Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
4.3 Imperial Virgil “Virgil's Teachings: Competitive Ecphrasis in Stat. Silv. 4.2” Adalberto Magnavacca 151
33.5 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics “The Solution is to Start Building the Community You Imagine”: One Graduate Student’s Experience in Co-founding an Organization and Network of Scholars Dedicated to Antiracism and Pedagogy in Classics Kelly Dugan 151
31.6 God and Man in the Second Sophistic “That’s not the way I heard it:” Folkloric Mechanisms in the Creation of Philostratus’s Vita Apollonii James Henriques 151
82.1 Souls Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matter to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? “Souls and Daemons: The Contribution of Porphyry’s Commentary on the Timaeus for Later Platonist Psychology” Aaron P Johnson 151
82.5 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? “Origen’s Resurrection of the Rational Soul and Its Ascent to the Likeness of Angels” Jonathan Young 151
58.1 Global Receptions “Learned Poetry,” Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies David Wray 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
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
4.5 Imperial Virgil “Broch Reads Virgil” Stephanie Quinn 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
4.1 Imperial Virgil “Aeneas, Hercules, and Augustus: the Ambiguous Heroes of Virgil’s Aeneid” Patricia Craig 151
83.3 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire ‘…and all the troubles of nursing to which their station condemns them…’ Maternitas and social motherhood in the Roman world. April Pudsey 151
49.3 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory ‘Poeticness’ as a Continuous Variable: Rethinking Prosaism in Horace Odes 4.9 Patrick J. Burns 151
2.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Ἔρυκε Καλυψώ: an Etymologizing Pair? Andrew Merritt 151
10.2 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Zeno Peripateticus? Cicero’s Rhetorical Philosophy in De Officiis Michael Vazquez 151
1.4 Evaluating Scholarship: Digital and Traditional Your Personnel Committee Has Questions Christopher Francese 151
16.4 Greek Historiography Xenophon and the Arginusae Trial Alex Lee 151
68.5 Greek and Latin Comedy Wife-Erasure in Terence's Hecyra Hannah Sorscher 151
41.4 Late Antique Textualities Why Is There So Much Varro in the City of God? Andrew Horne 151
16.1 Greek Historiography Why Herodotus is Worth Copying: The Scholia on Book 1 Simone A. Oppen 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
75.1 Greek History Whose Tyrant Are You?: The Installation of Tyrants in the Archaic and Classical Worlds Marcaline J. Boyd 151
36.2 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Who is the leader of Penelope's suitors? Alexander Loney 151
48.1 Chorality Whirling in Their Midst: Choral Intonations in the Iliad Amy N Hendricks 151
47.3 The Lives of Books Which classics come in red and green? The creation of the Loeb Classical Library canon. Mirte Liebregts 151
38.2 Hellenistic Poetry Which Came First: Intentional Anachronism in Callimachus' Iambus 1 Laura Marshall 151
59.2 Cicero When Being a Man Just Isn’t Enough: A Modified Forensic Defense in the Pro Ligario Ky Merkley 151
29.3 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, The Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa Stefani Echeverria-Fenn 151
18.2 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception Visual Archaeology and Spatial Disorientation in Fe Hunter Gardner 151
57.6 Science in Context Viewing Cultures in the Letter of Aristeas Max Leventhal 151
56.3 Lucan Statius and Silius Velut Mater Agnoscens. Hypsipyle's Recognitions in Statius's Thebaid Diana Librandi 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
38.4 Hellenistic Poetry Two Sides on Corinth: The Cultural Stakes of Epigram ca. 102 BCE James Faulkner 151
7.4 Greek Religious Texts Turning hierophany into text: Pausanias on Lebadeia and the oracle of Trophonius Jody Ellyn Cundy 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
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
78.2 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Transitional Spaces and Connective Tissues: Harbor Dynamics in Hellenistic Asia Minor Lana Radloff 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
54.1 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... Toward a New Institutional Future of Classics Joy Connolly 151
36.3 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Tithonus the Kitharode Ruth Scodel 151
76.1 Style and Stylistics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 150–161: "Entwining Greek with Asian Speech" Milena Anfosso 151
73.2 Novel Entanglements Time-psychology in the Cena Trimalchionis Karen Ni-Mheallaigh 151
36.1 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Thinking with Things: Mētis as Extended Cognition Amy Lather 151
50.2 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Theognis at Dinner: Metasympotics through Time Sara De Martin 151
57.2 Science in Context Themistocles, Pericles, and Anaxagoras' trial for studying astronomy Richard Janko 151
22.4 State Elite? The ‘Roman Revolution of Constantine’ and the Resilience of Roman Senators Michele Salzman 151
79.6 The Roman Army During the Republican Period The ‘Disappearance’ of Velites in the Late Republic: A Reappraisal François Gauthier 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