Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
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
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
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
22.5 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture The Memory of Fire and the Rebuilding of the City Salvador Bartera 150
23.1 Attic Oratory How to Talk about Money in Attic Oratory: Insults and Iambos Robert K Morley 150
23.2 Attic Oratory Reapportioning Honors: Intertextuality in Against Leptines Mitchell H. Parks 150
23.3 Attic Oratory (Dis)Placing Timarchos: The Use of Place in Aeschines 1 Allison Glazebrook 150
23.4 Attic Oratory Prognosis as a Measure of Excellence: Medical Language in Demosthenes’ On the Crown Allison E Das 150
24.1 Latin Prose Interaction Cicero, Brutus 63–9 and the history of Cato’s Origines Jackie Elliott 150
24.2 Latin Prose Interaction Statuary Analogies and Cicero’s Judgment of Caesar’s Style (Brutus 262) Christopher S. van den Berg 150
24.3 Latin Prose Interaction Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284) Cynthia J Bannon 150
24.4 Latin Prose Interaction Lucius Anicius Gallus, Conqueror and Tripartite Divider Kevin Scahill 150
25.1 Greek Semantics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 147-148: A New Possible Semantic Interpretation Milena Anfosso 150
25.2 Greek Semantics Who’s afraid of wonder? θαῦμα and θάμβος. Rik Peters 150
25.3 Greek Semantics ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ: Insight into (its) Deeper Meaning in Classical Greece Carlo DaVia 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
26.1 Lightnings Talks 1: Pedagogy The Student Becomes the Classicist: Engaging and Empowering Students in the Classroom Molly Harris 150
26.2 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Learning Latin, Learning How to Learn: Student Agency, Identity, and Resilience Kristina A Meinking 150
26.3 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Open Access Pedagogy: Seeking a Sustainable Model Amy R. Cohen 150
26.4 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Conflict Analysis in History and Civilization Courses Seán Easton 150
26.5 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Greek and Latin Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Socially Conscious Classics Pedagogy Kelly P. Dugan 150
26.6 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching Beginning Greek Online Wilfred Major 150
26.7 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy The Pedagogy, Perils and Pitfalls of Graphic Novel in the Classroom Aaron L. Beek 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
26.9 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching with the Satyrica: Open Educational Resources for Intermediate Latin Beth Severy-Hoven 150
27.1 Didactic Prose In Good Form: Hermogenes and the Didactic Strategy of On Forms of Style Byron MacDougall 150
27.2 Didactic Prose Empire of Magic: Imperial Historiography in Pliny the Elder's History of Magic Trevor Stacy Luke 150
27.3 Didactic Prose Epitome in the Age of Empire: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic Rachel L Love 150
27.4 Didactic Prose In the Margins: Humanist Scholars on Pliny in Print Clare Woods 150
27.5 Didactic Prose Animal Speech, Sermo, and Imperialism in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Wesley J Hanson 150
27.6 Didactic Prose Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10 Victoria Austen-Perry 150
28.1 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Use of Allegory in Late Neoplatonic Psychagogy James Ambury 150
28.2 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Gymnasia for the Soul: Proclus and the First Lines of the Parmenides Alex Tarbet 150
28.3 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Proclus on Analogy Matteo Milesi 150
28.4 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Philosophical Allegoresis of Plato and Scripture in Numenius, Origen and Amelius Ilaria Ramelli 150
28.5 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Apuleius' use of philosophical allegory Joshua Renfro 150
28.6 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Augustine, Manichaeism, and the Allegorical Interpretation of Creation: Foundations of an Androcentric Anthropology. David Morphew 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
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
30.1 Ovid Gendering the Golden Age in Ovid's Ars Amatoria Zackary Rider 150
30.2 Ovid Ovid’s Cadmus, Herculean Cattle-Thief? Andrew C. Ficklin 150
30.3 Ovid Juno and Diana’s Revenge: The Use of Satiare in Ovid’s Metamorphoses India Watkins 150
30.4 Ovid With Clashing Bronze and Shrieking Pipes: Ovid’s Representation of the Sound of (Mystery Cult) Music Rebecca A. Sears 150
30.5 Ovid Watch Janus Looking at Cranaë: A Reconsideration of Janus in Ovid’s Fasti Anastasia Belinskaya 150
31.2 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Beyond the Text: Socio-political Implications in Cypriot bilingual Inscriptions Beatrice Pestarino 150
31.3 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean The Xanthos Trilingual and Beyond: Interlingual Patterns in Greek-Lycian-Aramaic Inscriptions Leon Battista Borsano 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