Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
74.4 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Eleanor Dickey’s Learn Latin from the Romans Ashley Weed 152
74.5 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Transitioning from a Grammar-Translation Approach to Active Latin via Ørberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: How One Latin Program is Making the Shift MaryLiz Williamson and Diane Beste 152
74.6 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Tali et Tituli: Roleplaying with Wheelock Mitchell Parks 152
74.1 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Pharr’s Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners Walter M. Roberts 152
74.2 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks The Changeling: From Alpha to Omega and Modern Language Students Karen Rosenbecker 152
74.3 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Greek Troublesome and Troubling: Teaching Greek with Textbooks by the Joint Association of Classical Teachers Douglas Hill 152
83.3 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Addressing Race and the Legacy of Slavery in the Latin Classroom Louise Michaud 152
83.4 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Marginalized: Black Students and Latin in Independent Schools Runako Taylor 152
83.5 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom "I Like this Class, But…": Creating Meaningful Cultural Connections in the Latin Classroom Ellen Sassenberg 152
83.6 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Reaching Beyond Rome: A Latin Curriculum Lindsay Samson and Holly Spyniewski 152
83.2 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Roma Negra: Salvador, Brazil and Afro-Latin American Classicisms Andrea Kouklanakis 152
82.2 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture Votive Inscriptions, Aretalogy, and the Epigraphic Habit in the Ancient Novels Barbara Blythe 152
82.3 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture Glasses and Other Tableware in Achilles Tatius: Making Sense of a Complex Novel by Looking at Objects Marine Glénisson 152
82.4 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture Dramatizing the Gendered Subject: Examining the Pseudo-Stomach in Leucippe and Clitophon as a Prop of Performative Gender Emily Waller 152
82.5 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture The Mulier Equitens: Erotic Display in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Roman Wall Painting Victoria Hodges 152
82.7 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture ‘Just as Honeycomb’: Queer Money in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis Elliott Piros 152
82.6 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture Mirrors on the Moon: Lucian's Sci-fi Technology and Anticipated Innovation A. Everett Beek 152
81.6 Homer and Hellenistic Literature The Politics of Colchian Space and Movement in Argonautica 4 Evan Judge Armacost 152
81.4 Homer and Hellenistic Literature “A Pelasgian Typhon”: Achilles as Agent of Chthonic Disruption in Lycophron’s Alexandra Celsiana Warwick 152
81.1 Homer and Hellenistic Literature Fat and Large Bodies in Homeric Poetry: Iros and Penelope William Brockliss 152
81.3 Homer and Hellenistic Literature Benjamin’s Niobe: Anger, Violence, and Ambiguity in Iliad 24 Ben Radcliffe 152
81.2 Homer and Hellenistic Literature Pathos by the Numbers: Homeric Numerical Patterns and Achilles’ 23 Sacks Brian D. McPhee 152
81.5 Homer and Hellenistic Literature The Vocabulary of Fate in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica Paul Ojennus 152
80.2 Greek Tragedy (2) Blonde Dionysus? Interpreting ξανθοῖσι βοστρύχοισιν in Euripides’ Bacchae Angharad Darden 152
80.4 Greek Tragedy (2) The Play of Emotion in Euripides’ Helen Francis Dunn 152
80.3 Greek Tragedy (2) The Use of Storytelling in Euripides’ Heracles Olga Faccani 152
80.1 Greek Tragedy (2) Hermione, the Perpetual Nymphē of Euripides' Andromache Florencia Foxley 152
80.5 Greek Tragedy (2) Dramatic Melodies: Three Examples of Musical Style from Karanis (P. Mich. inv. 2958) Rebecca A Sears 152
79.1 Republican Latin Poetry Just Taking the Pith: Lucilius’ First Satires as (Mis)Quotable One-Liners Marcie Persyn 152
79.4 Republican Latin Poetry Crops of Destruction: Parallels in Lucretius' Origins of Life and Disease W. Erickson Bridges 152
79.2 Republican Latin Poetry Who Built the Boat? Labor and Material in Phaedrus IV. 7 and Catullus 64 Christopher J Londa 152
79.3 Republican Latin Poetry Gellius the Poet Jesse Hill 152
76.4 Flavian Poetry Tristis Umbra Germani: The Troubled Presence of Britannicus in the Octavia Theodora Naqvi 152
76.3 Flavian Poetry Hybrid God and Sylvan Freaks: Calpurnius’ Grotesque Pastoral Scott Weiss 152
76.1 Flavian Poetry A Metaliterary Celebration of Saturnalian Epigram in Martial 4.46 Emma Brobeck 152
76.2 Flavian Poetry To Smell or Not to Smell: Martial’s Rome and Olfactory Claustrophobia Johanna Kaiser 152
75.1 Roman Historiography Livy, Orosius, and the Rebuilding of Augustan Rome David Levene 152
75.6 Roman Historiography Morbid Joy: Laetus in Tacitus Emma N Warhover 152
75.5 Roman Historiography Tacitus’ Historiographical Technique: Moderatio in the Tiberian Narrative and Documentary Sources from the Tiberian Principate Christopher R Ell 152
75.2 Roman Historiography Exemplary Audiences Andrea Pittard 152
75.4 Roman Historiography Slavery, Geography, and Medicine in Tacitus' Agricola Charlotte Hunt 152
75.3 Roman Historiography Poisoning Lucretia: An Allusion to Livy at Tac. Ann. 6.40.1 Nicholas A Rudman 152
73.2 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls The River and the City: The Tiber as a Case Study in Roman Ecohistory Krešimir Vuković 152
73.3 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls Artifacts as Exposures: Malarial Landscapes in Late Roman Italy David Pickel 152
73.1 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls Systems Change Without Demographic Collapse? Trans-Mediterranean Trade and the Justinianic Pandemic Henry Gruber 152
72.4 Pagans and Christians Julian's Platonopolis? Matthew Lupu 152
72.2 Pagans and Christians The Acts of Silvester: History, Legend and Sundays in Rome Michele Salzman 152
72.3 Pagans and Christians Sophrosyne as a Virtue of Ascetic Women in Late Antiquity Anysia Metrakos 152
72.5 Pagans and Christians Column Cryptography: The Theodosian Obelisk as Cipher for the Fictional Life of Theodulus the Stylite Charles Kuper 152
72.1 Pagans and Christians The Libri Pontificales at the End of Paganism Mattias Gassman 152