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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
33.5 Dreaming of the Silk Road: Narrative Conversations ‘Strange and Uncouth’: The Discovery of Pompei and its Comparisons to Indian and Chinese Art Hardeep Dhinsa (King's College London) 154
34.1 Greek Historical Narratives Painting History: ancient historiography and the tradition of Historienbilder Luukde Boer (Bilkent University) 154
34.2 Greek Historical Narratives Julius Caesar and Origin Stories in the Works of Josephus Jennifer Gerrish (College of Charleston) 154
34.3 Greek Historical Narratives Voices from the Cave: An Enslaved Woman as a Source in Plutarch’s Life of Crassus Katharine Huemoeller (University of British Columbia) 154
34.4 Greek Historical Narratives ‘Dying With:’ Self-Starvation and Women’s Grief in Appian’s Proscription Narratives Mary Mc Nulty (University of Washington) 154
34.5 Greek Historical Narratives A Heart of Gold: Queen Kandake of Meroë and Intersectional Ecofeminism in Alexander Romance 3.18-24 Jordan Clare Johansen (University of Chicago) 154
35.1 Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity Women and the Justification for War: A New Reality in Late Antiquity? Michele Renee Salzman (SCS/AIA) 154
35.2 Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity ubique praesentem mihi: Long-Distance Amicitia and Physical Presence in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola Rachel C. Morrison (UCLA) 154
35.3 Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity Dramatizing the Enneads in Eunapius’ Life of Porphyry Emma Dyson (University of Pennsylvania) 154
35.4 Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity Augustine’s incomplete euhemerism: charting the history of the gods in City of God 18 Mattias Gassman (University of Oxford) 154
35.5 Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Late Antiquity The Social Logic of Answered Prayer: Paulinus of Pella’s Eucharisticos David Ungvary (Bard College) 154
36.1 Education Rome's First Professores Brayden Hirsch (Ph D Student, Boston University) 154
36.2 Education "Similium alia facies in alia ratione": Farming, oratory, and education in Cicero and Quintilian Elizabeth R. Lavender (Yale University) 154
36.3 Education Agamemnon, Trimalchio, and the Function of Declamation in the Satyricon Nikola Golubovic (University of Pennsylvania) 154
36.4 Education The Enemy at the Gates: Minor Declamation 348 and Cicero’s Catilinarian Conspiracy Kirsten S Parkin (University of Cambridge) 154
36.5 Education Drawing morals in late antiquity: stenography manuals as sub-elite social education Ella Kirsh (Brown University) 154
36.6 Education Life as Drama in Proklos Diadochos Nikolas C Churik (Princeton University) 154
37.1 Classics and Black Feminist Traditions Black Venus: An Absent Presence Lylaah Bhalerao (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) 154
37.2 Classics and Black Feminist Traditions Negroclassical Complications: Black Feminist Critiques on the Pedagogical Failure of W.E.B. Du Bois Vanessa Stovall (University of Vermont) 154
37.3 Classics and Black Feminist Traditions The Song of Scybale -- The Pseudo-Vergilian Moretum Revisited Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) 154
38.2 Disability in the works of Plutarch and his contemporaries A Political Asklepios: Justice, Heredity, and Reproductive Control in Plutarch’s De Sera Malina Buturović (Princeton University) 154
38.3 Disability in the works of Plutarch and his contemporaries The Madness of Antony: Mental Deficiency as a Marker of Character in Plutarch’s Life of Antony and Cicero’s Second Philippic Kyle West (University of Pennsylvania) 154
38.4 Disability in the works of Plutarch and his contemporaries Claudius’ Physical Attributes and his Political Authority in Suetonius’ Claudius Wesley Hanson (University of Pennsylvania) 154
