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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
25.3 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity “The Natural Savagery of Slaves”? Slaves as Sexual Aggressors in Revolt Narratives Katharine Huemoeller 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
26.5 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Intraformularity” in epos Adrian Kelly 149
42.2 Resist Together “Harassment in Academe:  Reflections and Coping/Resisting Strategies” Barbara Gold 149
2.5 Classical Reception Studies “Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather”: The Politics of Memory during the AIDS Crisis Emilio Capettini 149
26.2 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Even the Epithets are Necessary”: Ancient Approaches to ‘Illogical’ Homeric Epithets William Beck 149
51.4 Dido in and after Vergil “Dido Docta: A Scholarly Revision of Aeneid 4 in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri” Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 149
72.2 Gender and Reception ‘Domesticating’ Roman Religion on the Contemporary Screen Emily Chow-Kambitsch 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
32.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics πάνυ δὴ δεῖ χρηστὰ λέγειν ἡμᾶς: Expressions of obligation and necessity in Aristophanes Coulter George 149
22.2 Deterritorializing Classics Αἰών as Virtual Multiplicity: Durational Thinking in Heraclitus and Empedocles Richard Ellis 149
29.1 Language and Linguistics Xylander’s Latin Translation of Marcus Aurelius Peter Anderson 149
18.4 Foreign Policy Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism? Paul McGilvery 149
82.2 The Body and its Travails Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius Robert L. Cioffi 149
3.3 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Working with Wax: Observations on the Manufacture of Ancient Bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii David Saunders 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
19.5 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Words as Citizens in Romulus’s Asylum Adam Gitner 149
76.5 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers Dorota Dutsch 149
29.4 Language and Linguistics When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature Duane Roller 149
59.2 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany What was the Roman Table of Contents? Making meaning from miscellany in ancient and early modern paratext Joseph A. Howley 149
33.4 Performing Problem Plays What Chorus? Using Performance to Appreciate the Chorus of Menander’s Dyskolos Emmanuel Aprilakis 149
23.2 The Sounds of War What Brought the Walls of Jericho Down? Andreas Kramarz 149
3.4 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 149
4.5 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Virgil’s imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics Raymond Kania 149
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
80.2 Voicing Vergil’s Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues Erik Fredericksen 149
58.3 Global Classical Traditions Vergil in the Antipodes: the Classical Tradition and Colonial Australian Literature Sarah Midford 149
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
30.2 Material Girls Unveiling female feelings for objects: Deianeira and her ὄργανα in Sophocles’ Trachiniai Anne-Sophie Noel 149
82.4 The Body and its Travails Undressed for Success? Contradictions of Early Greek Nudity in Text and Image Sarah C. Murray 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
53.2 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts Rodney John Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco 149
37.2 After the Ars: Later Ovid Transforming Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses Rachael Cullick 149
42.3 Resist Together Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia Regina Ryan 149
79.1 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult Sarit Stern 149
32.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Tradition and Renewal in Pindaric Diction: Some Remarks on the IE Background of Pindar P. 2.52–6 Laura Massetti 149
67.6 Coins and Trade Trade and Economic Integration in Fourth Century CE Egypt: The Evidence from Coins and Ceramics Irene Soto 149
23.5 The Sounds of War Towards a Thucydidean theory of affect Brad Hald 149
36.2 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War as Multifaceted Disaster Rachel Bruzzone 149
66.6 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Three Documents of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus CHING-YUAN WU 149
78.5 Lucan after Deconstruction Thirty Years’ War: Lucan’s Cato since 1988 Tim Stover 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
64.2 Whose Homer? THEOPOMPUS’ HOMER: EPIC IN OLD AND MIDDLE COMEDY Matthew Farmer 149
61.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The ‘Twin’ Gates of Sleep in Vergil’s Aeneid VI Noah Diekemper 149
1.4 Classics and Social Justice The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration Molly Harris 149
62.3 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Virgin, the Magi, and the Empress Kriszta Kotsis 149
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
4.2 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry The teacher’s dilemma in Greek didactic texts Philip Thibodeau 149
62.4 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Survival and Rhetoric of Aphrodite in Byzantine Art Mati Meyer 149