Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
67.5 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Mythical Violence as Christian Violence in Nonnus’ Dionsysiaca Nicholas Kauffman 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
67.2 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Is Foucault Useful for the Study of the Ancient Prison? The View from Archaic Poetry and Greek Tragedy Marcus Folch 148
67.3 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy “A Case of Domestic Violence: Euripides’ Orestes Jan Kucharski 148
67.4 Violence and the Political in Greek Epic and Tragedy Feasting on Corpses: Violence and Its Limits in Iliad 24 Caleb Simone 148
66.2 Cicero Poeta Ciceronem eloquentia sua in carminibus destituit: genre and the ancient reception of Cicero poeta Caroline Bishop 148
66.3 Cicero Poeta Forgotten Monuments: Cicero’s de Consulatu suo and the Catilinarian Conspiracy Mary Franks 148
66.4 Cicero Poeta Herodotum cur veraciorem ducam Ennio? Epic and history in Cicero’s De consulatu suo Thomas Biggs 148
66.5 Cicero Poeta A destructive text(ile): translating pain in TD ii.8.20 from Soph. Trach. 1046-1102. Jessica Westerhold 148
66.6 Cicero Poeta What Replaced Cicero’s De Temporibus Suis? Brian Walters 148
65.3 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches What was Stasis? Ancient Usage and Modern Constructs Scott Arcenas 148
65.4 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Recovering from Civil Strife in Classical Eretria: The Artemisia at Amarynthos Julia Shear 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
65.6 Stasis and Reconciliation in Ancient Greece: New Approaches Stasis, Reconciliation and Changing Citizenship in the Later Hellenistic World Benjamin Gray 148
64.2 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Exclamations in Aeschylus Sarah Ruden 148
64.3 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Representing Greek Meter James Romm 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
64.5 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Oedipus the Tyrant and Oedipus the King: A Problem in Translation Frank Nisetich 148
64.6 Translating Greek Tragedy: Some Practical Suggestions (workshop) Translating Divine Action in Greek Drama Mary Lefkowitz 148
62.1 Insult, Satire, and Invective Did Palladas Produce an Iambic Collection for Constantine? Kevin Wilkinson 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
62.3 Insult, Satire, and Invective Cannibalizing Satire: Insult, Violence, and Genre in Juvenal’s Fifteenth Satire Edward Kelting 148
62.5 Insult, Satire, and Invective The market insult and the ideology of labor in Classical Athens Deborah Kamen 148
62.4 Insult, Satire, and Invective Petty Theft in Plautus Hans Bork 148
61.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Pleasure and Motivation in the Eudemian Ethics Giulia Bonasio 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
61.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) Why the view of the Intellect in De Anima I.4 Isn't Aristotle's Own Caleb Cohoe 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
60.1 The Genesis of the Ancient Text: New Approaches Revision and the Lyric Sphragis Daniel Anderson 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
59.4 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Thucydides’ Literary Entombment of the Sicily War-Dead Rachel Bruzzone 148
59.1 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Lydian Hegemony and Lesbian Politics in Alcaeus William Tortorelli 148
59.3 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World Strategy and Supply in the Archidamian War Stephen O'Connor 148
59.2 Political and Military Conflict in the Greek World The Defective Insularity of the Peloponnese Eric Driscoll 148
57.4 Risk and Responsibility How to Get Away with Murder: A Reinterpretation of the Mnesterophonia Eunice Kim 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
57.1 Risk and Responsibility Hellenistic Risk Agenda Paul Vadan 148
57.3 Risk and Responsibility Medical Risk in Roman Law Molly Jones-Lewis 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
55.2 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) The Auditory Sublime from Vergil to Lucan Laura Zientek 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
55.5 Latin Epic (organized by the American Classical League) Hymning Vergil’s Hercules in Statius’ Thebaid Brittney Szempruch 148
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
54.4 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Gender Ambiguity and Cult Practice in the Roman Novel Barbara Blythe 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
54.6 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Dio’s First Tarsian Oration and the Rhetoric of Gender-Indeterminacy Anna Peterson 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
54.2 [Tr]an[s]tiquity: Theorizing Gender Diversity in Ancient Contexts (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus} Life After Transition: Spontaneous sex change and its aftermath in ancient literature Kelly Shannon 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
53.2 Epigraphic Economies (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) Merchant associations and domestic cults as economic agents in late Hellenistic Delos Mantha Zarmakoupi 148