ABSTRACTS FOR 2016 CAMWS MEETING (ARRANGED BY AUTHOR'S NAME)

 

Ager, Sheila (University of Waterloo) Response.

Agnelli, Sara (University of Florida) The Galenic Cook: Why Cooking and Medicine Were Two Aspects of the Same Culture

Ajootian, Aileen (University of Mississippi)Hermes and Dionysos at Olympia and the Antikythera Shipwreck

Alexander, Michael C. (University of Illinois at Chicago)Amoralism, Roman Republican Politics, and Historians in an Era of Disillusionment

Alley, Dennis R. (Cornell University)Who Is the Persona Loquens at Pythian 9.89–96? 

Alwine, Andrew T. (College of Charleston) Oligarchy in Ancient Greece

Aminrazavi, Mehdi (University of Mary Washington) and Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington) Alexander the Great: The View from Persia

Ancona, Ronnie (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) College Professors and the New Standards for Classical Language Learning

Anderson, Peter (Grand Valley State University) Backward Mapping with the New Standards

Anson, Edward (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) Ptolemy the Reckless: the Son of Lagos’ Actions in the Early Years Following Alexander the Great’s Death

Apicella, Brian A. (University of California, Los Angeles) Socrates as αἰτία in the Theaetetus

Alexis Aquino (Florida State University)Moral Truth through Moral Fiction: Plutarch’s Life of Antony

Arceneaux, James M. (Indiana University) Caesar’s Storm: The Crafting of Heroic Identity in Bellum Civile

Armstrong, Clinton J. (Concordia University) “Sling Enough Mud and Some Will Always Stick”: Protestant Defamation, False Witness, and Misquoting the Ancients

Atkins, Adrienne (University of Pennsylvania) Theocritean erga: Epic Framing in Idyll 15. 

Bailey, Walker (Baylor University)Whose Son? Strange Exempla in the Consolatio ad Liviam

Baragwanath, Emily (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Watching the Girls Go By: The Wife of Ischomachus and Theodote the Courtesan

Barnes, Philip (John Burroughs School) Miss Me But Let Me Go: Dido Sings Farewell

Bay, Stephen (Brigham Young University) Tragic Inversion in the Charite Complex of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Beaulieu, Marie-Claire (Tufts University) and Anthony Bucci (Tufts University) Teaching Data Science for Classics

Beydler, Katherine D. (University of Michigan) Exploring Aristotle’s Sources: Hippocratic Influence in De Generatione Animalium

Blake, Sarah (York University) Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Scholarship: Problems and Solutions.

Boshnakov, Konstantin (Conestoga College) New Observations on the Dura-Periplus Map

Boshnakova, Anna K. (Sheridan College) Prosodion Written in Bone: An Inscribed Bone Plaque from the Berezan Island

Bowman, Laurel M. (University of Victoria) Decisions in Alice Oswald’s “Memorial”.

Boychenko, Leanna (Loyola University Chicago) Self, Identity, and the Other: The Egyptian “Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor” and the Odyssey in the Classroom

Bradshaw, Katherine L. (George Washington University) Better Than the Father: Horace’s Appropriation of Homer in Odes 1.15

Branscome, David (Florida State University) Bel as Trickster in Berossus’ Creation Myth

Brooks, Lauren T. (BASIS Scottsdale) Reviving the Classics: The Importance of Teaching the Classics in Low-Performing and At-Risk Schools

Brubaker, Evan L. (Tulane University) Prudentius’ Psychomachia and the Influence of Cicero’s Second In Catilinam Oration. 

