Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
84.4 Getting the Joke Summus Minimusque Poeta: Silent Epigram in Juvenal Satire 1.1-30 Catherine Keane 149
84.3 Getting the Joke The End of Juvenal Satire 1 and the Imitation of Lucilius and Horace Brian S. Hook 149
84.2 Getting the Joke Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10? Steven Brandwood 149
84.1 Getting the Joke Plautine Prayers and Holy Jokes Hans Bork 149
83.3 Historiography and Identity Brasidas and the Myth of the Un-Spartan Spartan Matthew A. Sears 149
83.2 Historiography and Identity Athenians, Amazons, and Goats: Language Contact in Herodotus Edward E. Nolan 149
83.1 Historiography and Identity Interstitial Politics: Thucydides, Demosthenes, and the Athenian Character Branden D. Kosch 149
82.5 The Body and its Travails Forced Cross-Dressing: Women in Togas and the Law of Charondas Nicole Nowbahar 149
82.4 The Body and its Travails Undressed for Success? Contradictions of Early Greek Nudity in Text and Image Sarah C. Murray 149
82.3 The Body and its Travails Making Sense of Plato’s Taste Afroditi Manthati Angelopoulou 149
82.2 The Body and its Travails Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius Robert L. Cioffi 149
82.1 The Body and its Travails Sleeping with the Tyrant: The Death of Alexander of Pherae in Plutarch’s Life of Pelopidas Marcaline Boyd 149
81.5 Voicing The articulate landscapes of Aeschylus’ Persians Simone Antonia Oppen 149
81.4 Voicing The Silence of the Sirens in Lycophron’s "Alexandra" Kathleen Kidder 149
81.3 Voicing Ariadne loquens, Ariadne muta: Catullus 64 and the Illusionism of Hellenistic Ekphrastic Epigrams Flora IFF-NOËL 149
81.1 Voicing Pliny's Cultured Nightingale Ellen D. Finkelpearl 149
80.5 Reframing Alexandrology Creating a Commonplace: Alexander’s Visit to Jerusalem in Judeo-Christian Narratives Christian Thrue Djurslev 149
80.4 Reframing Alexandrology Conqueror or Monument? Unpacking an Alexander-Commonplace in Plutarch and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana Sulochana Asirvatham 149
80.3 Reframing Alexandrology Alexander Commonplaces as a Roman Imperial Idiom Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 149
80.2 Reframing Alexandrology Past, Present and Future of Alexander-Studies: beyond Commonplaces and Alexandrocentrism Pierre Briant 149
80.2 Voicing Vergil’s Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues Erik Fredericksen 149
79.4 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Enemy of the Gods: Prometheus Bound as Religious Critique Rebecca Raphael 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
79.1 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult Sarit Stern 149
78.5 Lucan after Deconstruction Thirty Years’ War: Lucan’s Cato since 1988 Tim Stover 149
78.4 Lucan after Deconstruction Pompey’s Groan: Collective Heroism in Lucan’s 'Bellum Civile' Andrew Zissos 149
78.3 Lucan after Deconstruction The Remains of the Day. A Reading of 'Bellum Civile' 8 Martin Dinter 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
77.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Abraham of Hermonthis and the Use of Legal Cultural Archetypes within the Coptic Church Nicholas Venable 149
77.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Papyri from Karanis Emily Cole 149
77.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Dark Sappho:The “Method of Chamaeleon” in P.Oxy. 2506 Mark de Kreij 149
77.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Old Horoscopes Andreas Winkler 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
76.5 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers Dorota Dutsch 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
76.3 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Agesilaus, Athens, and Communicating Civic Virtue Mitchell Parks 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
75.4 Winning the People By the People, for the People? Structural Reactions in the Landscape of Roman Athens Joshua R. Vera 149
75.3 Winning the People Generic Formulae and Geographic Variation in the Tabulae Triumphales Charles W. Oughton 149
75.2 Winning the People Modeling Crowd Behavior in Ancient Rome: Claques and Complex Adaptive Systems Bryan Brinkman 149
75.1 Winning the People Spoils from Hera? Fulvius Flaccus at Cape Lacinium and Political Competition in Mid-Republican Rome Andreas Bendlin 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
74.1 Digital Pedagogy The Cartographic Satyricon: Digital Pedagogy For The Mapping of Literary Geographies Sarah E. Bond 149
73.4 Augustan Rome Remembering Marcellus in The Poetry and Landscape of Augustan Rome Aaron M. Seider 149
73.3 Augustan Rome Machine, munus, and monument: triumphs of architectural text John Oksanish 149
73.2 Augustan Rome Regulating Bribery or Generosity? Augustus’ Laws on Ambitus Brahm H. Kleinman 149
73.1 Augustan Rome Cynthia’s Imperium sine fine: Propertius 2.3 and Roman Cultural Imperialism Phebe Lowell Bowditch 149