Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
22.4 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Plautus’ Painted Stage Marden Nicols 148
41.2 Imperial Fashioning in the Roman World Frontinus the Historian? Margaret Clark 148
24.3 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Digital Work, Student Research, and the Tenure Track Marie-Claire Beaulieu 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
68.1 Ritual and Magic Performing Immortality: Direct Address in Funerary Epigram and the Orphic Lamellae Mark McClay 148
44.2 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Integration or Imperialism? A Reassessment of Aeschylus’ Aetnaeans Mark Thatcher 148
10.3 Forgery What’s in a Name? A Counterpoint to Unitary Authorship for the Historia Augusta Martin Shedd 148
23.6 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Imperial Mothers and Daughters in Second-Century Rome Mary Boatwright 148
66.3 Cicero Poeta Forgotten Monuments: Cicero’s de Consulatu suo and the Catilinarian Conspiracy Mary Franks 148
44.6 Traditions and Innovations in Literature A Return to Ancient Poetics: Racine's Andromaque and Seneca’s Troades Mary Gilbert 148
64.6 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Divine Action in Greek Drama Mary Lefkowitz 148
29.5 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Re-Reading Ovid's Rapes Mary-Kay Gamel 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
25.6 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Cult Dynamics and Information Technologies: The Case of Mithraism Matthew McCarty 148
40.3 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Varro’s Aviary and Hortensius’ Menagerie: Private animal collections in ancient Rome Matthew McGowan 148
21.3 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Financial Indemnities: A Greek Economic Aftermath of War Matthew Trundle 148
19.2 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Seneca’s Corpus: A Sympathy of Fluids, Passions, Plants, and Planets Michael Goyette 148
21.2 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat We Were Warned! Omens and Portents Foretelling Victory and Defeat Michael Flower 148
4.5 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Classics and Public Information & Media Relations: How to do it better" Michael Fontaine 148
52.5 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Sexuality and Empire: The Politics of Restraint Michael Taylor 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
8.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Limited Grassmann's Law in Latin Michael Weiss 148
37.1 The Intellectual World of the Early Empire (organized by the International Plutarch Society) Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems in Its Imperial Context Michiel Meeusen 148
25.5 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Greek Libations from a Visual Perspective Milette Gaifman 148
57.3 Risk and Responsibility Medical Risk in Roman Law Molly Jones-Lewis 148
38.5 Roman Religion and Augustan Poetry (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) A Blight on the Golden Age: The Robigalia in Ovid's Fasti Morgan Palmer 148
5.3 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Fighting a Civil War through Autobiography: The Emperor Julian's Epistle to the Athenians and the Promotion and Consolidation of Imperial Authority and Legitimacy Moyses Marcos 148
29.2 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Lessons for a Hellenist from Amy Richlin's "Arguments with Silence" Nancy Rabinowitz 148
32.3 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) What Sanskrit Drama Might Teach Us about Music and Audience Reception of Later Greek Drama Nancy Sultan 148
45.4 War and its Cultural Implications The Blood beneath the Laurels: Aeneid 2, Metamorphoses 1, and the Ethics of Augustan Victory Nandini Pandey 148
6.4 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Change, Continuity, and Roman Religion at Palmyra Nathanael Andrade 148
67.5 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Mythical Violence as Christian Violence in Nonnus’ Dionsysiaca Nicholas Kauffman 148
44.3 Traditions and Innovations in Literature Timotheus’ Sphragis in the Persians and the Idea of Progress Nicholas Boterf 148
30.2 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Silver Coinage, Sovereignty, and Symmachia: Byzantion and Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. Nick Cross 148
26.1 Spectacle and Authority Cato’s Triumph: Cato’s Attempt to Redefine the Roman Triumph. Noah Segal 148
47.6 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Cicero’s Republic of Letters Olivia Thompson 148
28.2 Time as an Organizing Principle Imperium Cum Fine: The Saeculum and Post-Roman Anxieties in Augustan Rome Paul Hay 148
57.1 Risk and Responsibility Hellenistic Risk Agenda Paul Vadan 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
52.3 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Resisting Empire: Slave Wars and Free Constituencies Peter Morton 148
68.3 Ritual and Magic Stoic Physics in the Bugonia of Vergil Peter Osorio 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
8.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Invention of the Greek Accent Marks Philomen Probert 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
59.4 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Thucydides’ Literary Entombment of the Sicily War-Dead Rachel Bruzzone 148
12.2 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Holy Places: Some Theorizations of Sacred Space Radcliffe Edmonds III 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
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
47.2 Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought Plutarch in Budé, Erasmus and Seyssel Rebecca Kingston 148
18.2 Translation and Reception Translating Ovid into Musical Pictures: The Metamorphosen Symphonies of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf Rebecca Sears 148