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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
80.3 Reframing Alexandrology Alexander Commonplaces as a Roman Imperial Idiom Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 149
25.5 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Psyche Ancilla: Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche Tale as an Ancient Slave Narrative William Owens 149
58.2 Global Classical Traditions The Development of the Classical Tradition in Africa: Theoretical Considerations and Interpretive Consequences William Dominik 149
26.2 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Even the Epithets are Necessary”: Ancient Approaches to ‘Illogical’ Homeric Epithets William Beck 149
41.5 Outreach Open Mic The State of Amphora, The Outreach Publication of the SCS Wells Hansen 149
72.1 Gender and Reception Hector's Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine Victoria Burmeister 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 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
37.5 After the Ars: Later Ovid Tempus ad Hoc: Synchrony in Ovid’s Ibis Ursula Poole 149
29.3 Language and Linguistics Spoken Greek and the work of notaries in the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon Tommaso Mari 149
74.3 Digital Pedagogy An Online Database of the Meters of Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore 149
78.5 Lucan after Deconstruction Thirty Years’ War: Lucan’s Cato since 1988 Tim Stover 149
43.3 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages Thomas Sienkewicz 149
63.5 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora Detecting the Influence of the Corpus Platonicum on Ancient Greek Literature using LDA-Topic Modelling Thomas Köntges 149
50.4 Philology's Shadow II Praeparatio Rabbinica: Zacharias Frankel (1801–1875), the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Septuagint Theodor Dunkelgrün 149
30.3 Material Girls Binding Male Sexuality: Tacility and Female Autonomy in Ancient Greek Curse Tablets Teresa Yates 149
16.4 Virgil and his Afterlife Italus, Italia, and Ethnic Ideology in Aeneid 7-12 Tedd A. Wimperis 149
41.4 Outreach Open Mic Classics in Public: Year I of the Committee on Public Information and Media Relations Tara Mulder 149
11.2 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Zeno's Arrow Takashi Oki 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to Do Philology with Computers T.J. Bolt, Adriana Casarez, Jeffrey Hill Flynt 149
41.2 Outreach Open Mic The SCS online: Reflections from the Communications Committee T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 149
49.4 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Rome’s Late Republican Empire: The View from the Danube T. Corey Brennan 149
62.2 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender From Ephesian Artemis to Wonderworking Virgin Mary: The Case of Treskavec Svetlana Makuljević 149
69.3 Porphyry the Polymath The Medical Side of Porphyry’s Intellectual Portrait Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 149
60.2 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World The Economics of Translating Virgil: a Prospectus Susanna Braund 149
80.4 Reframing Alexandrology Conqueror or Monument? Unpacking an Alexander-Commonplace in Plutarch and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana Sulochana Asirvatham 149
84.2 Getting the Joke Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10? Steven Brandwood 149
28.5 Didactic Poetry Eternal Motionlessness in the Hesiodic Aspis and Early Greek Philosophy Stephen Sansom 149
14.2 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Calculating Risk at the Dicing Table Stephen Kidd 149
29.5 Language and Linguistics Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: a terminological innovation in Herodian? Stephanie Roussou 149
66.2 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Apolides kai Xenoi: OGIS 1.266 and the Civic Status of Mercenaries Abroad Stephanie Craven 149
72.4 Gender and Reception Neaira: A Greek New Comedy: From Renaissance Italy to Athens in 1985 STAVROULA KIRITSI 149
30.1 Material Girls Procne, Philomela and the Voice of the Peplos Stamatia Dova 149
23.4 The Sounds of War Martem Accendere Cantu: Trumpets and Bloodlust in Hellenistic Aesthetics Spencer Klavan 149
AIA/SCS Poster Session (Friday January 5) New Methods in Engineering Greek Theatrical Masks Sophia S. Dill 149
3.5 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Epicurean Emotional Theory and Philodemus’ “On the Gods” Sonya Wurster 149
71.1 Lucretius: Author and Audience Creating an Epicurean Audience – Lucretius and his Reader Sonja K. Borchers 149
81.5 Voicing The articulate landscapes of Aeschylus’ Persians Simone Antonia Oppen 149
47.3 Reception Senecan Drama and its Performability: Phaedra’s Last Act (1154-280) Simona Martorana 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
13.3 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in North Carolina Sharon James 149
16.2 Virgil and his Afterlife The Cupidity of Ascanius in Vergil and Vegio Shannon DuBois 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) Semantic Inferencing for the Archaeologist Sebastian Heath 149
48.3 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic Scott Weiss 149
44.4 Letters in the Ancient World Enlisting the Voice, Engaging the Soul: Seneca’s 84th Epistle Scott Lepisto 149
38.3 Style and Rhetoric Historiography and intertextuality: the case for classical rhetoric Scott Kennedy 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
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) Working with Geospatial Networks of the Roman World using ORBIS Scott Arcenas 149
79.1 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult Sarit Stern 149