Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
1.2 Reconstructio Americana: Ancient Greece and Rome after the American Civil War “American Classical Scholarship as a History of Disorientation” Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford) 154
1.3 Reconstructio Americana: Ancient Greece and Rome after the American Civil War “A Native American Voice from the Reconstruction Era: Ely Parker and Greco-Roman Antiquity” Craig Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 154
1.4 Reconstructio Americana: Ancient Greece and Rome after the American Civil War “American Women’s Associations and Antiquity: Reconstructing Hierarchies through the Classical” Casey Haughin-Scasny (UC Santa Barbara), Kendall Lovely (UC Santa Barbara) 154
1.5 Reconstructio Americana: Ancient Greece and Rome after the American Civil War Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit?: The University of Virginia, Classics, & Racialized Landscapes throughout the 19th Century” Dylan K. Rogers (University of Virginia) 154
2.1 Theology before Theologia: Archaic and Classical Greek Theories of Divine Universality “Homeric Theologia: Fiction or Reality?” George Alexander Gazis (Durham University) 154
2.2 Theology before Theologia: Archaic and Classical Greek Theories of Divine Universality "Hesiod and Theologia" Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) 154
2.3 Theology before Theologia: Archaic and Classical Greek Theories of Divine Universality "Gods as Movers, Thinkers and Carers in pre-Aristotelian Philosophy" Shaul Tor (King's College London) 154
2.4 Theology before Theologia: Archaic and Classical Greek Theories of Divine Universality “In the Night of Parmenides: Theologia and Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus” Phillip Sidney Horky (Durham University) 154
3.1 Deconstructing the Body in Seneca Seneca’s Tragic Hands: Hercules Furens Mairéad McAuley (University College London) 154
3.2 Deconstructing the Body in Seneca Deconstructing the Female Body in Seneca’s Elegiac Reconstruction of Phaedra Chiara Blanco (University of Edinburgh) 154
3.3 Deconstructing the Body in Seneca Bodily Autonomy and Gender Fluidity in Senecan Philosophy and Tragedy Michael Goyette (Eckerd College) 154
3.4 Deconstructing the Body in Seneca The Pathology of the Skin in Seneca's Philosophical Prose: Between Ethics and Aesthetics Allegra Hahn (The University of Manchester) 154
3.5 Deconstructing the Body in Seneca Experiencing (and Understanding) the World: The Body and Senses in Seneca’s Natural Questions Elaine Sanderson (University of Edinburgh) 154
5.2 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East Liberation Ideology and the Achaemenid Empire Nicholas Rockwell (University of Colorado, Denver) 154
5.3 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East Iranian Princesses in the Age of Successors: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Position Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wrocław) 154
5.4 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East Empire Building under Cleopatra VII, Heir of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California) 154
5.5 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East Men, Mounts, and Mouths: Considering the Logistics of the Parthian Army Nikolaus Leo Overtoom (Washington State University) 154
5.6 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East Limits of Hellenism: The Kingdom of Persis and the Founding of the Sasanian Empire Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University) 154
5.7 Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East “Punished With the Fate of Marsyas”: Princes, Nobles, and the Royal Succession in Sasanian Iran Scott McDonough (William Paterson University) 154
6.1 Conforming, Reforming, Trans*forming: Interrogating the Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics Bacchus Re-Gendered?: Queer Theory and Classical Disruption Yentl Love (University of Potsdam) 154
6.2 Conforming, Reforming, Trans*forming: Interrogating the Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics Being Enby with Isis and Cybele: Non-binary Identities and Conversions in Apuleius's The Golden Ass H. Christian Blood (Independent Scholar) 154
6.3 Conforming, Reforming, Trans*forming: Interrogating the Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics ΠDiphthong of a Transition Tatiana Avesani (Johns Hopkins University) 154