Bucci, Anthony (Tufts University) and Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University) Teaching Data Science for Classics

Burns , Krishni  (University of Akron) Pathways to Power: The Importance of Political Influence in Republican Women’s Social Networks

Burton, Paul J. (Australian National University) The Macedonian Merides, Andriscus, and the Fourth Macedonian War

Caldwell, Lauren (Wesleyan University) Narrative Form and Medical Ethics in Galen’s On Prognosis

Caliva, Kathryn (The Ohio State University) Here I Lie on the Narrow Beach: Listening to Subaltern Voices in the Epitaphs of Anyte

Cantwell, Katherine (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Dying Historic on the Fury Road: Homeric Epic and Mad Max

Carnes, Jeffrey S. (Syracuse University) Pindar Here and Now: Deixis, Reference, and Interpretive Community in the Odes. 

Carney, Elizabeth (Clemson University) Grace Harriet Macurdy and 'Woman Power' in Argead Macedonia: Eurydice, Mother of Philip II

Castanon, Charles A. (Indiana University) The Limits of Memory as Persuasion in the Iliad and Odyssey.

Caston, Ruth R. (University of Michigan) Alienation in Terence: When You Feel You Don't Belong

Clapp, Doug (Samford University) The View from the Top: The ‘Poor’ in Cicero’s Pro Murena

Combatti, Maria (Columbia University) Callimachean Hydrokinetics: Water as a Compositional Device in Callimachus’ Hymns

Coşkun, Altay (University of Waterloo) The Bosporan Kings: Friends or Enemies of the Romans? 

Craig, Christopher (University of Tennessee) Cicero’s Sincerity: A Roman Audience Perspective

Credo, Brian Roasting the Bull(-Eater): Aristophanes’ Treatment of Cratinus in Frogs 354–71(University of Pennsylvania)

Csaszar, Tarah (Independent Scholar) About Face: Ancient Physiognomy and onflict

 

Cullick, Rachael (Oklahoma State University) The Lap of a Fury: Images of Perverse Femininity in the Thebaid’s Tisiphone. 

Culp, Stephanie (Brock University) The Psychology of Spartan Hoplites: Relationship Development in the Lakedaimonian Phalanx

Cummins, Monessa (Grinnell College) Praise of Phylakidas and Pytheas in Pindar’s Isthmian 5

Curtis, Melissa (Baylor University) Vulcan’s Maternal Disposition (and Sex)

Cyrino, Monica S. (University of New Mexico) Designing Lizpatra (1963): The Vision and Influence of Irene Sharaff

Daly, Alexandra (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Girl’s Tragedy and New Comedy: The Importance of Citizen Daughters

Daugherty, Gregory N. (Randolph-Macon College) All My Children: The Offspring of Cleopatra in Recent Fiction

Davies-MasonNoah (CUNY Graduate Center) The Unshod Lover: Philosophical Views of Poverty in Theocritus’ Idyll 14. 

Deacon, Elizabeth (University of Colorado at Boulder) The Victory of the Introduction: Plot Structures in Long-Form Narrative.

Delbar, David (Brigham Young University) Remaining in the Mist: Eurydicean Agency in Unamuno’s Niebla

Denton, Tyler A. (University of Colorado Boulder) Monumental Palatine

Dettmer, Helena R. (University of Iowa) Iphigenia among the Barbarians: Tr. 4.4b

Diddams, Caitlin (University at Buffalo) Prudentius at Large: Quantifying the Influence of Latin Epic on the Psychomachia

Diekemper, Noah (Hillsdale College) Scandalous Verse, Credible Threats, and Literary Theory: Analyzing Catullus 16

Dighton, Aerynn (University of California, Santa Barbara) Mutatio Vestis: Clothing and Political Protest in the Late Roman Republic. 

DiLuzio, Joseph A. (Baylor University) Philosophical Digression in Pro SestioPro Balbo, and De Haruspicum Responsis

Dolansky, Fanny (Brock University) Regal Resonances in Ovid’s Fasti

Dopico, Juan (Parish Episcopal School) Caesis nulla iam publica arma: Tacitus’ Cassius and Brutus. 

