Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
48.3 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic Scott Weiss 149
71.4 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius was Wrong!: Seneca’s De Rerum Natura Christopher V. Trinacty 149
71.3 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius’ multiple interlocutors in the DRN Giulia Fanti 149
73.3 Augustan Rome Machine, munus, and monument: triumphs of architectural text John Oksanish 149
82.3 The Body and its Travails Making Sense of Plato’s Taste Afroditi Manthati Angelopoulou 149
54.6 Ritual and Religious Belief Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea Katheryn Whitcomb 149
23.4 The Sounds of War Martem Accendere Cantu: Trumpets and Bloodlust in Hellenistic Aesthetics Spencer Klavan 149
62.5 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender Mary and the City Francesca Dell'Acqua 149
55.1 Rhythm and Style Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Abigail Akavia 149
53.4 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 149
25.6 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Minding the Mistress: The Household Power Struggle to Control Female Slave Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean Kathy Gaca 149
22.3 Deterritorializing Classics Minority and Becoming: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Case of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Assaf Krebs 149
75.2 Winning the People Modeling Crowd Behavior in Ancient Rome: Claques and Complex Adaptive Systems Bryan Brinkman 149
31.5 New Age Servius Modeling Servius for the Digital Latin Library Hugh Cayless 149
49.3 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE Josiah Osgood 149
28.6 Didactic Poetry Monsters Must Bear Monsters: Genealogical Continuity and Poetic Awareness in Theogony 287-94 and 979-83. Brett Stine 149
16.1 Virgil and his Afterlife More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314-36) Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph Dexter 149
10.3 Visions of Ancient Cities... Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia: Reception of Sacred Mountain in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Alexis Belis 149
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
72.4 Gender and Reception Neaira: A Greek New Comedy: From Renaissance Italy to Athens in 1985 STAVROULA KIRITSI 149
65.2 Livy and Tacitus nec fuit cum Tusculanis bellum: Bloodless Conquests and the Rhetoric of Surrender in Livy Elizabeth Palazzolo 149
45.2 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero’s Post-Reditum Speeches Julia Mebane 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
58.4 Global Classical Traditions Neoplatonism in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 149
AIA/SCS Poster Session (Friday January 5) New Methods in Engineering Greek Theatrical Masks Sophia S. Dill 149
77.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Old Horoscopes Andreas Winkler 149
77.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Papyri from Karanis Emily Cole 149
41.3 Outreach Open Mic Non sibi sed suis: Service-Learning in an Advanced Latin Course Mallory Monaco Caterine 149
30.4 Material Girls Of Soleae and Self-Fashioning: Roman Women’s Shoes from Vindolanda to Sidi Ghrib Hérica Valladares 149
63.3 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora Open Greek and Latin: corpora, editions, and libraries Gregory Crane 149
57.3 Carthage and the Mediterranean Origin and development of Punic settlements in Sardinia until the age of Romanization Chiara Biasetti Fantauzzi 149
27.2 Elegiac Desires Ovid's Enchanted Ring Poem: Amores 2.15 Julie Laskaris 149
37.3 After the Ars: Later Ovid Ovid's viscera: Tristia 1.7 and Metamorphoses 8 Caitlin Hines 149
67.2 Coins and Trade Panhellenic Sanctuaries and Monetary Reform: The Spread of the Reduced Aiginetan Standard Reconsidered Ruben Post 149
7.1 Argumentation in Plato Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato’s Phaedrus Kenneth Draper 149
80.2 Reframing Alexandrology Past, Present and Future of Alexander-Studies: beyond Commonplaces and Alexandrocentrism Pierre Briant 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
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
79.3 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing and Contesting Delphic Oracles in Euripides’ Ion Lisa Maurizio 149
79.2 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing Archaic Ethics and Religion in Sophoclean Tragedy Alexandre Johnston, 149
69.1 Porphyry the Polymath Personal Knowledge in Porphyry’s Thought: The Epistemological Role of Experience” Aaron Johnson 149
11.4 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Philodemus and the Peripatetics on the Role of Anger in the Virtuous Life David Kaufman 149
50.5 Philology's Shadow II Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière Renaud Gagné 149
50.3 Philology's Shadow II Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar Constanze Güthenke 149
76.4 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Pilgrimage as Biography in Antiquity: Travel, Process, and Liminality in Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana Carson Bay 149
64.5 Whose Homer? Pindar and the Epic Cycle Henry Spelman 149
84.1 Getting the Joke Plautine Prayers and Holy Jokes Hans Bork 149
47.2 Reception Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s 'Cosmicomiche', 'Città Invisibili' and 'Palomar' Amy Lewis 149
81.1 Voicing Pliny's Cultured Nightingale Ellen D. Finkelpearl 149
76.1 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Plutarch and Cassius Dio on Cicero: Flawed Philosopher-Ruler or Unscrupulous Megalomaniac? David West 149