Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
1.4 Classics and Social Justice The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration Molly Harris 149
1.5 Classics and Social Justice First Do No Harm: Responsible Outreach and Community Engagement Amy Pistone 149
9.4 Agency in Drama Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A Look at Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes Edwin Wong 149
9.3 Agency in Drama Choreographing Frenzy: Auletics, Agency, and the Body in Euripides’ Heracles Caleb Simone 149
9.2 Agency in Drama Electra’s Living Death in Sophocles’ Electra Jonathan Fenno 149
9.1 Agency in Drama The Agency and Power of the Dying Alcestis Mary Dolinar 149
8.2 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Roman numeral palaeography: a hazard and a help to editors of Latin texts Orla F. Mulholland 149
8.1 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography The descendants of Roman municipal freedmen in the ordo decurionum and the limits of the macula servitutis Jeffrey Easton 149
8.3 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Rogo Te ut Me Vindices: A Social Demography of Cursing at Mogontiacum Sarah Veale 149
8.4 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Seeing the Silva Through the Silva: The Religious Economy of Timber Communities in Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis David Wallace-Hare 149
7.3 Argumentation in Plato At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato’s Phaedrus. Matthew Shelton 149
7.2 Argumentation in Plato Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias Dale Parker 149
7.4 Argumentation in Plato The Road to Dialectic is Long and Steep: Xenophon and Plato on the Hesiodic ‘Path to Aretê’ Image Collin Hilton 149
7.1 Argumentation in Plato Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato’s Phaedrus Kenneth Draper 149
6.3 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen, aDNA and the Plague Rebecca Flemming 149
6.1 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen: Text Production and Authority Claire Bubb 149
6.2 Medicine and Disease in Galen Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen Amy Koenig 149
18.4 Foreign Policy Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism? Paul McGilvery 149
18.3 Foreign Policy How Odious was the Athenian Tribute System? Aaron Hershkowitz 149
18.1 Foreign Policy Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts Gregory Callaghan 149
18.2 Foreign Policy Carthaginian Strategy and Expenses in the First Punic War Bret Devereaux 149
38.4 Style and Rhetoric The Agency of Style: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sappho and Pindar Alyson Melzer 149
38.2 Style and Rhetoric A Song of Dice and Ire: Games of Chance and Anger in Greek Oratory Christopher Dobbs 149
38.3 Style and Rhetoric Historiography and intertextuality: the case for classical rhetoric Scott Kennedy 149
38.5 Style and Rhetoric Cupid’s palace in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: An unnoticed reenactment of the prologue’s ‘poetics of seduction’ Aldo Tagliabue 149
38.1 Style and Rhetoric The good, the bad and the clever: rhetoric and anti-rhetoric in the agon of Euripides’ Phoenician Women Esmée Bruggink 149
44.1 Letters in the Ancient World Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus Chris Bingley 149
44.3 Letters in the Ancient World Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 149
44.2 Letters in the Ancient World The Clementia of Burning Letters Nathaniel Katz 149
44.4 Letters in the Ancient World Enlisting the Voice, Engaging the Soul: Seneca’s 84th Epistle Scott Lepisto 149
17.4 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Life Cycle of a Sign in Aratus' Phaenomena Kathryn Wilson 149
17.2 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram Barnaby Chesterton 149
17.3 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Dedication of a Hetaera and Poetic Program: Layering of Sapphic and Homeric Allusion in an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum Alissa A. Vaillancourt 149
17.1 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Exagoge of Ezekiel Tragicus in its political and historical context Chaya Cassano 149
28.4 Didactic Poetry A didactic kettle of fish? Literary dimensions of Marcellus’ De Piscibus (GDRK 63) Floris Overduin 149
28.6 Didactic Poetry Monsters Must Bear Monsters: Genealogical Continuity and Poetic Awareness in Theogony 287-94 and 979-83. Brett Stine 149
28.1 Didactic Poetry Injured Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus Katherine Hsu 149
28.3 Didactic Poetry Hesiod’s Two Plows: Materiality and Representation in Works and Days Andre Matlock 149
28.5 Didactic Poetry Eternal Motionlessness in the Hesiodic Aspis and Early Greek Philosophy Stephen Sansom 149
28.2 Didactic Poetry How to 'Bee' a Good Wife Michelle Martinez 149
54.2 Ritual and Religious Belief Debating Paganism in a Christian Empire Mattias Gassman 149
54.3 Ritual and Religious Belief The cult of the Erinyes in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 149
54.4 Ritual and Religious Belief Semeta lygra: Reading hieroglyphics with Archaic Greeks Christopher Stedman Parmenter 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 149
54.5 Ritual and Religious Belief For the wheel’s still in spin: the evolution of the Skira festival in Classical Athens Adam Rappold 149
54.6 Ritual and Religious Belief Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea Katheryn Whitcomb 149
53.1 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Catullus Transformed: Antiquity Resurrected for Reformation in Theodore Beza’s 1579 Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Quinque Michael Spangler 149
53.2 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts Rodney John Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco 149
53.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century Carl Springer 149
53.4 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 149