Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
47.3 Reception Senecan Drama and its Performability: Phaedra’s Last Act (1154-280) Simona Martorana 149
47.2 Reception Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s 'Cosmicomiche', 'Città Invisibili' and 'Palomar' Amy Lewis 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
46.2 Mind and Matter Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus Matthew Gorey 149
46.1 Mind and Matter The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy Chiara Ferella 149
46.3 Mind and Matter Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141 Peter Osorio 149
45.2 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero’s Post-Reditum Speeches Julia Mebane 149
45.4 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife A Ciceronian Blind Spot: Caecus, Cethegus, and Ennius in Cicero’s Brutus Christopher van den Berg 149
45.3 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Sallust and the Mytilenean Debate Charles Muntz 149
45.1 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Recolonizing North Africa: Sallust, French Algeria, and the Maghreb Fantasia Kyle Khellaf 149
43.4 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Teaching Classics in Community College Kyle Jazwa 149
43.1 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek The National Committee for Latin and Greek Mary Pendergraft 149
43.2 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Communication, Cohesiveness, and Continuity: Fighting for the Survival of the Classics Keely Lake 149
43.3 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages Thomas Sienkewicz 149
42.1 Resist Together Creation and Implementation of Anti-harassment Policy at the University Level Rebecca Futo Kennedy 149
42.2 Resist Together “Harassment in Academe:  Reflections and Coping/Resisting Strategies” Barbara Gold 149
42.3 Resist Together Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia Regina Ryan 149
41.2 Outreach Open Mic The SCS online: Reflections from the Communications Committee T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 149
41.3 Outreach Open Mic Non sibi sed suis: Service-Learning in an Advanced Latin Course Mallory Monaco Caterine 149
41.4 Outreach Open Mic Classics in Public: Year I of the Committee on Public Information and Media Relations Tara Mulder 149
41.5 Outreach Open Mic The State of Amphora, The Outreach Publication of the SCS Wells Hansen 149
40.1 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine De Galeni Corporis Fabrica: Vesalius' use of Galen and Galenism in the Preface of his Fabrica Luis Salas 149
40.2 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Big O”: Ancient Discourses on the Process of Female Pleasure Erin McKenna Hanses 149
40.3 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Longue Durée of Classics and Successions in Ancient Scientific and Medical Traditions Paul Keyser 149
40.4 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine Reading Celsus in Early Modern Italy Marquis Berrey 149
39.2 Roman Freedmen Fitting In: Freedmen Adaptation in the Roman World Marc Kleijwegt 149
39.3 Roman Freedmen Equally Different: The Performative Function of Late Republican and Early Imperial Elite Discourse on Roman Freedmen Kristof Vermote 149
39.4 Roman Freedmen The Gens Togata: Costume and Character in Freedmen’s Funerary Monuments Devon Stewart 149
39.5 Roman Freedmen Roman Manumission and Citizenship in a Provincial Context Rose MacLean 149
37.2 After the Ars: Later Ovid Transforming Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses Rachael Cullick 149
37.5 After the Ars: Later Ovid Tempus ad Hoc: Synchrony in Ovid’s Ibis Ursula Poole 149
37.1 After the Ars: Later Ovid Patterns of Prayer: Pleas for Help in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and the Suppressed Rape of Lavinia Megan Bowen 149
37.4 After the Ars: Later Ovid Somnium Ovidi: Dreams and the Metamorphoses Aaron Kachuck 149
37.3 After the Ars: Later Ovid Ovid's viscera: Tristia 1.7 and Metamorphoses 8 Caitlin Hines 149
36.3 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Seneca's Philosophical Thyestes Julie Levy 149
36.5 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Cassius Dio's depiction of Septimius Severus: context and implications Andrew Scott 149
36.1 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Dialogues with History: The Platonic Picture of Critias and the Thirty Brian Bigio 149
36.2 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War as Multifaceted Disaster Rachel Bruzzone 149
36.4 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Experiencing the Past: Polybius, ἐμπειρία, and Learning from History Daniel Moore 149
35.4 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Celestial Celebrity: The Multifaceted Fama of Jerome’s Epistles Angela Kinney 149
35.5 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Praising the rich: Jerome’s consolation for the widow Salvina in Ep. 79 Philip Polcar 149
35.3 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Eusebia and Encomium: Julian Writes the Power of Praise Jacqueline Long 149
35.2 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Praising the Emperor and Promoting his Religious Program: The Panegyrics of Claudius Mamertinus, Himerius, and Libanius to Julian, 362–3 CE Moysés Garcia Marcos 149
34.4 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Sustaining a Secondary School Greek Program C. Emil Penarubia 149
34.1 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Teaching Ablaut in Elementary Ancient Greek Rex Wallace 149
34.2 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek The Function and Context of an Ancient Greek Textbook: A New Approach Michael Laughy 149
34.3 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Imagining Ancient Texts through Material Culture and the Spatial Environment John Gruber-Miller 149