou 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
28.4 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Merope's Legacy on the Italian Stage Tatiana Korneeva 147
29.1 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Simone Weil’s Iliad: Misunderstanding Homer? Barbara Gold 147
29.2 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Reading Homer in Troubled Times: Rachel Bespaloff’s On the Iliad Seth Schein 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
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
29.5 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Feminist at the Second Glance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 147
30.1 Euripides The Death of the King: Mythological Innovation in Euripides' "Erechtheus" Adam Rappold 147
30.2 Euripides Musical Language and Performance in Euripides' Troades Peter Blandino 147
30.3 Euripides Likely Story: Narrative and Probability in Euripides’ Troades Benjamin Sammons 147
30.4 Euripides Euripides’ Ion: Monody as Agon Claire Catenaccio 147
30.5 Euripides Euripides’ Comic Muse: Cratinus’ Nemesis in Euripides’ Helen Dustin Dixon 147
31.1 Gender and Identity The Maternal Warrior: Achilles and Gendered Similes in the Iliad Celsiana Warwick 147
31.2 Gender and Identity Heroic Action and Exogamy in Homeric Catalogues of Women Goda Thangada 147
31.3 Gender and Identity The Gender Ratio in the Attic Stelai Peter Hunt 147
31.4 Gender and Identity Merchant Matronae: Women, Ships, and Trade in the Hellenistic and Roman World Carrie Fulton 147
31.5 Gender and Identity Heard, but Preferably not Seen: The Subversion of Women’s Social Networks in the Late Republic Krishni Burns 147
32.1 Friendship and Affection Family Values: Negotiating Affection in the Attic Orators Hilary Lehmann 147
32.2 Friendship and Affection Socrates and Eudaimonism in the Euthydemus and Meno Iakovos Vasiliou 147
32.3 Friendship and Affection What Must We Know to Benefit From Aristotle's Lectures on Ethics? Carlo DaVia 147
32.4 Friendship and Affection Friendship and θυμός in Aristotle Paul Ludwig 147
32.5 Friendship and Affection "Bloom for Me": The Letters of Nikephoros Ouranos and the Greek Anthology Mark Masterson 147
33.1 Livy and the Construction of the Past Livy’s Rejection of Polybius’ συμπλοκή: the Case for Competence Joseph Groves 147
33.2 Livy and the Construction of the Past Exemplary Tyrants: Livy on Violence, Due Process, and Protecting the State Jacqueline Pincus 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