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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
45.6 War and its Cultural Implications Horace, Lollius, and the Consolation of Poetry (C.4.9) Steven Jones 148
46.2 The Impact of Immigration on Classical Studies in North America (organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups Classics in the Age of the Undocumented Dan-el Padilla Peralta 148
46.3 The Impact of Immigration on Classical Studies in North America (organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups Bringing Immigration Home to Our Students Ralph Hexter 148
46.4 The Impact of Immigration on Classical Studies in North America (organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups Confronting Globalization of Classics Jinyu Liu 148
46.5 The Impact of Immigration on Classical Studies in North America (organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups The Heroic Work of Academic Help Committees in the 1930s Hans Peter Obermayer 148
46.6 The Impact of Immigration on Classical Studies in North America (organized by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups Helping Scholars at Risk Emily Mockler 148
47.2 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Plutarch in Budé, Erasmus and Seyssel Rebecca Kingston 148
47.3 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought A New “Dialogue of the Dead”: Triangulating Erasmus, Luther, and Lucian Brandon Bark 148
47.4 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Allusion and Rhetorical Strategy in Justus Lipsius’ Politica (1589) Caroline Stark 148
47.5 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Travel, the Vita Activa, and the Vita Contemplativa in Seneca’s De Otio and Thomas More’s Utopia Harriet Fertik 148
47.6 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Cicero’s Republic of Letters Olivia Thompson 148
48.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) Ill-Gotten Grains: The Bad Administrator in Ptolemaic and Roman Temples Andrew Connor 148
48.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) A First-Century Receipt from the Receivers of Public Clothing in Tebtunis (P.Tebt. UC 1607c) C. Michael Sampson and Matt Gibbs 148
48.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) Fragments of a Second-Century Documentary Scroll: Multispectral Imaging of a Carbonized Papyrus from Thmouis Roger Macfarlane 148
48.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) Wooden Stamps from Tebtunis: Evidence for Local Distribution of Commodities Caroline Cheung 148
48.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) New Texts from the Theognostos Archive Peter Van Minnen 148
48.6 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) New Scientific Evidence for the Date and Composition of Ancient Carbon Inks from Greco-Roman Egypt David Ratzan 148
49.1 The Philosophical Life From Philosopher to Miracle-worker: Seeking the Roots of Apuleius's Post-mortem Transformation Gil Renberg 148
49.2 The Philosophical Life Heloise on ancient philosophy as a way of life Donka Markus 148
49.3 The Philosophical Life ‘They are ignorant that they are wise’: Confidence and Virtue in Seneca Sam McVane 148
49.4 The Philosophical Life The Novelist and Philosopher as Biographer: Traces of the Biographical in Apuleius Thomas McCreight 148
49.5 The Philosophical Life Knowing and Feeling: An Epistemic Model of the Stoic View of Emotions Sosseh Assaturian 148
49.6 The Philosophical Life Sophrosyne: A Platonic Problem for the Homeric Scholia Joshua Smith 148
50.1 Use and Power of Rhetoric More Nobly Great Than the Famed Iliads: The Rhetoric of Encomia to Seventeenth-Century English Translators of Horace and Virgil Kenneth Draper 148
50.2 Use and Power of Rhetoric Minimal Muscle, Maximal Charm: The Middle Style in Roman Oratory Joanna Kenty 148
50.3 Use and Power of Rhetoric Cicero on Rhetoric and Political Judgment Jed Atkins 148
50.4 Use and Power of Rhetoric ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ ὁ Μαραθών (Luc. Rh. Pr. 18)? The Persian Wars in Greek Declamation William Guast 148
50.5 Use and Power of Rhetoric Empire and Invention: The Elder Pliny’s Heurematography (NH 7.191-215) Marco Romani Mistretta 148
51.2 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle The End(s) of the Odyssey Egbert Bakker 148
51.3 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Odysseus and the Suitors’ Relatives Jonathan Ready 148
51.5 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Odysseus’ Success and Demise: Recognition in the Odyssey and Telegony Justin Arft 148
51.5 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle The World’s Last Son: Telegonus and the Space of the Epigone Benjamin Sammons 148
51.6 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Revisiting Athena’s Rage: Kassandra and the Homeric Appropriation of Nostos Narratives Joel Christensen 148
51.7 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle Nostos and Metanostos : The Itineraries of Paris, Menelaus, and Cretan Odysseus Kevin Solez 148
52.2 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic The Political Economy of Empire: Land, Law and the Census Lisa Eberle 148
52.3 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Resisting Empire: Slave Wars and Free Constituencies Peter Morton 148
52.4 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Empire of Expats: Associations of Roman Citizens in Provincial Cities Sailakshmi Ramgopal 148
52.5 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Sexuality and Empire: The Politics of Restraint Michael Taylor 148
53.1 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) “They gave for the war”: The Spartan War Fund as a Public Contract David DeVore 148
53.2 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) Merchant associations and domestic cults as economic agents in late Hellenistic Delos Mantha Zarmakoupi 148
53.3 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) The presence of Italian bankers in the ID and their participation in the economic life of the Delian sanctuary (3rd - 2nd century BCE) Lucia Carbone 148
53.4 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) Agriculture and husbandry in Sicily and Lucania in the 2nd century BC: the evidence of the lapis Pollae Mario Adamo 148
53.5 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) The ATHENIANS Project and Epigraphic Economies John Traill 148
53.6 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) “Non stamped” instrumentum domesticum as source for the economic history of Rome Silvia Orlandi 148
54.2 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Life After Transition: Spontaneous sex change and its aftermath in ancient literature Kelly Shannon 148
54.3 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} An intersex manifesto: Naming the non-binary constructions of the ancient world Chris Mowat 148
54.4 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Gender Ambiguity and Cult Practice in the Roman Novel Barbara Blythe 148
54.5 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} (N)either Men (n)or Women? The Failure of Western Binary Systems Rachel Hart 148
54.6 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Dio’s First Tarsian Oration and the Rhetoric of Gender-Indeterminacy Anna Peterson 148
54.7 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Textual and Sexual Hybridity: Gender in Catullus 63 Jennifer Weintritt 148