Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
4.3 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Democracy, Tyranny, and Shamelessness in Plato Cinzia Arruzza 152
4.4 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Plato’s Neglected Critiques of Athens in Republic VIII: Democratic Dimensions of the Cities Nurturing the Timocratic, Oligarchic, and Democratic Youths Melissa S. Lane 152
4.5 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Plato on the Origins of Freedom Fetishism in Athens René de Nicolay 152
4.1 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Satyr Play in Plato’s Statesman: Socrates, Athens, and the Apologetic Purpose of Plato’s Trilogy Dimitri El Murr 152
6.3 New Approaches to Spectatorship Sharing Spectatorship with the Divine: Watching as Worship at the Ludi Megalenses Krishni Burns 152
6.1 New Approaches to Spectatorship Is Oedipus Ugly? Deliberative Spectatorship at Colonus Alexander C. Duncan 152
6.2 New Approaches to Spectatorship Performing ‘Deep Intersubjectivity’: Spectatorship in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae Anne-Sophie Justine Noel 152
7.1 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Plutarch’s Politicians and the People: The Politics of Honour in Pericles, Cimon and the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire Thierry Oppeneer 152
7.3 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Theoretical Models of Rulership in Roman and Early Byzantine Panegyrics Sviatoslav Dmitriev 152
7.5 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: Hannibal and Scipio Regina Loehr 152
7.2 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Following Diogenes: Cynic Leadership in Plutarch and Beyond Inger Kuin 152
7.4 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Plutarch’s Protean Tyrant Marcaline Boyd 152
9.1 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Bureaucrats, Corruption, and the Familia: The Peculium Quasi Castrense in the Later Roman Empire Jonathan H. Warner 152
9.6 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Law Jokes in the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 152
9.3 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Corpulent Conquerors: The Ethnography of Vandal Decadence in Sidonius and Procopius Timothy Campbell Hart 152
9.5 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Disinheriting Heresy: Eunomians and the Roman Law of Inheritance Carl R Rice 152
9.2 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Migration, Mobility, and Fiscality: Considering Collegia as Mechanisms for Integration of Migrant Craftsmen in the Late-Antique West John Fabiano 152
9.4 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Constantine's Legislation on Marriage Antonello Mastronardi 152
10.1 Roman Comedy "Ut Ego Unguibus Facile Illi in Oculos Involem Venefico!" Pythias and Sight as Power in Terence’s Eunuchus Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld 152
10.5 Roman Comedy The Reception of Phormio in the Carolingian Terence Miniatures Justin S Dwyer 152
10.2 Roman Comedy Filii Gemini Duo: Brotherhood in Plautus' Menaechmi Thomas A Wilson 152
10.4 Roman Comedy The Funny Smell(s) of Latin Comedy Hans Bork 152
10.3 Roman Comedy Plautinopolis in the Forum: Site-Specificity and Immersive Theater in Plautus’ Curculio Rachel Mazzara 152
11.1 Flavian Epic Repetition Blindness. The Cyzicus Episode in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica Diana Librandi 152
11.2 Flavian Epic Statius’ Thebaid and Greek Prose: Reimagining Intertextuality in the Early Empire Thomas J Bolt 152
11.4 Flavian Epic Sicilian Strife in Silius Italicus' Punica Julia Mebane 152
11.3 Flavian Epic The Volcanic Poetics of Statius’ Thebaid Kenneth Draper 152
12.6 Ancient Scholarship Poetics and Tradition in Terentianus Maurus (the Best Latin Poet You’re not Reading) Tom Keeline 152
12.4 Ancient Scholarship Poets Eat Free: State Dinners, Symbolic Capital, and Distinction in Ptolemaic Alexandria Brett Evans 152
12.1 Ancient Scholarship Homer’s Mimetic Poetics in the Iliad's Exegetical Scholia Bill Beck 152
12.3 Ancient Scholarship Poem Division in the Theognidea Alexander Karsten 152
12.5 Ancient Scholarship Greek Mathematical Poetry Laura E. Winters 152
12.2 Ancient Scholarship The Role of the Vita Sophoclis in Shaping Sophocles’s Ancient Reception Clinton Douglas Kinkade 152
13.2 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland The Education of a Cosmopolitan City: Immigrant Theater and the Ajax at Hull House. Caitlin Miller 152
13.3 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Oresteia in Chicago April Cleveland 152
13.4 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Xtigone and Chi-Raq: Two Classical Takes on Gun Violence in Chicago Megan Wilson 152
14.2 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Student Engagement: A Lesson in Mindfulness Arum Park 152
14.3 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes My Mistake: Twenty-Five Years a Captive Mary Ann Eaverly 152
14.4 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adjusting Assumptions and Reevaluating Opportunities for Students Ryan Fowler 152
14.5 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Yearning for Simplicity in a (Pedagogical) Complex World Bret Mulligan 152
14.6 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adventures in Group Work in the Classics Classroom Theodora Kopestonsky 152
14.7 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes How Dissertation Advising Has Made Me a Better Teacher Jennifer Trimble 152
16.2 Virgil and Religion Closing Ceremonies: Iliad 24 and Aeneid 12 Christine Perkell 152
16.3 Virgil and Religion Vergil’s Bacchae: Dido and Amata Katherine M. Handloser 152
16.4 Virgil and Religion Virgil’s Fama and the Merkabah: Potential Semitic Sources for Personified Divine Rumor Angela Zielinski Kinney 152
16.5 Virgil and Religion Juno and Venus at Carthage and Eryx Joseph Farrell 152
16.1 Virgil and Religion Lucretian Pietas in Vergil’s Aeneid Jason Nethercut 152
17.4 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins The Shadow of Commodus on Pertinax’s Coinage Nathaniel Katz 152
17.5 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins “Carausius – A Usurper’s Coinage on the Edge of Empire” Sam Moorhead 152
17.2 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins Eleian Zeus: Political Change in the Fifth-Century Eleian Coinage Stefano Frullini 152