Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
51.3 Dido in and after Vergil "Dido in the light of Livy" Elena Giusti 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
59.1 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany "As Each Came to Mind": Plutarch's Quaestiones and the Mentality of Intricacy Michiel Meeusen 149
69.2 Porphyry the Polymath "At Once a Poet, Philosopher, and Expounder of Mysteries:” Porphyry’s Embodiment of Homeric Scholarship Jacob Lollar 149
51.6 Dido in and after Vergil "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" Barbara Leigh Clayton 149
51.7 Dido in and after Vergil "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s 'Ballad of the Queen'" Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 149
51.5 Dido in and after Vergil "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" Christopher Nappa 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
49.6 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire 'What Was He Thinking?': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism' Kathryn Welch 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
56.6 Lyric from Greece to Rome A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172 Courtney Evans 149
28.4 Didactic Poetry A didactic kettle of fish? Literary dimensions of Marcellus’ De Piscibus (GDRK 63) Floris Overduin 149
10.4 Visions of Ancient Cities... A Mountain, its Temples and Cultural Identity: Mt Gerizim and the Self-Identification of the Inhabitants of Neapolis Jane Evans 149
53.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century Carl Springer 149
43.3 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages Thomas Sienkewicz 149
38.2 Style and Rhetoric A Song of Dice and Ire: Games of Chance and Anger in Greek Oratory Christopher Dobbs 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
50.2 Philology's Shadow II Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology Irene Peirano 149
21.1 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Administration and Topography in IG I3 4A-B, the Hekatompedon Decrees Jessica Paga 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
76.3 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Agesilaus, Athens, and Communicating Civic Virtue Mitchell Parks 149
80.3 Reframing Alexandrology Alexander Commonplaces as a Roman Imperial Idiom Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 149
74.3 Digital Pedagogy An Online Database of the Meters of Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore 149
46.3 Mind and Matter Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141 Peter Osorio 149
18.1 Foreign Policy Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts Gregory Callaghan 149
22.6 Deterritorializing Classics Animal Revolt and Lines of Flight in Lucretius Book Five Richard Hutchins 149
76.1 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Anonymous Verses in Notorious Lives: the Historia Augusta through the Mirror of Suetonius Barbara Del Giovane 149
66.2 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Apolides kai Xenoi: OGIS 1.266 and the Civic Status of Mercenaries Abroad Stephanie Craven 149
10.2 Visions of Ancient Cities... Architectural Representation on the Coinage and Imperial Praise from Augustus to Trajan Nathan Elkins 149
81.3 Voicing Ariadne loquens, Ariadne muta: Catullus 64 and the Illusionism of Hellenistic Ekphrastic Epigrams Flora IFF-NOËL 149
7.2 Argumentation in Plato Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias Dale Parker 149
58.5 Global Classical Traditions Aristotle from Reykjavík to Bukhara: The First Global Phase of the Classical Tradition Erik Hermans 149
11.2 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Zeno's Arrow Takashi Oki 149
21.6 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Asklepios and St. Artemios: comparative perspectives on Hellenistic, late ancient, and early Byzantine narratives of incubation Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 149
1.1 Classics and Social Justice At Intersections: Teaching about Power and Powerlessness in the Ancient World Elina Salminen 149
7.3 Argumentation in Plato At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato’s Phaedrus. Matthew Shelton 149
83.2 Historiography and Identity Athenians, Amazons, and Goats: Language Contact in Herodotus Edward E. Nolan 149
46.2 Mind and Matter Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus Matthew Gorey 149
22.5 Deterritorializing Classics Back on Circe’s Island: Becoming-Animal with Deleuze and Guattari Michiel van Veldhuizen 149
3.2 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Beyond the Salutatio: Looking at Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Tablinum in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum Ambra Spinelli 149
30.3 Material Girls Binding Male Sexuality: Tacility and Female Autonomy in Ancient Greek Curse Tablets Teresa Yates 149
83.3 Historiography and Identity Brasidas and the Myth of the Un-Spartan Spartan Matthew A. Sears 149
64.3 Whose Homer? Bringing Up Achilles: Child Heroes in Homer and Pindar Louise Pratt 149
33.3 Performing Problem Plays Burning Down the Fifth-Century Stage Daniel Anderson 149
30.6 Material Girls Butcher Blocks, Vegetable Stands, and Home-Cooked Food: Resisting Gender and Class Constructions in the Roman World Mira Green 149
75.4 Winning the People By the People, for the People? Structural Reactions in the Landscape of Roman Athens Joshua R. Vera 149
14.2 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Calculating Risk at the Dicing Table Stephen Kidd 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