Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
87.3 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides on language and the language of Parmenides Shaul Tor 150
69.6 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #5: Origins, Dialogues, and Identities: Shifting Perspectives on Greek Hymns to Egyptian Gods Ian Moyer 150
69.5 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #4: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Christian Apologetics Eleni Manolaraki 150
69.4 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #3: Where Art Meets Text: Potent Words and Vivid Images in the Isiac Cults Molly Swetnam-Burland 150
69.3 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #2: In the Guise of Isis: Visual Symbols and Constructing Identity Richard Veymiers 150
69.2 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #1: The Cult of Isis, from ‘Oriental’ to Global Laurent Bricault 150
8.3 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Pallas Primamque Deorum: Minerva in Flavian Epic and Religion Kira Jones 150
30.2 Ovid Ovid’s Cadmus, Herculean Cattle-Thief? Andrew C. Ficklin 150
68.5 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid in the #MeToo Era Daniel Libatique 150
68.4 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid In and After Exile: Modern Fiction on Ovid outside Rome Alison Keith 150
40.3 Podcasting the Classics Outside the Gaze: Podcasting Ancient Rome as Woman Scholars Peta Greenfield 150
72.3 Hellenistic Poetry Organizing Snakes: Nicander’s Literary and Biological Catalog Kathryn Dorothy Wilson 150
26.8 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Operation #TeachClassics: sharing successful strategies from the UK for boosting Classics teaching in high schools Arlene Holmes-Henderson 150
AIA-SCS Poster Session Opening up the Ancient Mediterranean World (through Unicode and Fonts) Deborah (Debbie) W Anderson 150
16.5 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America Opening the Gates: The American Philological Association/Society for Classical Studies 1970-2019 Ward Briggs 150
63.1 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Open-ended ἐφήμερος Felix Budelmann 150
26.3 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Open Access Pedagogy: Seeking a Sustainable Model Amy R. Cohen 150
52.3 Greek Language One γένος or Two? Embracing Paradox in Pindar’s Nemean 6.1 Peter Moench 150
51.1 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Of hornets and humans: the etymology of *anthropos* Richard Janko 150
62.6 Reconnecting the Classics Object-Oriented Philology Patrick Burns 150
41.2 Centering the Margins Nuts & Bolts: Building the Foundations of an Inclusive Classroom Suzanne Lye 150
78.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Notes on Greek Comparatives Alexander Nikolaev 150
64.5 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Normal for Byzantium is Queer for Us Mark Masterson 150
36.7 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries No Two are the Same: Stela Production in Ptolemaic and Roman Akhmim Emily Cole 150
72.4 Hellenistic Poetry Nicander’s Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric Thomas James Nelson 150
68.2 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship Sara Myers 150
43.5 Latin Hexameter Poetry Nature's City: Nemea as urbs capta in Statius' Thebaid Adam Kozak 150
31.7 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Multilingual Cityscapes: Language and Diversity in the Ancient City Olivia Elder 150
31.6 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Written Practice: Western Sicily Thea Sommerschield 150
56.3 Music and the Divine Movements Akin to the Soul’s: Human and Divine Mimēsis in Plato’s Music Spencer Klavan 150
6.3 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Modern Mapping Before Digitization Richard Talbert 150
60.5 Herodotus and Thucydides Minos: A Problematic First Thalassocrat in Thucydides’ Archaeology Valerio Caldesi-Valeri 150
34.3 Political Enculturation Metus Pyrrhi: The Effects of the Pyrrhic Invasion on Roman International Relations Gregory J. Callaghan 150
18.2 Academic Mentoring in Classics Mentoring in Independent Schools Giselle Furlonge 150
4.3 Satire Memory, Origins, and Fiction in Juvenal’s Satire 3 Maya Sunita Chakravorty 150
85.2 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Medical Hellenicity in the Letters of Hippocrates Calloway Scott 150
63.4 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Me and my shadow Katharine Earnshaw 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Maritime façades in Roman villa architecture and decoration Mantha Zarmakoupi 150
33.5 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Marguerite Yourcenar’s Sappho (Feux, La Couronne et la Lyre) and Lesbian Paris in the early twentieth century Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 150
70.1 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Mapping the unmapped: digital annotation of premodern geographies Chiara Palladino 150
55.4 Global Feminism and the Classics Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus’ Against Apion Sarah Christine Teets 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Mapping Text with Recogito Valeria Vitale 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Make Your Own Ancient Studies Podcast Scott Aaron Lepisto 150
63.3 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Lyric ephemerality in Sappho Alex Purves 150
24.4 Latin Prose Interaction Lucius Anicius Gallus, Conqueror and Tripartite Divider Kevin Scahill 150
43.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan’s African Monsters: the Triumph of Chaos over Cosmos in the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 150
39.5 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Lost in translation: Mapping cultural displacement in the Plautine Mediterranean Leon Grek 150
40.5 Podcasting the Classics Looted: Lessons Learned Zoe Kontes 150
36.5 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Locating energy in the archaeological record: A ceramic case study from Pompeii, Italy Gina Tibbott 150
80.2 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World Living Backwards: Roman Attitudes toward the Environment Victoria Pagán 150