Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
89.3 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Pedagogy and Classics: Finding a Happy Medium when Discussing Ancient Homoeroticism in the Classroom Walter Penrose 150
89.2 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Parenting and the Profession Kristina Milnor 150
52.4 Greek Language Let All Marvel at This Stele: Complexity and Performance in the Shem/Antipatros Stele of the Kerameikos Justin S. Miller 150
42.4 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Legal Lumpiness of the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 150
24.3 Latin Prose Interaction Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284) Cynthia J Bannon 150
26.2 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Learning Latin, Learning How to Learn: Student Agency, Identity, and Resilience Kristina A Meinking 150
14.5 Greek Political Thought Law's Measure: Aischines 3.199–200 Edwin Carawan 150
87.5 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Language-Games in Parmenides' Proem Gabriela Cursaru 150
14.4 Greek Political Thought Kritias and Plato's Ur-Athens as Oligarchy William S. Morison 150
73.1 Greek Religion Knowledgeable Encounters in Early Greek Religion Eric Wesley Driscoll 150
7.5 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt Keeping up with the Apollonii: Social and Economic Strategy and Choice among Merchants in Roman Egypt Jane Sancinito 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
30.3 Ovid Juno and Diana’s Revenge: The Use of Satiare in Ovid’s Metamorphoses India Watkins 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
65.3 The Digital Latin Library Is There an Editor in this Text? Robert Kaster 150
64.3 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound Sarah Olsen 150
36.4 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Invisible Trades: Apprenticeship and Systems of Knowledge in Poorly Attested Industries Jared Benton 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
33.1 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Inside Stories: Amateurism and Activism in the Classical Works of Naomi Mitchison Sheila Murnaghan 150
37.2 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers Inscription Hunting and Early Travellers in the Near East: The Cases of Pococke and Chandler Compared Alastair J.L. Blanshard 150
22.2 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Incendiary Memories: The Intermediality of Nero in Flavian Poetics and Politics Virginia Closs 150
62.4 Reconnecting the Classics In the Mind of a Polymath: Exploring D’Arcy Thompson’s Glossary of Greek Birds Marie-Claire Beaulieu 150
27.4 Didactic Prose In the Margins: Humanist Scholars on Pliny in Print Clare Woods 150
27.1 Didactic Prose In Good Form: Hermogenes and the Didactic Strategy of On Forms of Style Byron MacDougall 150
11.3 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Immigrants in Time Amy Richlin 150
1.6 Late Antique Literary Developments Imitation and Emulation in Gregory of Nazianzus’ “On his own affairs” Peter O'Connell 150
82.1 Homer and Reception Iliadic Euphony, Odyssean Cacophony: Homeric Exempla in Philodemus’ On Poems 1 Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 150
75.4 Materiality and Literary Culture Identity in Mosnier’s 17th-century Paintings of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Kathryn Chew 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
23.1 Attic Oratory How to Talk about Money in Attic Oratory: Insults and Iambos Robert K Morley 150
46.4 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry How to Bejewel a Cento (Eudocia the Magpie) Francesca Middleton 150
21.5 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century How The Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson’s star text in HERCULES (2014) Monica Cyrino 150
25.4 Greek Semantics How Long Does the "Right Time" Last? Kairos in Galen's On Crises and On Hygiene Kassandra Jackson Miller 150
12.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Hot Topics: Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Charcoal Production Molly Schaub 150
53.3 Horace and his Legacy Horace the Communist: Marx’s Capital as Satire Katherine Wasdin 150
64.4 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Homo Urbanus or Urban Homos?: The Metronormative Trope, Philo’s Therapeuts, and Ancient Queer Subcultures James Hoke 150
29.4 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Historical [Re]constructions: Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood and Proto-Afrocentric Classicism Nicole A. Spigner 150
88.3 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Historical Method and Quasi-Barbaric Historians in Polybius’s Histories Sulochana R. Asirvatham 150
85.4 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Hierarchical Communities: Elite Approaches to Defining botanē in Ancient Medical Practice Katherine Beydler 150
88.6 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Herodian, autopsy, and historical analysis Andrew G. Scott 150
21.3 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century Hercules' birthday suit: performing heroic nudity between Athens and Amsterdam Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 150
21.2 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century Herakles/Vajrapani, the companion of Buddha Karl Galinsky 150
2.1 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Hecataeus' Heroic Boast: Personal and Impersonal Genealogies in Archaic Greek Literature Joseph Baker Zehner 150
85.6 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Group Medical Practice in Imperial Rome: The Case of Allianoi Sarah Yeomans 150
73.6 Greek Religion Greek Gods, “Big Gods” and Moral Supervision Jennifer Larson 150
13.1 Reception and National Traditions Greek Andes: Briceño Guerrero and the Latin America Tragedy Jacobo Myerston 150
6.2 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Greek and Roman Mapping Georgia Irby 150
74.4 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Graphic Order from Alpha to Omega: Alphabetization in Hellenistic Inscriptions Alexandra Schultz 150
70.6 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology GIS at 50: the many uses of a mature research tool Eric Poehler 150
30.1 Ovid Gendering the Golden Age in Ovid's Ars Amatoria Zackary Rider 150