Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
8.2 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Sacrificial Acrostics and the Fall of Great Cities in Latin Epic Julia Hejduk 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
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
6.6 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Rome’s Marble Plan: Progress and Prospects Elizabeth Wolfram Thrill 150
57.4 Political Thought in Latin Literature Roman Republicanism, Memory, and Identity: Cicero's De Re Publica Marsha McCoy 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
49.3 Contagious Narrative Rivalry, Repetition, and the Language of Pestilence in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Hunter H. Gardner 150
91.6 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Rethinking Morality: A Senecan Shift in Stoic Sexual Ethics? Joshua M Reno 150
78.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Rethinking discourse segmentation in Herodotus and Thucydides Anna Bonifazi 150
29.1 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism Shelley Haley 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
29.3 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism Heidi Morse 150
72.5 Hellenistic Poetry Resonant Presence in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo Stephen White 150
37.6 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers Res Gestae: The Queen of Inscriptions and the History of Epigraphers Morgan Palmer 150
48.4 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Representing the cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture John R. Clarke 150
71.2 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Remembering to Mourn in Tacitus' Annals: Germanicus' Death and the Shape of Grief Aaron M. Seider 150
58.4 Ancient Drama / New World Reimagining Creon and his Daughter in Euripides' Medea: Armida as Queen of the Barrio in Luis Alfaro's Mojada Laurialan Blake Reitzammer 150
62.2 Reconnecting the Classics Reconnecting the Classics: The Vocation and the Vocations in the 21st Century Christopher Blackwell 150
15.4 Playing with Time Rebuilding Rome: Reading Ovid’s Fasti as a Chronological History of the City of Rome Samuel L. Kindick 150
92.5 Homer and Hesiod Reassessing the Evidence for Zenodotus’ “Cretan Odyssey” Bill Beck 150
23.2 Attic Oratory Reapportioning Honors: Intertextuality in Against Leptines Mitchell H. Parks 150
91.3 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Reading as Training: Seneca’s Didactic Technique in De Beneficiis Scott A. Lepisto 150
17.2 Theorizing Africana Receptions Reader-Response to Racism: Audre Lorde and Seneca on Anger Ellen Cole Lee 150
33.3 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Re-visioning Classics: Adrienne Rich and the Critique of “Old Texts” Emily Hauser 150
92.1 Homer and Hesiod Raising the Dead: The Assyrian Empire as Political Background for Odysseus’ Descent to the Underworld Marcus Daniel Ziemann 150
59.2 A Century of Translating Poetry Quisque suos patimur manes: Trends in Literary Translation of the Classics Rachel Hadas 150
61.6 Literature of Empire Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod Colin Pang 150
77.1 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Qui carbone rudi putrique creta scribit: The Charcoal Graffiti of Herculaneum Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons 150
5.1 Law Money and Politics Public Finance in Archaic Crete? The Poinikastas of Datala Revisited Evan J Vance 150
3.3 Roman Political Self-Representation Proletarian Tobacco and Augustan Wine John Alexander Lobur 150
23.4 Attic Oratory Prognosis as a Measure of Excellence: Medical Language in Demosthenes’ On the Crown Allison E Das 150
28.3 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Proclus on Analogy Matteo Milesi 150
54.1 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: A Practical Guide for Users Presentation Kathleen Coleman 150
51.5 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language PREPARING THE ELEGIAC DIDO: AMATORY LANGUAGE IN AENEID 1.343-352 Robert John Sklenar 150
52.2 Greek Language Preeminence and Prepositional Thinking in Sappho Andres Matlock 150
65.4 The Digital Latin Library Pragmatic or Pure? Two Experiments in Editing Cynthia Damon 150
9.2 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Political Παρρησία in Plutarch: When Does It Work? Brad Buszard 150
72.6 Hellenistic Poetry Poets and lovers: the remedy for love in Theocritus’ Idyll 11 and Hermesianax’s fr. 7 P Maria Gaki 150
9.4 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Poetics of Political Fear: Lucan and the Neronian Age of Anxiety Irene Morrison-Moncure 150
40.6 Podcasting the Classics Pod Save the Classics: Using Podcasts in the Secondary Classroom Andrew J. Carroll 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
80.4 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World Plus Ça Change: Climate and Roman Agronomy on Changing Agricultural Landscapes Margaret Clark 150
39.3 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Plautus at the Ludi Megalenses: Defining Romanitas in Pseudolus Seth Jeppesen 150
62.3 Reconnecting the Classics Philology and the Future of Work Gregory Crane 150
61.3 Literature of Empire Phaedrus’s Double Dowry: Laughter and Joking in the Fabulae Aesopiae Kristin Mann 150
59.4 A Century of Translating Poetry Performative Translations of Lucretius and Catullus Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves 150
5.6 Law Money and Politics Patterns in Anti-Fiscal Revolts of the Julio-Claudian Period Jared Kreiner 150
55.5 Global Feminism and the Classics Past, Present, Future: Pathways to a More Connected Classics Hilary J.C. Lehmann 150
87.2 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides' Alētheia in Anaxagoras and Empedocles Rose Cherubin 150