Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship CommentarySandbox: Creating Custom Digital Commentaries for the Classroom Bret Mulligan 150
27.1 Didactic Prose In Good Form: Hermogenes and the Didactic Strategy of On Forms of Style Byron MacDougall 150
2.2 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Cyrus the Cupbearer: Near Eastern Influence in Ctesias' Persica C Sydnor Roy 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Analyzing Ciceronian Networks with Gephi Caitlin Marley 150
85.2 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Medical Hellenicity in the Letters of Hippocrates Calloway Scott 150
34.1 Political Enculturation Social Mobility and Athletics in Archaic Greece Cameron Glaser Pearson 150
25.3 Greek Semantics ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ: Insight into (its) Deeper Meaning in Classical Greece Carlo DaVia 150
68.3 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid, Christine de Pizan and Gavin Douglas Carole Newlands 150
3.1 Roman Political Self-Representation The Funerary Monument of Lucius Munatius Plancus and Aristocratic Self-Representation Carolyn Tobin 150
32.2 Hannibal's Legacy Cycles of Death and Renewal: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Forces in the Republican Senate Cary Barber 150
58.2 Ancient Drama / New World Antigone: Anastrophe in Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa Charles Pletcher 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship From Stone to Screen and the DIY Method: Digitization, Integration, and You Chelsea Gardner 150
42.1 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Servants? or Usurpers?: Evaluation of the Bureaucratization Under Constantius II from A Comparative Perspective Chenye Shi 150
91.4 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy The Blushing Sage: Somatic Affective Responses in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Chiara Graf 150
70.1 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Mapping the unmapped: digital annotation of premodern geographies Chiara Palladino 150
34.6 Political Enculturation Evidence for a Regional Assembly in Coastal Paphlagonia in the Julio-Claudian Period Ching-Yuan Wu 150
7.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Judean immigration to Egypt in the 2nd century BC Christelle Fischer-Bovet 150
88.2 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Being There: The Use of Brief Dialogue in Herodotus and Thucydides Christopher A. Baron 150
62.2 Reconnecting the Classics Reconnecting the Classics: The Vocation and the Vocations in the 21st Century Christopher Blackwell 150
36.2 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Constructing Cetariae: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Building the Roman Fish Salting Industry Christopher F. Motz 150
9.3 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Roman Governors, "Greek Failings," and the Political World of Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom Christopher Fuhrmann 150
39.4 What's Roma Got to Do with It? A Surfeit of Gods: Performing Roman polytheism in Plautus’ Bacchides Christopher Jon Jelen 150
1.2 Late Antique Literary Developments The war with Gildo and the publication of the Letters of Symmachus Christopher Lougheed 150
15.2 Playing with Time Unlucky in Love: Games of Chance and Amatory Strategies in Roman Elegy Christopher S Dobbs 150
24.2 Latin Prose Interaction Statuary Analogies and Cicero’s Judgment of Caesar’s Style (Brutus 262) Christopher S. van den Berg 150
91.5 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Answering the Natural Questions: Pliny Ep. 4.30 and Ep. 8.20 Christopher V. Trinacty 150
58.5 Ancient Drama / New World "Why We Build the Wall": Hadestown in Trump's America Claire Catenaccio 150
35.5 Rome and the Americas Alterae Romae? The Values of Cross-Cultural Analogy Claire Lyons 150
22.4 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Identifying Demi-gods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules Claire Stocks 150
27.4 Didactic Prose In the Margins: Humanist Scholars on Pliny in Print Clare Woods 150
43.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Voice of Nature and its Consolatory Force in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Clifford A. Robinson 150
60.4 Herodotus and Thucydides Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Zoology and Ecology in Herodotus’ Histories Colin MacCormack 150
61.6 Literature of Empire Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod Colin Pang 150
73.2 Greek Religion An Infant μύστης at Pelinna? Evidence for the Initiation of Children into Bacchic-Dionysiac Mystery Cults Colleen Kron 150
14.3 Greek Political Thought Plutarch’s Hellish Cures for Ardiaeus: The Myth of Thespesius and the Occlusion of Plato’s ‘Incurables’ Collin Miles Hilton 150
76.3 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity Vetranio and the Limits of Legitimacy in the Danubian Provinces Craig Caldwell 150
58.3 Ancient Drama / New World Textual Ruins: The Form of Memory in José Watanabe's Antigona Cristina Perez 150
65.4 The Digital Latin Library Pragmatic or Pure? Two Experiments in Editing Cynthia Damon 150
24.3 Latin Prose Interaction Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284) Cynthia J Bannon 150
3.5 Roman Political Self-Representation Contested Recycling: Conflicting Heritage Values in Dio Chysostom’s Rhodian Oration Cynthia Susalla 150
45.5 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Dan-el Padilla Peralta 150
68.5 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid in the #MeToo Era Daniel Libatique 150
29.2 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism Daniel R. Moy 150
37.4 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers The Correspondence of Günther Klaffenbach and Louis Robert (1929‒1972) Daniela Summa 150
19.4 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Sailing the High(er) Seas: Manilius’s Celestial Traces in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica Darcy Krasne 150
84.1 Vergil The Virgilian Beech: The Creation of Italian Nostalgia in the Eclogues David Alan Wallace-Hare 150
12.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Role of Parmenides’ Goddess as Θέα Δαίμων David Bicknell 150
60.3 Herodotus and Thucydides Apotropaic Lions in Herodotus David Branscome 150
61.2 Literature of Empire ‘Even When Sappho is Sung’: Taste in Sapphic and Anacreontic Performance in Early Imperial Symposia David F. Driscoll 150
78.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Differential agent marking in classical Greek David Goldstein 150