Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
3.2 Plato Lysias and Polemarchus in Plato: Distancing Socrates from the Thirty Richard Fernando Buxton 148
40.4 Animal Encounters in Classical Philosophy and Literature Porphyry’s Partridge: Animal Speech in De Abstinentia Book Three Richard Hutchins 148
39.3 The Villa dei Papiri: Then and Now (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) The history of Greek philosophy in some neglected Herculaneum papyri Richard Janko 148
4.4 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Reading Communities and Re-Entry" Roberta Stewart 148
48.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) Fragments of a Second-Century Documentary Scroll: Multispectral Imaging of a Carbonized Papyrus from Thmouis Roger Macfarlane 148
5.4 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Interiority and Selfhood in Fifth-Century Autobiography Ryan Brown-Haysom 148
52.4 Power and Politics: Approaching Roman Imperialism in the Republic Empire of Expats: Associations of Roman Citizens in Provincial Cities Sailakshmi Ramgopal 148
49.3 The Philosophical Life ‘They are ignorant that they are wise’: Confidence and Virtue in Seneca Sam McVane 148
29.4 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Humor and History Sandra Joshel 148
6.3 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Cultural Invention and Ritual Change: Tracking the Samothracian Mysteries at Rome Sandra Blakely 148
4.6 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things The Space Race: Outreach through Maps, Spatial Analysis, and Ancient Geography Sarah Bond 148
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
64.2 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Exclamations in Aeschylus Sarah Ruden 148
42.5 Ethnicity and Identity Josephus' Remarks on his Greek and Elite Identity in the Second Sophistic Sarah Teets 148
65.3 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches What was Stasis? Ancient Usage and Modern Constructs Scott Arcenas 148
3.4 Plato Always Becoming: Final and Efficient Causal Explanations in Plato's Timaeus Scott Carson 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
58.3 Obscenity and the Body Bodily Metaphors and Self-fashioning in Persius’ First Satire Scott Weiss 148
32.6 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) The Classical Avant Garde: Harry Partch and Greek Music Sean Gurd 148
44.4 Traditions and Innovations in Literature The Satyr Who Stirred up the Hornets’ Nest: Ovidian “Satyr Play” in the Fasti Sergios Paschalis 148
53.6 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) “Non stamped” instrumentum domesticum as source for the economic history of Rome Silvia Orlandi 148
33.4 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Classics in the Providential Order of the World Simon Goldhill 148
49.5 The Philosophical Life Knowing and Feeling: An Epistemic Model of the Stoic View of Emotions Sosseh Assaturian 148
18.4 Translation and Reception How to Gamble in Greek: The Meaning of Kubeia Stephen Kidd 148
59.3 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Strategy and Supply in the Archidamian War Stephen O'Connor 148
45.6 War and its Cultural Implications Horace, Lollius, and the Consolation of Poetry (C.4.9) Steven Jones 148
26.3 Spectacle and Authority Flavian Restoration and Innovation in Domitian’s Ludi Saeculares Susan Dunning 148
6.5 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Prodigy Reporting in the Early Roman Empire Susan Satterfield 148
23.2 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Like Mother, Like Daughter: Rhea and Demeter as Models of Subversion in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter Suzanne Lye 148
12.3 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Proclus’ Paeonian Chain: Healing the World from Body to body Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 148
32.4 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) Ancient Greek Nomoi and Western Program Music: Some Methodological Issue Sylvain Perrot 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
31.5 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages and Latin Teacher Education Teresa Ramsby 148
63.1 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Human Author in Augustine’s Scriptural Hermeneutics Theodore Harwood 148
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 7) Visualizing Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean Thomas Beasley 148
66.4 Cicero Poeta Herodotum cur veraciorem ducam Ennio? Epic and history in Cicero’s De consulatu suo Thomas Biggs 148
10.2 Forgery Tiro’s Cicero: A Case of Manuscript Forgery? Thomas Hendrickson 148
49.4 The Philosophical Life The Novelist and Philosopher as Biographer: Traces of the Biographical in Apuleius Thomas McCreight 148
2.5 Money, Markets, Land, and Contracts The Archaic Origins of Roman Land Allotment: Beyond Integration and Stability Tim Sorg 148
33.3 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Reassembling to theion: Greek religion as an actors’ category Tim Whitmarsh 148
7.2 Vergil and Tragedy “Tragic Poetics in Vergil’s Aeneid” Timothy Wutrich 148
42.1 Ethnicity and Identity Agglutinative Ethnographies: Valerius Flaccus and Ammianus Marcellinus on Sarmatian Warfare Timothy Hart 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
35.2 Reading and Performing Louis Zukofsky's 1967 Translation of Plautus' Rudens (workshop) What Zukofsky Found: Sight, Sound, and Sense in Rudens 615-705 Timothy Moore 148
14.3 Neo-Latin Around the World Count Zinzendorf’s Philadelphia Oratio Tom Keeline 148
27.4 Legal Authority Normative Legal Interpretation in Lysias Tongjia Zhang 148
9.4 War and Revolution in the Roman World The Curious Case of Uspe: Legalism, Profit and Terror in Roman Imperialism Tristan Taylor 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
19.5 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Nature, Organism and Disease in Ancient Greek Medical Texts and German Idealism. A “New Materialist” Perspective Vasiliki Dimoula 148
36.2 Post-Classical Wisdom Literature (organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group) Commenting on pagan wisdom: the last medieval commentaries on the Distichs of Cato W. Martin Bloomer 148