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
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
18.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Roman Use of Concrete on Trajan’s Column and Modern Cinder Block Construction R. Michael Cook 145
25.5 EuGeStA [European Gender Studies in Antiquity] Workshop Ancient Gender Studies in Germany and Switzerland Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer 145
33.3 Study Abroad and Classics Leading Your First Study Abroad Course Sanjaya Thakur 145
36.4 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West How China May Gain from Comparative Studies in Confronting the Ancient West Jenny Jingyi Zhao 145
44.2 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Greeks in Meleagro and Dionísio esfacelado Andrea Kouklanakis 145
52.3 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Tenure-System and Non Tenure-System Faculty: The 'Community of Interest' Scott McFarland 145
56.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Composing Demotic Funerary Texts: Textual Criticism, Orality, and Memory in the Demotic Funerary Papyri Foy Scalf 145
64.4 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Dion of Prusa and the Later Stoics on Participation in Politics Gretchen Reydams-Schils 145
71.2 History in Classics / Classics in History Bread and Circuses: How an Ancient Historian Put the Classics Back into the Gen. Ed. Cheryl Golden 145
76.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy Plato's Hippias on the Power to Do Wrong Anna Greco 145
83.5 Graffiti and Their Supports: Informal Texts in Context Propertius and Ovid on Pompeii’s Walls: Elegiac Graffiti in Context Kyle Helms 145
3.2 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #2 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Craig Williams 145
6.3 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Messalla in Tibullus 1.7: Aporia or Castration as the Way of Love Paul Allen Miller 145
10.2 The Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 B.C.) Archaeological Evidence for Warship Design and Combat in the Third Century B.C. Jeffrey Royal 145
18.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Reception of Cicero and Roman Culture in Theodor Mommsen’s Römische Geschichte Emily S. Goodling 145
26.1 Getting Started with Digital Classics Social Network Analysis and Ancient History Diane Cline 145
33.4 Study Abroad and Classics Study Abroad in the Pre-Collegiate Curriculum Sally Morris 145
36.5 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West The Hermeneutics of Recovery: Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Reception of the Western Classics in China Michael Puett 145
44.3 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Reenacting Death: Aristotelian Catharsis and Afro-Cuban Subjectivity in Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos 145
52.4 Contingent Labor in Classics: The New Faculty Majority? Faculty Extinction, Loss of Habitat, Adcon Vigor: Can the Trends Be Reversed? Alan Trevithick 145
56.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt “No One Can Claim the Priestly Land”: P.Tebt. 2.302 and Egyptian Temples under Rome in Context Andrew Connor 145
65.1 Lesbos and Anatolia: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Documentary Evidence for Greek-Anatolian Contact in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages Religion in Aegean-Hittite Diplomacy: The Evidence of the Hittite Ahhiyawa Texts Ian Rutherford 145
72.1 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Freedom and Its Relationship to the Greco-Persian Conflict Harold Vedeler 145
76.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Body Sense John Thorp 145
84.1 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Humanism at the Papal court: the Biblical Scholarship of Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) Annet den Haan 145
3.3 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Author Response on Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Brooke Holmes 145
6.4 Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy Lentus spatiare: Travelling in Rome in the Ars Amatoria Erika Zimmermann Damer 145
10.3 The Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 B.C.) The Ship Classes of the Egadi Rams and Polybius’ Account of the First Punic War William M. Murray 145
18.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Noble Lie in Terence’s Hecyra Alexander Karsten 145
26.3 Getting Started with Digital Classics Living Pictures: Computational Photography and the Digital Classics Adam Rabinowitz 145
33.5 Study Abroad and Classics Archaeological Fieldwork as a Practical Classroom David Romano 145