Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
11.4 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio From salvation to catastrophe: the biographical narrative of the Flavian dynasty Jesper Madsen 148
11.5 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio The narrative function of Julia Domna in Cassius Dio's Roman history Andrew Scott 148
12.1 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism 'Our endeavor…is to be a god:’ Humans as Visible Gods in Plotinus Eric Perl 148
12.2 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Holy Places: Some Theorizations of Sacred Space Radcliffe Edmonds III 148
12.3 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Proclus’ Paeonian Chain: Healing the World from Body to body Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 148
13.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Rehabilitating Legal Rule in Statesman and Laws Joshua Blecher-Cohen 148
13.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Thucydides’ Use of Counterfactuals in the Pylos Narrative Anne Begin 148
13.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Harry Potter and the Descent to the Underworld: Katabasis in the Final Installment of J.K. Rowling's Septology Joseph Slama 148
14.2 Neo-Latin Around the World "Out of Greeke into Latin Verse": Nicholas Allen’s Latin Translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus (1561) and its Predecessors Anne-Marie Lewis 148
14.3 Neo-Latin Around the World Count Zinzendorf’s Philadelphia Oratio Tom Keeline 148
14.4 Neo-Latin Around the World Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 148
14.5 Neo-Latin Around the World The Poetry of Paradox: Book I of Petrus Lotichius' Elegies Joseph Tipton 148
16.1 Genre and Style Post Longa et Tristia Dyaboli Bella: Allegory and the End of the Aeneid Luca D'Anselmi 148
16.2 Genre and Style Kata Moiran: Ideology and Style in the Odyssey Ben Radcliffe 148
16.3 Genre and Style Much Food in Fallow Ground? Nemean 7 and the Enigmatic Tradition Kyle Sanders 148
16.4 Genre and Style Situating the Problemata Genre in the Context of Hellenistic Exegesis Kenneth Yu 148
16.5 Genre and Style Longinus' Architectural Metaphor at περὶ ὕψους 10.7: Problems and Solutions James Arieti 148
16.6 Genre and Style Trust and Charm: Late Hellenistic Authors on the Value of Poetry Kathryn Wilson 148
17.1 Political and Social Relations Acting Your Age on the Roman Stage: The Plautine adulescens in Middle Republican Rome Evan Jewell 148
17.2 Political and Social Relations Quibus patet curia: Livy 23.23.6 and the Middle Republican Aristocracy of Office Cary Barber 148
17.3 Political and Social Relations Not Set in Stone: The Asculum Bronze and the Durability of Political Alliances in the late Republic Kathryn Steed 148
17.4 Political and Social Relations Restoring Libertas: The Plebeian Class Advantage over the Patricians in Livy’s Account of the Second Decemvirate (AUC 3.36-55) David West 148
17.5 Political and Social Relations Freedmen as Magistrates in the Late Roman Republic and Empire Amanda Coles 148
17.6 Political and Social Relations Where have all the fabri tign(u)arii gone? CIL XIV 4365 & 4382, a reassessment of the fabri tign(u)arii in Rome and Ostia in the early 4th century CE. John Fabiano 148
18.1 Translation and Reception The Callias of Aeschines Socraticus and the Meaning of διαφορά at Athenaeus 5.220b Kevin Muse 148
18.2 Translation and Reception Translating Ovid into Musical Pictures: The Metamorphosen Symphonies of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf Rebecca Sears 148
18.3 Translation and Reception Not a Gadfly: When a Crucial Reading Goes Wrong Laura Marshall 148
18.4 Translation and Reception How to Gamble in Greek: The Meaning of Kubeia Stephen Kidd 148
18.5 Translation and Reception Nishiwaki’s Ambarvalia: Reimagining Catullan Poetics in Modern(ist) Japan Akira Yatsuhashi 148
18.6 Translation and Reception Plutarch’s “curiosity” in the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius Joseph Howley 148
19.2 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Seneca’s Corpus: A Sympathy of Fluids, Passions, Plants, and Planets Michael Goyette 148
19.3 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Animals and the Development of Ancient Pharmacopias Julie Laskaris 148
19.4 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Fabricated Elephants and Confused Horses: How Smell Constructs Non/Humanity Clara Bosak-Schroeder 148
19.5 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Nature, Organism and Disease in Ancient Greek Medical Texts and German Idealism. A “New Materialist” Perspective Vasiliki Dimoula 148
20.2 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western In aedibus Aldi: classical places and classical texts in Bembo’s De Aetna Luke Roman 148
20.3 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western Gender and Focalization in the Reception of Classical Myth Lillian Doherty 148
20.4 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western #ClassicsMustFall? Monument-mindedness in contemporary South Africa Grant Parker 148
20.5 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western Occidentalism, or Why the Phoenicians Matter: Scholarly Approaches to Cultural Contact from Greece to Iberia (ca. 800–600 BCE) Carolina López-Ruiz 148
21.1 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Beyond the Universal Soldier: Combat Trauma in Classical Antiquity Jason Crowley 148
21.2 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat We Were Warned! Omens and Portents Foretelling Victory and Defeat Michael Flower 148
21.3 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Financial Indemnities: A Greek Economic Aftermath of War Matthew Trundle 148
21.4 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Educational “Moments”: Didactic Spectacle and the Bolstering of Spartan Socio-Political Structures in the Aftermath of War Ellen Millender 148
22.1 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Ghosts, cross-dressing and puny gods: Towards a conceptual frame of spectating comic khoroi Hanna Golab 148
22.2 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Dressing up for the festival: ritual dress in ancient Greek tragedy Gloria Mugelli 148
22.3 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Coroplastic Commemoration of Performance: Dramatic Identity and Viewership in Ancient Corinth Justin Dwyer 148
22.4 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Plautus’ Painted Stage Marden Nicols 148
22.5 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Changing Perspectives: Catullus, Lucretius, and Architectural Transformations in the Palatine Magna Mater Sanctuary Jennifer Muslin 148
23.2 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Like Mother, Like Daughter: Rhea and Demeter as Models of Subversion in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter Suzanne Lye 148
23.3 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Mothers and Daughters in the Epigrams of Anyte Ellen Greene 148
23.4 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Tough Love: Loyalties and Tensions among Ptolemaic Queens and their Daughters Walter Penrose 148