Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
38.5 Hellenistic Poetry The Hellenistic Pedigree of Lucretius' Honeyed Cup Brian P Hill 151
27.3 Approaches to Language and Style “Hiss At Some Length”: Onomatopoeia, Mimesis, and Other Noises in the Greco-Roman Magical Tradition Britta Ager 151
37.5 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality Biopolitics and the Afterlife of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Life Brooke Holmes 151
53.1 Neo-Latin in the Old and New World: Current Scholarship Turks as Trojans: Intertext and Allusion in Ubertino Posculo’s Constantinopolis Bryan Whitchurch 151
50.5 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era On Having Many Acquaintances: Friend-Making in Table Talk Bryant Kirkland 151
45.2 Roman Cultural History A Pastoral Pathicus? Juv. Sat. 9, Verg. Ecl. 2, and Patronage at Rome Cait Monroe Mongrain 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
84.3 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Rome’s Feminine Foundations and the Agency of the Sabine Women Caleb Dance 151
53.3 Neo-Latin in the Old and New World: Current Scholarship Rhyming Rome: Luther’s In Clementem Papam VII Carl P.E. Springer 151
52.2 New Perspectives on the Atlantic Facade of the Roman World Atlantic Commerce and Social Mobility in Southwestern Iberia Carlos F. Norena 151
84.5 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Performing Foundation: Carmentis and Mater Matuta Carole Newlands 151
24.1 Second Sophistic Echoes of Ovid: Metamorphic Moments in Philostratus’ Imagines Carolyn MacDonald 151
47.2 The Lives of Books The Ancient Entomological Bookworm: A New Chapter in the Shelf Life of Books Cat Lambert 151
13.4 Readers and Reading: Current Debates sunt mihi multae curae: Self-Writing and the Emotional Reader Catherine Conybeare 151
60.2 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary If I say that the Polyxena Sarcophagus was designed for a woman, does that make me a TERF? Identity politics and power now and then. Catherine M. Draycott 151
84.2 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Roma/amor redux: Cultivating Rome in the Early Books of the Metamorphoses Celia Campbell 151
37.3 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality Foucault and the Funeral Games: Ancient Roots for a Modern Problematic of Power Charles Stocking 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
7.2 Greek Religious Texts A Re-reading of Empedocles' Fr. 115 DK Chiara R. Ciampa 151
36.5 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Of a Different Color: The Ever-Changing Image of the Female Centaur Chiara Sulprizio 151
41.3 Late Antique Textualities Gennadius and Jerome: Discontinuity in the De viris illustribus Tradition Christopher Blunda 151
17.4 Greek and Roman Novel A Land Without Slavery: Daphnis’ Civil Status in the Pastoral Landscape of Longus Christopher Cochran 151
1.4 Evaluating Scholarship: Digital and Traditional Your Personnel Committee Has Questions Christopher Francese 151
58.2 Global Receptions Frank Snowden at Naukratis: Revisiting the Image of the Black in Western Art Christopher Stedman Parmenter 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
9.2 Tragic Tradition The Critical Reception of Sophocles in the Ancient Scholia Clinton Douglas Kinkade 151
56.1 Lucan Statius and Silius Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Animals, Knowledge and Dread in Lucan and Nicander Colin MacCormack 151
67.4 Plato and his Reception Roman Stoic appropriation of the Middle Platonic “imitation of god” Collin Miles Hilton 151
20.5 Teaching with Coins: Coins as Tools for Thinking about the Ancient World Coins as a Teaching Tool: An Experience of Integration of Numismatics and Conservation Cristiana Zaccagnino 151
61.2 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Classical Antiquity and Contemporary Hate Groups Curtis Dozier 151
18.3 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic Dan Curley 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
72.3 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Creating systemic change within existing structures Danielle R. Bostick 151
50.1 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era “Always and Everywhere:” Early Greek Poetry, Local Identities, and the Universal Homer in Plutarch’s Symposia David Driscoll 151
87.5 Ancient Ethics Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul David H Kaufman 151
6.3 Lightning Talks 1: Latin and Greek Literature Cicero demonstrates a transmission error at De divinatione 1.14-15 David Perry 151
82.4 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? "Plutarch and the Non-Rational Soul: A Defense Against the Republic’s Psychological Criticism of Poetry” David Ryan Morphew 151
4.2 Imperial Virgil "Imperial Venus Venatrix in the Aeneid” David West 151
24.3 Second Sophistic Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals David William Frierson Stifler 151
58.1 Global Receptions “Learned Poetry,” Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies David Wray 151
69.1 Public Life in Classical Athens Insults and status negotiation in the Athenian agora Deborah Kamen 151
63.5 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Fabula Muta: Ovid’s Jove in Petronius Satyrica 126.18 Debra Freas 151
56.3 Lucan Statius and Silius Velut Mater Agnoscens. Hypsipyle's Recognitions in Statius's Thebaid Diana Librandi 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
79.4 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Cultural Transformation of the Roman Army in Republican Spain Dominic Machado 151
3.2 Blurring the Boundaries: Interactions between the Living and the Dead in the Roman World Mapping Funerary Monuments in the Periphery of Imperial Rome Dorian Borbonus 151
68.2 Greek and Latin Comedy Innovation and Intertextuality in Greek Mythological Comedy Dustin W. Dixon 151
25.3 Latin Poetry Serta Mihi Phyllis Legeret: Epigrammatic Echoes in Vergil's Eclogues Edgar Adrián García 151
51.4 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies Bernini's Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception in Seventeenth-Century Rome Edmund V. Thomas 151
33.2 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics The Classics Coffee Hour: Creating Connections and Promoting New Ideas through Graduate Student Service Ekaterina But and Colleen Kron 151