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
2.5 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Daphne’s Posthuman Bodies: Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Science Fiction Benjamin Eldon Stevens 146
2.2 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions 'Romanae spatium Urbis': Ovidian Narrative and Roman Space in the 'Fasti' Leon Grek 146
2.4 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Humanist horti: the poetics of innovation in Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum Luke Roman 146
2.1 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Conjugal reunions: Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice and Euripides’ Alcestis Sergios Paschalis 146
2.3 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Amber Tears and Swan Songs: Ovid and Poetic Authority in Lucian’s Ἠλέκτρου Carrie Mowbray 146
34.3 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance Christopher Bungard 146
34.4 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Doubling in practice and pedagogy Amy R. Cohen 146
34.2 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Behind the façade: Staging the house in Euripides’ Orestes Megan Wilson 146
34.5 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Aristophanes in performance in the 21st-century classroom Lily Kelting 146
34.1 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Reconsidering choral projection in Aeschylus through performance Simone Oppen 146
34.3 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance Chris Bungard 146
19.1 Philosophical Poetics Philosophy as a Reinterpretation of Poetry in Plato’s Republic Samuel Flores 146
19.5 Philosophical Poetics Where is the Good? The Place of Agathon in the Symposium Phillip Horky 146
19.2 Philosophical Poetics Between Hesiod and the Sophists: Prodicus’ Heracles at the Crossroads Katherine Lu Hsu 146
19.6 Philosophical Poetics Persius 4 & 5: Pedagogy and the failure of philosophy Kate Meng Brassel 146
19.3 Philosophical Poetics Plato's Protagoras as a Comedy of Pleasure James Andrews 146
19.4 Philosophical Poetics “Since we are two alone:” Profaning the Patrios Nomos in Plato's Menexenus Clifford Robinson 146
35.3 Platonism and the Irrational Dialectic as autopsia: a lesson in Neoplatonic rationality Donka Marcus 146
35.1 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational Parts of the Soul “Against Nature” in Christian Neoplatonism? Gregory Nyssen with Antecedents in Origen and Aftermath in Evagrius Ilaria Ramelli 146
35.4 Platonism and the Irrational Astrology for Neoplatonists: Rational or Irrational? Marilynn Lawrence 146
35.2 Platonism and the Irrational From Plato to Philo: On the Psychology and Physiology of Prophetic Dreaming Jason Reddoch 146
35.5 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational and the Paranormal: the legacy of E. R. Dodds Greg Shaw 146
28.3 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Persuasion on Aegina in Pindar's Eighth Nemean David Kovacs 146
28.2 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Wile-loving Aphrodite in archaic poetry Elsa Bouchard 146
28.5 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Bacchylides’ Imitation of Art and Cult in Ode 17 Gregory Jones 146
28.6 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Colonial Narrative and the Excision of the Seer: The Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides’ Ode 11 Margaret Foster 146
28.4 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Χάρις in the Epinician Odes of Pindar and Bacchylides Chris Eckerman 146
28.1 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Rocking the Boat: The Iambic Sappho in the New Sappho Fragment David Wright 146
7.4 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry CIL 4.1520: Tracing Love Elegy's Various Readerships in a Pompeian Graffito Barbara Weinlich 146
7.2 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry The Audience for Elegy: Inferences from Pompeii Peter Knox 146
7.3 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Dual Audience in Phaedrus Kristin Mann 146
7.1 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Polyeideia and the Intended Audience of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Jason Nethercut 146
7.5 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Unintended Audiences: Ovid and the Tomitans in Ex Ponto 4.13 and 4.14 Angeline Chiu 146
54.6 Poster Session Multiple Explanations and Unresolved Ambiguity in Porphyrio’s Commentary on Horace Bram van der Velden 146
54.2 Poster Session The promise and pitfalls of authoring your own e-textbook Brandtly Jones 146
54.5 Poster Session The Dicts and Sayings of Greek Philosophers in the Digital Age Denis Searby 146
54.1 Poster Session The Chinese Room and the Chess Player: on reading and language proficiency in Classics Eduardo Engelsing 146
54.4 Poster Session Subversive Metatheater in Ancient Comedy Erin Moodie 146
8.4 Practice and Personal Experience Incubation & Individual Experience in Sanctuaries of Asklepios Jessica Lamont 146
8.2 Practice and Personal Experience Methodological Challenges of Studying Personal Experience in Early Christianity Robyn Walsh 146
8.1 Practice and Personal Experience Durkheim, Weber, and Some Problems in the Recent Turn Toward the Individual in Ancient Greek Religion Kenneth Yu 146
8.5 Practice and Personal Experience Vicarious religious healing in the Greco-Roman world Steven Muir 146
8.3 Practice and Personal Experience Cybele and Attis in Domestic Cult at Olynthos: Evidence for Flexibility in Household Ritual Debby Sneed 146
0.1 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Debates about the Value of Literature from Homer to Aristotle Andrew Ford 146
0.2 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Literature and the Irreducible Problem of Value Stephen Halliwell 146
0.3 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic The Utility of the Aesthetic and the Aesthetics of Life James I. Porter 146
0.4 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Reading like a Roman Rhetorician Joy Connolly 146
48.5 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Reason in Philodemus's De dis 1 Sonya Wurster 146
48.1 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Method in the Nicomachean Ethics Carlo DaVia 146
48.2 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy The Pre-Emotions of the Stoic Wise Man David Kaufman 146