Downie, Janet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The Romance Between Greece and Rome in Aelius Aristides’ Orations on Smyrna (Orr. 17–21) and Corinth (Or. 46)

Driscoll, David F. (Stanford University) Narrating Paideia: Competitive Learning and Homer in Lucian’s Symposium. 

Dudek, Jaclyn (Pennsylvania State University) Assessment from an Instructional Design and Learning Science Perspective

Dufallo, Basil (University of Michigan) Feasting by Homeric Torchlight: Ekphrasis and Cultural Transmission at De Rerum Natura 2.24-26

Duncan, Anne (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Atreus and Thyestes: Icons of Misrule

Earle, Guy P. (Berkeley Preparatory School) Quintus Titurius Sabinus: A Comparison of Blame and Praise in Books Two, Three, and Five of Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum

Ehrhardt, Kristen (John Carroll University) It’s Complicated: Marriage and Kinship in Alcaeus

Elmendorf, Samantha (Baylor University) It Was Only Natural: Oenone’s Narrative in Heroides 5

Elton, Hugh (Trent University) Assessing Regional Wealth in Late Roman Pontos

Eshleman, Kendra (Boston College) Classical Sophists in the Second Sophistic

Esparsa, Megan (University of Arizona) Etruscan Shieldmaidens: Evidence for Warrior Women in Archaic Italy

Farrell, Joseph (University of Pennsylvania) Vergil and Ovid: Poets of Their Times, and of Ours

Farrington, Scott (Dickinson College) Painting, Mimesis, and Nothing to Do with Dionysus. 

Faulkner, Andrew (University of Waterloo) Paraphrase as Exegesis: Greek Biblical Poetry

Faulkner, James (University of Michigan) Contextualizing the Decontextualized: Social Tensions in the Fragments of Lucilius

Fenno, Jonathan (University of Mississippi) Poetic Counting Techniques and Compositional Strands in the Catalogue of Ships

Ficklin, Andrew (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Apollonius’ Construction of Ekphrastic Narrative

Fletcher, Judith (Wilfrid Laurier University) The Dolls’ Descent: Finding Persephone in the Novels of Elena Ferrante

Forden, Emily Ann (University of Chicago) Mapping Micro-Communities in Pompeii

Foster, Andrew (Fordham University) Manufacturing Descent: Adoption, Inheritance and Civic Identity in Isaios 7.33–42

Frank, Rebecca (University of Virginia) Correcting the Record? Thucydides on Pausanias of Sparta

Frankl, Joseph V. (University of Colorado, Boulder) Articulating Identity after the Persian Invasions: A Contextual Analysis of the Temple to Aphaia on Aegina

Franklin, Ryan (Johns Hopkins University) Sounding Human: Jason in Book 4 of Apollonius’ Argonautica and Zeus in Hesiod’s Typhonomachy

Fyotek, Tyler J. (University of Iowa) Erinna at the Crossroads: Genre-Crossing and Gender-Crossing in Early Hellenistic Literature

Gagarin, Michael (University of Texas, Austin) The Rhetoric of Anticipation in Attic Forensic Oratory

Garcia, Lorenzo F., Jr. (University of New Mexico) Blind to the Future: Homeric ἄτη and the Tragic Plot of the Iliad. 

Germain, Justin (Southern Methodist University) Gender War in the Church: Opposing Views of Women and Their Role in the New Testament

Gipson, Christopher L. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Boeotian Cultic Associations in Oedipus at Colonus

Glazebrook, Allison (Brock University) Battling Desire in Lysias 3: Against Simon

Goldman, Max L. (Denison University) Defending Defeat: Chaeronea in De Corona

Gorton, Luke (University of New Mexico) Kingdom Come: The Hellenistic Jewish Adaptation of the Four-Kingdom Schema

Goyette, Michael (Vassar College) Response.  

