Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
77.3 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West Progymnasmatic Ekphrasis at the Latin School of Arezzo and Vasari’s “Memory Images” Jesús Muñoz Morcillo 151
76.3 Style and Stylistics nomine nos capis: Cicero’s Cato and the theory and practice impersonating orators Lydia Spielberg 151
76.4 Style and Stylistics Ne procaces manus rapiant: Stylistic Shifts as a Defensive Strategy in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia Scheherazade J Khan 151
76.1 Style and Stylistics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 150–161: "Entwining Greek with Asian Speech" Milena Anfosso 151
76.2 Style and Stylistics “Why is it impossible to do it well?” Aristotle and Quintilian on Narrative Brevity in Forensic Oratory Sidney Kochman 151
75.3 Greek History Redistribution, Public Wealth, and the Cretan Andreion Evan Vance 151
75.1 Greek History Whose Tyrant Are You?: The Installation of Tyrants in the Archaic and Classical Worlds Marcaline J. Boyd 151
75.4 Greek History Carving Communities in Stone: Cosmopolitan Space on Hellenistic Kos Sjoukje M Kamphorst 151
75.2 Greek History A Game of Timber Monopoly: Atheno-Macedonian Relations on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War Konstantinos Karathanasis 151
73.2 Novel Entanglements Time-psychology in the Cena Trimalchionis Karen Ni-Mheallaigh 151
73.3 Novel Entanglements Awkward Authority: Gnomai in Heliodorus and Nonnus Emma Greensmith 151
73.4 Novel Entanglements Between Skeptical Sophistry and Religious Teleology: The Multiperspectivity of Heliodorus' Aethiopica Benedek Kruchió 151
73.5 Novel Entanglements The Novel and Bookspace Tim Whitmarsh 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
72.4 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Integrating diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in the Latin classroom, and reconsidering the place of Classics in non-western traditions Sonya Wurster 151
72.5 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Expanding Classics through the visual and performing arts, in and out of the classroom Nina Papathanasopoulou 151
72.2 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Increasing the diversity of graduate students in Classics: The University of Michigan’s Bridge M.A. and Bridge to the Ph.D Programs Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Sierra P. Jones 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
71.5 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity The Pantomimic Voice: Ovid’s Echo and the Body-Voice Relationship in Dance Amy Koenig 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
69.4 Public Life in Classical Athens Making Necessity of a Virtue: Hidden Value Judgments in Forensic Suggnōmē Ted Parker 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
68.1 Greek and Latin Comedy Pherecrates’ Comic Poetics Amy S Lewis 151
68.5 Greek and Latin Comedy Wife-Erasure in Terence's Hecyra Hannah Sorscher 151
68.2 Greek and Latin Comedy Innovation and Intertextuality in Greek Mythological Comedy Dustin W. Dixon 151
68.4 Greek and Latin Comedy Dropping the Dramatic Illusion: A Narratological Model of Plautine Metatheater Rachel Mazzara 151
68.3 Greek and Latin Comedy Braunfels’s Aristophanic opera, Die Vögel Peter Burian 151
67.4 Plato and his Reception Roman Stoic appropriation of the Middle Platonic “imitation of god” Collin Miles Hilton 151
67.1 Plato and his Reception Divination and Dialogue: The Construction of Philosophy in Plato’s Apology Ethan Schwartz 151
67.5 Plato and his Reception Academic Consolation in Pseudo-Plato’s Axiochus Matthew Watton 151
67.3 Plato and his Reception Religious Practice as Play in Plato’s Laws Justin Barney 151
67.2 Plato and his Reception Plato’s Apology of Socrates: For What Does Socrates Die? Joseph Gerbasi 151
66.2 Homerica More Useful and More Trustworthy? The Cyclical Poem in Scholia Jennifer L Weintritt 151
66.5 Homerica Panhellenistic Appropriations: The Case of Aphrodite, Diomedes’ Aristeia, and Tablet VI of Gilgamesh Marcus D Ziemann 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
66.1 Homerica Another Current in Homer's Ocean Joshua M Smith 151
66.3 Homerica Poetically Packed: πυκ[ι]νός in the Iliad Kaitlyn Boulding 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
65.2 Late Antiquity Staging Schism: Optatus 1.16-20 and the Earliest Extant Christian Play James F. Patterson 151
65.5 Late Antiquity A Fiction of Nature and the Nature of Fiction: Animal Allegory in the Greek Physiologos Alvaro O Pires 151
65.1 Late Antiquity Julian and Rome’s Eternal Refoundation Jeremy J. Swist 151
65.4 Late Antiquity The Encomiastic “Other” in Jerome’s Epistles Angela Zielinski Kinney 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