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
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
1.1 The Body in Question Physiology of Matricide: Revenge and Metabolism Imagery in Aeschylus’ Choephoroe Goran Vidovic 146
1.2 The Body in Question Ethiopian Blackness: Aristotelian Commentators on “Affective Qualities” and Racial Characteristics Thomas Cirillo 146
1.3 The Body in Question Body Horror and Biopolitics in Livy’s Third Decade Paul Hay 146
1.4 The Body in Question Apollonius the Pantomime: Silence and Dance in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana Mali Skotheim 146
1.5 The Body in Question Somaesthetics and the Sublime: The rhetoric of the ‘clinical body’ in Longinus’ Περὶ ὕψους Ursula M. Poole 146
1.6 The Body in Question The Gilded Maggot: the disgusting beauty of Christian ascetic bodies Tom Hawkins 146
2.1 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Conjugal reunions: Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice and Euripides’ Alcestis Sergios Paschalis 146
2.2 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions 'Romanae spatium Urbis': Ovidian Narrative and Roman Space in the 'Fasti' Leon Grek 146
2.3 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Amber Tears and Swan Songs: Ovid and Poetic Authority in Lucian’s Ἠλέκτρου Carrie Mowbray 146
2.4 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Humanist horti: the poetics of innovation in Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum Luke Roman 146
2.5 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Daphne’s Posthuman Bodies: Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Science Fiction Benjamin Eldon Stevens 146
3.1 Law and Empire in the Roman World The Right to a Leisurely Trial? Strategy, Signaling, and Speed in P. Oxy. XLII 3017 Martin Reznick 146
3.2 Law and Empire in the Roman World Lex or Leges?: Augustus' Judiciary Reforms Emily Master 146
3.3 Law and Empire in the Roman World The lex Rupilia and the role of provincial administration in Roman legal history Charles Bartlett 146
3.4 Law and Empire in the Roman World Empire and Agency: Women and the Law in the Eastern Roman Provinces Mary Deminion 146
3.5 Law and Empire in the Roman World Ulpian and the Criminalization of Divination David M. Ratzan 146
4.1 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Argeia and Thersander in Antimachos’ Thebaid? Michael Haslam 146
4.2 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Coast of Outopia: the Argo in the Tyrrhenian Sea Carolyn MacDonald 146
4.3 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Nomen Echionium: Theban narratives in Virgil's Aeneid Stefano Rebeggiani 146
4.4 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Aeacus’ Heroism and Homeric Reception in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Joshua Fincher 146
4.5 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic The Aesthetics of Slaughter in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Nicholas Kauffman 146
5.1 New Fragments of Sappho Provenance, authenticity, and the text of the New Sappho papyri Dirk Obbink 146
5.2 New Fragments of Sappho "(S)he do the polis in different voices" Joel Lidov 146
5.3 New Fragments of Sappho Sappho and her Brothers Eva Stehle 146
5.4 New Fragments of Sappho The Reception of the New Sappho in Latin Literature Llewelyn Morgan 146
5.5 New Fragments of Sappho Reimagining the Fragments of Sappho Diane Rayor 146
6.1 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? What kind of Language did Ancient Romans Speak? A Fifteenth-century Debate Christopher S. Celenza 146
6.2 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Exploring the library of a 16th-century Cretan teacher Federica Ciccolella 146
6.3 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Classical and Neo-Latin Philology: Separated at Birth? James Hankins 146
6.4 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Poetry between Latin and the vernacular: literature and literalism in the classical tradition Stephen Hinds 146
6.5 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Early Modern Material Pasts: Architects, proto-archaeologists, and the power of images in the eighteenth century Giovanna Ceserani and Thea DeArmond 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
7.2 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
7.4 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
7.5 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
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
8.2 Practice and Personal Experience Methodological Challenges of Studying Personal Experience in Early Christianity Robyn Walsh 146
8.3 Practice and Personal Experience Cybele and Attis in Domestic Cult at Olynthos: Evidence for Flexibility in Household Ritual Debby Sneed 146
8.4 Practice and Personal Experience Incubation & Individual Experience in Sanctuaries of Asklepios Jessica Lamont 146
8.5 Practice and Personal Experience Vicarious religious healing in the Greco-Roman world Steven Muir 146
9.1 Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Herodotus 1.64.3 and Alkmeonides' Dedications IG I^3 597 and 1469: A Case for Alkmaionid Exile Cameron Pearson 146
9.2 Inscriptions and Literary Sources An Unlikely Muse: Temple Inventories, Their Readers, and Literary Epigram Elizabeth Kosmetatou 146
9.3 Inscriptions and Literary Sources Opinions About Honorific Statues: the Case of Dion vs. Rhodians Jelle Stoop 146
9.4 Inscriptions and Literary Sources Pride of Place: Remembering Herodotos in Late Hellenistic Halikarnassos Jeremy LaBuff 146
9.5 Inscriptions and Literary Sources The Pharos of Alexandria: At the Interface Between Non-Extant Inscription and Other Written Evidence Patricia A. Butz 146