Greene, Ellen (University of Oklahoma) Sappho and the Homeric Tradition

Haberstroh, John J. (University of California, Riverside) Heracleides of Maroneia and Proxenus of Thebes: Characterization, Structure, and Closure in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Hackworth, Corey (University of Iowa) Dionysian Resonance in Athenaios’ Hymn to Apollo

Hallett, Judith P. (University of Maryland) Assessing and Continuing the Contributions of Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Scholar: Barbara McManus’ The Drunken Duchess of Vassar: Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar

Ham, Charles (Grand Valley State University) "One from many, many from one” as Empedoclean “Tag” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Hanchey, Daniel P. (Baylor University) Inverting the Metaphor of Slavery and Freedom in Cicero

Hanford, Timothy (Hunter College) How the Revised Standards for Classical Language Learning Help Beginning Teachers.

Hansen, Hans J. (Elon University) Robur in Lucan’s Elemental Epic

Hanson, Wesley J. (University of Pennsylvania) Language in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and His Use of Sermo

Brittany S. Hardy (Millsaps College) and Holly M. Sypniewski (Millsaps College) The Faces of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Study of Graffiti Drawings

Harrington, James M. (Tufts University) Text Completions: Collaborating toward Mastery and Treebanked Commentaries of Complete Texts.

Harris, Molly (University of Wisconsin-Madison) A New Clementia in Cicero’s Pro Marcello.

Hart, Timothy C. (University of Michigan) Plague, Violence, and Marcus Aurelius’ War on Terror

Hartman, Joshua (University of Waterloo) Allusion and Translation: Translating Poetry and Poets in Claudian’s Panegyric for Probinus and Olybrius

Heckel, Waldemar (University of Calgary) Ptolemy I Soter: A Man of His Own Creation

Heckenlively, Timothy (Baylor University) Verbal-Visual Kinship in the Shield of Herakles

Hendricks, Amy N. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sappho’s Helen

Heuer, Keely E. (SUNY New Paltz) Ladies at Louteria: Evidence of Water Cult in Transition Rites of Magna Graecia in South Italian Vase-Painting

Hill, Stephen (Independent Scholar) The Poem as Offering in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poetry

Hilton, Collin M. (Bryn Mawr College) Bovine Lives and Theoretical Virtue in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

Hintzke, Daniel (Monmouth College) Anakin Rex and Vader at Colonus: The Influence of Sophocles on George Lucas’ Tragic Hero

Hollingsworth, Anthony (Roger Williams University) The Politics of Greek Online Courses

Horrell, Matthew (University of Iowa) The Strength of Heroes in the Iliad. 

Houghtalin, Liane (University of Mary Washington) and Mehdi Aminrazavi (University of Mary Washington) Alexander the Great: The View from Persia

Howe, Timothy (St. Olaf College) Kings Dont Lie: Truthtelling and Ptolemy I

Hsu, Yun Han (Helen) (Brock University) Equivalent but not Equal: The Characterization of Sisters Bacchis in Bacchides

Hubbard, Thomas K. (University of Texas, Austin) Antigone and Indeterminacy at the End of Euripides’ Phoenissae

Huber, Melissa A. (Duke University) Claudius and the Monumentalization of Water Supply Improvements in Rome

Hughes, Lisa (University of Calgary) Equity and Graduate Students Pursuing Non-academic Career Paths in Classical Studies

Hunt, Jeffery (Baylor University) Theocritean Anti-Bucolic. 

James, Sharon L. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Plautus and the Marriage Plot

Jeppesen, Seth A. (Brigham Young University) Performing Plautus’ Rudens in the Roman Forum

John, Benjamin (University of New Mexico) The Hegelian Trajectory of Liberation in Senecan Thought

Jones, Jacqueline (University of Iowa) Quidquid eritmelius quam nunc erit: Reconsidering Ovid’s Sappho through Her Inscription

Jones, Steven L. (Houston Baptist University)  Reading the Epodes Topographically

Kaloudis, Naomi (Valparaiso University) Before Queen: Vergil and the Musical Tradition of Sampling Popular Song

