Annual Meeting Program

Presiders: Caroline Stark (Howard University) and Robert Santucci (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

1. Aren’t Wet Babies Divine? Infant (Im)mortality in Greek Medicine and MythographyTyson Sukava (University of Delaware)
2. Galen on the Use of Learning-Shortcuts: The Preface of Galen’s Synopsis De PulsibusMarkus Dubischar (Lafayette College)
3. Classical Allusion and Pro-Vaccination Discourse in Luko Stulli’s Vaccinatio; De Jenneriano Invento Optime Merito; Carmen ElegiacumMichael Goyette (The Pennsylvania State University)

Presiders: John Lenz (Drew University) and Andrea Kouklanakis (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)

1. Ghost and Grief: Divine Inefficiency and Institutional Oblivion in EumenidesJazmín Novoa Lara (Columbia University)
2. Catastrophe Averted? Euripides’ Hippolytus and Tragic Resonance in Plato’s EuthyphroThomas Falkner (McDaniel College)
3. Reading the Unreliable Body: Medea’s Gestural Language in Euripides and Apollonius’ ArgonauticaDaria Molinari (Princeton University)

Presiders: Rachel Lesser (Gettysburg College) and David Rosenbloom (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

1. The Master Narrative of Greek TyrannyMarcaline Boyd (University of Delaware)
2. Poor Plataeans: Narrative, Characterisation, and Politics in Thucydides 2.2-6Holly Axford (Columbia University)
3. Rescripting in Xenophon’s HellenicaSarah Ferrario (The Catholic University of America)

Presiders: Christian Wildberg (University of Pittsburgh) and Raymond Capra (Queens College, CUNY)

1. Communal Formation and Personhood in Plato’s Republic II-IIIMichael Okyere Asante (University of Cambridge)
2. Heracles in Philosophical Tragedy: From the Hellenistic Age to RomeLucia Degiovanni (Università degli studi di Bergamo)
3. Συμφορά and οἶκτος as Diagnostic Tools for Virtue in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities 4.53 and 19.269Saga Herdeskoeld (University of Maryland, College Park)

Presiders: Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College)

1. The Ancient Novel Buries its GaysRobert Santucci (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
2. Muliebrem togam reddidisti: Comedy and Gendered Invective in Cicero’s Second PhilippicTori Korman (Pennsylvania State University)

Presiders: Ilaria Marchesi (Princeton University) and Silvia Sarais (Hunter College)

1. Mimicking Manuscript Traditions in an Introductory Latin Classroom: A Project-Based AssessmentJohn Griffin (CUNY Graduate Center)
2. Ecocriticism, Classical Myth, and Sustainable Solutions in PedagogyAlissa Vaillancourt (Villanova University)
3. The Innovative Pedagogy of Helen Henrietta Tanzer: Pliny as Multi-Media Teaching ToolTalia Boylan (New York University)

Presiders: Sarah Ferrario (The Catholic University of America) and Lillian Doherty (University of Maryland, College Park)

1. The Flashing Glance: Δερκόμενος as Insight into the Homeric MindBrendan Cullen (Tufts University)
2. Forms of Myth in Pindaric EpinicianHyeonseo Kim (Cornell University)
3. From Zeus to Zeus: Ring Composition and Poetic Design in Nemean 2Maria Stouraiti (The Catholic University of America)

Presiders: Madeleine Grabarczyk (Gilman School) and Dustin Cranford (McLean School)

1. Love or Obsession: Horace’s Love Poems of Odes IFelipe Utreras-Castro (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Imagery and Simile as Consolation for the Fear of Death in De Rerum Natura 3Lisa Pang (The Loomis Chaffee School)
3. Sulpicia’s Abortion: Illness and Agency in Latin Love ElegyErin Hanses (The Pennsylvania State University)
4. Intimated Futures and the Limits of Epistolarity in Ovid’s Exile PoetryBellina Gaskey Johr (Princeton University)

