Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
64.5 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Imperial Physician: Asclepius and Roman Coinage Caroline Wazer 147
65.1 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Grammars of Government in the Imperial Estate of Saltus Burunitanus John Weisweiler 147
65.2 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity “A Splendid Theater”: Courtly Epithets in a Provincial Society Ariel Lopez 147
65.3 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Fiscal Grammars of Governance in Ostrogothic Italy M. Shane Bjornlie 147
65.4 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Rebellion and the Making of a Governmental Grammar in Post-Roman Iberia Damian Fernandez 147
66.1 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Flippin’ the Oedipus Record: Will Power’s Seven and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes Casey Dué 147
66.2 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Do Something Addy Man: Herbert Marshall’s Black Alcestis Michele Valerie Ronnick 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
66.4 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama How New is Aristophanes in New Orleans Wilfred Major 147
67.1 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy Commentaries: Intersections between ‘Pagan’ and Christian Platonism in Late Antiquity Ilaria Ramelli 147
67.2 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Inspired Commentator: Plotinus’ Doxographical Ascent Michael Griffin 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
67.4 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy and the Reception of Plato Danielle Alexandra Layne 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
68.1 Free Speech Freedom as Self-Mastery in Plato's Laws Carl Young 147
68.2 Free Speech On Inoffensive Criticism: The Multiple Addressees of Plutarch’s De Adulatore et Amico Dana Fields 147
68.3 Free Speech The Rhetoric of παρρησία in Greek Imperial Writers Matthew Taylor 147
68.4 Free Speech Eyes to See, Hands to Serve: Ambrose's Transformation of Liberalitas Erin Galgay Walsh 147
69.1 Language and Meter Rethinking Dactylo-Epitrite in Euripides' Medea Doug Fraleigh 147
69.2 Language and Meter The Poetics of Syntax: Pindar and the Vedic Rishis Annette Teffeteller 147
69.3 Language and Meter Unmetrical Mamurra: The Impure Iambs of Catullus c. 29 Michael Wheeler 147
69.4 Language and Meter What Can Computers Do for Philology? A Case Study in Pseudo-Seneca Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 147
70.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry Vergil's Third Eclogue at the Dawn of Roman Literature John Oksanish 147
70.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Aristaeus Epyllion in Georgics 4 and the Instability of Didactic Knowledge Patrick Glauthier 147
70.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan's Hesiod: Erictho as Typhon in Bellum Civile 6.685-94 Stephen Sansom 147
70.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry De Rerum Natura 1.44-49: A Spoiler in Lucretius’ first proem? Seth Holm 147
71.1 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Epistolary Reflections on Philosophical Translation Sean McConnell 147
71.2 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Cicero’s Platonic Methodology Christina Maria Hoenig 147
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
72.1 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Towards an Irresponsible Classics James I. Porter 147
72.2 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Socrates, Gandhi, Derrida Phiroze Vasunia 147
72.3 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Situated Knowledges and the Dynamics of the Field Brooke Holmes 147
73.1 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Paradigm Shifts in Archaic Rome’s ‘Social Life of Things’ Cristiano Viglietti 147
73.2 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Diachronicity and Metaphor in Roman Conceptions of Courage William Short 147
73.3 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society The Construction of Currency and Roman Imperialism Colin Elliott 147
74.1 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Political Hoplites: Infantry against Oligarchy in Classical Greece Matt Simonton 147
74.2 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Population Politics and Spartan Imperialism Timothy Doran 147
74.3 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare The Athenian Navy and Democracy: Top-Down, Bottom Up or Topsy Turvy? David Rosenbloom 147
74.4 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Suffragium legionis: Popular Politics and the Army in the Middle-Republic Michael J. Taylor 147
75.1 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Divine Cicero and pious Clodius: invective in the De Domo Sua Jaclyn Neel 147
75.2 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Imperial Cult in the pompa circensis Jacob Latham 147
75.3 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Healing Emperors and Healing Gods Trevor Luke 147
75.4 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Pagan Monotheism and Pagan Cult Frederick Brenk 147
76.1 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Imitation as reincarnation? Rutilius, Messalla, and ‘Ouidius rediuiuus’ at the Thermae Taurinae Ian Fielding 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
76.3 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Archpoet’s Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications Pedro Baroni Schmidt 147
76.4 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Interpreting Twelfth-Century Imitation of the Classics: Walter of Châtillon’s Imitation of the Aeneid in the Exordium of the Alexandreis Justin Haynes 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
77.2 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Weaving, Writing, and Failed Communication in Ovid's Heroides Caitlin Halasz 147