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
77.1 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Why was Socrates charged with “introducing religious innovations”? Kirk R. Sanders 146
77.4 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Monica as Socrates in Augustine's Confessions IX Thomas Miller 146
77.3 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Constantine on the “Rise” of Adam Timothy Heckenlively 146
39.3 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Currency and Inflation in Late Antiquity Filippo Carlà 146
39.2 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Bronze Currency and Local Authority in 4th-century Egypt Irene Soto 146
39.1 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Debasement and Inflation in the western Empire during the third century CE Daniel Hoyer 146
39.4 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Roman Coinage, between Commodity and Currency Gilles Bransbourg 146
27.3 Humoerotica Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Hermaphrodites, Invagination, and Kinaesthetic Humor in Pompeian Houses David Fredrick 146
27.1 Humoerotica The Wolfish Lover: The Dog as a Comic Metaphor in Homoerotic Symposium Pottery Marina Haworth 146
27.2 Humoerotica The Consequences of Laughter in Aeschines’ Against Timarchos Deborah Kamen 146
27.5 Humoerotica Not a Freak but a Jack-in-the-Box: Philaenis in Martial, Epigram 7.67 Sandra Boehringer 146
27.4 Humoerotica Who Loves You, Baby? Martial as Priapic Seducer in the Epigrams Eugene O'Connor 146
52.4 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games A “practomimetic” approach to game-based learning Roger Travis 146
52.3 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games Ethopoeia and “Reacting to the Past” in the Latin classroom (and beyond) Bret Mulligan 146
52.1 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games Persona grata: Role-playing games in language and civilization instruction Sarah Landis, Maxwell Teitel Paule, and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 146
52.2 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games “Future Archaeology”: modular roleplay in material-culture courses Robyn Le Blanc 146
73.4 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Shield and the Bow: Arms, Authority and Identity in the Iliad and the Odyssey Aara Suksi 146
73.6 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Exegetic Backgrounds to Aristotle’s "Homeric Problems" Benjamin Sammons 146
73.5 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The way to Ithaca lies through Hades: Odysseus’ nostos and the Nekyia George Gazis 146
73.3 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Athena hetairos: the replacement of warrior-companionship in the Odyssey John Esposito 146
73.2 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Limits of Lament: Grief, Consummation, and Homeric Narrative Tyler Flatt 146
73.1 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Death of Achilles and The Meaning and Antiquity of Formulas in Homer Chiara Bozzone 146
69.4 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Poetry in Polybius: The Source Material of Hellenistic Historiography Scott Farrington 146
69.1 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry QUIA VIDETUR HISTORIAM COMPOSUISSE, NON POEMA: ROMAN EPIC AS ROMAN HISTORY Thomas Biggs 146
69.2 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Gregory of Nazianzus' De vita sua (Poema 2.1.11): Tragedy's Emotion and Historiography Suzanne Abrams-Rebillard 146
69.3 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Epic Manipulation: Restructuring Livy’s Hannibalic war in Silius Italicus’ Punica Salvador Bartera and Claire Stocks 146
18.5 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Salty Sequences in Catullus and Meleager Charles Campbell 146
18.2 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Prenatal Power in Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos and the Mendes Stela Leanna Boychenko 146
18.3 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts The Goatherd and the Winnowing-shovel: Interpretation and Signification in Theocritus' Seventh Idyll Matthew Chaldekas 146
18.4 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Theocritus and Fan Fiction: Idylls 8 and 9 Nita Krevans 146
18.1 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Hipponax’ Poetic Initiation and Herodas’ ‘Dream’ Vanessa Cazzato 146
18.6 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Virgil’s Nomina Flexa: Tityrus, Amaryllis, Meliboeus Aaron Kachuck 146
70.2 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Trance-former/Performer: Shamanistic Elements in Late Bronze Age Minoan Cult Caroline Jane Tully 146
70.4 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Terpander and the Acoustics of Greek Shamanism Amir Yeruham 146
70.1 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Crossing Over: Greek Shamanism and Indo-European Cosmological Belief Parker Bradley Croshaw 146
70.3 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Parmenides’ Proem: Divine Inspiration as a Form of Expression Kenneth Thomas Munro Mackenzie 146
72.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Prehistory of Eternity Alexander Dale 146
72.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek εἱαμενή Alexander Nikolaev 146
72.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Motivating Osthoff's Law in Latin Anthony Yates 146
72.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek -σι- Abstracts and the Reconstruction of Proterokinetic *-tí- in Proto-Indo-European Jesse Lundquist 146
57.5 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Pliny’s Telemacheia: Epic and Exemplarity Under Vesuvius Jacques Bromberg 146
57.1 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Moralizing kinship in the Flavian era: animal families in the Elder Pliny Neil Bernstein 146
57.2 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Opibusque ultra ne crede paternis: Fathers and Sons on the Wrong Side of History in Valerius’ Argonautica Timothy Stover 146
57.4 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature The Father’s Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Silvae 2.1 Micaela Janan 146
57.3 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature Male Lament in Statius’ Thebaid Antonios Augoustakis 146
37.1 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World An Empire of Allotment: Imperial Stability and the Athenian Frontier in Fifth-Century Euboea Timothy Sorg 146
37.3 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World The Seleucids in Babylon: royal euergetism and local elites M.S. (Marijn) Visscher 146
37.4 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World Rhodes, the Cyclades, and the Second Nesiotic League John Tully 146
37.2 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World The Practice of Diplomacy: Sidonian Kings and Greek States in the Fourth Century BCE Denise Demetriou 146
21.3 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Pax, the Senate, and Augustus in 13 BCE: a new look at the Ara Pacis Augustae Amy Russell 146