Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
17.5 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins “Carausius – A Usurper’s Coinage on the Edge of Empire” Sam Moorhead 152
18.2 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Critics at Play: The Rearrangement and Rewriting of Verse in Philodemus’ On Poems Richard Janko 152
18.3 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Slicing and Dicing the Prosciutto Sundial from Herculaneum Christopher Parslow 152
18.4 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Spectacle and Society: The Tablinum’s Imagery in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum Ambra Spinelli 152
18.5 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Epicurus and the Kriterion: New Evidence from Metrodorus, Opus Incertum Michael McOsker 152
18.6 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images The Appiades of Stephanos in Herculaneum and Rome: A New Identification of the Bronze ‘Dancers’ from the Villa dei Papiri Kenneth Lapatin 152
19.1 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Population Density and Disease in Greek Medical Theory and Practice: Early Social Distancing? Katherine D. van Schaik 152
19.2 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Living with the Specter of Disease: Seneca on Asthma and Respiratory Distress James L Zainaldin 152
19.3 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Spuere and Aesthetic Taste in Latin Poetry Rebecca Moorman 152
19.4 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature A Pentameter Acrostic in Ovid's Ibis Keyne Cheshire 152
19.5 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature The (Ptolemaic) Queen’s Speech: “More Effective Than a Million Soldiers” Jordan Clare Johansen 152
20.1 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Gendering Knowledge and Experience in Prometheus Bound Mary Hamil Gilbert 152
20.2 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Bodies of Knowledge: Women’s Reproductive Expertise in Plato Edith G. Nally 152
20.3 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Women’s Complaints about Violence at Athens: Zobia and Aristogeiton Fiona McHardy 152
20.4 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Plautus’ Truculentus and Terence’s Hecyra: Patriarchal Authority and Women’s Truth Serena S. Witzke 152
20.5 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Blaming Ovid’s Leucothoe: The Role of Rape Myths in a Mythological Rape Megan Elena Bowen 152
20.6 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome “Grey” Rape on the Silver Screen: Rape & Questionable Consent in Mass Media about the Ancient World Anise K. Strong 152
22.2 Neronian Literature Autophagy in Seneca’s Oeuvre Ursula M. Poole 152
22.3 Neronian Literature Sed mihi iam Numen: Poetry and Inspiration in Lucan’s Pharsalia Caolán Mac An Aircinn 152
22.1 Neronian Literature Persius, Nero, and the Midas(s)es of Rome Konstantinos Karathanasis 152
22.4 Neronian Literature Drugs, Immunity, and Body Politics in the Age of Nero James Uden 152
24.5 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries The Value of Literary Translation as Scholarly Activity: Lessons from and as a translator Jamie Banks 152
24.2 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Imposter Syndrome In the Field of Classics Sneha Ravi 152
24.4 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Against Smooth Breathing Marks Anthony Vivian 152
24.3 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Designing a STEM-Friendly Classics Curriculum Clifford A. Robinson 152
24.1 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries So, You Want to Write a Game for the Reacting to the Past Curriculum? Some Pointers Martha J. Payne 152
26.1 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature Stay at Home: Impossible Isolation in Homer Justin Arft 152
26.2 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature Being Human, Being Alone: Isolation and Heroic Exceptionality in the Odyssey Joel Christensen 152
26.3 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature The Power of Odysseus’ Nostalgia Alex Loney 152
26.4 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature Loneliness as Openness: The Concept of Eremia in Pindar’s Mythical Adoptions Rebekah Spearman 152
26.5 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature The Kleos of Solitude in Sophocles’ Philoctetes Emily Austin 152
27.1 Education Sceptical Education in the Hellenistic Academy Peter Osorio 152
27.5 Education A Child’s Game and Sensory Perception in Minucius Felix’s Octavius Christopher S. van den Berg 152
27.4 Education Defining Academic Space: How Second Sophistic Authors Appropriate the Chair (Thronos) Sinja Küppers 152
27.2 Education Manifestum est non Naturam Defecisse sed Curam: Education and Identity in the Flavian Period Samantha Breecher 152
27.3 Education Aequitas in Quintilian and the Minor Declamations Nikola Golubovic 152
27.6 Education Teaching Physics in Late Antiquity Stevie Hull 152
28.1 Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas Subverting the Spanish Conquest: Race, Amazons, and the Search for California Walter Penrose 152
28.2 Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas Las Casas and the Classics Chloe Lowetz 152
28.3 Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas Slavery, Subjugation, and Empire in Cortés Totoquihuatzin’s Latin Epistle to Charles V John Izzo 152
28.4 Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México: Virgilian Epic in New Spain and the Ends of Humanism Joseph Ortiz 152
29.5 Greek Comedy Exposing the Secrets of the Moon in Aristophanes’ Clouds and Lucian’s Icaromenippus Jenni Glaser 152
29.3 Greek Comedy “Whence This Man-Woman?”: A Parody of Aeschylean Satyr Play in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Amy S. Lewis 152
29.1 Greek Comedy Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Aristophanes' Acharnians Zachary P Borst 152
29.2 Greek Comedy Wings or Armor? Costume, Metaphor, and the Limits of Utopia in Aristophanes' Birds Pavlos Sfyroeras 152
30.2 Philosophical Thought and Language The Alleged Fallacy in Nicomachean Ethics I.2 Takashi Oki 152
30.5 Philosophical Thought and Language The Mens and the Mentula: A Philosophical Reading of Maximianus’ Hymn to the Penis Grace Funsten 152
30.6 Philosophical Thought and Language On Nietzsche's 'Philology as Ephexis in Interpretation' Leon Wash 152
30.4 Philosophical Thought and Language Constructing Epistemic Authority in Porphyry's "Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics" Matteo Milesi 152
30.1 Philosophical Thought and Language Reconsidering Allegoresis and Poetics in the Derveni Papyrus Matthieu Réal 152