Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
66.3 Ovid in the Global Village: Interconnectivity and Alienation in Ovidian Studies (Post)Modern Choreographies of Ovidian Metamorphosis in the Dances of Loie Fuller, Jody Sperling, and Kinetic Light Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan) 154
66.4 Ovid in the Global Village: Interconnectivity and Alienation in Ovidian Studies The Continuous Exile: Ovid in Bosnian Poetry Kresimir Vukovic (LMU Munich) 154
67.2 Text and Authority in the Early Modern Era Lucian, Virgil, and the myth of Quetzalcoatl: Transformation of classical authorities in a colonial world Andrew Laird (Brown University) 154
67.3 Text and Authority in the Early Modern Era Erasmus’ auctoritates. The sources on marriage in the Christiani matrimonii institutio Olivia Montepaone (Università degli Studi di Milano) 154
67.4 Text and Authority in the Early Modern Era Olympus, Nectar, Ambrosia: Iconoclasm and 'Hellenick Learning' in Milton’s Paradise Lost Han Hao (University of California, Santa Barbara) 154
67.5 Text and Authority in the Early Modern Era Quevedo Takes on Stephanus: Projecting Textual Authority in the Anacreón castellano (1609) Julia Hernández (Washington and Lee University) 154
68.2 The Content of the Form(s): Problems of Genre in Ancient Greek Texts (Un)commonplaces in Attic Oratory Davide Napoli (Harvard University) 154
68.3 The Content of the Form(s): Problems of Genre in Ancient Greek Texts Engendering authorship in the epigrams of Sappho and Erinna Chiayi Lee (Princeton University) 154
68.4 The Content of the Form(s): Problems of Genre in Ancient Greek Texts The Limits of Form in Plato’s Engagement with the Sophists Evan Rodriguez (Idaho State University) 154
68.5 The Content of the Form(s): Problems of Genre in Ancient Greek Texts Queer failures of form in the Hippokratic case history of Phaethousa of Abdera (Epidemics VI 8.32) Nicolette D'Angelo (University of California, Los Angeles) 154
69.1 Lightning Talks: Pedagogy How to Ungrade in Beginning Latin and Greek and Motivate Student Learning Erika L Weiberg (Duke University) 154
69.2 Lightning Talks: Pedagogy Walking, Talking, and a Classical Precedent for Ambulatory Pedagogy Noreen Kupernik (Thaden School) 154
69.3 Lightning Talks: Pedagogy Eco-Pedagogy in the Classics Classroom Kathryn M Caliva (Kenyon College) 154
69.4 Lightning Talks: Pedagogy Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Latin Classroom Elizabeth Palazzolo (Saint Anselm College) 154
69.5 Lightning Talks: Pedagogy (Re)considering the Graduate Proseminar Caitlin C Gillespie (Brandeis University) 154
70.1 Greek Comedy Infidus Interpres: The Metatheatre of Foreign Language Interpretation in "Acharnians" and "Birds" Niek Janssen (University of Toronto) 154
70.2 Greek Comedy Law in the Court of Aristophanes: Shifting Legal Terminology in Aristophanic Comedy Michael Anthony Mignanelli (University of Texas at Austin) 154
70.3 Greek Comedy The Limits of Humor: Scholiastic Approaches to a Hubristic Joke in Aristophanes’ Frogs Amy Susanna Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) 154
70.4 Greek Comedy The New Comedy of Apollodorus of Gela Justin Dwyer (University of Victoria) 154
71.1 Illness and Death The Healing Touch of the Sacred Well at Pergamum Artemis Brod (Independent Scholar) 154
71.2 Illness and Death The Contagious Question of Tuberculosis Julia G. Simons (University of Pennsylvania) 154
71.3 Illness and Death Illness and Metamorphosis: Ovid and the Patient's Experience in Antiquity James Uden (Boston University) 154
71.4 Illness and Death “Your Mother Was Somebody’s Daughter:” Moral Debate About Infanticide in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Late Imperial China. Benjamin Porteous (Harvard University) 154
72.1 Roman Historical Narratives Versions of history in Cicero, Ad familiares 5 Laura Losito (Durham University (UK)) 154
72.2 Roman Historical Narratives Rationalizing The First Secessio Plebis in Livy and Dionysius James Alexander Macksoud (Stanford University) 154
72.3 Roman Historical Narratives Law and Style in Livy’s Ver Sacrum Vow (22.10.1-6) Cynthia Jordan Bannon (Indiana University) 154
