Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
34.2 What's in a Name? Counting to One: A Step toward Understanding the Homeric hapax ezeugmena James Dee 148
34.3 What's in a Name? The Utility and "Hellenization" of Personal Names in Hellenistic Uruk Christopher Bravo 148
34.4 What's in a Name? The Etymology and Origins of Aphrodite Craig Jendza 148
35.2 Reading and Performing Louis Zukofsky's 1967 Translation of Plautus' Rudens (workshop) “Venus, I believe they’re intelligent!” Zukofsky’s Verses in “A”-21 David Wray 148
35.2 Reading and Performing Louis Zukofsky's 1967 Translation of Plautus' Rudens (workshop) What Zukofsky Found: Sight, Sound, and Sense in Rudens 615-705 Timothy Moore 148
36.1 Post-Classical Wisdom Literature (organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group) Book IV of the Dialogues attributed to Gregory the Great as a commentary on Ecclesiastes 9 Charles Kuper 148
36.2 Post-Classical Wisdom Literature (organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group) Commenting on pagan wisdom: the last medieval commentaries on the Distichs of Cato W. Martin Bloomer 148
36.3 Post-Classical Wisdom Literature (organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group) The Sources of Wisdom: Robert Holcot’s Political Theology Erin Walsh 148
37.1 The Intellectual World of the Early Empire (organized by the International Plutarch Society) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems in Its Imperial Context Michiel Meeusen 148
37.2 The Intellectual World of the Early Empire (organized by the International Plutarch Society) Plutarch’s and Pliny the Elder’s Greek Artists: Two intellectuals of the Empire and their perspectives on Greek art Eva Falaschi 148
37.3 The Intellectual World of the Early Empire (organized by the International Plutarch Society) Greek Wisdom and Philosophy in the Early Empire: Plutarch in comparison to Flavius Josephus Andreas Schwab 148
37.4 The Intellectual World of the Early Empire (organized by the International Plutarch Society) Suetonius’ mockery of the “Great King” Caligula: The other side of the coin of Plutarch’s Alexander Giustina Monti 148
38.2 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) Princeps and poet-priest: Horace and the transformation of religious authority under Augustus Zsuzsa Varhelyi 148
38.3 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) Isis, Bacchus, and Apollo: Propertius on Religion and Power Barbara Weinlich 148
38.4 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) SI SIC DI: The Fantastic Jupiter of the Fasti Julia Hejduk 148
38.5 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) A Blight on the Golden Age: The Robigalia in Ovid's Fasti Morgan Palmer 148
39.1 The Villa dei Papiri: Then and Now (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) Look Who’s Talking: Epicurus and Idomeneus on both sides of an Epicurean debate David Blank 148
39.2 The Villa dei Papiri: Then and Now (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) Hamming It Up in the Villa dei Papiri Christopher Parslow 148
39.3 The Villa dei Papiri: Then and Now (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) The history of Greek philosophy in some neglected Herculaneum papyri Richard Janko 148
40.2 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Eros and Animal Bodies in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus Alex Petkas 148
40.3 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Varro’s Aviary and Hortensius’ Menagerie: Private animal collections in ancient Rome Matthew McGowan 148
40.4 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Porphyry’s Partridge: Animal Speech in De Abstinentia Book Three Richard Hutchins 148
41.1 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Consuls and Poets as Organizing Principle in Ovid’s 'Epistulae ex Ponto' 4 Christian Lehmann 148
41.2 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Frontinus the Historian? Margaret Clark 148
41.3 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Silent Virtue: Pliny’s Verginius Rufus as Imperial Exemplar Laura Garofalo 148
41.4 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Imperial Virtus: Changing Attitudes in the Imperial Period Andrea Pittard 148
41.5 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Lucan's Parthians in Nero's Rome Jake Nabel 148
42.1 Ethnicity and Identity Agglutinative Ethnographies: Valerius Flaccus and Ammianus Marcellinus on Sarmatian Warfare Timothy Hart 148
42.2 Ethnicity and Identity Ethnicity and Genealogy in Heliodorus’ "Aethiopica": Theagenes Reconsidered Emilio Carlo Maria Capettini 148
42.3 Ethnicity and Identity Carian A(door)nment? The Anthesteria, Carians, and Ionian Identity Emily Wilson 148
42.4 Ethnicity and Identity Bronze men: reading Herodotus on 'the sea of Greeks' Christopher Parmenter 148
42.5 Ethnicity and Identity Josephus' Remarks on his Greek and Elite Identity in the Second Sophistic Sarah Teets 148
42.6 Ethnicity and Identity No Place Like Home: Exile and Theban Identity in the Thebaid Clayton Schroer 148
43.1 Women and Agency Controlling Images: The Loyal Slave Woman in Roman Comedy Anne Feltovich 148
43.2 Women and Agency "Hysterical" Virgins in the Hippocratic Peri Partheniōn Abbe Walker 148
43.3 Women and Agency “Although She Wished to Speak”: Plutarch’s Creation and Silencing of Powerful Women in his Dialogues Dawn LaValle 148
43.4 Women and Agency Pamphila's Historical Commentaries Dina Guth 148
43.5 Women and Agency Being Better than Sappho: the Social Life of a Poeta Docta, c. 100 CE Hannah Mason 148
43.6 Women and Agency Getting Bishops: Galla Placidia’s Contribution to the Bonifatian-Eulalian Schism Jacqueline Long 148
44.1 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Tradition and Innovation in Fourth-Century Tragedy Almut Fries 148
44.2 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Integration or Imperialism? A Reassessment of Aeschylus’ Aetnaeans Mark Thatcher 148
44.3 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Timotheus’ Sphragis in the Persians and the Idea of Progress Nicholas Boterf 148
44.4 Traditions and Innovations in Literature The Satyr Who Stirred up the Hornets’ Nest: Ovidian “Satyr Play” in the Fasti Sergios Paschalis 148
44.5 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Lucretius and the Question of Epicurean Orthodoxy Zackary Rider 148
44.6 Traditions and Innovations in Literature A Return to Ancient Poetics: Racine's Andromaque and Seneca’s Troades Mary Gilbert 148
45.1 War and its Cultural Implications From Stick to Scepter: How the Centurion's Switch Became a Symbol of Roman Power Graeme Ward 148
45.2 War and its Cultural Implications Thucydides on Coercive Martial Manliness, Virtue, and Rape Kathy Gaca 148
45.3 War and its Cultural Implications Fire Signals in Greek Historiography Daniel Moore 148
45.4 War and its Cultural Implications The Blood beneath the Laurels: Aeneid 2, Metamorphoses 1, and the Ethics of Augustan Victory Nandini Pandey 148
45.5 War and its Cultural Implications How the Iliad Narrates Military Command John Esposito 148