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
31.1 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Hecale in Verona John D. Morgan 145
40.3 Art, Text, & the City of Rome The Forum Augustum from the Farther Shore: Vergil's Reader as Interpretive Hero in Augustus' Hall of Fame Nandini B. Pandey 145
49.3 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Color Terminology in Pliny’s NH 37 Emi C. Brown 145
58.5 Poster Session How Do Epic Poets Construct their Lines? A Study of the Verb προσέειπεν in Homer, Hesiod, Batrachomyomachia, Apollonius Rhodius, and Quintus Smyrnaeus Chiara Bozzone 145
61.3 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Hipparchus Philologus John Ryan 145
70.1 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity A New Fragment of Ovid’s Medea Pierluigi Leone Gatti 145
79.3 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Pausanias, the Serpent Column, and the Persian-War Tradition David Yates 145
11.2 The Second Sophistic Plutarch and Oracles in the Lives and the Moralia Amy Lather 145
21.3 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic The Gothic Juvenal: Matthew Lewis and the Roman Roots of the Gothic James Uden 145
31.2 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Pompey's Head and the Body Politic in Lucan's De Bello Civili Julia Mebane 145
40.4 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Ancestors in Adrastus’ Atria: Multivalent Retrospection in Statius’ Thebaid Laura Garofalo 145
49.4 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Flavor and the Elder Pliny John Paulas 145
58.6 Poster Session The Chairman’s Patronymic in an Athenian Alliance with Dionysius of Syracuse (IG II² 105 and 523) Marcaline J. Boyd 145
61.4 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Books Received: Encounters with Texts in Callimachus' Aetia and Iambi Robin J. Greene 145
70.2 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity The So-called Calliopian Recension of Terence Benjamin Victor 145
79.4 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Thucydides’ History and the Myth of the Athenian Tyrannicides Sarah Miller Esposito 145
11.2 The Second Sophistic Education and Power in Plutarch Quaestiones convivales 736D-737D Gavin Weaire 145
21.4 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Persius' Polenta and Apuleius' Metamorphoses Sasha-Mae Eccleston 145
31.3 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Priapeum non est: A Reconsideration of Poem 61 in the Carmina Priapea Heather Elomaa 145
41.1 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries The “Letter of Aristeas,” the Alexandrian Library and Near Eastern Suzerainty Treaties Daniel B. Levine 145
50.1 Vergil’s Aeneid Causas memora: Overdetermination and Undermotivation in the Aeneid Bill Beck 145
58.7 Poster Session Roman Epitaphs and the Poetics of Quantification Andrew M. Riggsby 145
61.5 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry The Addressee and Date of Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis Leanna Boychenko 145
70.3 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity Eden Is the Paradise of Truphē Vanessa Gorman 145
79.5 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Situating a Lost Greek Historian: The Works and Days of Hippias of Erythrae Matthew Simonton 145