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.

Enter some terms to find a particular abstract or abstracts in a particular field.
Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
68.1 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Rhetorical Aeschylus Allannah Karas 145
68.2 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Mapping the World in Greek Tragedy Aara Suksi 145
68.2 Documentary Fallacies The Medium is (Part of) the Message: Cicero on the Use of Tabellae by the Catilinarian Conspirators Robert McCutcheon 145
68.3 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Laughter and Blood: A Homeric Echo in Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Allen-Hornblower 145
68.4 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Astyanax and the Discus: Athletic Discourse in Euripides’ Troades Owen Goslin 145
69.1 Documentary Fallacies The Documentary Letters of the Alexander Romance Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 145
69.3 Documentary Fallacies The Fog of Peace: (Pseudo)-Alliances on the Coinage of Late Roman Usurpers Tristan Taylor 145
69.4 Documentary Fallacies The Circulation of the Historia Augusta: Reconsidering its Anonymity Kathryn Langenfeld 145
70.1 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity A New Fragment of Ovid’s Medea Pierluigi Leone Gatti 145
70.2 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity The So-called Calliopian Recension of Terence Benjamin Victor 145
70.3 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity Eden Is the Paradise of Truphē Vanessa Gorman 145
70.4 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity “How many mouths could tell ...?” An Epigram by the Empress Eudocia and Cento Poetics Timo Christian 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
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
71.3 History in Classics / Classics in History Strengthening a Classics Department with Ancient History Dennis P. Kehoe 145
71.4 History in Classics / Classics in History Graduate and Undergraduate Training for the Ancient History Job Market Jennifer Roberts 145
72.1 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Freedom and Its Relationship to the Greco-Persian Conflict Harold Vedeler 145
72.2 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Athens, Cyprus, and Phoenicia: Trade Relations and Official Policies in the Fourth Century BC Brian Rutishauser 145
72.3 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Mortuary Traditions and Cultural Exchange in Anatolia Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre 145
72.4 Greeks and Achaemenids: War, Diplomacy, Trade, and Culture Ctesias at the Crossroads: Integrating Greek and Near Eastern Traditions in the Persica Matt Waters 145
73.1 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Propertius 4.7: Cynthia Re-Reads the Elegiac Affair Jessica Wise 145
73.2 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Elegy, Aetia, and the Conquest of the Feminine in Propertius Book 4 Serena Witzke 145
73.3 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Shadows, Dust, and Simulacra in Propertius Book Four Hunter Gardner 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
74.2 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact In Sickness and in Health: Roman and Late Antique Amulets from Syria-Palestine Megan Nutzman 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
74.4 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact Inscribed Neolithic Hand Axes as Amulets in the So-Called ‘Pergamon Magical Kit’ Kassandra Jackson 145
75.1 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Diplomacy and Doubling in Statius’ Thebaid Pramit Chaudhuri 145
75.2 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe Darcy Krasne 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
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
76.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy Plato's Hippias on the Power to Do Wrong Anna Greco 145
76.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Body Sense John Thorp 145
76.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy Cicero and Seneca as Aristotelians Robin Weiss 145
77.1 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Remembering Odysseus: Line-initial Memory in the Odyssey Stephen Sansom 145
77.2 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Is Telemachus a "Naturally Gifted Orator?" The Case of Od. 2.40-79 David F. Driscoll 145
77.3 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Nausicaa and the Delian Palm: Odysseus' Strategic Epithalamium Charles D. Stein 145
77.4 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual The View from Hades: Tyro’s Story in Odyssey 11 George Gazis 145
77.5 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Pandora and the Pandareids: The Struggle to Define Penelope in Odyssey 18-20 Rachel Lesser 145
77.6 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Incense Offerings in Homer: An Unrecognized Religious Activity? William Bibee 145
78.1 Greek Philosophy Presocratic Theory and the Musical “Enharmonic” Sean Gurd 145
78.2 Greek Philosophy Mercenary Wisdom: The Role of Simonides in Xenophon’s Hieron Mitchell H. Parks 145
78.3 Greek Philosophy “The Man with Arms” at Aristotle, Politics 1.2.1253a34 E. Christian Kopff 145
78.4 Greek Philosophy Four Words in Aristotle’s Politics on the Economics of Liberal Education Stephen Kidd 145
78.5 Greek Philosophy Scholars and Scribes: Remarks on the Influence of Asclepius’s Commentary on the Transmission of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Mirjam E. Kotwick 145
79.1 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Hippokleides, Dirty Dancing, and the Panathenaia Brian M. Lavelle 145
79.2 Problems in Greek History and Historiography From Resolving Stasis to Ruling Sicily: Herodotus on the Hereditary Priesthood of the Chthonic Goddesses Virginia M. Lewis 145
79.3 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Pausanias, the Serpent Column, and the Persian-War Tradition David Yates 145
79.4 Problems in Greek History and Historiography Thucydides’ History and the Myth of the Athenian Tyrannicides Sarah Miller Esposito 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