Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
8.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Act of Truth Daniel Walden 148
8.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Limited Grassmann's Law in Latin Michael Weiss 148
8.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Invention of the Greek Accent Marks Philomen Probert 148
8.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. Χείρων, Hitt. kiššeraš dUTU uš and Rudrá ‘of healing hand’ Laura Massetti 148
8.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Perfect Participle Active in Homer: Against an Aeolic Phase. Jesse Lundquist 148
13.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Rehabilitating Legal Rule in Statesman and Laws Joshua Blecher-Cohen 148
13.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Thucydides’ Use of Counterfactuals in the Pylos Narrative Anne Begin 148
13.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Harry Potter and the Descent to the Underworld: Katabasis in the Final Installment of J.K. Rowling's Septology Joseph Slama 148
56.2 The Power of Place Athens on Mount Olympus: portraying gods in Aristophanes’ Birds Francesco Morosi 148
56.1 The Power of Place Choreo-graphy: contextualizing a choregic dedication (IG I3 833bis) Deborah Steiner 148
56.4 The Power of Place In Capitolium: The Triumphator and Jupiter Optimus Maximus Caroline Mann 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
56.5 The Power of Place Constantius and the Obelisk: Ignoring the Lessons of History Jonathan Tracy 148
49.2 The Philosophical Life Heloise on ancient philosophy as a way of life Donka Markus 148
49.1 The Philosophical Life From Philosopher to Miracle-worker: Seeking the Roots of Apuleius's Post-mortem Transformation Gil Renberg 148
49.6 The Philosophical Life Sophrosyne: A Platonic Problem for the Homeric Scholia Joshua Smith 148
49.3 The Philosophical Life ‘They are ignorant that they are wise’: Confidence and Virtue in Seneca Sam McVane 148
49.5 The Philosophical Life Knowing and Feeling: An Epistemic Model of the Stoic View of Emotions Sosseh Assaturian 148
49.4 The Philosophical Life The Novelist and Philosopher as Biographer: Traces of the Biographical in Apuleius Thomas McCreight 148
43.5 Women and Agency Being Better than Sappho: the Social Life of a Poeta Docta, c. 100 CE Hannah Mason 148
43.4 Women and Agency Pamphila's Historical Commentaries Dina Guth 148
43.6 Women and Agency Getting Bishops: Galla Placidia’s Contribution to the Bonifatian-Eulalian Schism Jacqueline Long 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
43.2 Women and Agency "Hysterical" Virgins in the Hippocratic Peri Partheniōn Abbe Walker 148
43.1 Women and Agency Controlling Images: The Loyal Slave Woman in Roman Comedy Anne Feltovich 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
63.4 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Genesis of Two Examples in Stoic Grammatical Theory: σκινδαψός and βλίτυρι Tyler Mayo 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
63.1 Linguistic Strategies and the Hermeneutics of Reading The Human Author in Augustine’s Scriptural Hermeneutics Theodore Harwood 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
17.2 Political and Social Relations Quibus patet curia: Livy 23.23.6 and the Middle Republican Aristocracy of Office Cary Barber 148
17.3 Political and Social Relations Not Set in Stone: The Asculum Bronze and the Durability of Political Alliances in the late Republic Kathryn Steed 148
17.6 Political and Social Relations Where have all the fabri tign(u)arii gone? CIL XIV 4365 & 4382, a reassessment of the fabri tign(u)arii in Rome and Ostia in the early 4th century CE. John Fabiano 148
17.5 Political and Social Relations Freedmen as Magistrates in the Late Roman Republic and Empire Amanda Coles 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
17.1 Political and Social Relations Acting Your Age on the Roman Stage: The Plautine adulescens in Middle Republican Rome Evan Jewell 148
68.2 Ritual and Magic A New Explanation, Based on Near Eastern Sources, for the Greek Use of Squill in Purification Rituals Maddalena Rumor 148
68.3 Ritual and Magic Stoic Physics in the Bugonia of Vergil Peter Osorio 148
68.4 Ritual and Magic A New Fragment of a Demotic Papyrus from the Fayum in the Oriental Institute Museum Foy Scalf 148
68.1 Ritual and Magic Performing Immortality: Direct Address in Funerary Epigram and the Orphic Lamellae Mark McClay 148
26.4 Spectacle and Authority Pompa diaboli: Christian Rhetoric, Imperial Law, and the Roman Games Jacob Latham 148
26.3 Spectacle and Authority Flavian Restoration and Innovation in Domitian’s Ludi Saeculares Susan Dunning 148
26.5 Spectacle and Authority Julian II’s Supernatural Publicist: Fama in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus Angela Kinney 148
26.2 Spectacle and Authority In Omnis Provincias Exemplum: Imperial Cults and Urban Connectivity in the Roman Empire Benjamin Crowther 148
26.1 Spectacle and Authority Cato’s Triumph: Cato’s Attempt to Redefine the Roman Triumph. Noah Segal 148
3.5 Plato Solon’s Egyptian Trip: Intertextual Resonances and Platonic Irony in the Timaeus Daniel Esses 148
3.2 Plato Lysias and Polemarchus in Plato: Distancing Socrates from the Thirty Richard Fernando Buxton 148
3.4 Plato Always Becoming: Final and Efficient Causal Explanations in Plato's Timaeus Scott Carson 148
3.3 Plato Aporia and Insight in Plato's Parmenides Darren Gardner 148
3.1 Plato Philosophia and Philotechnia: Hephaistos in the Platonic Dialogues Emily Hulme 148