Kantzios, Ippokratis (University of South Florida) Blind Poet and “Sight Acts” in the Second Song of Demodocus

Karanika, Andromache (University of California, Irvine) Chasing a Hero, Changing into a Goddess: Nuptial Discourse and Context in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Katz, Rebecca (University of Miami) The Amazons’ New Clothes: Representations of Tychai in the Imperial Greek East

Kearns, Amber (University of Arizona) Defining a Dynasty:  Consolidation of Ptolemic Power in Egypt

Keith, Alison (University of Toronto) Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process

Keith, Sarah C. (University of New Mexico) Playing the Woman Card: Gender Identity and Social Exclusion in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

Kennedy, Rebecca Futo (Denison University) Greeking Women’s Fashion from 1795 to 1863

Kennedy, Scott (The Ohio State University) Thucydides the Rhetor: Reading Thucydides in an Ancient Classroom. 

Kershner, Stephen (Austin Peay State University) What Can Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Adele Do for Your Latin Prose Composition Students? 

Kidder, Kathleen (University of Cincinnati) From Bane Helen to Plain Helen: The Role of Helen’s Name in Theriaka 309–19

Kim, Lawrence (Trinity University) Lovers of Homer in Dio of Prusa’s On Kingship (Or. 2) and Borystheniticus (Or. 36)

Kindick, Samuel (University of Colorado, Boulder) Casting the Die: Programmatic Themes in Bellum Civile 1.183–219

King, Carol J. (Grenfell Campus Memorial University) Monsoons, ‘Mutiny’ and Macedonian Limits

Knox, Peter (Case Western Reserve University) Archaeologizing Intertextuality in Virgil and Ovid

Kopchinski, Kara (University of Kansas) Nox clausas liberat umbras: Propertius 4.7 and the Inversion of Paraclausithyron

Kopestonsky, Theodora (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Never Out of Style: Teaching Latin Love Poetry with Taylor Swift

Kowerski, Lawrence M. (Hunter College-CUNY) Epic Elegiacs: Reading Theognidea 11–14. 

Kreiger, Christian B. (Independent Scholar) Ager Publicus: A Re-Examination of Imperium and Provincia in the Second Century BCE.

Lake, Keely (Wayland Academy) Testing as a Part of Genuine Assessment in a High School Language Class

Lape, Emma C. (Dartmouth College) Oedipus, Creature of a Day: Personal Identities in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos

Lea, Luke (University of New Mexico) Best Laid Plans: The Uniform Plot of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.

Leach, Benjamin D. (The University of New Mexico) Greek Scythians: Exploring Hybridity in Herodotus’ Histories

Leon, Daniel W. (University of Illinois) Performing Masculinity in Plutarch’s Life of Pyrrhus

Lepisto, Scott (University of Southern California) Writing to Realization: Seneca’s 30th Epistle

Lewis, Amy S. (University of Pennsylvania) Sōphrōn kōmōidia, katapugōn kōmōidia: Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Nature of Comedy

Libatique, Daniel (Boston University) Speech, Silence, and Artistic Expression in the Pervigilium Veneris. 

Little, Tessa (SUNY Buffalo) Lost in Translation: What Are στελμονίαι? 

Liu, Cynthia (Baylor University) Odds versus Evens: Civil War and the Price of Unity in Aeneid VIII

Lobur, John A. (University of Mississippi) Evolutionary Moral Psychology and Roman History

Lord, Kristin O. (Wilfrid Laurier University) The Environment of Exile in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris. 

Lowe, James V. (John Burroughs School) Ignorant is Bliss? 

Lu, Ximing (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Mapping Friendship: Horace, Sermones 1.5

Ludke, Melissa (Florida State University) Dancing Soldiers: Representations of Warrior Dance in Etruria

Lund, Andrew R. (University of Cincinnati) That Guy-us: Gaius Sulpicius Apollinaris as a Reader of Terence

MacCormack, Colin D. (University of Texas at Austin) Picking Words with Care: Hypercorrection in the Language of Trimalchio. 

