Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
55.1 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) Ego Sum Pastor: Pastoral Transformations in the Tale of Mercury and Battus (Ov. Met. 2.676-707) Sarah McCallum 148
55.2 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) The Auditory Sublime from Vergil to Lucan Laura Zientek 148
55.3 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) Rogue Bulls and Troubled Heroes: heroic value in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica Jessica Blum 148
55.5 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) Hymning Vergil’s Hercules in Statius’ Thebaid Brittney Szempruch 148
56.1 The Power of Place Choreo-graphy: contextualizing a choregic dedication (IG I3 833bis) Deborah Steiner 148
56.2 The Power of Place Athens on Mount Olympus: portraying gods in Aristophanes’ Birds Francesco Morosi 148
56.3 The Power of Place Graphicology: Topos and Topography in Ovid Tristia 3.1 and Cicero ad Att 4.1 Gillian McIntosh 148
56.4 The Power of Place In Capitolium: The Triumphator and Jupiter Optimus Maximus Caroline Mann 148
56.5 The Power of Place Constantius and the Obelisk: Ignoring the Lessons of History Jonathan Tracy 148
57.1 Risk and Responsibility Hellenistic Risk Agenda Paul Vadan 148
57.2 Risk and Responsibility A New Lease on Life? : Intra-elite Tenancy and the Social Impact of Land Redistribution in Roman Greece Erika Jeck 148
57.3 Risk and Responsibility Medical Risk in Roman Law Molly Jones-Lewis 148
57.4 Risk and Responsibility How to Get Away with Murder: A Reinterpretation of the Mnesterophonia Eunice Kim 148
58.1 Obscenity and the Body Venereal Disease and the Ox-Eyed Goddess: Valerius Flaccus’s Venus and Juno as Vergilian Vectors of Disease Darcy Krasne 148
58.2 Obscenity and the Body Eunuchs from Lampsakos: Hipponax and the poetics of obscenity Alexander Dale 148
58.3 Obscenity and the Body Bodily Metaphors and Self-fashioning in Persius’ First Satire Scott Weiss 148
59.1 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Lydian Hegemony and Lesbian Politics in Alcaeus William Tortorelli 148
59.2 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World The Defective Insularity of the Peloponnese Eric Driscoll 148
59.3 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Strategy and Supply in the Archidamian War Stephen O'Connor 148
59.4 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Thucydides’ Literary Entombment of the Sicily War-Dead Rachel Bruzzone 148
60.1 The Genesis of the Ancient Text: New Approaches Revision and the Lyric Sphragis Daniel Anderson 148
60.2 The Genesis of the Ancient Text: New Approaches ‘This one was one who was working’: similes of poetic composition in the ancient reception of Virgil Talitha Kearey 148
60.3 The Genesis of the Ancient Text: New Approaches Ancient note taking as a first step in the creative process Raffaella Cribiore 148
61.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Inventing Incommensurability. Traces of a Scientific Revolution in Early Greek Mathematics in the Time of Plato Claas Lattmann 148
61.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Why the view of the Intellect in De Anima I.4 Isn't Aristotle's Own Caleb Cohoe 148
61.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Pleasure and Motivation in the Eudemian Ethics Giulia Bonasio 148
62.1 Insult, Satire, and Invective Did Palladas Produce an Iambic Collection for Constantine? Kevin Wilkinson 148
62.2 Insult, Satire, and Invective Cutting off Ennius’ nose? Lucan’s Subversion of Ennius’ Annales in Books 2 and 6 of the Pharsalia Timothy Joseph 148
62.3 Insult, Satire, and Invective Cannibalizing Satire: Insult, Violence, and Genre in Juvenal’s Fifteenth Satire Edward Kelting 148
62.4 Insult, Satire, and Invective Petty Theft in Plautus Hans Bork 148
62.5 Insult, Satire, and Invective The market insult and the ideology of labor in Classical Athens Deborah Kamen 148
63.1 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Human Author in Augustine’s Scriptural Hermeneutics Theodore Harwood 148
63.2 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Present and Aorist Imperative in (Inter)action: Commands and Politeness in Menander Peter Barrios-Lech 148
63.3 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Voice and Mind of the Stone: Social Presence Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Inscribed Epigram Michael Tueller 148
63.4 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Genesis of Two Examples in Stoic Grammatical Theory: σκινδαψός and βλίτυρι Tyler Mayo 148
63.5 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading Starting from the Top: Gellius, Antonine Reading Practice, and the Table of Contents Scott DiGiulio 148
64.2 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Exclamations in Aeschylus Sarah Ruden 148
64.3 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Representing Greek Meter James Romm 148
64.4 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Out of Joint: Anachronism and Timelessness in the Translation of Greek Tragedy Emily Wilson 148
64.5 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Oedipus the Tyrant and Oedipus the King: A Problem in Translation Frank Nisetich 148
64.6 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Divine Action in Greek Drama Mary Lefkowitz 148
65.3 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches What was Stasis? Ancient Usage and Modern Constructs Scott Arcenas 148
65.4 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Recovering from Civil Strife in Classical Eretria: The Artemisia at Amarynthos Julia Shear 148
65.5 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Writing, Memorialization, and Stasis in the Reconciliation Decree from Telos (IG XII 4 1 132) Matt Simonton 148
65.6 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Stasis, Reconciliation and Changing Citizenship in the Later Hellenistic World Benjamin Gray 148
66.2 Cicero Poeta Ciceronem eloquentia sua in carminibus destituit: genre and the ancient reception of Cicero poeta Caroline Bishop 148
66.3 Cicero Poeta Forgotten Monuments: Cicero’s de Consulatu suo and the Catilinarian Conspiracy Mary Franks 148
66.4 Cicero Poeta Herodotum cur veraciorem ducam Ennio? Epic and history in Cicero’s De consulatu suo Thomas Biggs 148
66.5 Cicero Poeta A destructive text(ile): translating pain in TD ii.8.20 from Soph. Trach. 1046-1102. Jessica Westerhold 148
66.6 Cicero Poeta What Replaced Cicero’s De Temporibus Suis? Brian Walters 148