Presiders: David Kuyat (Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School) and Devondra McMillan (St. Andrew’s School)

1. The otaku Gaze: Sex and Power in Cleopatra and the Iron CrossJuan Dopico (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
2. Representing Religion, Culture, and Politics in Crusader Kings III and The Fallen EagleWesley Hanson (Howard University)
3. Using the Harry Potter Fanfiction My Immortal to Elucidate Ovidian PoeticsKathleen Kidder (Seton Hall University)
4. Opposition to Political Realism in American Movies about the Classical WorldJohn Lenz (Drew University)

Presiders: Maria Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University) and Stephen Ogumah (Hofstra University)

1. Shifting Skins: Mutability, Affectivity, and Surface Poetics in Iliad 13 and Hesiod’s Works and DaysBrett Stine (Columbia University)
2. The Titanomachy and Hesiodic NarrativeEric Blum (Cornell University)
3. Heroic Cosmologies in Hesiod’s Theogony and the Zoroastrian Fravardīn YaštJoseph Miller (University at Buffalo)

Presiders: Sulochana Asirvatham (Montclair State University) and Gary Farney (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark)

1. Constructing “Arcadian”: Primordial Giants & Indigenous ParallelsStella J. Fritzell (Bryn Mawr College and the Smithsonian Institution)
2. Cloudy with a Chance of Colonization: Weather and the Formation of a Cultural Identity in Tacitus’ AgricolaSofia Podgorski (University of Maryland, College Park)
3. You are the Image of Your Mother: Subversions of Familial Exemplarity in QuintilianMaya Chakravorty (Connecticut College)

Presiders: Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware) and Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College)

1. Classical Historiography and the Conquest of Mexico in Peter Martyr d’Anghiera’s De Orbe Novo DecadesNicoletta Bruno (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study / University of Hamburg, Germany)
2. From Augustus to Henry VII of Luxembourg: Dante’s Use of Orosius in MonarchiaDavide Salvo (Indiana University, Bloomington)
3. Greco-Roman Topoi and ‘Imagined Geography’ in Gerald of Wales’ Topographia HibernicaDaniel Hunter (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick)

Presiders: T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick) and James Capreedy (Hobart and William Smith College)

1. Government Spending and Social Welfare in the Early Roman EmpireJames Macksoud (Stanford University)
2. The Persecution of Christians under Constantius IINathan Moore (Calvary Day School)
3. Bodies of the Past: Embodiment, Intentional Histories, and Roman Greece in Pausanias’ PeriegesisMarie Gruver (The Pennsylvania State University)

Presiders: Karen Klaiber Hersch (Temple University) and Suzanne Walker (Merion Mercy Academy)

1. Gymnastics of a Kind: Literary Gymnastike in Lucian’s True Stories and AnacharsisEvan Waters (The Catholic University of America)
2. A Miniature Issue of Slapstick in Terence’s PhormioJustin Dwyer (University of Rochester)
3. Walahfrid Strabo’s de Imagine Tetrici: How Virgilian Intertext Can Add Hidden (and Subversive) Meaning to Later Latin PoetryRose Elaine Mandolia (Virginia Tech)

Presiders: Katherine Panagakos (Stockton University) and Haley Ryan (The Hewitt School)

1. The Role of Nausicaa in Homer’s Odyssey: A New ApproachMadison Grohman (Stockton University; mentor: Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University)
2. Reading the Cyclops Painter’s Namesake Vase as Depicting a Messenger SpeechKate Stout (University of Rochester; mentor: Justin Dwyer, University of Rochester)
3. Ostia, Portus, and Labor-Based Identity in Roman PortsMarcus Beardsley (Cornell University; mentor: Lauren Petersen, University of Delaware)
4. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Political Literacy and Propaganda in the Age of AugustusJulia Prendergast (Villanova University; mentor: Alissa Vaillancourt, Villanova University)
5. Reading Lavinia as an Addressee of Heroides 7Jasper Chen (Columbia University; mentor: Gareth Williams, Columbia University)