Macfarlane, Roger T. (Brigham Young University) N. Nikolaides’ Eurydice BA2037 (1975): A Sharp-edged Approach to a Classical Rescue

Maggiore  Holly (University of Virginia) The Role of regio egestatis in Augustine’s Confessions

Maisto, Christine M. (University of California) The Plot as Persona in Lysias’ Speech VII

Marley, Caitlin A. (University of Iowa) Analyzing the Audience in the Protheoriae and Dialexeis of Choricius

Martinez, Michelle M. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Oh, what a tangled web we weave”: Jocasta’s Suicide in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

Mata, Molly (University of New Mexico) The Nosos of Athens: Disease and Healing in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

Mattison, Kathryn (McMaster University) Neoptolemus: The Making of a Cruel Warrior

Maurizio, Lisa (Bates College) Visual Images of the Pythia at Delphi: A Priestess at Work

Mazzara, Rachel (University of Toronto) Audience Expectations and Metatheater in Plautus’ Captivi

McCarter, Stephanie (Sewanee: The University of the South) “He Did It Like a Man?”: Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Horace’s Epistles 1

McClure, Laura K. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) The Ties that Bind: Women and Tomb Ritual in Classical Athens

McCune, Blanche C. (Baylor University) Oral Delivery of Essays and Oral Examinations in Classics Classrooms

McGlin, Michael (SUNY Buffalo) Do ut debt: Financial Lending Strategies of the Temple of Apollo at Delos

Menon, Deepti (University of California, Santa Barbara) Staging the Foreign: A Look at Plautus’ Curculio

Meszaros, Erica L. (University of Chicago) Linguistic Analysis of Demonstratives in Early Latin Fragments.

Miller, John F. (University of Virginia) Playing with the Calendar: Ars Amatoria 1.399–418. 

Mills, Sophie (University of North Carolina at Asheville) Ektos sumphorās: Tragic Athens

Montgomery, P. Andrew (Samford University) Africa as a Part of Europe? Sallust’s Geographic Agenda in the Jugurtha

Moorman, Rebecca F. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Of Meretrices and Men: The Tragicomic Construction of Clodia’s Reputation in the Pro Caelio

Morrison, Rachel C. (University of Kansas) Una manus vobis vulnus opemque feret: Rosalind as Ovid in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. 

Moss, Jennifer S. (Wayne State University) Testing in a College Language Classroom

Nemechek, Caroline (University of Kansas) Sophisticating a Cyclops: Depictions of Polyphemus in Roman Wall-Painting at Pompeii

Newman, Alison (The Green Vale School) Thrasyleon: Man or Bear? Transformation through eo in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Norgard, Amy L. (Truman State University) From Plume to Palate: A Feast for the Senses in Horace’s Satires Book 2

Nudell, Joshua P. (University of Missouri-Columbia) Accustomed to Obedience?: The Ionian Reputation for Martial Weakness

Nugent, Mark P. (University of Victoria) Teaching Classical Reception: An Expansive Approach

Oberlin, Lauren (University of Arizona) Sports Illustrated: Sports in Minoan Civilization as Further Evidence of Warfare

Olson, Kelly (University of Western Ontario) Cleopatra, Egypt, and Early Twentieth-Century Female Dress

Padilla, Mark W. (Christopher Newport University) Dial M for Myth: Early Alfred Hitchcock and Greek Myth

Pantazopoulou, Anastasia (University of Florida) Cracking the Fourth Wall: Deceit and Illusion in Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Medea

Parkinson, Christopher D. (Tufts University) Reconstructing Nonnos: A Pagan Writer and a Christian Bishop? 

