Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
29.3 Greek Comedy “Whence This Man-Woman?”: A Parody of Aeschylean Satyr Play in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Amy S. Lewis 152
25.5 Plato “Telling Old Wives’ Tales” with Thrasymachus: Proverbs and the Attempt to “Go Viral” with Definitions of Justice in Plato’s Republic John Roger Tennant 152
69.5 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE “Romulus’ Tomb” and the Archaic City of Rome Parrish Wright 152
67.4 Second Century CE Prose “Not More This Than That”: Favorinus as Practical Pyrrhonist David H. Sick 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
2.1 Language “Godlike Askanios, from Faraway Askania”, or the Anatolian Connection of an Eponymous Hero Milena Anfosso 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
47.7 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt “Anything Illicit:” Censorship and Book-Burning in Roman Egypt Susan Rahyab 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
43.5 Augustan Poetry “Amor is a God of Peace”: Propertius 3.5 and the Algiers Relief Andrew C Ficklin 152
81.4 Homer and Hellenistic Literature “A Pelasgian Typhon”: Achilles as Agent of Chthonic Disruption in Lycophron’s Alexandra Celsiana Warwick 152
2.3 Language ‘Style is the Woman Herself:’ Gendering Verbal Art in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Alyson L Melzer 152
82.7 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture ‘Just as Honeycomb’: Queer Money in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis Elliott Piros 152
45.3 Myth and History οὐ κατ᾽ ἀνδραγαθίην σχὼν ἀλλὰ κατὰ γένος: Spartan Kingship, Generational Power, and the Agōgē Luke Madson 152
14.5 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Yearning for Simplicity in a (Pedagogical) Complex World Bret Mulligan 152
13.4 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Xtigone and Chi-Raq: Two Classical Takes on Gun Violence in Chicago Megan Wilson 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
31.3 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire Women's Poetic Voices in the Roman Empire Mali Skotheim 152
29.2 Greek Comedy Wings or Armor? Costume, Metaphor, and the Limits of Utopia in Aristophanes' Birds Pavlos Sfyroeras 152
79.2 Republican Latin Poetry Who Built the Boat? Labor and Material in Phaedrus IV. 7 and Catullus 64 Christopher J Londa 152
39.5 Early Greek Poetry Which Path Will You Follow? Homer’s Universe and Pindar’s Afterlife George Alexander Gazis 152
54.3 Lucian When You Have Something 'Else': Re-embodiment in Lucian's Dial. Meret. 5 Ky Merkley 152
82.2 The Ancient Novel and Material Culture Votive Inscriptions, Aretalogy, and the Epigraphic Habit in the Ancient Novels Barbara Blythe 152
4.2 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Voting for the Guardians: Election, Lottery, and Moderated Democracy in Plato’s Laws Jeremy Reid 152
64.4 Ovid Visualizing Voice in the Story of Echo and Narcissus Mariapia Pietropaolo 152
65.1 Greek Tragedy (1) Visuality and Gender in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Melissa Baroff 152
16.4 Virgil and Religion Virgil’s Fama and the Merkabah: Potential Semitic Sources for Personified Divine Rumor Angela Zielinski Kinney 152
32.1 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Viewing and Reading the Heroides in the House of Jason in Pompeii Herica Valladares 152
16.3 Virgil and Religion Vergil’s Bacchae: Dido and Amata Katherine M. Handloser 152
63.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Epistolography Using the Bookshelves at Home: The Formation of the Letter-Writing of Margaretha van Godewijck in the Dutch Republic Aron Ouwerkerk 152
48.5 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine Using Literary Eremetic Space to Prevent Emotional Distress in Galen’s De Indolentia Molly Mata 152
68.5 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Using Juvenal’s Satires to Examine Questions of Racism Ian Lockey 152
3.1 Classics In/Out of Asia Understanding Ângela: Gender and Ancient Mediterranean Slavery in Early Modern China Stuart McManus 152
76.4 Flavian Poetry Tristis Umbra Germani: The Troubled Presence of Britannicus in the Octavia Theodora Naqvi 152
57.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Trapezites: an Ancient Currency Conversion Website Giuseppe Carlo Castellano 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
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
76.2 Flavian Poetry To Smell or Not to Smell: Martial’s Rome and Olfactory Claustrophobia Johanna Kaiser 152
67.3 Second Century CE Prose Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18) Patrick Glauthier 152
68.2 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Thinking Classics, Talking Slavery Sophie Mills 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
55.1 Hidden Transcripts The “Hidden Transcript” of the Laureolus-Mime Anne E Duncan 152
11.3 Flavian Epic The Volcanic Poetics of Statius’ Thebaid Kenneth Draper 152
81.5 Homer and Hellenistic Literature The Vocabulary of Fate in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica Paul Ojennus 152
57.0 Ancient MakerSpaces The Virtual Garden: Didactic Reconstruction and Extended Experientiality in the Villa of Livia Frescoes David Massey, Matthew Brennan, and Nicholas Plank 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
80.3 Greek Tragedy (2) The Use of Storytelling in Euripides’ Heracles Olga Faccani 152
8.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Ancient Greek: The Syntactical Properties of Morphemes Nadav Asraf 152
55.3 Hidden Transcripts The Student’s Cicero: Rhetoric and Politics in Pliny, Epistulae 1.20 Konrad Charles Weeda 152
5.3 Greek History The Shape of Anchisteia: Proximity and Care in Demosthenes 43, Against Macartatus Hilary Lehmann 152