Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
64.6 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Attalus I and Networks of Benefactions Gregory J. Callaghan 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
64.5 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Female Agency in the Late Roman Republic: A Social Network Approach Gregory Gilles 151
64.4 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
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
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
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
61.1 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Using Cross-Dressing to Understand Ancient Conceptions of Gender and Identity Nicole Nowbahar 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
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
61.6 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Race in Antiquity and Modernity Sam Flores 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
60.7 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Basilissa, not mahārāni: The Indo-Greek queen Agathokleia Gunnar Dumke 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
60.3 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Ptolemaic Faience and the Limits of Female Power Alana Newman 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
60.5 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Always Advanced By Her Recommendations: The Vestal Virgins and Women’s Mentoring Morgan E. Palmer 151
60.6 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Chiomara and the Roman Centurion Jessica Clark 151
59.2 Cicero When Being a Man Just Isn’t Enough: A Modified Forensic Defense in the Pro Ligario Ky Merkley 151
59.1 Cicero A Farewell to Arms? Cicero’s Pro Fonteio and the Shortage of Commanders in the Republic’s Last Generation. Noah A.S. Segal 151
59.3 Cicero Irony in Cicero’s Letter to Lucceius Joanna Kenty 151
59.4 Cicero Creating familiaritas: Cicero’s letters of recommendation of 46-45 BCE Jeffrey Easton 151
58.4 Global Receptions Dreaming of Hector in the Brazilian Neoclassical Period: Conceptualizing 'Window Reception' Adriana Maria Vazquez 151
58.5 Global Receptions “Keep quiet! You can’t even read Latin!” The satirical purpose of Western Classics in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat. James R Townshend 151
58.3 Global Receptions Norse Gods in Tyrkland: The Manipulation of the Classical Tradition in Snorra Edda Kathleen Noelle Cruz 151
58.2 Global Receptions Frank Snowden at Naukratis: Revisiting the Image of the Black in Western Art Christopher Stedman Parmenter 151
58.1 Global Receptions “Learned Poetry,” Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies David Wray 151
57.3 Science in Context From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern: Polemon and the Ontology of Passion Andrew Scholtz 151
57.6 Science in Context Viewing Cultures in the Letter of Aristeas Max Leventhal 151
57.4 Science in Context The Medical Context of Galen’s Protrepticus Jonathan Reeder 151
57.5 Science in Context Gendering the Brain in Ancient Medicine Jessica L. Wright 151
57.2 Science in Context Themistocles, Pericles, and Anaxagoras' trial for studying astronomy Richard Janko 151
57.1 Science in Context Greek Mathematical Traditions Laura Winters 151
56.2 Lucan Statius and Silius A Requiem for Pompey in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Andrew M. McClellan 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
56.5 Lucan Statius and Silius Edible complex: Oedipus’ appetites in Statius’ Thebaid 8 Alice Hu 151
56.3 Lucan Statius and Silius Velut Mater Agnoscens. Hypsipyle's Recognitions in Statius's Thebaid Diana Librandi 151
56.6 Lucan Statius and Silius The Best Defense: Triumphal Geography and Empire in Silius’s Punica Adam Kozak 151
56.4 Lucan Statius and Silius Seeing Double: The Temporality of Theseus’s Shield in Statius’s Thebaid Jasmine A. Akiyama-Kim 151
55.1 Women in Rage Women in Protest... Putting Pressure on the Patriarchy: The Subversive Power of Women's Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic Suzanne Lye 151
55.2 Women in Rage Women in Protest... The Problem of the Angry Woman and Herodotus’ Use of Tragedy in Two Athenian Logoi Erika L. Weiberg 151
55.3 Women in Rage Women in Protest... Irata Puella: Gaslighting, Violence, and Anger in Elegy Ellen Cole Lee 151