Penich, Keith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Reviving Troy in Aeneid 5

Pentzer, Mitchell R. (University of Colorado at Boulder) Like Father, Like Daughter(-in-Law)

Perry, David (University of Chicago) The Contents of the Lex Cincia (204 B.C.E) and Tacitus’ Intent

Petkas, Alex J. (University of California San Diego) An Epideictic Revival: Prose Style for Modern Times

Poole, Ursula M. (Columbia University) The Winter of Discontent: Climate and Interiority in the Exilic Poems

Prosser, James R. (Tufts University) Beer: Digital Transcription of a Medieval Manuscript

Experiencing Death in Petronius’ Satyricon: Trimalchio and Failed RitualNina Raby (The University of New Mexico)

Raia, Ann R. (The College of New Rochelle) and Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University) Students Teaching Students: Implementing Goals for Undergraduate Research, Active Learning, and Collaboration

Ramundt, William H. (University of Arizona) The Amphorae Typology of the Villa del Vergigno: Trade, Production, and Adaptation in Northern Etruria

Ranck, Jennifer C. (Independent Scholar) The Power of the Hand: χείρ in the Acts of the Apostles

Rask, K. A. (Duquesne University) 3D Scanning at the Athenian Agora and Corinth

Rauk, John N. (Michigan State University) Lydia and the Hebrus: Horace, Odes 1.25. 

Reno, Joshua M. (University of Minnesota) Inter-Kin Intimacy: Sexual and Verbal Intercourse in Euripides’ Hippolytus and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

Requejo, Albert A. (University of Washington, Seattle) Prolegomena ad Columellam: An Assessment of Columella’s Major Treatise on Agriculture in Light of the Catalonian and Varronian Tradition

Ripat, Pauline L. (University of Winnipeg) Roman Wolves, Worries, and Wasting Disease

Roberson, David B. (University of Arizona) Memory and Monumentality: “Ritual Tumuli” and the Early Helladic Transition

Rogers, Hannah (Baylor University) The Meeting of Minds: An Examination of the Relationship of Socrates and Phaedrus in Plato’s Phaedrus

Rogers, Jordan R. (University of Pennsylvania) Rethinking the Problem of the Pantheon Columns: An Economic Analysis of the Extraction and Transport of the Pantheon’s Monolithic Shafts

Ronnick, Michele Valerie (Wayne State University) Classical Imagery in the Graphic Arts of India under the British Raj

Rosenthal, Crystal (Independent Scholar) Leones et Tigridae et Phocae, eheu! The Lod Mosaic Reimagined through the Fears of Ariadne

Roy, Alyson M. (University of Washington) The Topography of Prestige: The Development of Triumphal Architecture and the Transformation of the Urban Landscape

Salvo, Davide (University at Buffalo) War and Peace in Themistius’ Oration 10. 

Sanders, Rachel A. (Paideia Academy) Sat-eye-re: Eyes, Vision, and Doppelgängers in Horace’s Satire 1.5

Sarais, Maria S. (University of Missouri-Columbia) Callimachean Ars for Enthusiastic Poetry in Seneca’s Oedipus? 

Sarver, Marissa N. (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Res Gestae: Christianity through the Eyes of a Passive Aggressive Pagan

Scodel, Ruth (University of Michigan) Sappho 44 and Traditions of the Troad. 

Severs, Amanda N. (University of Kansas) The Refinement of Roman Virtus in Libya

Shaw, Michael H. (University of Kansas)“Why Not the Nurse?”—Is She the Main Character in Euripides’ Hippolytus?.

Simmons, Jill K. (University of Michigan) Hesiod and the Heroes: Dying in Epic Time.

