Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
41.1 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Consuls and Poets as Organizing Principle in Ovid’s 'Epistulae ex Ponto' 4 Christian Lehmann 148
24.4 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Philology, Technology, Collaboration: 16 Years of the Homer Multitext Christopher Blackwell 148
34.3 What's in a Name? The Utility and "Hellenization" of Personal Names in Hellenistic Uruk Christopher Bravo 148
4.2 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Classicists without Borders" Christopher Francese 148
24.5 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession DH 101 (Classics) Christopher Johanson 148
42.4 Ethnicity and Identity Bronze men: reading Herodotus on 'the sea of Greeks' Christopher Parmenter 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
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
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
42.6 Ethnicity and Identity No Place Like Home: Exile and Theban Identity in the Thebaid Clayton Schroer 148
34.4 What's in a Name? The Etymology and Origins of Aphrodite Craig Jendza 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
25.4 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Divining data: temples, votives, and quantitative sensibilities Dan-el Padilla Peralta 148
45.3 War and its Cultural Implications Fire Signals in Greek Historiography Daniel Moore 148
60.1 The Genesis of the Ancient Text: New Approaches Revision and the Lyric Sphragis Daniel Anderson 148
3.5 Plato Solon’s Egyptian Trip: Intertextual Resonances and Platonic Irony in the Timaeus Daniel Esses 148
8.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Act of Truth Daniel Walden 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
3.3 Plato Aporia and Insight in Plato's Parmenides Darren Gardner 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
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
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
5.6 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Ennodius’s Eucharisticon and the poetics of ascetic autobiography David Ungvary 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
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
43.3 Women and Agency “Although She Wished to Speak”: Plutarch’s Creation and Silencing of Powerful Women in his Dialogues Dawn LaValle 148
62.5 Insult, Satire, and Invective The market insult and the ideology of labor in Classical Athens Deborah Kamen 148
56.1 The Power of Place Choreo-graphy: contextualizing a choregic dedication (IG I3 833bis) Deborah Steiner 148
43.4 Women and Agency Pamphila's Historical Commentaries Dina Guth 148
49.2 The Philosophical Life Heloise on ancient philosophy as a way of life Donka Markus 148
6.6 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Methods, Assumptions, and Starting Points in Studies of “the Christians” and “the Romans” Douglas Boin 148
62.3 Insult, Satire, and Invective Cannibalizing Satire: Insult, Violence, and Genre in Juvenal’s Fifteenth Satire Edward Kelting 148
27.2 Legal Authority Krateros and the Decrees in Andokides On the Mysteries Edwin Carawan 148
51.2 Nostoi/Odyssey/Telegony: New Perspectives on the End of the Epic Cycle The End(s) of the Odyssey Egbert Bakker 148
23.3 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Mothers and Daughters in the Epigrams of Anyte Ellen Greene 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
42.2 Ethnicity and Identity Ethnicity and Genealogy in Heliodorus’ "Aethiopica": Theagenes Reconsidered Emilio Carlo Maria Capettini 148
3.1 Plato Philosophia and Philotechnia: Hephaistos in the Platonic Dialogues Emily Hulme 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
42.3 Ethnicity and Identity Carian A(door)nment? The Anthesteria, Carians, and Ionian Identity Emily Wilson 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
2.2 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts Nikophon’s Law on Contracts (SEG 26.72) Ephraim Lytle 148
59.2 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World The Defective Insularity of the Peloponnese Eric Driscoll 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
33.5 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Theology's Shadow Erik Gunderson 148
67.6 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy The Things Gods Dare’: Sexual Violence and Political Necessity in Greek Tragedy Erika Weiberg 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
23.4 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Ego filia: Maternal Rejection in Catullus 63 Erin McKenna 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