Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 7) Visualizing Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean Thomas Beasley 148
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 7) Phylogenetic profiling and the reception of classical drama Joseph Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri 148
1.1 Representing Gender Reading between the brothers in Sappho’s ‘Brothers Poem’ Alexandra Schultz 148
1.2 Representing Gender Gender Nonconformance in Phaedrus’s Fabulae Kristin Mann 148
1.3 Representing Gender The Erotics of Anacreontea 1 James Jope 148
1.4 Representing Gender Gendering Anna Perenna A. Everett Beek 148
1.5 Representing Gender The Imagined Woman: the Performance of Identity in Classical Athens Allison Kemmerle 148
2.1 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts The publicani during the Roman Empire: the political economy of public contracts Charles Bartlett 148
2.2 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts Nikophon’s Law on Contracts (SEG 26.72) Ephraim Lytle 148
2.3 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts Moral Intervention and the Roman Economy: The Case of the Edict of Maximum Prices Jane Sancinito 148
2.4 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts God and money in Horace (c. 3.16, Ep. 1.14) and Paulinus of Nola (c. 21, 28) Alex Dressler 148
2.5 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts The Archaic Origins of Roman Land Allotment: Beyond Integration and Stability Tim Sorg 148
3.1 Plato Philosophia and Philotechnia: Hephaistos in the Platonic Dialogues Emily Hulme 148
3.2 Plato Lysias and Polemarchus in Plato: Distancing Socrates from the Thirty Richard Fernando Buxton 148
3.3 Plato Aporia and Insight in Plato's Parmenides Darren Gardner 148
3.4 Plato Always Becoming: Final and Efficient Causal Explanations in Plato's Timaeus Scott Carson 148
3.5 Plato Solon’s Egyptian Trip: Intertextual Resonances and Platonic Irony in the Timaeus Daniel Esses 148
4.2 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Classicists without Borders" Christopher Francese 148
4.3 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "New Outreach for Classics" Jason Pedicone 148
4.4 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Reading Communities and Re-Entry" Roberta Stewart 148
4.5 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Classics and Public Information & Media Relations: How to do it better" Michael Fontaine 148
4.6 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things The Space Race: Outreach through Maps, Spatial Analysis, and Ancient Geography Sarah Bond 148
5.2 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity The conversion of Ovid in early Christian poetry Ian Fielding 148
5.3 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Fighting a Civil War through Autobiography: The Emperor Julian's Epistle to the Athenians and the Promotion and Consolidation of Imperial Authority and Legitimacy Moyses Marcos 148
5.4 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Interiority and Selfhood in Fifth-Century Autobiography Ryan Brown-Haysom 148
5.5 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Fragmentation and Recreation: An Ontology of fluctus and defluere in Augustine’s Confessions Joshua Benjamins 148
5.6 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Ennodius’s Eucharisticon and the poetics of ascetic autobiography David Ungvary 148
6.2 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Rehistoricizing Greek Religion Fred Naiden 148
6.3 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Cultural Invention and Ritual Change: Tracking the Samothracian Mysteries at Rome Sandra Blakely 148
6.4 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Change, Continuity, and Roman Religion at Palmyra Nathanael Andrade 148
6.5 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Prodigy Reporting in the Early Roman Empire Susan Satterfield 148
6.6 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Methods, Assumptions, and Starting Points in Studies of “the Christians” and “the Romans” Douglas Boin 148
7.2 Vergil and Tragedy “Tragic Poetics in Vergil’s Aeneid” Timothy Wutrich 148
7.3 Vergil and Tragedy “Virgil’s Tragic Shepherds” Julia Scarborough 148
7.4 Vergil and Tragedy “Euripides’ Hippolytus in Aeneid IV” William Bruckel 148
7.5 Vergil and Tragedy “The Ajax in Aeneas: Tragedy and Epic in the Boxing Ring in Aeneid 5” Alice Hu 148
8.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Limited Grassmann's Law in Latin Michael Weiss 148
8.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Perfect Participle Active in Homer: Against an Aeolic Phase. Jesse Lundquist 148
8.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Act of Truth Daniel Walden 148
8.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. Χείρων, Hitt. kiššeraš dUTU uš and Rudrá ‘of healing hand’ Laura Massetti 148
8.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Invention of the Greek Accent Marks Philomen Probert 148
9.1 War and Revolution in the Roman World Horace's Island of the Blessed: A Lyric Evaluation of a Pastoral Ideal Jeffrey Ulrich 148
9.2 War and Revolution in the Roman World Boudica’s Revolt: An Act of Imitation? Caitlin Gillespie 148
9.3 War and Revolution in the Roman World Lucan’s Melian Dialogue: Pharsalia 3.298-374 Jacqueline Pincus 148
9.4 War and Revolution in the Roman World The Curious Case of Uspe: Legalism, Profit and Terror in Roman Imperialism Tristan Taylor 148
10.1 Forgery Disputed Illyricum: The Purpose and Date of a Late Antique Forgery Jason Osequeda 148
10.2 Forgery Tiro’s Cicero: A Case of Manuscript Forgery? Thomas Hendrickson 148
10.3 Forgery What’s in a Name? A Counterpoint to Unitary Authorship for the Historia Augusta Martin Shedd 148
11.2 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio Truth, autopsy and the supernatural in Cassius Dio Julie Langford 148
11.3 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio Readings at a Funeral: Dio's Obituary for Augustus and the Historiography of the Monarchy Adam Kemezis 148