Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
77.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Musical Performance of Sappho’s Songs in the New Posidippus Papyrus Ronald Álvarez 149
77.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Old Horoscopes Andreas Winkler 149
77.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Dark Sappho:The “Method of Chamaeleon” in P.Oxy. 2506 Mark de Kreij 149
77.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Papyri from Karanis Emily Cole 149
77.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Abraham of Hermonthis and the Use of Legal Cultural Archetypes within the Coptic Church Nicholas Venable 149
32.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Accent in Ennius' Hexameters Angelo Mercado 149
32.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics πάνυ δὴ δεῖ χρηστὰ λέγειν ἡμᾶς: Expressions of obligation and necessity in Aristophanes Coulter George 149
32.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Tradition and Renewal in Pindaric Diction: Some Remarks on the IE Background of Pindar P. 2.52–6 Laura Massetti 149
32.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. ταπεινός ‘low, low-lying’ (Hdt., Pind.+) and IE *temp- ‘to stretch, extend’ Matilde Serangeli 149
32.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek Etymology in the 21st century Alexander Nikolaev 149
61.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The ‘Twin’ Gates of Sleep in Vergil’s Aeneid VI Noah Diekemper 149
61.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Penelope's Recognition of Odysseus: the Importance of Simile in Odyssey 23 Shea Whitmore 149
61.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Language as an Indicator of Cultural Identity in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Barnum 149
61.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Curious Case of Phryne: Finding Comedy in Phryne's Trial Molly Schaub 149
61.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Setting Sun: Light and Darkness in Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile Evan Armacost 149
53.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century Carl Springer 149
53.4 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 149
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
53.1 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Catullus Transformed: Antiquity Resurrected for Reformation in Theodore Beza’s 1579 Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Quinque Michael Spangler 149
53.2 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts Rodney John Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco 149
54.2 Ritual and Religious Belief Debating Paganism in a Christian Empire Mattias Gassman 149
54.3 Ritual and Religious Belief The cult of the Erinyes in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 149
54.4 Ritual and Religious Belief Semeta lygra: Reading hieroglyphics with Archaic Greeks Christopher Stedman Parmenter 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 149
54.5 Ritual and Religious Belief For the wheel’s still in spin: the evolution of the Skira festival in Classical Athens Adam Rappold 149
54.6 Ritual and Religious Belief Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea Katheryn Whitcomb 149
28.5 Didactic Poetry Eternal Motionlessness in the Hesiodic Aspis and Early Greek Philosophy Stephen Sansom 149
28.2 Didactic Poetry How to 'Bee' a Good Wife Michelle Martinez 149
28.4 Didactic Poetry A didactic kettle of fish? Literary dimensions of Marcellus’ De Piscibus (GDRK 63) Floris Overduin 149
28.6 Didactic Poetry Monsters Must Bear Monsters: Genealogical Continuity and Poetic Awareness in Theogony 287-94 and 979-83. Brett Stine 149
28.1 Didactic Poetry Injured Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus Katherine Hsu 149
28.3 Didactic Poetry Hesiod’s Two Plows: Materiality and Representation in Works and Days Andre Matlock 149
17.1 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Exagoge of Ezekiel Tragicus in its political and historical context Chaya Cassano 149
17.4 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Life Cycle of a Sign in Aratus' Phaenomena Kathryn Wilson 149
17.2 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram Barnaby Chesterton 149
17.3 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Dedication of a Hetaera and Poetic Program: Layering of Sapphic and Homeric Allusion in an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum Alissa A. Vaillancourt 149
44.2 Letters in the Ancient World The Clementia of Burning Letters Nathaniel Katz 149
44.4 Letters in the Ancient World Enlisting the Voice, Engaging the Soul: Seneca’s 84th Epistle Scott Lepisto 149
44.1 Letters in the Ancient World Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus Chris Bingley 149
44.3 Letters in the Ancient World Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 149
38.4 Style and Rhetoric The Agency of Style: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sappho and Pindar Alyson Melzer 149
38.2 Style and Rhetoric A Song of Dice and Ire: Games of Chance and Anger in Greek Oratory Christopher Dobbs 149
38.3 Style and Rhetoric Historiography and intertextuality: the case for classical rhetoric Scott Kennedy 149
38.5 Style and Rhetoric Cupid’s palace in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: An unnoticed reenactment of the prologue’s ‘poetics of seduction’ Aldo Tagliabue 149
38.1 Style and Rhetoric The good, the bad and the clever: rhetoric and anti-rhetoric in the agon of Euripides’ Phoenician Women Esmée Bruggink 149
18.4 Foreign Policy Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism? Paul McGilvery 149
18.3 Foreign Policy How Odious was the Athenian Tribute System? Aaron Hershkowitz 149
18.1 Foreign Policy Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts Gregory Callaghan 149
18.2 Foreign Policy Carthaginian Strategy and Expenses in the First Punic War Bret Devereaux 149
6.2 Medicine and Disease in Galen Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen Amy Koenig 149