38.5 Disability in the works of Plutarch and his contemporaries How to Write a Disabled God: Disability in Lucian of Samosata’s Dialogues Martina Astrid Rodda (University of Oxford) 154
39.1 Lightning Talks: Reception Beyond Disney’s Hercules Ximing Lu (Bucknell University) 154
39.2 Lightning Talks: Reception Creativity, Collaboration, Interactive Entertainment Greek Tragedy Katerina Zacharia (Loyola Marymount University), Marientina Gotsis (University of Southern California) 154
39.3 Lightning Talks: Reception Classical Architecture in the Heartland: 6 Buildings in Indianapolis, IN Martha J Payne (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis) 154
39.4 Lightning Talks: Reception Re-Translating “La Medéa”: Reflecting on Linguistic Interactions of a Modern Euripides Max Pinsky (University of Central Florida) 154
40.1 Pindar and Bacchylides The Tentacular Aesthetics of Pythian 12 Brittany Susan Hardy (University of Michigan) 154
40.2 Pindar and Bacchylides There the Keledones Sang: Pardigmatic Chorality in Pindar’s Paian B2 Alice Gaber (The Ohio State University) 154
40.3 Pindar and Bacchylides Revisiting Gender in Pindar: Biological and Social Reproduction in the Epinician Odes Caitlin Miller (University of Chicago) 154
40.4 Pindar and Bacchylides Aegina’s Philoxenia: Poets and Trainers in Pindar’s Nemean 5 and Bacchylides 13 Joshua Andre Zacks (University of Washington) 154
41.1 Roman Poetry: Society and Politics Wordplays With Friends: Vergil's Tree of Faunus Spells HORATIUS? Ryan Tribble (University of Iowa) 154
41.2 Roman Poetry: Society and Politics In Primis Mihi Care: the Martial-Martial Epigrams and the Poetics of Social Intimacy David Sutton (University of Toronto) 154
41.3 Roman Poetry: Society and Politics The Hand of Caesar: Assigning Guilt in Lucan's Bellum Civile Theodore J Boivin (University of Cincinnati) 154
41.4 Roman Poetry: Society and Politics The Poetics of Dust in Martial’s Panegyrics of Domitian and Trajan Emma Brobeck (Washington &, Lee University) 154
42.1 Roman History II Herod, Agrippa, and Power Dynamics in the East Katheryn Whitcomb (Haverford College) 154
42.2 Roman History II Crisis and Consensus: Provincial Images of Trajan amidst Roman-Eastern Conflict Timothy F Clark (Boston University) 154
42.3 Roman History II An Epigraphic View on the Dynamics of Amastrian Peripheral Integration in the "Amastriane" Ching-Yuan Wu (Peking University) 154
43.1 Hellenistic and Roman Mime Exploring rhythm and voice through a musical setting of the Fragmentum Grenfellianum Alex Silverman (University of Oxford) 154
43.2 Hellenistic and Roman Mime What’s in a genre? The audience experience(s) of palliata comedy and Roman mime Hans Bork (Stanford University) 154
43.3 Hellenistic and Roman Mime Mime Spectators as Readers in Martial’s Epigrams Jovan Cvejetičanin (University of Virginia) 154
43.4 Hellenistic and Roman Mime Sex, wine, and violence: choral aesthetics of the Graeco-Roman mime Hanna Golab (ASCSA) 154
44.1 Neo-Latin at High Table Writing for marriage and for the pope during the pontificate of Julius II: the case of “Fausto” Maddaleni Capodiferro Renato Ricco (independent researcher) 154
44.2 Neo-Latin at High Table Fabio Vigili vs Blosio Palladio in an unusual satirical carmen Nancy M Impellizzeri (Università "Kore" di Enna) 154
44.4 Neo-Latin at High Table How salt gets to the table promoting European culture Carmela Panarello (independent scholar) 154
45.1 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare Swords in Early and Mid-Republican Italy Jeremy Armstrong (University of Auckland) 154
45.2 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare The Toga in Military Context Michael Taylor (University at Albany, SUNY) 154
45.3 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare The Sieges of Veii and Rome: city boundaries and military trauma Sally Mubarak (University of St Andrews) 154
45.4 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare Racing Roman Republican Warfare Dominic Machado (College of the Holy Cross) 154