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
4.3 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrifice as Literary Construct? The Gap Between God and Sacrifice, Poetry and Cult Sarah Hitch 145
8.2 Tragic Interruptions Hegel on Tragedy: Between Feminism and Christianity Simon Goldhill 145
14.3 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Advanced Greek and Latin in a Limited, Personalized Online Setting Ryan C. Fowler 145
24.2 Epistolary Fictions and Realities Master of Letters: Linguistic Competence in Fronto’s Correspondence Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael 145
27.4 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism Diotima’s Ladder and Derrida’s L’Autre: Neoplatonism for a Post-Metaphysical Age Vishwa Adluri 145
35.1 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece Verity Platt 145
38.2 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Embedded Denominations: Patterns in the hoard evidence from fourth-century Southern Anatolia Lisa Pilar Eberle 145
46.2 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae… et scholae: A Teacher’s Case for Performing Classical Drama in Greek and Latin Matthew McGowan 145
54.3 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Piety in Xenophon’s Theory of Leadership Michael Flower 145
57.4 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic The Antiquities of the Latin Language: Varro's Excavations of the Roman Past Katharina Volk 145
66.4 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Performance and Petitions: A Game of Justice in Roman Egypt Martin Reznick 145
74.1 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact The Use of Biblical Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Texts, Functions, and Contexts Joseph Sanzo 145
82.2 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire Comedy Repurposed: Evidence for Comic Performances in the Second Sophistic and Aristides’ On the Banning of Comedy Anna Peterson 145
44.1 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores 145
4.4 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrificing “In the Greek Fashion” F. S. Naiden 145
8.3 Tragic Interruptions Arendtian Questions for Addison’s Cato Joy Connolly 145
15.1 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance The Significance of Skin Color in Aristophanes (Ecclesiazousae, Thesmophoriazousae) Velvet L. Yates 145
24.3 Epistolary Fictions and Realities You Can Go Home Again: Pliny Writes to Comum Jacqueline Carlon 145
28.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Lycian Personal Names in Greek: The Morphological Process of Integration Florian Reveilhac 145
35.2 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature Pausanias’ Dead Poets Society Johanna Hanink 145
38.3 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Reconsidering the Impact of the Ptolemaic Closed Monetary Zone outside of Egypt Paul Keen 145
46.3 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Explain, Translate, Perform: A Podcasting Approach to Greek and Latin Orality Christopher Francese 145
54.4 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Bad Leaders in Xenophon’s Hellenica Frances Pownall 145
63.1 What We Do When We Do Outreach The Big Read Jennifer A. Rea 145
66.5 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity The Performance of Diplomacy: Verbal and Non-verbal Communication at the Imperial Court of the Late Roman Empire Audrey Becker 145
74.2 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact In Sickness and in Health: Roman and Late Antique Amulets from Syria-Palestine Megan Nutzman 145
82.3 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire The Comic Fashioning and Self-Fashioning of the Eunuch Sophist Favorinus Ryan Samuels 145
71.3 History in Classics / Classics in History Strengthening a Classics Department with Ancient History Dennis P. Kehoe 145
5.1 Writing Imperial Politics in Greek The Face of the Emperor in Philo's Embassy to Gaius Daniel W. Leon 145
8.1 Tragic Interruptions The Death of the Character Page duBois 145
15.2 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance Are Aeschylus’ Suppliants Women of Color? Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 145
24.4 Epistolary Fictions and Realities Pliny’s Tacitus: The Politics of Representation Rebecca Edwards 145
28.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics Attic ΦΡΑϹΙΝ (CEG 28) and the Prehistory of the Epic Tradition Jesse Lundquist 145
35.3 Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature The Tomb as Metapoetic Space in Hellenistic Epigram Irene Peirano 145
38.4 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage The School of Alexandria? Rethinking the Closed Currency System Outside Egypt Noah Kaye 145
46.4 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom Talking Sense Robert Patrick 145
55.1 Representation and Self-Representation in Imperial Greek and Latin Dialogues The Self-Divided Dialogical Self in Seneca's De Ira Caroline Stark 145
63.2 What We Do When We Do Outreach Reading Homer with Combat Veterans Roberta L. Stewart 145
67.1 Stifling Sexuality? “Stupra et caedes: Homosexuality, Women’s Rituals, and the State in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative” Vassiliki Panoussi 145
74.3 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact Computational Methods for the Study of Graeco-Egyptian Magical Gems: A Case Study in the Anguipede Walter Shandruck 145
82.4 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire Statius vortit barbare: Menander, the Achilleid, and the Second Sophistic Mathias Hanses 145
71.4 History in Classics / Classics in History Graduate and Undergraduate Training for the Ancient History Job Market Jennifer Roberts 145