Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
64.2 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope “ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι,” or, Going Amazon: Queering the Warrior Women in the Iliad Rowan Ash 150
59.3 A Century of Translating Poetry “Tools” of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus Tori Lee 150
47.4 Varro the Philosopher “Si Homo Est Bulla: Varro’s Roman Cynicism and de Rebus Rusticis” Sarah Culpepper Stroup 150
31.5 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean “It seems that they are using the Carian Language”: Multilingualism, Assimilation, and Acculturation in Caria Georgios Tsolakis 150
70.2 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology “Is that a place or a person?” Teaching classics with a digital annotation platform Valeria Vitale 150
21.4 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century “I shall sing of Herakles”: writing a Hercules oratorio for the twenty-first century Emma Stafford 150
50.4 The Romance of Reception “Full of Marvels:” The Early Modern Reception of Heliodorus and the New World Robert L. Cioffi 150
59.1 A Century of Translating Poetry “Exquisite classics in simple English prose”: Theory and Practice in the Poets’ Translation Series (1915-1920) Elizabeth Vandiver 150
52.1 Greek Language “Easily He Wielded It”: Paronomasia in Homer’s Lexical Ring Structures Megan O'Donald 150
15.5 Playing with Time ‘To Be Completed: The Poetry of July to December in Neo-Latin Fasti-poems’ Bobby Xinyue 150
74.3 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing ‘Game-used Equipment’: Reading Inscribed Athletic Objects Peter J. Miller 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
25.3 Greek Semantics ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ: Insight into (its) Deeper Meaning in Classical Greece Carlo DaVia 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
34.4 Political Enculturation Youthful Military Service and Aristocratic Values in the Late Roman Republic. Noah A.S. Segal 150
67.2 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Writing in the Achaemenid Empire Elspeth Dusinberre 150
90.5 Materiality of Writing Wrapping Up the Book: Membrana in Horace Sat. 2.3.2 and Ars P. 389 Stephanie Ann Frampton 150
30.4 Ovid With Clashing Bronze and Shrieking Pipes: Ovid’s Representation of the Sound of (Mystery Cult) Music Rebecca A. Sears 150
25.2 Greek Semantics Who’s afraid of wonder? θαῦμα and θάμβος. Rik Peters 150
86.1 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Whose Fatherland? The Use of patria and patrius in Vergil Kevin Moch 150
86.3 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Who Framed the acer Halaesus? The Unspoken Memory of the Faliscan People in Virgil's Aeneid Anna Maria Cimino 150
34.2 Political Enculturation Where's the Beef? The Athletic Diet and its Resentment in Antiquity Emmanuel Aprilakis 150
85.3 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Where Medicine and Religion Meet: Honorific Inscriptions in the Asklepieion at Kos Tara Mulder 150
84.3 Vergil What’s in an Allusion? A New Examination of Vergil’s Use of Homer James Gawley, Caitlin Diddams, Elizabeth Hunter, Tessa Little 150
86.2 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil What's Past is Prologue: Roman Identity and the Trojan Cycle in the Aeneid Jennifer Weintritt 150
6.5 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions What has the Ancient World Mapping Center Done for Us? Lindsay Holman 150
4.1 Satire What Does Lucilius Mean by Saturae? James Faulkner 150
65.2 The Digital Latin Library What does a (digital) critical edition look like? Hugh Cayless 150
6.4 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions What Difference Has Digitization Made? Tom Elliott 150
38.5 What Can Active Latin Accomplish What Can Active Latin Accomplish? Well, Let Me Just Show You...Facts, Figures, and Artifacts Demonstrating the Benefits of Active Instruction Gregory P. Stringer 150
30.5 Ovid Watch Janus Looking at Cranaë: A Reconsideration of Janus in Ovid’s Fasti Anastasia Belinskaya 150
92.4 Homer and Hesiod Voice, Mortals, and Muses in the Hesiodic Aspis 272-86 Stephen A Sansom 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 150
10.4 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Virgil’s Venus-virgo in Christian Early Modern Epic Viola Starnone 150
84.4 Vergil Virgil in the theatre: poets, oratory and performance in Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus Talitha E. Z. Kearey 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
13.2 Reception and National Traditions Ventriloquizing the Classics: Cicero and Early American Gothic James Uden 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
47.2 Varro the Philosopher Varro and Antiochus in the Liber de Philosophia Nathan Gilbert 150
26.5 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Greek and Latin Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Socially Conscious Classics Pedagogy Kelly P. Dugan 150
26.4 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Conflict Analysis in History and Civilization Courses Seán Easton 150
53.4 Horace and his Legacy Ursine Poetics in Horace and the Classical Tradition Aaron Kachuck 150
75.3 Materiality and Literary Culture Unwelcome Guest: Envy, Shame, and Materiality in an Ancient Greek House Andrew Scholtz 150
49.2 Contagious Narrative Unnamed Victims and Named Survivors in Greek Plague Narratives Jennifer B. Clarke Kosak 150
15.2 Playing with Time Unlucky in Love: Games of Chance and Amatory Strategies in Roman Elegy Christopher S Dobbs 150
89.4 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Undoing the need to translate: Public Debates about LGBTQ histories in the Classics classroom Marguerite Johnson 150
80.3 Responses Under the Plane Tree: Cultivation in Ancient Urban Pollution Kaja Tally-Schumacher 150
10.5 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Travesty: the ultimate domestication of epic Susanna Braund 150
8.5 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Travels with Martyrs: Epic Journey Motifs and Sacred Landscapes in Late Antique Poetry Laura K. Roesch 150
35.3 Rome and the Americas Transformation of Roman Poetry in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 150