Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
1.4 Representing Gender Gendering Anna Perenna A. Everett Beek 148
43.2 Women and Agency "Hysterical" Virgins in the Hippocratic Peri Partheniōn Abbe Walker 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
18.5 Translation and Reception Nishiwaki’s Ambarvalia: Reimagining Catullan Poetics in Modern(ist) Japan Akira Yatsuhashi 148
14.4 Neo-Latin Around the World Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 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
40.2 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Eros and Animal Bodies in Xenophon’s Cynegeticus Alex Petkas 148
58.2 Obscenity and the Body Eunuchs from Lampsakos: Hipponax and the poetics of obscenity Alexander Dale 148
1.1 Representing Gender Reading between the brothers in Sappho’s ‘Brothers Poem’ Alexandra Schultz 148
7.5 Vergil and Tragedy “The Ajax in Aeneas: Tragedy and Epic in the Boxing Ring in Aeneid 5” Alice Hu 148
1.5 Representing Gender The Imagined Woman: the Performance of Identity in Classical Athens Allison Kemmerle 148
44.1 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Tradition and Innovation in Fourth-Century Tragedy Almut Fries 148
17.5 Political and Social Relations Freedmen as Magistrates in the Late Roman Republic and Empire Amanda Coles 148
41.4 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Imperial Virtus: Changing Attitudes in the Imperial Period Andrea Pittard 148
25.3 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Magical Power, Cognition, and the Religion of the Intellectual in the Roman Imperial West Andreas Bendlin 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
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
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
26.5 Spectacle and Authority Julian II’s Supernatural Publicist: Fama in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus Angela Kinney 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
13.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Thucydides’ Use of Counterfactuals in the Pylos Narrative Anne Begin 148
43.1 Women and Agency Controlling Images: The Loyal Slave Woman in Roman Comedy Anne Feltovich 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
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
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
25.2 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Economic anthropology, economic theory and the study of ancient religions Barbara Kowalzig 148
16.2 Genre and Style Kata Moiran: Ideology and Style in the Odyssey Ben Radcliffe 148
26.2 Spectacle and Authority In Omnis Provincias Exemplum: Imperial Cults and Urban Connectivity in the Roman Empire Benjamin Crowther 148
65.6 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Stasis, Reconciliation and Changing Citizenship in the Later Hellenistic World Benjamin Gray 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
28.4 Time as an Organizing Principle Time in the Scholia to the Iliad Bill Beck 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
28.5 Time as an Organizing Principle The Manipulation of Historical and Moral Turning Points in Sallust: A Comparative Perspective Brian Mumper 148
66.6 Cicero Poeta What Replaced Cicero’s De Temporibus Suis? Brian Walters 148
55.5 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) Hymning Vergil’s Hercules in Statius’ Thebaid Brittney Szempruch 148
24.2 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Working in Digital Humanities and Classics at the Small Undergraduate University Bruce Robertson 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
9.2 War and Revolution in the Roman World Boudica’s Revolt: An Act of Imitation? Caitlin Gillespie 148
67.4 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Feasting on Corpses: Violence and Its Limits in Iliad 24 Caleb Simone 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
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
66.2 Cicero Poeta Ciceronem eloquentia sua in carminibus destituit: genre and the ancient reception of Cicero poeta Caroline Bishop 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
56.4 The Power of Place In Capitolium: The Triumphator and Jupiter Optimus Maximus Caroline Mann 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
17.2 Political and Social Relations Quibus patet curia: Livy 23.23.6 and the Middle Republican Aristocracy of Office Cary Barber 148
32.2 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) The Queen of Dysphonia: Virgilian and Propertian Perspectives on Cleopatra Catalina Popescu 148
33.2 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Virgil, Creator of the World Catherine Conybeare 148
2.1 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts The publicani during the Roman Empire: the political economy of public contracts Charles Bartlett 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