Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
70.3 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology G.I.S., Military History, and the Mapping of Nuanced Imperialism Gabriel Moss 150
71.6 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Fusing of Ancestor Worship and the Cult of Martyrs in Late Fourth Century Gold Glass Susan Ludi Blevins 150
31.4 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean From Text to Monument: Sociolinguistics and Epigraphy in the Bilingual Funerary Inscriptions from Lycia Marco Santini 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship From Stone to Screen and the DIY Method: Digitization, Integration, and You Chelsea Gardner 150
13.3 Reception and National Traditions From Homer to Lescarbot: The Iliad’s Influence on the First North American Drama Andrew E. Porter 150
9.5 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Friendship with the powerful? Perspectives pro and con in the Roman empire Zsuzsa Varhelyi 150
4.4 Satire Friend or Enemy?: Humor and Contradiction in Juvenal 11-13 Scheherazade Jehan Khan 150
7.4 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt Final and consecutive clauses in the Greek documentary papyri of the Roman period Giuseppina di Bartolo 150
8.4 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Festive days in Statius’ Thebaid Anke Walter 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
88.5 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Fear and hatred: The autopsy reports of Cassius Dio Jesper M. Madsen 150
60.4 Herodotus and Thucydides Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Zoology and Ecology in Herodotus’ Histories Colin MacCormack 150
11.2 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Family, Fate, and Magic: An Introduction to the Greek Adaptations of Luis Alfaro Mary Louise Hart 150
59.5 A Century of Translating Poetry Faithless: Gender bias and translating the classics Emily Wilson 150
34.6 Political Enculturation Evidence for a Regional Assembly in Coastal Paphlagonia in the Julio-Claudian Period Ching-Yuan Wu 150
56.4 Music and the Divine Eudoxus of Cnidus on Consonance, Reason/Ratio, and Divine Pleasure Victor Gysembergh 150
75.5 Materiality and Literary Culture Etymological Resonances Between the Argiletum and the Forum Transitorium Emma Brobeck 150
27.3 Didactic Prose Epitome in the Age of Empire: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic Rachel L Love 150
67.3 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Epigraphic Egocentrism and Ancient Literary Invention Seth Larkin Sanders 150
63.2 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Ephemerality as exhortation Sarah Nooter 150
27.2 Didactic Prose Empire of Magic: Imperial Historiography in Pliny the Elder's History of Magic Trevor Stacy Luke 150
87.6 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Empedocles on Language, Nature and Learning Leon Wash 150
2.4 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Empathy and Ancient Historiography Regina M Loehr 150
10.2 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Emerging Markets and Transnational Interactions in Translation and Epicization: the Case of Spain 1549-1569 Richard H. Armstrong 150
40.2 Podcasting the Classics Educational Podcasts: Sensical Strategies Doug Metzger 150
33.2 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Edith Wharton and Classical Antiquity: From Victorian to Modern Isobel Hurst 150
51.3 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language East versus West in the Lyrics of Ibycus William Tortorelli 150
32.3 Hannibal's Legacy Early Rome, after the war Jeremy Armstrong 150
91.2 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Duels, Dualities, and Double Suns: Natural Philosophy and Politics in Cicero's De re publica Ashley Ariel Simone 150
12.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Dorians are Allowed to Speak Doric: Theocritus' Idyll XV in the Context of Panhellenization Sophia Decker 150
22.3 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Domitianic ‘Arachnes’ and ‘Lucretias’: An Inter-discursive Perspective Emma Buckley 150
74.5 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Document Titles in Greek Inscriptions Randall Souza 150
51.4 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Distributed Agency in Tragic Social Networks Francesca Spiegel 150
49.4 Contagious Narrative Disease in Virgil and Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" Julia Nelson Hawkins 150
78.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics Discourse (dis-)continuity in relative clauses: Evidence of contact-induced pragmatic expansion in Latin oratio obliqua Sean Gleason 150
11.6 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Directing Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles Jessica Kubzansky 150
92.3 Homer and Hesiod Diomedes, Dione, and Divine Insecurity in Iliad 5-8 Rebecca Ann Deitsch 150
2.5 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Diodorus, Roman Generals, and Ptolemaic Egypt Alexander Skufca 150
78.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Differential agent marking in classical Greek David Goldstein 150
48.5 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women? Kirk Ormand 150
60.6 Herodotus and Thucydides Dialectics of Hope and Fear in Thucydides Book 6 Bradley Hald 150
53.2 Horace and his Legacy Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic Alicia Matz 150
19.3 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Designing Materialism: Ovid’s Armillary Sphere and the Phaedo Peter Kelly 150
73.4 Greek Religion Defending Delos: The Role of the Temple of Apollo in the third century BCE Michael McGlin 150
83.4 Philosophy De Mortuis Nil Dicendum Est? On Sextus Empiricus Against the Mathematicians VIII.98 and Stoic Indefinite Propositions Marion Durand 150
2.2 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Cyrus the Cupbearer: Near Eastern Influence in Ctesias' Persica C Sydnor Roy 150
32.2 Hannibal's Legacy Cycles of Death and Renewal: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Forces in the Republican Senate Cary Barber 150
82.2 Homer and Reception Cut Him Down To Size: Homeric Epitomes in Greco-Roman Antiquity Massimo Cè 150
2.3 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Croesus in conversation: past tense and dramatic form in Herodotus Tobias Joho 150
79.3 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Cristoforo Landino’s Metrical Practice in Aeolics Anne Mahoney 150