6.4 Conforming, Reforming, Trans*forming: Interrogating the Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics Precarious Transitions: The Trans-Masculine Ephebe Noah Wellington (The University of Melbourne) 154
6.5 Conforming, Reforming, Trans*forming: Interrogating the Intersections of Trans Studies and Classics Transphobia and the trans* man in the tribas Evan Jewell (Rutgers University – Camden / American Academy in Rome) 154
7.1 Animals under Empire Human and Animal Captivities in Androcles and the Lion Edward Kelting (University of California San Diego) 154
7.2 Animals under Empire Pets as Humans and Humans as Pets in Imperial Rome Sian Lewis (University of St Andrews) 154
7.3 Animals under Empire Making Manimals: School Fables and Physiognomy in the Second Sophistic Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (University of Virginia) 154
7.4 Animals under Empire Empire of Ants Eleni Manolaraki (University of South Florida) 154
7.5 Animals under Empire Animal Difference: Re-conceptualizing physis in Aelian Ellen Finkelpearl (Scripps College) 154
8.1 Roman Comedy and Invective Roman imperial expansion and the confined spatiality of Plautine comedy Robin Kreutel (University of Cambridge) 154
8.2 Roman Comedy and Invective Enjambment in the trimeters of Plautus and Terence: New measures of compositional method and technique Joseph Andrew Smith (San Diego State University) 154
8.3 Roman Comedy and Invective The daughter and the dowry in Plautus’ Trinummus Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 154
8.4 Roman Comedy and Invective The Enslaved Lector in Catullan Invective: Toward a Ventriloquist Reading of Roman Literature Christopher Londa (Yale University) 154
8.5 Roman Comedy and Invective Body Hair and Lost Morality in Juvenal’s Satires Tiziano Boggio (University of Cincinnati) 154
8.6 Roman Comedy and Invective The Meretrician Satirist and the Elegiac Procuress: The Mercenary Body in Juvenal’s Seventh Satire Victoria Hodges (Rutgers University) 154
9.1 Hellenistic Literature Apollonius of Rhodes and Early Stoic Approaches to Emotion Paul Ojennus (Whitworth University) 154
9.2 Hellenistic Literature Divine Anger at the Aiolids in Apollonius’ Argonautica William Troy Farris (University of Texas at Austin) 154
9.3 Hellenistic Literature kalos kalos in Context: Callimachus’ Unreal Aesthetics Matthew Chaldekas (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) 154
9.4 Hellenistic Literature Demetrius’ On Style and the Hellenistic Theories of Euphony Maria Gaki (University of Cincinnati) 154
9.5 Hellenistic Literature An Allusion to an Etymology of Latium in Lycophron’s Alexandra Kevin B. Muse (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) 154
9.6 Hellenistic Literature 'Callimachus' in Oxford and Munich: Emigration and Remigration of Rudolf Pfeiffer (1937-1951) Hans Peter Obermayer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) 154
10.1 Hesperian Transformations: Classics and the Luso-Hispanophone World Cubans Choteando Classics: Subversive and Irreverent Humor in Cuban Adaptations of Greek Tragedies Eduardo Garcia-Molina (University of Chicago) 154
10.2 Hesperian Transformations: Classics and the Luso-Hispanophone World Invideat vatem iure: Juan Latino and the Poetics of Race Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes (The Pennsylvania State University) 154
10.3 Hesperian Transformations: Classics and the Luso-Hispanophone World Confronted Athens: Identity Narratives and National Receptions of Ancient Greece in Latin America (1880-1944) Bruno Lloret Fuentes (King’s College London) 154
12.2 Addiction, Dependency, and Habit "You Can’t Sit with Us": Drinking Too Much at the Symposium Emma Mendez Correa (NYU) 154
12.3 Addiction, Dependency, and Habit Lament and Substance Abuse Paul Eberwine (Princeton University) 154
12.4 Addiction, Dependency, and Habit Ebrietas in Seneca’s Philosophical Prose: Between Vice and Illness Nikolaos Mylonas (Durham University), Allegra Hahn (Manchester) 154
12.5 Addiction, Dependency, and Habit Toxic Beauty: Aphrodite and Narcosis in Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche Catalina Popescu (University of Texas at Austin) 154
13.1 Slow and Fast Violence in Late Antiquity Slow Violence in a Christian Context: Silencing the Enslaved Martyr’s Female Body Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College) 154
13.2 Slow and Fast Violence in Late Antiquity From the Arena to the Monastery: New Spaces of Judicial Blinding at the End of Late Antiquity Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University) 154