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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
13.3 Slow and Fast Violence in Late Antiquity Embodied Violence: Late Antique Asceticism or the Slow and Fast Configuration of Female Saintly Bodies. Aitor Boada-Benito (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) 154
13.4 Slow and Fast Violence in Late Antiquity Violence Spoken and Unspoken: Languages and Power Dynamics in Late Antique North Africa Yuliya Minets (Jacksonville State University) 154
14.1 Ancient Mystery Cults: Vows of Silence, Practices of Secrecy Sacred Silence and the Sociology of Secrecy in the Eleusinian Mysteries Michelle Zerba (Louisiana State University) 154
14.2 Ancient Mystery Cults: Vows of Silence, Practices of Secrecy Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: What Happened in the Theban Kabirion? Hans Beck (University of Münster) 154
14.3 Ancient Mystery Cults: Vows of Silence, Practices of Secrecy Arrheton and Aporrheton in Iamblichus' De Mysteriis Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge) 154
14.4 Ancient Mystery Cults: Vows of Silence, Practices of Secrecy The Psychology of Secrecy in the Eleusinian Mysteries Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) 154
15.1 Latin Language On Saying Yes in Latin Tomaz Potocnik (University College London) 154
15.2 Latin Language The Latin Vocabulary of Street Intersections Matthew D Selheimer (University of Leicester) 154
15.3 Latin Language Nothing to do with the ‘head’? Hidden meanings of the caput in Seneca’s Thyestes and Agamemnon Vasileios Dimoglidis (University of Cincinnati) 154
15.4 Latin Language The Unknown Plant: Botanical Latin and the Issue of Universal Intelligibility Erin Petrella (Columbia University) 154
16.1 Theocritus and Moschus Theocritus’ First Idyll and the Ancient Egyptian “Herdsman’s Tale” Leanna Boychenko (Loyola University Chicago) 154
16.2 Theocritus and Moschus Irony in the Catalogue of Heracles’ Education in Theocritus’ Idyll 24 Maria V Kovalchuk (University of Pennsylvania) 154
16.3 Theocritus and Moschus Theocritus’ Helen gets herself married Fernando Gorab Leme (University of Michigan) 154
16.4 Theocritus and Moschus Agency, Knowledge, and Consent in Moschus' Europa Hannah Sorscher (Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome) 154
17.1 Roman History I Widows, Horses, Taxes… and Cato? The aes equestre between History and Historiography Drew A. Davis (Mount Allison University / University of Toronto) 154
17.2 Roman History I What’s in a name? Nomenclature and the translation of political power in Roman Corinth Simone A. Oppen (Dartmouth College / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Tiffany H. Chang (Dartmouth College) 154
17.3 Roman History I The legiones vernaculae of the Late Republic Revisited François Gauthier (University of British Columbia) 154
17.4 Roman History I Letters of the Law: Inscriptions and the Experience of the Roman Voter Christopher Erdman (University of California, Santa Barbara) 154
17.5 Roman History I Lampreys and the Birth of Imperial Jurisdiction Zachary Herz (The University of Colorado-Boulder) 154
18.1 Flavian Epic Tumens Atavis: Republican Kinship and Virtue in Silius Italicus’ Punica 4 Maya Chakravorty (Boston University) 154
18.2 Flavian Epic Seneca's Sublime and Statius' Thebaid Thomas Bolt (Florida State University) 154
18.3 Flavian Epic Anti-Juno: Reversing Expectations in Statius’ Thebaid Rebecca A Deitsch (Harvard University) 154
18.4 Flavian Epic Reading and Writing Epic Serially: Thetis, Venus, and Entreaty Scenes in Trojan War Epics Jennifer Weintritt (Northwestern University) 154
20.1 Supporting Open Data: Challenges and Potential Outcomes From Fedora to GitHub to Dataverse, from Digital Preservation to Digital Curation to Linked Data, or There and Back Again, a Librarian’s Tale Alison Babeu (Tufts University/Perseus Project) 154
20.2 Supporting Open Data: Challenges and Potential Outcomes Expanding and sustaining the archaeological data ecosystem: lessons from 16 years of publishing data with Open Context Sarah Whitcher Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context), Eric Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context) 154
20.3 Supporting Open Data: Challenges and Potential Outcomes Data Accessibility for Humanists Vanessa Gorman (University of Nebraska) 154
20.4 Supporting Open Data: Challenges and Potential Outcomes The Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project and the consequences of Open Data Practice Sebastian Heath (The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University), Eric Poehler (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 154
