Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
67.4 Coins and Trade Roman Coins and Long-Distance Movement. East to West Benjamin Hellings 149
67.5 Coins and Trade Inter-Provincial Trade in Late Antique Syria from Excavation Coins Jane Sancinito 149
67.6 Coins and Trade Trade and Economic Integration in Fourth Century CE Egypt: The Evidence from Coins and Ceramics Irene Soto 149
69.2 Porphyry the Polymath "At Once a Poet, Philosopher, and Expounder of Mysteries:” Porphyry’s Embodiment of Homeric Scholarship Jacob Lollar 149
69.3 Porphyry the Polymath The Medical Side of Porphyry’s Intellectual Portrait Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 149
69.1 Porphyry the Polymath Personal Knowledge in Porphyry’s Thought: The Epistemological Role of Experience” Aaron Johnson 149
71.4 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius was Wrong!: Seneca’s De Rerum Natura Christopher V. Trinacty 149
71.1 Lucretius: Author and Audience Creating an Epicurean Audience – Lucretius and his Reader Sonja K. Borchers 149
71.3 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius’ multiple interlocutors in the DRN Giulia Fanti 149
71.2 Lucretius: Author and Audience Empedocles in the Crossfire: Two Critical Subtexts in De Rerum Natura 1.716-733 Anna D. Conser 149
72.3 Gender and Reception The Modernist Sappho and the Genre of the Fragment Kay Gabriel 149
72.1 Gender and Reception Hector's Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine Victoria Burmeister 149
72.2 Gender and Reception ‘Domesticating’ Roman Religion on the Contemporary Screen Emily Chow-Kambitsch 149
72.4 Gender and Reception Neaira: A Greek New Comedy: From Renaissance Italy to Athens in 1985 STAVROULA KIRITSI 149
73.1 Augustan Rome Cynthia’s Imperium sine fine: Propertius 2.3 and Roman Cultural Imperialism Phebe Lowell Bowditch 149
73.4 Augustan Rome Remembering Marcellus in The Poetry and Landscape of Augustan Rome Aaron M. Seider 149
73.2 Augustan Rome Regulating Bribery or Generosity? Augustus’ Laws on Ambitus Brahm H. Kleinman 149
73.3 Augustan Rome Machine, munus, and monument: triumphs of architectural text John Oksanish 149
74.1 Digital Pedagogy The Cartographic Satyricon: Digital Pedagogy For The Mapping of Literary Geographies Sarah E. Bond 149
74.3 Digital Pedagogy An Online Database of the Meters of Roman Comedy Timothy J. Moore 149
74.2 Digital Pedagogy Representation and Student Research Topics: The Archives of Classical Scholarship Sarah A. Buchanan 149
75.1 Winning the People Spoils from Hera? Fulvius Flaccus at Cape Lacinium and Political Competition in Mid-Republican Rome Andreas Bendlin 149
75.2 Winning the People Modeling Crowd Behavior in Ancient Rome: Claques and Complex Adaptive Systems Bryan Brinkman 149
75.3 Winning the People Generic Formulae and Geographic Variation in the Tabulae Triumphales Charles W. Oughton 149
75.4 Winning the People By the People, for the People? Structural Reactions in the Landscape of Roman Athens Joshua R. Vera 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
76.1 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Plutarch and Cassius Dio on Cicero: Flawed Philosopher-Ruler or Unscrupulous Megalomaniac? David West 149
76.3 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Agesilaus, Athens, and Communicating Civic Virtue Mitchell Parks 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
76.5 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers Dorota Dutsch 149
78.5 Lucan after Deconstruction Thirty Years’ War: Lucan’s Cato since 1988 Tim Stover 149
78.2 Lucan after Deconstruction Empedoclean Echoes in Lucan: The Dialectic of Love and Strife in the Proem of the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 149
78.3 Lucan after Deconstruction The Remains of the Day. A Reading of 'Bellum Civile' 8 Martin Dinter 149
78.4 Lucan after Deconstruction Pompey’s Groan: Collective Heroism in Lucan’s 'Bellum Civile' Andrew Zissos 149
79.1 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult Sarit Stern 149
79.2 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing Archaic Ethics and Religion in Sophoclean Tragedy Alexandre Johnston, 149
79.3 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing and Contesting Delphic Oracles in Euripides’ Ion Lisa Maurizio 149
79.4 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Enemy of the Gods: Prometheus Bound as Religious Critique Rebecca Raphael 149
80.2 Reframing Alexandrology Past, Present and Future of Alexander-Studies: beyond Commonplaces and Alexandrocentrism Pierre Briant 149
80.3 Reframing Alexandrology Alexander Commonplaces as a Roman Imperial Idiom Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 149
80.4 Reframing Alexandrology Conqueror or Monument? Unpacking an Alexander-Commonplace in Plutarch and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana Sulochana Asirvatham 149
80.5 Reframing Alexandrology Creating a Commonplace: Alexander’s Visit to Jerusalem in Judeo-Christian Narratives Christian Thrue Djurslev 149
80.2 Voicing Vergil’s Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues Erik Fredericksen 149
81.5 Voicing The articulate landscapes of Aeschylus’ Persians Simone Antonia Oppen 149
81.3 Voicing Ariadne loquens, Ariadne muta: Catullus 64 and the Illusionism of Hellenistic Ekphrastic Epigrams Flora IFF-NOËL 149
81.4 Voicing The Silence of the Sirens in Lycophron’s "Alexandra" Kathleen Kidder 149
81.1 Voicing Pliny's Cultured Nightingale Ellen D. Finkelpearl 149
82.2 The Body and its Travails Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius Robert L. Cioffi 149
82.5 The Body and its Travails Forced Cross-Dressing: Women in Togas and the Law of Charondas Nicole Nowbahar 149
82.3 The Body and its Travails Making Sense of Plato’s Taste Afroditi Manthati Angelopoulou 149