Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
61.3 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons The Reception of Classics in Hispanphone and Lusophone Cultures and Modern Imperialism Matthew Gorey 151
61.4 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Comparing Present and Past in the Migration Classroom Lindsey A. Mazurek 151
61.5 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Cultural and Historical Contingencies in Ancient and Modern Sexuality Daniel Libatique 151
61.6 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Race in Antiquity and Modernity Sam Flores 151
62.1 Translating Evil in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture In Search of the Root of All Evil: Is There a Concept of ‘Evil’ in the Hebrew Bible? Aren Max Wilson-Wright 151
62.2 Translating Evil in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture Just Some Evil Scheme: Translating ‘Badness’ in the Plays of Euripides Diane Arnson Svarlien 151
62.3 Translating Evil in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture Evil (Not) Then and Evil Now: A Test Case in ‘Translating’ Cultural Notions Thomas G Palaima 151
63.2 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Proserpina’s Pomegranate and Ceres’ Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid’s Account of Ceres and Proserpina Sophie Emilia Seidler 151
63.3 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Ovid’s Visceral Reactions: Lexical Change as Intervention in Public Discourses of Power Caitlin Hines 151
63.4 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Naso Ex Machina: A Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis of Ovid’s Epistolary Poetry Chenye (Peter) Shi 151
63.5 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Fabula Muta: Ovid’s Jove in Petronius Satyrica 126.18 Debra Freas 151
63.6 What's New in Ovidian Studies? The Haunting of Naso’s Ghost in Spenser’s Ovidian Intertexts Ben Philippi 151
63.7 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Reweaving Philomela’s Tongue Aislinn Melchior 151
64.2 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Maritime Networks and Moral Imagination: Samothracian Proxeny as an Archaeology of Coalition Sandra Blakely 151
64.3 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts An Examination of Epigraphical and Numismatic Evidence for the Invocation of Jupiter in Roman Imperial Italy using Network Analysis Zehavi Husser 151
64.4 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Books on the Road: Exploring Material Evidence for Social Networks in the Early Middle Ages Clare Woods 151
64.5 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Female Agency in the Late Roman Republic: A Social Network Approach Gregory Gilles 151
64.6 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Attalus I and Networks of Benefactions Gregory J. Callaghan 151
64.7 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Eleni Hasaki and Diane Harris Cline 151
65.1 Late Antiquity Julian and Rome’s Eternal Refoundation Jeremy J. Swist 151
65.2 Late Antiquity Staging Schism: Optatus 1.16-20 and the Earliest Extant Christian Play James F. Patterson 151
65.3 Late Antiquity Figuring It Out: The Relationship between exemplum and figura in Ambrose of Milan’s De Abraham Anthony J Thomas 151
65.4 Late Antiquity The Encomiastic “Other” in Jerome’s Epistles Angela Zielinski Kinney 151
65.5 Late Antiquity A Fiction of Nature and the Nature of Fiction: Animal Allegory in the Greek Physiologos Alvaro O Pires 151
66.1 Homerica Another Current in Homer's Ocean Joshua M Smith 151
66.2 Homerica More Useful and More Trustworthy? The Cyclical Poem in Scholia Jennifer L Weintritt 151
66.3 Homerica Poetically Packed: πυκ[ι]νός in the Iliad Kaitlyn Boulding 151
66.4 Homerica Helen of Troy and Her Indo-European Sisters: Women's Vocal Agency and Self-Rescue in Greek, Indian, and Irish Epic John McDonald 151
66.5 Homerica Panhellenistic Appropriations: The Case of Aphrodite, Diomedes’ Aristeia, and Tablet VI of Gilgamesh Marcus D Ziemann 151
67.1 Plato and his Reception Divination and Dialogue: The Construction of Philosophy in Plato’s Apology Ethan Schwartz 151
67.2 Plato and his Reception Plato’s Apology of Socrates: For What Does Socrates Die? Joseph Gerbasi 151
67.3 Plato and his Reception Religious Practice as Play in Plato’s Laws Justin Barney 151
67.4 Plato and his Reception Roman Stoic appropriation of the Middle Platonic “imitation of god” Collin Miles Hilton 151
67.5 Plato and his Reception Academic Consolation in Pseudo-Plato’s Axiochus Matthew Watton 151
68.1 Greek and Latin Comedy Pherecrates’ Comic Poetics Amy S Lewis 151
68.2 Greek and Latin Comedy Innovation and Intertextuality in Greek Mythological Comedy Dustin W. Dixon 151
68.3 Greek and Latin Comedy Braunfels’s Aristophanic opera, Die Vögel Peter Burian 151
68.4 Greek and Latin Comedy Dropping the Dramatic Illusion: A Narratological Model of Plautine Metatheater Rachel Mazzara 151
68.5 Greek and Latin Comedy Wife-Erasure in Terence's Hecyra Hannah Sorscher 151
69.1 Public Life in Classical Athens Insults and status negotiation in the Athenian agora Deborah Kamen 151
69.2 Public Life in Classical Athens The Trierarchy, Financial Syndication, and Impersonal Intermediation Andrew Foster 151
69.3 Public Life in Classical Athens The Lives of Lycurgus: Self-Commemoration in Fourth-Century Athens Mitchell H. Parks 151
69.4 Public Life in Classical Athens Making Necessity of a Virtue: Hidden Value Judgments in Forensic Suggnōmē Ted Parker 151
70.2 Inscriptions and Dates How old are the earliest Mycenaean tablets? Absolute and Relative Chronology of the Linear B Tablet Deposits of the Room of the Chariot Tablets (RCT) and the North Entrance Passage (NEP) at Knossos Rachele Pierini 151
70.3 Inscriptions and Dates Dating, and Dating by, the Antikythera Mechanism Paul Iversen 151
70.4 Inscriptions and Dates Erroneous Dates In Athenian State Decrees And Financial Documents John Morgan 151
70.5 Inscriptions and Dates One is not enough: Double dates in inscriptions from the Greek East under Rome Ilaria Bultrighini 151
71.2 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity Movement, Sight, and Sound in Archaic Song-and-dance Poetry: Erotic and Ritual Kinesthesia and Synesthesia in the ‘Newest Sappho’ Michel Briand 151
71.3 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity Komos and Choros: The Language of Dance in Greek Vase-Painting Tyler Jo Smith 151
71.4 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity Dancing in Roman Dress: Fabula Togata and the Music of Pantomime Harry Morgan 151