Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
83.3 Philosophy Academic Ends of Interpretation: Plato the Sceptic in Cic. Luc. 74 Peter Osorio 150
83.2 Philosophy Anticipating the Worst: A Cyrenaic Technique to Increase Pleasure Isabelle Chouinard 150
83.1 Philosophy Aristotle’s Uses of ‘ἕνεκά του’ and ‘οὗ ἕνεκα’ Takashi Oki 150
82.3 Homer and Reception The Cognitive Life of the Kestos Himas Amy Lather 150
82.2 Homer and Reception Cut Him Down To Size: Homeric Epitomes in Greco-Roman Antiquity Massimo Cè 150
82.1 Homer and Reception Iliadic Euphony, Odyssean Cacophony: Homeric Exempla in Philodemus’ On Poems 1 Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 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
80.3 Responses Under the Plane Tree: Cultivation in Ancient Urban Pollution Kaja Tally-Schumacher 150
80.2 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World Living Backwards: Roman Attitudes toward the Environment Victoria Pagán 150
80.1 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World The Effects of Environmental Change on Wild and Domestic Animal Populations in Roman Antiquity Michael MacKinnon 150
79.5 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Sannazaro’s Pastoral Seascape Joshua Patch 150
79.4 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Syphilitic Trees: Immobility and Voicelessness in Ovid and Fracastoro Kat Vaananen 150
79.3 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Cristoforo Landino’s Metrical Practice in Aeolics Anne Mahoney 150
79.2 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches The Classical Tradition in the Personal Correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman Stephen Maiullo 150
78.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Notes on Greek Comparatives Alexander Nikolaev 150
78.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Differential agent marking in classical Greek David Goldstein 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
78.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Rethinking discourse segmentation in Herodotus and Thucydides Anna Bonifazi 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Maritime façades in Roman villa architecture and decoration Mantha Zarmakoupi 150
77.1 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Qui carbone rudi putrique creta scribit: The Charcoal Graffiti of Herculaneum Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons 150
76.5 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity Samaritans, Regional Coalition, and the Limits of Imperial Authority in Late Antique Palestine Matt Chalmers 150
76.4 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity The Kings as Imperial Models in the Fourth-Century Epitomators Jeremy Swist 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
76.2 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity The Imperial Adventus: Evolving Dialogues between Emperor and City in the Third Century C.E. Shawn Ragan 150
75.5 Materiality and Literary Culture Etymological Resonances Between the Argiletum and the Forum Transitorium Emma Brobeck 150
75.4 Materiality and Literary Culture Identity in Mosnier’s 17th-century Paintings of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Kathryn Chew 150
75.3 Materiality and Literary Culture Unwelcome Guest: Envy, Shame, and Materiality in an Ancient Greek House Andrew Scholtz 150
75.2 Materiality and Literary Culture The Imperial Bellerophon: Reading Archaic Tablets as Modern Books in the Second Sophistic Joseph Howley 150
75.1 Materiality and Literary Culture Tragic Epigraphy: Euripides’ Archelaus and IG I3 117 Andrea Giannotti 150
74.6 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Circular by Design: Graphic Clues in Magical and Cultic Graffiti Irene Polinskaya 150
74.5 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Document Titles in Greek Inscriptions Randall Souza 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
74.3 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing ‘Game-used Equipment’: Reading Inscribed Athletic Objects Peter J. Miller 150
74.2 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Tesserae Nummulariae: Creating a Typology of Graphic Display on Portable Latin Labels Lindsay Holman 150
73.6 Greek Religion Greek Gods, “Big Gods” and Moral Supervision Jennifer Larson 150
73.5 Greek Religion The lex sacra from Ptolemais Revisited. Maryline G. Parca 150
73.4 Greek Religion Defending Delos: The Role of the Temple of Apollo in the third century BCE Michael McGlin 150
73.3 Greek Religion The Place of the Club-bearer: Thoughts on the New Festival Calendar from Arcadia Kyle W Mahoney 150
73.2 Greek Religion An Infant μύστης at Pelinna? Evidence for the Initiation of Children into Bacchic-Dionysiac Mystery Cults Colleen Kron 150
73.1 Greek Religion Knowledgeable Encounters in Early Greek Religion Eric Wesley Driscoll 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
72.5 Hellenistic Poetry Resonant Presence in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo Stephen White 150
72.4 Hellenistic Poetry Nicander’s Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric Thomas James Nelson 150
72.3 Hellenistic Poetry Organizing Snakes: Nicander’s Literary and Biological Catalog Kathryn Dorothy Wilson 150
72.2 Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Orpheus, and the Sirens: beyond poetical aemulatio matthieu real 150
72.1 Hellenistic Poetry The Same River Twice: The Anaurus-crossing(s) and Narrative Strategy in Apollonius' Argonautica Keith Penich 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
71.5 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Beforelives of Votives: Prospective Memory and Religious Experience in the Roman Empire Maggie L. Popkin 150
71.4 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Statuary Alteration as Prediction Error: A Cognitive Theoretical Approach to Reuse Diana Y. Ng 150