Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
22.4 Neronian Literature Drugs, Immunity, and Body Politics in the Age of Nero James Uden 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
24.2 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Imposter Syndrome In the Field of Classics Sneha Ravi 152
24.3 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Designing a STEM-Friendly Classics Curriculum Clifford A. Robinson 152
24.4 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Against Smooth Breathing Marks Anthony Vivian 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
25.1 Plato Framing Socrates: The Euthyphro and the Phaedo as Literary Context for the Apology Ethan Schwartz 152
25.2 Plato Plato's "Crito" and the Democratic Ideology of Courage Joseph Gerbasi 152
25.3 Plato Persuasion vs. Instruction: Protagoras’ Inability to Teach Virtue in Plato Audrey E Wallace 152
25.4 Plato The Midwifing Function of the Theaetetus’ Midwifery Digression Brian A. Apicella 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
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
27.2 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
27.4 Education Defining Academic Space: How Second Sophistic Authors Appropriate the Chair (Thronos) Sinja Küppers 152
27.5 Education A Child’s Game and Sensory Perception in Minucius Felix’s Octavius Christopher S. van den Berg 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
29.1 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
29.3 Greek Comedy “Whence This Man-Woman?”: A Parody of Aeschylean Satyr Play in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Amy S. Lewis 152
29.5 Greek Comedy Exposing the Secrets of the Moon in Aristophanes’ Clouds and Lucian’s Icaromenippus Jenni Glaser 152
30.1 Philosophical Thought and Language Reconsidering Allegoresis and Poetics in the Derveni Papyrus Matthieu Réal 152
30.2 Philosophical Thought and Language The Alleged Fallacy in Nicomachean Ethics I.2 Takashi Oki 152
30.3 Philosophical Thought and Language Aristotle on his Predecessors: A New Reading in Metaphysics A 10 Mirjam Engert Kotwick 152
30.4 Philosophical Thought and Language Constructing Epistemic Authority in Porphyry's "Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics" Matteo Milesi 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
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
33.2 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
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