72.4 Roman Historical Narratives Livy's Tragedy of Philip: Fraternal Discord as an Exemplum for the Domus Augusta Christie McGuire Villarreal (Bryn Mawr College) 154
72.5 Roman Historical Narratives Reading Cato’s Origins in Antonine Rome: fact and fiction in Gellius’ Attic Nights Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado Boulder) 154
72.6 Roman Historical Narratives The lost first book of Ammianus Marcellinus Gavin A.J. Kelly (University of Edinburgh) 154
73.2 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? The Benefits of Experimental Research in Investigating Latin Reading Strategies Rebecca Boyd (George Washington University) 154
73.3 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? Mind the Gaps: Between Theory, Goals, and Practice in Teaching Latin Students to Read Jacqueline Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston) 154
73.4 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? Encountering Latin as a Human Language: The Linear Approach for Reading Nava Cohen (Northwestern University), Caroline S. Kelly (Mitchell Community College and Pearson Publishing) 154
73.5 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? From Syntax to Story: Concepts and Design Principles for Latin Reading Activities Suzanne Adema (Leiden University) 154
73.6 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? The Comprehensible Cosmos of Orbis Sensualium Pictus: John Amos Comenius’s Vision for Joyful Latin Reading and Learning Evan Dutmer (Culver Academies) 154
73.7 Teaching Students to Read Latin: What Does That Mean? Reading in a Multisensory Environment: The Visual Latin Reading Library John Gruber-Miller (Cornell College) 154
74.2 Herculaneum: Image and Text Rediscovering a lost roll of Philodemus’ On Poems Richard Janko (U Michigan) 154
74.3 Herculaneum: Image and Text Alcaeus fr. 358 Voigt and Demetrius Laco on Alcaeus fr. 358 Voigt Michael McOsker (University of Cologne) 154
74.4 Herculaneum: Image and Text Sleeping in Herculaneum: Roman sleeping arrangements in the archaeological sources Laura Nissin (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) 154
74.5 Herculaneum: Image and Text Philodemus’ Peri Parrhesias Raffaella Cribiore (NYU) 154
75.1 Decentering Empire: Local Religious Practice and Ethnic Self-Representation in the Ancient Mediterranean World In His Actions He Will Seem a Foreigner: Performative Indigeneity through Embodied Ritual in the “Mithras Liturgy” Dora Gao (University of Michigan) 154
75.2 Decentering Empire: Local Religious Practice and Ethnic Self-Representation in the Ancient Mediterranean World Religion and Birth Work in Late Ancient Roman Palestine Pratima Gopalakrishnan (Duke University) 154
75.3 Decentering Empire: Local Religious Practice and Ethnic Self-Representation in the Ancient Mediterranean World Not Roman or Phoenician, but Gaditanian: A Reevaluation of the Temple of Melqart at Gadir Leah F. Borquez (University of California, Berkeley) 154
75.4 Decentering Empire: Local Religious Practice and Ethnic Self-Representation in the Ancient Mediterranean World What Makes a Good Neighbor?—Egyptian and Nubian Interactions on the Southern Egyptian Frontier Candace Buckner (Virginia Tech) 154
75.5 Decentering Empire: Local Religious Practice and Ethnic Self-Representation in the Ancient Mediterranean World North African Religion and Local Power Danielle Perry (University of Pennsylvania) 154
75.6 Herculaneum: Image and Text Enargeia in Philodemus Stephen Kidd (Brown University) 154
76.1 Roman Poetry: Gender and Genre Augustan Elegy and CIL 6.5302: Literary Dynamics in Vigna Codini III Grace Funsten (University of Washington) 154
76.2 Roman Poetry: Gender and Genre The Effigies of Allia Potestas (CIL 6.37965 = CLE 1988) Matthew D. Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus College) 154
76.3 Roman Poetry: Gender and Genre Numquam sibi libera visa: sexuality and status in the epitaph of Allia Potestas (CIL VI 37965) Emily C. Mitchell (Harvard University) 154
76.4 Roman Poetry: Gender and Genre “Gender and Genre Play in the Copa” K. Sara Myers (University of Virginia) 154
77.1 Greek Philosophy II Epistolarity and Monumentality in the Letters of Diogenes of Oenoanda Mary Anastasi (UCLA) 154