Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
48.1 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic The Programmatic ‘Ordior’ of Silius Italicus Paul Hay 149
48.2 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica Andrew McClellan 149
48.3 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic Scott Weiss 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
49.2 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Scaevola and Rutilius in Asia Kit Morrell 149
49.3 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE Josiah Osgood 149
49.4 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Rome’s Late Republican Empire: The View from the Danube T. Corey Brennan 149
49.5 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Provincial Commanders in the Sphere of Antonius the Triumvir: the Negotiation of Relationships Hannah Mitchell 149
49.6 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire 'What Was He Thinking?': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism' Kathryn Welch 149
50.2 Philology's Shadow II Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology Irene Peirano 149
50.3 Philology's Shadow II Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar Constanze Güthenke 149
50.4 Philology's Shadow II Praeparatio Rabbinica: Zacharias Frankel (1801–1875), the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Septuagint Theodor Dunkelgrün 149
50.5 Philology's Shadow II Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière Renaud Gagné 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 149
51.3 Dido in and after Vergil "Dido in the light of Livy" Elena Giusti 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
51.5 Dido in and after Vergil "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" Christopher Nappa 149
51.6 Dido in and after Vergil "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" Barbara Leigh Clayton 149
51.7 Dido in and after Vergil "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s 'Ballad of the Queen'" Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 149
52.2 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Trees – Tree Teaching: The Ancient Art of Grafting Laurence Totelin 149
52.3 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Clinical Judgment: Methodist and Galenic Approaches Katherine D. van Schaik 149
52.4 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Jack of All Trades? Medical Practitioners and the Design, Manufacture, and Use of Instruments, Apparatuses, and Machines Jane Draycott 149
52.5 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Smelling and Smelting: Learning with the Senses in Theory and Practice Valeria V. Sergueenkova 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
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 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
54.5 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
55.1 Rhythm and Style Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Abigail Akavia 149
55.2 Rhythm and Style Dinner Bells and War Drums: Dactylic Hexameter in Old Comedy Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 149
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
55.4 Rhythm and Style Evidence from Aristophanes for the Language and Style of Euripides Almut Fries 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
56.1 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Snake-Throttler in Saffron Clothes. Baby Herakles in the Hippodrome (Pindar, Nemean 1) Claas Lattmann 149
56.2 Lyric from Greece to Rome Explaining Archilochus in antiquity: the indirect tradition Enrico Emanuele Prodi 149
56.3 Lyric from Greece to Rome Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22 Justin Hudak 149
56.4 Lyric from Greece to Rome Horace on the Hymnic Genre Brittney Szempruch 149
56.5 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste David F. Driscoll 149
56.6 Lyric from Greece to Rome A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172 Courtney Evans 149
57.2 Carthage and the Mediterranean Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination Peter Van Dommelen 149
57.3 Carthage and the Mediterranean Origin and development of Punic settlements in Sardinia until the age of Romanization Chiara Biasetti Fantauzzi 149
57.4 Carthage and the Mediterranean Punic Sicily Until the Roman Conquest Salvatore De Vincenzo 149
57.5 Carthage and the Mediterranean The Sufetes of North Africa: Comparative Contexts Nathan Pilkington 149