Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
8.1 Voicing the Past Aetolia Shall Rise Again? Phlegon Peri Thaumasion 3 as Anti-Roman Alternative History Kelly Shannon-Henderson 151
33.4 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics Perspectives and Methods in Graduate Student Union Organizing Kenneth Elliott 151
54.6 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... The Undergraduate Major in Classics Revisited: Ten Years Later Kenneth Scott Morrell 151
31.5 God and Man in the Second Sophistic Sincerity in the Second Sophistic: The Rhetoric of Religiosity in Philostratus’ Heroicus Kenneth Yu 151
25.5 Latin Poetry Future Counterfactual: Camilla, Women's Networks, and the Dynamics of Integration in Vergil's Aeneid Kevin E. Moch 151
75.2 Greek History A Game of Timber Monopoly: Atheno-Macedonian Relations on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War Konstantinos Karathanasis 151
60.4 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Cornelia’s Connections: Political Influence in Cross-Class Female Networks Krishni Schaefgen Burns 151
19.5 Lesbianism Before Sexuality Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: WLW in Martial Kristin Mann 151
35.4 Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture Translating the Voices of Tragedy’s “Other” Women: Theresa Has Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Seneca’s Phaedra Kristina Chew 151
59.2 Cicero When Being a Man Just Isn’t Enough: A Modified Forensic Defense in the Pro Ligario Ky Merkley 151
24.5 Second Sophistic Deterritorializing the Hellenosphere in Aelian’s Varia Historia: Miscellany and Inclusion Kyle Conrau-Lewis 151
46.2 Ecocriticism Seeing the Trees: Reading Pindar in the Anthropocene Kyle Sanders 151
85.4 Theatre of Displacement The Sword, the Box, and the Bow: Trauma, (Dis)placement, and “New Canadians” Lana Radloff 151
78.2 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Transitional Spaces and Connective Tissues: Harbor Dynamics in Hellenistic Asia Minor Lana Radloff 151
38.2 Hellenistic Poetry Which Came First: Intentional Anachronism in Callimachus' Iambus 1 Laura Marshall 151
2.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Ares πολισσόος (Homeric Hymn 8.2): A New Interpretation Laura Massetti 151
57.1 Science in Context Greek Mathematical Traditions Laura Winters 151
26.5 Legal Culture A Tradition of Popular Consent: Readings of Livy, Cicero, and Justinian in the Political Thought of James Wilson Laurie A Wilson 151
86.3 Augustus and After Augustus and the Nakharars of Armenia Lee E. Patterson 151
3.4 Blurring the Boundaries: Interactions between the Living and the Dead in the Roman World Not Set in Stone: Provisions for Roman Grave Reuse Liana Brent 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
76.3 Style and Stylistics nomine nos capis: Cicero’s Cato and the theory and practice impersonating orators Lydia Spielberg 151
15.1 Literary Texture in Augustine and Gregory Optatus Gildonianus: Exposure and Concealment in Augustine's Anti-Donatist Rhetoric Madeline E Monk 151
8.3 Voicing the Past Author vs. Narrator: Voices and Agendas in Dictys Cretensis Marc Bonaventura 151
75.1 Greek History Whose Tyrant Are You?: The Installation of Tyrants in the Archaic and Classical Worlds Marcaline J. Boyd 151
81.2 Greek Culture in the Roman World Lucilius Philosophos? Manipulation of Greek Philosophy in the Early Roman Satires Marcie Persyn 151
8.4 Voicing the Past The Homeric Life of Vergil in the Vita Vergilii (VSD) Marcos B Gouvêa 151
66.5 Homerica Panhellenistic Appropriations: The Case of Aphrodite, Diomedes’ Aristeia, and Tablet VI of Gilgamesh Marcus D Ziemann 151
37.1 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality Foucault in the Roman Carcer Marcus Folch 151
29.1 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts Sugar Baby's Riddle: Sphinx or Sibyl? Margaret Day 151
21.3 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama The Statue in the Meadow and the Garments in the River: Objects and Landscape in Euripides’ Hippolytus Maria Combatti 151
3.5 Blurring the Boundaries: Interactions between the Living and the Dead in the Roman World Transgressing the Dead in Ancient and Renaissance Rome Mario Erasmo 151
51.6 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies Challenging Expectations: The notorious productions of Peter Sellars’ Ajax and Anatoly Vasiliev’s Medea Marios Kallos 151
26.4 Legal Culture Sex and Desire between Men in Byzantium: Civil Law, Dissidence, and (the Lack of) Enforcement Mark Masterson 151
23.5 Ordering Information in Greco-Roman Medicine Authorial Strategies in P.Oxy. 5231, an Empiricist Commentary on Hippocrates Marquis Berrey 151
39.3 Numismatics A Coin’s Eye View of Roman Imperialism Marsha McCoy 151
8.2 Voicing the Past Evaluating Criteria for Fictitious Lacunae Martin P. Shedd 151
55.4 Women in Rage Women in Protest... Furor Frustrated: Policing Women’s Anger in the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia Mary Hamil Gilbert 151
43.4 Citizenship Migration and Identity Plataean Citizenship: Dual Identities Mary Jean McNamara 151
87.4 Ancient Ethics Quintilian's Last Word: Voluntas and the Goodness of the Vir Bonus Dicendi Peritus Mary Rosalie Stoner 151
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
84.4 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Hercules (and Cacus?) at the Lupercalia in Fasti 2.303–80 Matthew Loar 151
67.5 Plato and his Reception Academic Consolation in Pseudo-Plato’s Axiochus Matthew Watton 151
57.6 Science in Context Viewing Cultures in the Letter of Aristeas Max Leventhal 151
51.7 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies Dionysus on Tour: Cross-Cultural Performance in a Beijing Opera Bacchae Melissa Funke 151
18.4 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception Lost in space: matrices of exilic wandering in the Aeneid and Battlestar Galactica Meredith Safran 151
14.3 Pedagogy Mapping Cicero’s Letters: Digital Visualizations in the Liberal Arts Classroom Micah Young Myers 151
6.1 Lightning Talks 1: Latin and Greek Literature The Timaeus and Creation in Cicero's De Natura Deorum Michael A.D. Moore 151
42.3 Classics Graduate Education in the 21st Century Developing a Graduate-Level Pedagogy Course: A Test Case at Florida State University Michael Furman 151
79.2 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Beyond Celtic: Panoply and Identity in the Roman Republic Michael Taylor 151