Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
22.3 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Coroplastic Commemoration of Performance: Dramatic Identity and Viewership in Ancient Corinth Justin Dwyer 148
22.4 Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity Plautus’ Painted Stage Marden Nicols 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
21.3 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Financial Indemnities: A Greek Economic Aftermath of War Matthew Trundle 148
21.4 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Educational “Moments”: Didactic Spectacle and the Bolstering of Spartan Socio-Political Structures in the Aftermath of War Ellen Millender 148
21.1 Learning from War: Greek Responses to Victory and Defeat Beyond the Universal Soldier: Combat Trauma in Classical Antiquity Jason Crowley 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
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
19.3 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Animals and the Development of Ancient Pharmacopias Julie Laskaris 148
19.4 From Plants to Planets: Human and nonhuman Relations in Ancient Medicine Fabricated Elephants and Confused Horses: How Smell Constructs Non/Humanity Clara Bosak-Schroeder 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
20.2 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western In aedibus Aldi: classical places and classical texts in Bembo’s De Aetna Luke Roman 148
20.3 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western Gender and Focalization in the Reception of Classical Myth Lillian Doherty 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
20.5 Theorizing Ideologies of the Classical: Turning Corners on the Textual, the Masculine, the Imperial, and the Western Occidentalism, or Why the Phoenicians Matter: Scholarly Approaches to Cultural Contact from Greece to Iberia (ca. 800–600 BCE) Carolina López-Ruiz 148
16.6 Genre and Style Trust and Charm: Late Hellenistic Authors on the Value of Poetry Kathryn Wilson 148
16.3 Genre and Style Much Food in Fallow Ground? Nemean 7 and the Enigmatic Tradition Kyle Sanders 148
16.5 Genre and Style Longinus' Architectural Metaphor at περὶ ὕψους 10.7: Problems and Solutions James Arieti 148
16.4 Genre and Style Situating the Problemata Genre in the Context of Hellenistic Exegesis Kenneth Yu 148
16.2 Genre and Style Kata Moiran: Ideology and Style in the Odyssey Ben Radcliffe 148
16.1 Genre and Style Post Longa et Tristia Dyaboli Bella: Allegory and the End of the Aeneid Luca D'Anselmi 148
14.2 Neo-Latin Around the World "Out of Greeke into Latin Verse": Nicholas Allen’s Latin Translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus (1561) and its Predecessors Anne-Marie Lewis 148
14.3 Neo-Latin Around the World Count Zinzendorf’s Philadelphia Oratio Tom Keeline 148
14.4 Neo-Latin Around the World Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 148
14.5 Neo-Latin Around the World The Poetry of Paradox: Book I of Petrus Lotichius' Elegies Joseph Tipton 148
12.1 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism 'Our endeavor…is to be a god:’ Humans as Visible Gods in Plotinus Eric Perl 148
12.2 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Holy Places: Some Theorizations of Sacred Space Radcliffe Edmonds III 148
12.3 Gods and the Divine in Neoplatonism Proclus’ Paeonian Chain: Healing the World from Body to body Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 148
11.2 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio Truth, autopsy and the supernatural in Cassius Dio Julie Langford 148
11.3 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio Readings at a Funeral: Dio's Obituary for Augustus and the Historiography of the Monarchy Adam Kemezis 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
11.5 Episodes, Portraits, and Literary Unity in Cassius Dio The narrative function of Julia Domna in Cassius Dio's Roman history Andrew Scott 148
7.2 Vergil and Tragedy “Tragic Poetics in Vergil’s Aeneid” Timothy Wutrich 148
7.3 Vergil and Tragedy “Virgil’s Tragic Shepherds” Julia Scarborough 148
7.4 Vergil and Tragedy “Euripides’ Hippolytus in Aeneid IV” William Bruckel 148
7.5 Vergil and Tragedy “The Ajax in Aeneas: Tragedy and Epic in the Boxing Ring in Aeneid 5” Alice Hu 148
6.2 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Rehistoricizing Greek Religion Fred Naiden 148
6.3 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Cultural Invention and Ritual Change: Tracking the Samothracian Mysteries at Rome Sandra Blakely 148
6.4 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Change, Continuity, and Roman Religion at Palmyra Nathanael Andrade 148
6.5 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Prodigy Reporting in the Early Roman Empire Susan Satterfield 148
6.6 Change in Ancient Mediterranean Religions Methods, Assumptions, and Starting Points in Studies of “the Christians” and “the Romans” Douglas Boin 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
5.5 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Fragmentation and Recreation: An Ontology of fluctus and defluere in Augustine’s Confessions Joshua Benjamins 148
5.6 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Ennodius’s Eucharisticon and the poetics of ascetic autobiography David Ungvary 148
5.4 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity Interiority and Selfhood in Fifth-Century Autobiography Ryan Brown-Haysom 148
5.2 Narrating the Self: Autobiography in Late Antiquity The conversion of Ovid in early Christian poetry Ian Fielding 148
4.4 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Reading Communities and Re-Entry" Roberta Stewart 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
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
4.2 New Outreach and Communications for Classics: Persons, Places, and Things "Classicists without Borders" Christopher Francese 148