Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
41.3 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusive Beginning Language Courses Amy Pistone 150
41.4 Centering the Margins Bringing the Outside In: Incorporating Marginalized Identities and Modern Topics into an Introductory Mythology Course Yurie Hong 150
41.5 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusivity with Material Culture in Civilization and History Survey Courses Robyn Le Blanc 150
41.6 Centering the Margins A Diverse Ancient History for a Diversifying Classroom Rebecca Futo Kennedy 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
42.2 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity The Three Accessions of Julian the Apostate: Social Power and the Question of Late Roman Imperial Legitimacy JaShong King 150
42.3 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity The Theodosian Code in its Christian Conceptual Frame Mark Letteney 150
42.4 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Legal Lumpiness of the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 150
42.5 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Invidia Tabernariorum: the economic interests of associations in late-antique Rome, a study of the corpus tabernariorum John Fabiano 150
43.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Voice of Nature and its Consolatory Force in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Clifford A. Robinson 150
43.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry Caesar and the Poetics of Nefas in Lucan's Civil War Isaia Crosson 150
43.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan’s African Monsters: the Triumph of Chaos over Cosmos in the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 150
43.4 Latin Hexameter Poetry Juvenal and the Lost Boys of the Argonautica: Daedalus, Jason, and the end of Roman epic Jessica Blum 150
43.5 Latin Hexameter Poetry Nature's City: Nemea as urbs capta in Statius' Thebaid Adam Kozak 150
44.1 Allusion and Intertext The Reception of Sappho in Plato's Phaedrus in Light of the Expanded Text of Sappho 58 Mary R. Bachvarova 150
44.2 Allusion and Intertext The ‘Modern’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds Samuel D Cooper 150
44.3 Allusion and Intertext A Vergilian Revision of Homeric Repetition Alexander Forte 150
44.4 Allusion and Intertext The Daemon Grows: Some Offshoots of Empedocles in Horace’s Ars Poetica Justin Hudak 150
44.5 Allusion and Intertext Beyond Ornamentation: Seneca, Vergil's Aeneid, and the Interlocutor Sophia R Elzie 150
44.6 Allusion and Intertext The Muses and Redacted Antiquity: Rodulfus Tortarius’ poetic adaptation of Valerius Maximus Kyle Conrau-Lewis 150
45.2 The Future of Classics Speaker/facilitator Sarah E Bond 150
45.3 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Joy Connolly 150
45.4 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Ralph J Hexter 150
45.5 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Dan-el Padilla Peralta 150
46.2 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Argento auroque coruscis scripta notis: Optatianic reflections on the ‘jeweled style’ Michael Squire 150
46.3 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Features and Effects of the Jeweled Style in Juvencus Blaise Gratton 150
46.4 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry How to Bejewel a Cento (Eudocia the Magpie) Francesca Middleton 150
46.5 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Run the Jewels: The Prehistory of the Jeweled Style Ian Fielding 150
47.2 Varro the Philosopher Varro and Antiochus in the Liber de Philosophia Nathan Gilbert 150
47.3 Varro the Philosopher Varro the Pythagorean? An Inquiry into the Quadripartite Category System of De Lingua Latina 5.11-13 Phillip Sidney Horky and Grant Nelsestuen 150
47.4 Varro the Philosopher “Si Homo Est Bulla: Varro’s Roman Cynicism and de Rebus Rusticis” Sarah Culpepper Stroup 150
47.5 Varro the Philosopher 288 Ways of Looking at the summum bonum: Varro the Roman Eclectic Katharina Volk 150
48.2 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Κιναίδων βίος: The impossible praise of a lifestyle in Athenian erotic culture. Giulia Sissa 150
48.3 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Cleomachus: A Case Study in “Cinaedism” Thomas Sapsford 150
48.4 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Representing the cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture John R. Clarke 150
48.5 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women? Kirk Ormand 150
49.1 Contagious Narrative Routes of the Plague in Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Pantelis Michelakis 150
49.2 Contagious Narrative Unnamed Victims and Named Survivors in Greek Plague Narratives Jennifer B. Clarke Kosak 150
49.3 Contagious Narrative Rivalry, Repetition, and the Language of Pestilence in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Hunter H. Gardner 150
49.4 Contagious Narrative Disease in Virgil and Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" Julia Nelson Hawkins 150
50.2 The Romance of Reception The Greek Novel, ‘Asianic’ Style, and the Second Sophistic Lawrence Kim 150
50.3 The Romance of Reception The Early Reception of Achilles Tatius and Modern Views of Ancient Prose Fiction Stephen M. Trzaskoma 150
50.4 The Romance of Reception “Full of Marvels:” The Early Modern Reception of Heliodorus and the New World Robert L. Cioffi 150
50.5 The Romance of Reception Beyond the Ethnicity of Fragments Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 150
51.1 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Of hornets and humans: the etymology of *anthropos* Richard Janko 150
51.2 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Archilochus fr. 93a W: Musical Diplomacy on Thasos? Timothy C Power 150
51.3 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language East versus West in the Lyrics of Ibycus William Tortorelli 150
51.4 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Distributed Agency in Tragic Social Networks Francesca Spiegel 150
51.5 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language PREPARING THE ELEGIAC DIDO: AMATORY LANGUAGE IN AENEID 1.343-352 Robert John Sklenar 150
52.1 Greek Language “Easily He Wielded It”: Paronomasia in Homer’s Lexical Ring Structures Megan O'Donald 150