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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
20.2 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Bodies of Knowledge: Women’s Reproductive Expertise in Plato Edith G. Nally 152
20.1 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Gendering Knowledge and Experience in Prometheus Bound Mary Hamil Gilbert 152
19.5 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature The (Ptolemaic) Queen’s Speech: “More Effective Than a Million Soldiers” Jordan Clare Johansen 152
19.4 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature A Pentameter Acrostic in Ovid's Ibis Keyne Cheshire 152
19.3 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Spuere and Aesthetic Taste in Latin Poetry Rebecca Moorman 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
19.1 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Population Density and Disease in Greek Medical Theory and Practice: Early Social Distancing? Katherine D. van Schaik 152
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
18.5 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Epicurus and the Kriterion: New Evidence from Metrodorus, Opus Incertum Michael McOsker 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
18.3 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Slicing and Dicing the Prosciutto Sundial from Herculaneum Christopher Parslow 152
18.2 Vesuvius: Texts Objects and Images Critics at Play: The Rearrangement and Rewriting of Verse in Philodemus’ On Poems Richard Janko 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
17.4 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins The Shadow of Commodus on Pertinax’s Coinage Nathaniel Katz 152
17.3 Usurpers Rivals and Regime Change: The Evidence of Coins The Bid for Rome: From Galba’s Failure to Vespasian’s Success Sarah E. Cox 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
16.5 Virgil and Religion Juno and Venus at Carthage and Eryx Joseph Farrell 152
16.4 Virgil and Religion Virgil’s Fama and the Merkabah: Potential Semitic Sources for Personified Divine Rumor Angela Zielinski Kinney 152
16.3 Virgil and Religion Vergil’s Bacchae: Dido and Amata Katherine M. Handloser 152
16.2 Virgil and Religion Closing Ceremonies: Iliad 24 and Aeneid 12 Christine Perkell 152
16.1 Virgil and Religion Lucretian Pietas in Vergil’s Aeneid Jason Nethercut 152
14.7 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes How Dissertation Advising Has Made Me a Better Teacher Jennifer Trimble 152
14.6 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adventures in Group Work in the Classics Classroom Theodora Kopestonsky 152
14.5 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Yearning for Simplicity in a (Pedagogical) Complex World Bret Mulligan 152
14.4 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adjusting Assumptions and Reevaluating Opportunities for Students Ryan Fowler 152
14.3 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes My Mistake: Twenty-Five Years a Captive Mary Ann Eaverly 152
14.2 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Student Engagement: A Lesson in Mindfulness Arum Park 152
13.4 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Xtigone and Chi-Raq: Two Classical Takes on Gun Violence in Chicago Megan Wilson 152
13.3 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Oresteia in Chicago April Cleveland 152
13.2 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland The Education of a Cosmopolitan City: Immigrant Theater and the Ajax at Hull House. Caitlin Miller 152
12.6 Ancient Scholarship Poetics and Tradition in Terentianus Maurus (the Best Latin Poet You’re not Reading) Tom Keeline 152
12.5 Ancient Scholarship Greek Mathematical Poetry Laura E. Winters 152
12.4 Ancient Scholarship Poets Eat Free: State Dinners, Symbolic Capital, and Distinction in Ptolemaic Alexandria Brett Evans 152
12.3 Ancient Scholarship Poem Division in the Theognidea Alexander Karsten 152
12.2 Ancient Scholarship The Role of the Vita Sophoclis in Shaping Sophocles’s Ancient Reception Clinton Douglas Kinkade 152
12.1 Ancient Scholarship Homer’s Mimetic Poetics in the Iliad's Exegetical Scholia Bill Beck 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
11.2 Flavian Epic Statius’ Thebaid and Greek Prose: Reimagining Intertextuality in the Early Empire Thomas J Bolt 152
11.1 Flavian Epic Repetition Blindness. The Cyzicus Episode in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica Diana Librandi 152
10.5 Roman Comedy The Reception of Phormio in the Carolingian Terence Miniatures Justin S Dwyer 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
10.2 Roman Comedy Filii Gemini Duo: Brotherhood in Plautus' Menaechmi Thomas A Wilson 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
9.6 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Law Jokes in the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 152
9.5 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Disinheriting Heresy: Eunomians and the Roman Law of Inheritance Carl R Rice 152
9.4 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Constantine's Legislation on Marriage Antonello Mastronardi 152
9.3 Law and Society in Late Antiquity Corpulent Conquerors: The Ethnography of Vandal Decadence in Sidonius and Procopius Timothy Campbell Hart 152