Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
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
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
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
75.1 Greek History Whose Tyrant Are You?: The Installation of Tyrants in the Archaic and Classical Worlds Marcaline J. Boyd 151
75.2 Greek History A Game of Timber Monopoly: Atheno-Macedonian Relations on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War Konstantinos Karathanasis 151
75.3 Greek History Redistribution, Public Wealth, and the Cretan Andreion Evan Vance 151
75.4 Greek History Carving Communities in Stone: Cosmopolitan Space on Hellenistic Kos Sjoukje M Kamphorst 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
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
77.1 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West Decorum, Obscenity, and Literary Authority in the Letters of Poggio Bracciolini and Panormita Nathan M Kish 151
77.2 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West "A Single, Easily Managed Household": Antiquity and the Peloponnese in Late Byzantium Eric Wesley Driscoll 151
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
78.2 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Transitional Spaces and Connective Tissues: Harbor Dynamics in Hellenistic Asia Minor Lana Radloff 151
78.3 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Networks and Networking in the Economy of Seleucid Uruk Talia Prussin 151
78.4 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia After Polity: Hellenistic Networks in Northwestern India (200 BCE – 200 CE) Jeremy Simmons 151
78.5 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Mediterranean Pathways: GIS, Network Analysis, and the Ancient World Ryan M. Horne 151
79.2 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Men of Bronze or Paper Tigers? Jeremy S. Armstrong 151
79.2 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Beyond Celtic: Panoply and Identity in the Roman Republic Michael Taylor 151
79.4 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Cultural Transformation of the Roman Army in Republican Spain Dominic Machado 151
79.5 The Roman Army During the Republican Period How Loyal Were Middle Republican Soldiers? Kathryn Milne 151
79.6 The Roman Army During the Republican Period The ‘Disappearance’ of Velites in the Late Republic: A Reappraisal François Gauthier 151
80.1 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity Representations of Interstate Cooperation in the Archaic Treasuries at Olympia: A Constructivist’s Interpretation Nicholas Cross 151
80.2 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity Local Legends and Power Politics in the Cult Statues of the Temple of Despoina at Lykosoura Ashley Eckhardt 151
80.3 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity The Honorary Decree for Karzoazos, Son of Attalos: A Monument for a ‘New Man’? Emyr Dakin 151
80.4 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity Refashioning the East in the Roman Provinces: The Relief of Nero and Armenia at Aphrodisias’ Sebasteion Timothy Clark 151
80.5 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity The Herakleion and Expressions of Political Identities at Gades from the Hellenistic to Early Modern Age Pamina Fernández Camacho 151
81.2 Greek Culture in the Roman World Lucilius Philosophos? Manipulation of Greek Philosophy in the Early Roman Satires Marcie Persyn 151
81.3 Greek Culture in the Roman World Greek Philosophy and Roman Politics in Cicero’s De consulatu suo Jovan Cvjetičanin 151
81.4 Greek Culture in the Roman World The Anti-Roman Sibyl Helen Van Noorden 151
81.5 Greek Culture in the Roman World Christian Interaction with Greek Tragedy in the Second and Third Centuries Sarah Griffis 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
82.2 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neither the Body Without the Soul: Why does Medicine Matter? Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 151
82.3 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neoplatonic Language of the Soul in Cyril’s Scholia on the Incarnation Sarah K Wear 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
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
83.1 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire On Roman collactanei: “Milk-kinship” From Ancient Rome to Modern Turkey and Cape Verde. Gaia Gianni 151
83.2 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire Pliny's threptoi: a case of cross-cultural confusion? Judith Evans-Grubbs 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
83.4 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire Taught as a Child: The Family-Forging Effect of Instruction in Early Christianity and its Historical Influences Zane McGee 151
84.2 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Roma/amor redux: Cultivating Rome in the Early Books of the Metamorphoses Celia Campbell 151
84.3 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Rome’s Feminine Foundations and the Agency of the Sabine Women Caleb Dance 151
84.4 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narratives Hercules (and Cacus?) at the Lupercalia in Fasti 2.303–80 Matthew Loar 151