Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
60.5 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World Dialoguing with a Satirist: Lucian, Thomas More, and the Visibility of the Translator Anna Peterson 149
60.4 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World Neither Nasty nor Brutish, but Short: Thomas Hobbes’ Abbreviated Translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric Charles McNamara 149
60.3 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World 'The fruits, not the roots': Translating Technologies in Early Modern Europe Courtney Roby 149
60.2 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World The Economics of Translating Virgil: a Prospectus Susanna Braund 149
59.5 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Polyvalent Poikilia: The Slippery Concept of Variety in Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium Dawn LaValle 149
59.4 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Aelian’s De Natura Animalium and Varia Historia: Between Greek and Latin Traditions of Miscellaneity Scott J. DiGiulio 149
59.3 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Historiographic Frames and Ancient Miscellanies Dina Guth 149
59.2 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany What was the Roman Table of Contents? Making meaning from miscellany in ancient and early modern paratext Joseph A. Howley 149
59.1 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany "As Each Came to Mind": Plutarch's Quaestiones and the Mentality of Intricacy Michiel Meeusen 149
58.5 Global Classical Traditions Aristotle from Reykjavík to Bukhara: The First Global Phase of the Classical Tradition Erik Hermans 149
58.4 Global Classical Traditions Neoplatonism in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 149
58.3 Global Classical Traditions Vergil in the Antipodes: the Classical Tradition and Colonial Australian Literature Sarah Midford 149
58.2 Global Classical Traditions The Development of the Classical Tradition in Africa: Theoretical Considerations and Interpretive Consequences William Dominik 149
58.1 Global Classical Traditions The Classical Tradition and the Translation of Latin Poetry in Twentieth-Century China Bobby Xinyue 149
57.7 Carthage and the Mediterranean Carthage and Hannibal from Zama to Apamea Eve MacDonald 149
57.6 Carthage and the Mediterranean Carthaginian Manpower Michael Taylor 149
57.5 Carthage and the Mediterranean The Sufetes of North Africa: Comparative Contexts Nathan Pilkington 149
57.4 Carthage and the Mediterranean Punic Sicily Until the Roman Conquest Salvatore De Vincenzo 149
57.3 Carthage and the Mediterranean Origin and development of Punic settlements in Sardinia until the age of Romanization Chiara Biasetti Fantauzzi 149
57.2 Carthage and the Mediterranean Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination Peter Van Dommelen 149
56.6 Lyric from Greece to Rome A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172 Courtney Evans 149
56.5 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste David F. Driscoll 149
56.4 Lyric from Greece to Rome Horace on the Hymnic Genre Brittney Szempruch 149
56.3 Lyric from Greece to Rome Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22 Justin Hudak 149
56.2 Lyric from Greece to Rome Explaining Archilochus in antiquity: the indirect tradition Enrico Emanuele Prodi 149
56.1 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Snake-Throttler in Saffron Clothes. Baby Herakles in the Hippodrome (Pindar, Nemean 1) Claas Lattmann 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
55.4 Rhythm and Style Evidence from Aristophanes for the Language and Style of Euripides Almut Fries 149
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
55.2 Rhythm and Style Dinner Bells and War Drums: Dactylic Hexameter in Old Comedy Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 149
55.1 Rhythm and Style Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Abigail Akavia 149
54.6 Ritual and Religious Belief Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea Katheryn Whitcomb 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
54.4 Ritual and Religious Belief Semeta lygra: Reading hieroglyphics with Archaic Greeks Christopher Stedman Parmenter 149
54.3 Ritual and Religious Belief The cult of the Erinyes in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 149
54.2 Ritual and Religious Belief Debating Paganism in a Christian Empire Mattias Gassman 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 149
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
53.4 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 149
53.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century Carl Springer 149
53.2 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts Rodney John Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco 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
52.5 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Smelling and Smelting: Learning with the Senses in Theory and Practice Valeria V. Sergueenkova 149
52.4 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Jack of All Trades? Medical Practitioners and the Design, Manufacture, and Use of Instruments, Apparatuses, and Machines Jane Draycott 149
52.3 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Clinical Judgment: Methodist and Galenic Approaches Katherine D. van Schaik 149
52.2 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Trees – Tree Teaching: The Ancient Art of Grafting Laurence Totelin 149
51.7 Dido in and after Vergil "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s 'Ballad of the Queen'" Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 149
51.6 Dido in and after Vergil "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" Barbara Leigh Clayton 149
51.5 Dido in and after Vergil "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" Christopher Nappa 149
51.4 Dido in and after Vergil “Dido Docta: A Scholarly Revision of Aeneid 4 in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri” Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 149