Annual Meeting Abstracts

Links for the abstracts for the annual meeting appear below. To see the abstract of a paper to be delivered at the annual meeting, click on the abstract's title. To find a particular abstract, use the search field below. You can also click on the column headers to alter the order in which the information is sorted. By default, the abstracts are sorted by the number of the session and the order in which the papers will be presented. Please note the following apparent anomalies: Not all sessions and presentations have abstracts associated with them. Panels in which the first abstract is listed as .2 rather than .1 have an introductory speaker.

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
23.4 Diaspora and Migration Diaspora as a State of Mind: An Impossibility for Pre-imperial Italy? Elena Isayev 145
23.3 Diaspora and Migration Wanderings and eddies: migration, diaspora and mobility in Messenia Sue Alcock 145
23.2 Diaspora and Migration Greek apoikismos, migration and diaspora Carla M. Antonaccio 145
23.1 Diaspora and Migration Citizen Scatters and Uneasy Statuses in the Roman World Nicholas Purcell 145
12.3 Fertility/Birth Pain, Rhetoric, and the Fetus Sarah Scullin 145
25.8 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Theories vs. Practices in American and European Gender Studies in Antiquity Amy Richlin 145
25.7 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Ancient Gender Studies in Italy Frederica Bessone 145
25.6 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Integrating Gender into North American Classical Studies: Challenges Ahead Judith P. Hallett 145
5.4 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek Pausanias Politicus: Reflections on Theseus, Themistocles, and Athenian Democracy in Book 1 of the Periegesis Patrick Paul Hogan 145
9.3 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Seeing Through the Womb Lisl Walsh 145
17.2 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Lucian, epainos, and the Model Historian Stamatia Dova 145
25.2 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Classics and Gender Studies in 21st Century North America Barbara Gold 145
28.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics A Revised History of the Greek Pluperfect Joshua Katz and Jay Jasanoff 145
36.1 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Plato and Nationalism: Utilizing Classics in the Age of Globalization Leihua Weng 145
43.2 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training From Abolition to Renewal: The Ephebeia after Lycurgus John Lennard Friend 145
47.3 Women of the Roman Empire Women in the Treason Trials of Tacitus' Annales Laura Van Abbema 145
55.4 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Revelation Dialogue in Plutarch and Hermetism: A "Divine Encounter" with the Truth Elsa Simonetti 145
64.1 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Color and Variety in Stoic Physics Thomas Habinek 145
67.4 Stifling Sexuality? “Sex and Homosexuality in Suetonius’ Caesares” Molly M. Pryzwansky 145
75.2 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe Darcy Krasne 145
83.2 Graffiti and Their Supports: Informal Texts in Context Informal and Practical Uses of Writing in Graffiti from Azoria, Crete William C., West 145
5.5 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek Christians, Money, and the Politics of Intellectual Life under the Severans Jared Secord 145
9.4 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Aisthêsis and askêsis: Inward Attentiveness and Embodiment in Galen’s Pulse-Lore Jessica Wright 145
17.3 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Caesar and Sisenna: Some Debts, Some Parallels Christopher B. Krebs 145
25.3 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Gender: A Transatlantic Perspective Giulia Sissa 145
33.1 Study Abroad and Classics The Study Abroad Experience: Developing Realistic Expectations Thomas McGinn 145
36.2 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West What Do Greece and Rome Have to Do with a "Confucian-Socialist" Republic? Yiqun Zhou 145
43.3 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training The Significance of Ephebic Siblings Nigel Kennell 145
52.1 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Non-Contingent but Not Tenure-Track Ruth Scodel 145
55.5 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Encomium of Demosthenes: A Dialogue Worthy of Lucian Brad L. Cook 145
64.2 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Valerius Maximus, Stoicism, and Roman Practices of Exemplarity Ermanno Malaspina 145
67.5 Stifling Sexuality? Stifling ‘Scare Figures’ H. Christian Blood 145
75.3 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Iterum belli diversa peragrat: Argonautic and Roman Civil War Leo Landrey 145
83.3 Graffiti and Their Supports: Informal Texts in Context Contextualizing a New Graffito List from the Athenian Agora Laura Gawlinsky 145
6.1 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Love’s Journeys: Corcyra in Propertius 1.17 and Tibullus 1.3 Micah Young Myers 145
9.5 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Sensus in Lucretiusʼ De rerum natura Pamela Zinn 145
17.4 Historical Poetics and the Intertext Burial Scenes: Silius Italicus’ Punica and Greco-Roman Historiography Antonios Augoustakis 145
25.4 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Ancient Gender Studies in the UK Helen King 145
33.2 Study Abroad and Classics Case Study of a Liberal Arts College: The Integration of Study Abroad into an Undergraduate Classics Curriculum Beth Severy-Hoven 145
36.3 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Virgil (or His Absence) in China and the Viability of Western Classics in Non-Western Context Jinyu Liu 145
43.4 Paideia and Polis: The Ephebate and Citizen Training Bull-Lifting, Initiation, and the Athenian Ephebeia Thomas R. Henderson II 145
52.2 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Contingencies for Contingency: A Non Tenure-track Perspective within the Classics Debra Freas 145
55.6 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues Fantasizing Philosophers: Thecla and the Symbolic Imagination in Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium Dawn LaValle 145
64.3 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Precept(or), Example, and Politics in Seneca Matthew Roller 145
71.1 History in Classics / Classics in History Investigating the Past: The Teaching of Ancient History in Liberal Arts Colleges Eric K. Dugdale 145
75.4 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: The Theme of Civil War in Punica 14 Raymond Marks 145
83.4 Graffiti and Their Supports: Informal Texts in Context Etching out a Place for Venus: Graffiti and the Creation of Sacred Space at Pompeii Bryan Brinkman 145
3.1 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #1 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Victoria Wohl 145
6.2 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Women’s Travels in Latin Elegy Alison Keith 145
10.1 The Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 B.C.) The Battle of the Aegates Islands: Discovery of the Battle Zone and Major Finds Sebastiano Tusa 145