Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
57.4 Risk and Responsibility How to Get Away with Murder: A Reinterpretation of the Mnesterophonia Eunice Kim 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
17.1 Political and Social Relations Acting Your Age on the Roman Stage: The Plautine adulescens in Middle Republican Rome Evan Jewell 148
29.3 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Amy Richlin’s Challenge: Erasing/Tracing Roman Women’s Participation in Religious Life Fanny Dolansky 148
68.4 Ritual and Magic A New Fragment of a Demotic Papyrus from the Fayum in the Oriental Institute Museum Foy Scalf 148
56.2 The Power of Place Athens on Mount Olympus: portraying gods in Aristophanes’ Birds Francesco Morosi 148
64.5 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Oedipus the Tyrant and Oedipus the King: A Problem in Translation Frank Nisetich 148
6.2 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Rehistoricizing Greek Religion Fred Naiden 148
30.3 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Epigraphical Evidence for sovereign lending in Classical Athens Georgios Tsolakis 148
49.1 The Philosophical Life From Philosopher to Miracle-worker: Seeking the Roots of Apuleius's Post-mortem Transformation Gil Renberg 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
61.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Pleasure and Motivation in the Eudemian Ethics Giulia Bonasio 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
22.2 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Dressing up for the festival: ritual dress in ancient Greek tragedy Gloria Mugelli 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
20.4 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western #ClassicsMustFall? Monument-mindedness in contemporary South Africa Grant Parker 148
24.1 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Greco-Roman Studies and Digital Classics Gregory Crane 148
22.1 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Ghosts, cross-dressing and puny gods: Towards a conceptual frame of spectating comic khoroi Hanna Golab 148
43.5 Women and Agency Being Better than Sappho: the Social Life of a Poeta Docta, c. 100 CE Hannah Mason 148
62.4 Insult, Satire, and Invective Petty Theft in Plautus Hans Bork 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
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
5.2 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity The conversion of Ovid in early Christian poetry Ian Fielding 148
30.6 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) When Sovereignty is not enough: Money Supply in 4th-Century CE Egypt Irene Soto 148
34.1 What's in a Name? An Ennian inscription for a statue of Cato in Plutarch’s Cato Maior Jackie Elliott 148
26.4 Spectacle and Authority Pompa diaboli: Christian Rhetoric, Imperial Law, and the Roman Games Jacob Latham 148
43.6 Women and Agency Getting Bishops: Galla Placidia’s Contribution to the Bonifatian-Eulalian Schism Jacqueline Long 148
9.3 War and Revolution in the Roman World Lucan’s Melian Dialogue: Pharsalia 3.298-374 Jacqueline Pincus 148
41.5 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Lucan's Parthians in Nero's Rome Jake Nabel 148
16.5 Genre and Style Longinus' Architectural Metaphor at περὶ ὕψους 10.7: Problems and Solutions James Arieti 148
34.2 What's in a Name? Counting to One: A Step toward Understanding the Homeric hapax ezeugmena James Dee 148
1.3 Representing Gender The Erotics of Anacreontea 1 James Jope 148
64.3 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Representing Greek Meter James Romm 148
67.3 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy “A Case of Domestic Violence: Euripides’ Orestes Jan Kucharski 148
2.3 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts Moral Intervention and the Roman Economy: The Case of the Edict of Maximum Prices Jane Sancinito 148
21.1 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Beyond the Universal Soldier: Combat Trauma in Classical Antiquity Jason Crowley 148
10.1 Forgery Disputed Illyricum: The Purpose and Date of a Late Antique Forgery Jason Osequeda 148
4.3 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "New Outreach for Classics" Jason Pedicone 148
50.3 Use and Power of Rhetoric Cicero on Rhetoric and Political Judgment Jed Atkins 148
9.1 War and Revolution in the Roman World Horace's Island of the Blessed: A Lyric Evaluation of a Pastoral Ideal Jeffrey Ulrich 148
22.5 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Changing Perspectives: Catullus, Lucretius, and Architectural Transformations in the Palatine Magna Mater Sanctuary Jennifer Muslin 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
30.4 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Roman Coins Abroad: Foreign Coinage and Strategies of Sovereignty in Ancient India Jeremy Simmons 148
11.4 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio From salvation to catastrophe: the biographical narrative of the Flavian dynasty Jesper Madsen 148
8.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Perfect Participle Active in Homer: Against an Aeolic Phase. Jesse Lundquist 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
66.5 Cicero Poeta A destructive text(ile): translating pain in TD ii.8.20 from Soph. Trach. 1046-1102. Jessica Westerhold 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
50.2 Use and Power of Rhetoric Minimal Muscle, Maximal Charm: The Middle Style in Roman Oratory Joanna Kenty 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