Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
29.5 Language and Linguistics Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: a terminological innovation in Herodian? Stephanie Roussou 149
29.4 Language and Linguistics When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature Duane Roller 149
30.2 Material Girls Unveiling female feelings for objects: Deianeira and her ὄργανα in Sophocles’ Trachiniai Anne-Sophie Noel 149
30.3 Material Girls Binding Male Sexuality: Tacility and Female Autonomy in Ancient Greek Curse Tablets Teresa Yates 149
30.4 Material Girls Of Soleae and Self-Fashioning: Roman Women’s Shoes from Vindolanda to Sidi Ghrib Hérica Valladares 149
30.5 Material Girls Ritual Implements and the Construction of Identity for Roman Women Anne Truetzel 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
30.1 Material Girls Procne, Philomela and the Voice of the Peplos Stamatia Dova 149
31.2 New Age Servius How Servius Dealt with Variant Readings in the Text of Virgil E. Kopff 149
31.3 New Age Servius Evidence from Servius on the Use of Greek Models by Virgil and his Commentators Joseph Farrell 149
31.4 New Age Servius Servius Redux James Brusuelas 149
31.5 New Age Servius Modeling Servius for the Digital Latin Library Hugh Cayless 149
33.1 Performing Problem Plays The Performance of Ezekiel’s Exagoge Re-Addressed Jonathan MacLellan 149
33.2 Performing Problem Plays Prometheus Bound in a Sicilian Performance Context Colleen Kron 149
33.3 Performing Problem Plays Burning Down the Fifth-Century Stage Daniel Anderson 149
33.4 Performing Problem Plays What Chorus? Using Performance to Appreciate the Chorus of Menander’s Dyskolos Emmanuel Aprilakis 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
34.4 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Sustaining a Secondary School Greek Program C. Emil Penarubia 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
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
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
36.3 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Seneca's Philosophical Thyestes Julie Levy 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
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
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
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
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
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
43.1 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek The National Committee for Latin and Greek Mary Pendergraft 149