Simmons, Robert H. (Monmouth College) The Sociology of Leaders “Befriending” Followers in Late Fifth-century Athens: Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis

Sneed, Debby (University of California, Los Angeles) The Architecture of Access: Ramps in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries

Sorscher, Hannah (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Lovely-Haired Demeter: The Hair Motif in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Sowers, Brian P. (Brooklyn College [CUNY]) The Socratic Black Panther: Reading Huey P. Newton Reading Plato

Spunde, Eric K. (University of Florida) Epistolary Appropriations, Tusculan Probabilities, and Progress: Seneca, Cicero, Posidonius, in the Defense of Eclecticism and Psychological Dualism

Spyridakos, Dana (University of Iowa) Love Is Vain

Stark, Casey M. (Idaho State University) Domitian and the Vestals

Stimson, Drew (University of Michigan) Politician and Polis: Thucydides on Positive Leadership. 

Storey, Ian C. (Trent University) Was Sokrates’ Brother a Filthy Rich Tragic Poet? 

Strunk, Thomas E. (Xavier University) Deconstructing the Monuments: Tacitus and the Mausoleum of Augustus

Sypniewski, Holly M. (Millsaps College) and Brittany S. Hardy (Millsaps College)The Faces of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Study of Graffiti Drawings

Tardio, Katie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Animal Husbandry as an Indicator of Cultural Change: Villa de Vilauba. 

Teets, Sarah C. (University of Virginia) The Counterfeit Rhetor: Class in Demosthenes’ Characterization of Aeschines’ Use of Oral and Written Communication in the De Corona

Thomas, Anthony J. (University of Minnesota) Sewing Fig Leaves: Stoic Allegory as a Locus of Power in Ambrosian Exegesis

Trentin, Summer R. (Metropolitan State University of Denver) Reconstructing Antiquity: Alternative Research Projects in Classical Art and Archaeology

Tribble, Ryan S. (University of Iowa) The Flower of Persia: Botanical Language in Aeschylus’ Persians

Tuck, Steven L. (Miami University) When Is a Shepherd Not (Just) a Good Shepherd? 

Turkeltaub, Daniel (Santa Clara University) Monumentalizing Polyxena: Grave Reliefs in Euripides’ Hecuba

Hildebrand, Virgil, and Brutus the TrojanEmma Vanderpool (Monmouth College)

“Close the doors of your ears”: Tracing an Orphic Formula in Augustan Poetry. Adriana Vazquez (University of Washington)

Pseudo-Seneca’s Octavia and the Last of the Julio-ClaudiansChristina Vester (University of Waterloo)

Depictions of Female Jugglers in Classical AthensJonathan Vickers (Trent University)

Urbs ut scaena: Dramatic Space in the Historiae of TacitusPhilip Waddell (University of Arizona)

With Gods on Our Side: Cicero’s Religious Case against CatilineNicholas Wagner (University of Minnesota)

Warwick, Celsiana (University of California, Los Angeles) The Marriage of Achilles and Patroclus: Conjugal Bonds and Homoerotic Subtext in the Iliad. 

Wentzel, Rocki (Augustana University) The World of Room: The Myth of Persephone and Demeter and Narrating Reality

Wenzel, Aaron (University of Minnesota, Morris) Teaching First-Year Writing through Classics

Whalen, Alexis (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Quali Positura: The Power of Position in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

Wharton, David B. (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Metaphors of Color Space in Latin

Wheeler, Jamie K. (Baylor University) Father of His Country: The Significance of Parenthood in Aeneid 8

White, David J. (Baylor University)Columella Res Rustica 10 and Nicander’s Georgica.

Whitlatch, Lisa (St. Olaf College) Ambiguity in Action: Defining Rumor in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 

Wietzke, Johannes (Carleton College) Defining “Dedication” from a Distance: προσφωνέω in the Greek Manuscript Tradition

Wilson, Megan (University of Michigan) Pure Heroine: Tragic Considerations for Dating the Octavia

Wimperis, Tedd A. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Troezen and Athens in Euripides’ Hippolytus: Myth, Politics, and Liminality.

Wise, Jessica L. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Gender and Reception in Theocritus

Wright, Parrish E. (University of Michigan) and Matthew C. Naglak (University of Michigan) The Roman Gens as House: Understanding the Development of the Gens through a House Society Model.