20.5 Supporting Open Data: Challenges and Potential Outcomes Teaching Archaeology within Global, Digital, Knowledge Ecosystems: The Potential of Open Data Jody Michael Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology) 154
21.2 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Tricks and Treachery: A Reevaluation of λάθρῃ in Homeric Hymn to Demeter 372 Hope Ladd (Hillsdale University) 154
21.3 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation The Cultivation of Justice: The Farmer's Fostering of Virtue in Vergil's Georgics Madeline Davis (Christendom College) 154
21.4 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Tria Praeter Naturam: Greetings in Terence’s Adelphoe Michael Frost (Hillsdale College) 154
21.5 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Ancient Virtual Reality in the Eternal City: The Arch of Titus as Experiential Validation of Flavian Rule and Roman Imperial Preeminence Luther Riedel (Florida State University) 154
21.6 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation Reception of Greek Literature in Pre-Revolutionary French Legal Thought Matthew Nelson (University of Mary Washington) 154
22.1 Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Outreach and in Teaching at the K-12 through College Levels Growing Up with the Classics: A Database of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture as Part of the Our Mythical Childhood Programme Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw) 154
22.2 Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Outreach and in Teaching at the K-12 through College Levels Exploring the Our Mythical Childhood Survey: A Database of Classical Antiquity in Modern Young People’s Culture Sonya Nevin (Cambridge U. Faculty of Education and University of Warsaw) 154
22.3 Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Outreach and in Teaching at the K-12 through College Levels Introducing Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers: A Public-Facing Collection of Recommended Reading for Children of All Ages Krishni Schaefgen Burns (University of Illinois, Chicago) 154
22.4 Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Outreach and in Teaching at the K-12 through College Levels Integrating Children’s Literature into an Undergraduate Classics Curriculum Rebecca Resinski (Hendrix College) 154
23.2 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Epigraphic messages inside the buildings: the monumental inscriptions of the Colosseum Silvia Orlandi (Università La Sapienza, Rome) 154
23.3 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Writing home in Rome: the epigraphy of diaspora communities in Southern Trastevere Mary-Evelyn Farrior (Columbia University) 154
23.4 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Harmodius in Roman Athens: recontextualizing an honorific monument for Sulla Gavin Blasdel (University of Pennsylvania / American School of Classical Studies at Athens) 154
23.5 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Aureis litteris figenda. Readability, meaning, and diffusion of (gilded) bronze letters in the East under Nero Flavio Santini (University of California at Berkeley) 154
23.6 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Two sides of the same story? Cognitive approaches to the changing faces of bilingualism in the urban landscape of Ephesos Abigail Graham (Institute of Classical Studies, London) 154
23.7 Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World Encounters with writing in the sanctuaries of Roman Britain John Pearce (King's College, University of London) 154
24.1 Homer and the Homeric Hymns Prayer as a rhythm in Homer’s Iliad Peter Kotiuga (Boston University) 154
24.2 Homer and the Homeric Hymns Hector’s Epithet koruthaiolos, its Contextual Field, and Translation Griffin Budde (Boston University) 154
24.3 Homer and the Homeric Hymns Penelope in Ogygia: the overturning of a formulaic theme Spiridon Iosif Capotos (Boston University) 154
24.4 Homer and the Homeric Hymns Humor and Characterization in Homer’s Formular Economy: Epithets of Odysseus, Hera and Zeus Kenneth Michael Silverman (The College of Wooster) 154
24.5 Homer and the Homeric Hymns Humor as Praise: Hermes and Apollo in Homeric Hymn 4 Carman Romano (Bryn Mawr College) 154
25.1 Ovid II Ovid’s Godless Storm: An Ecocritical Reappraisal of the Ceyx and Alcyone Episode Erica Krause (University of Virginia) 154
25.2 Ovid II Posse loqui eripitur: Trauma and resilience in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Miriam Kamil (Hamilton College) 154