Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
30.3 Philosophical Thought and Language Aristotle on his Predecessors: A New Reading in Metaphysics A 10 Mirjam Engert Kotwick 152
31.1 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire The Empire Sings Back: Greek Music and Musicians Under Rome Francesca Modini 152
31.2 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire Paianic Revival in the Roman Empire Hanna Golab 152
31.3 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire Women's Poetic Voices in the Roman Empire Mali Skotheim 152
31.4 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire Debating Parental Love in Oppian’s Halieutica Sean McGrath 152
32.1 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Viewing and Reading the Heroides in the House of Jason in Pompeii Herica Valladares 152
32.2 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Arachne’s Tapestry and the Metaphors of Ecphrasis Albert Bates 152
32.3 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Locus Suspectus: Landscape and the Uncanny in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Miriam Kamil 152
32.4 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Ovid’s Phaethon and Failed Cosmic Vision Ashley Simone 152
32.5 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Materiam Superabat Opus? Raw Materiality in Ovid’s Phaethon Episode (Met. 2.1-366) Del A. Maticic 152
33.5 Recent Work in Digital Classics Linguae Vitae: Latin in Virtual Reality Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 152
33.6 Recent Work in Digital Classics Serpentarium Mundi: A New Digital Resource for Iconography Researchers Alexei Alexeev 152
33.2 Recent Work in Digital Classics How to Read with Hypertext: Building and Using New Alexandria Charles Pletcher 152
33.3 Recent Work in Digital Classics An Unsupervised Hierarchical Language Model of Ancient Greek Syntax Sophia Sklaviadis 152
33.4 Recent Work in Digital Classics A Metrical Search Tool for Greek and Latin Poetry Michael Tueller 152
34.1 Inscriptions and Literacy The Rhythm of Routine: Rhythmical Regularization in Archaic Inscriptions Ronald Blankenborg 152
34.2 Inscriptions and Literacy Painting Words, Writing Images: "Alternative" Literacies in Early Greece and Etruria Elisa Scholz 152
34.3 Inscriptions and Literacy Readers, Viewers, and Inscriptions in Athens in 200 B.C. Julia Shear 152
34.4 Inscriptions and Literacy Sulpicia’s Ashes: Gender, Literacy, and Inscription(s) Stephanie Frampton 152
34.5 Inscriptions and Literacy Female Participation in Epigraphic Culture: A Revision of the Received Tradition Peter Keegan 152
34.6 Inscriptions and Literacy Reading Between the Lines: The Role of Visual Cues in Documents from the ‘Archive Wall’ at Aphrodisias Abigail Graham 152
35.6 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities “Another’s Justice”: A New Institutionalist Approach to the Rise of Foreign Judges in the Hellenistic World Matt Simonton 152
35.7 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities New Institutionalism and Federal Structures in Ancient Greece: the Case of the Boeotian Territorial Network Christel Müller 152
35.2 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities From Practice to Rule: Studying Atimia from a New Institutionalist Perspective Linda Rocchi 152
35.3 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities A Place for Justice in the Assembly? Pursuing Self-Interest and Helping the Wronged in Athenian International Relations Matteo Barbato 152
35.4 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities New Institutionalism and Sole Ruler Legitimization Sam Ellis 152
35.5 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities A New Institutionalist Approach to Athenian Deliberation: The Case of the Boulē Alberto Esu 152
38.4 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Imagine Seres in Early Imperial Rome: A Reading of Plin. Nat. 6.53-54 and 12.84 Yanxiao He 152
38.5 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Surpassing Giants: Human Labor as Spectacle in Pliny’s Natural History Molly M Schaub 152
38.1 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Animality, Humanity and the Species Grid in Roman Literature Colin MacCormack 152
38.3 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Translation as Conquest: Mago, Mithridates, and the Origins of Roman Science in Pliny’s Natural History Alexandra Schultz 152
38.2 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History A Roman Anthropocene? The End of Nature in Pliny HN 36.1–3 James Taylor 152
39.4 Early Greek Poetry All Hands on Deck: Complementary Nautical Metaphors in Pindar and Bacchylides Joshua A Zacks 152
39.2 Early Greek Poetry Sappho’s Choral “I” Amy N Hendricks 152
39.5 Early Greek Poetry Which Path Will You Follow? Homer’s Universe and Pindar’s Afterlife George Alexander Gazis 152
39.3 Early Greek Poetry Menelaus as Embedded Poetic Figure in Bacchylides 15 Caitlin H Fennerty 152
39.6 Early Greek Poetry Chew Before You Swallow: Demeter’s Consumption of Pelops in Pindar and Lycophron Christopher L Gipson 152
39.1 Early Greek Poetry Egyptian “Tales of Wonder” from the Westcar Papyrus (P. Berlin 3033) and the Birth of Apollo Leanna Boychenko 152
40.1 Roman Anticipations: Material Cognitive and Affective Histories of the Roman Future Roman Futures between Farmer and Empire Astrid Van Oyen 152
40.2 Roman Anticipations: Material Cognitive and Affective Histories of the Roman Future The Farmer and the Faenerator: Anticipation and Affect in Horace Epode 2 Duncan MacRae 152
40.3 Roman Anticipations: Material Cognitive and Affective Histories of the Roman Future Storing Goods, Keeping Time Caroline Cheung 152
40.4 Roman Anticipations: Material Cognitive and Affective Histories of the Roman Future Anticipation and Analogy in Soranus’ Gynecology Anna Bonnell Freidin 152
41.5 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World Check Your Mate: Ovid, the Game of Love, and Learning to Be a Man Del Chrol 152
41.1 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World It’s Never Just a Game: The Skolion Game and the Agonistic Symposiastic Self Amy Pistone 152
41.2 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World Playing at King: Hdt. Hist. 1.114.-16 and the Mythologizing of Children’s Play William Duffy 152
41.3 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World Rattle & Hum: Destructive Play & State Education in Classical Greek Political Theory Brett Rogers 152
41.4 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World Teach Your Children Well: Games, Education, and Legislation in Antiquity Chris Dobbs 152
41.1 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law Ancient Laws, Modern Prejudices: Athenian Laws Related to Male Prostitution Kostas Kapparis 152
42.2 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law A Case of Cross-Dressing and Rape in Terrence's Eunuchus Cassandra Tran 152
42.3 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law Elegize it: Ovid’s Heroides, Augustan legislation and the ‘Law of the Mothers’ Simona Martorana 152