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
44.2 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Organs Personified: Their Form and Function in the Empathetic Medical System of Aretaeus of Cappadocia Amber Porter 146
44.3 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Vivisection and Revelation: Some Narratives from Latin Literature Michael Goyette 146
44.4 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen's Use of Exotic Animal Anatomy against Cardiocentrists Luis Alejandro Salas 146
45.1 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Performing Relationships: Aeschylus’ Use of Mousikē and Choreia in the Oresteia Valerie Hannon Smitherman 146
45.2 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Night of the Waking Dead: The Ghost of Clytemnestra and Collective Vengeance in Aeschylus’ Eumenides Robert Cioffi 146
45.3 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Playing the Volcano: Prometheus Bound and Fifth Century Volcanic Theory Patrick Glauthier 146
45.4 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Generalizing Force: The Breakdown of Creon’s Authority in Sophocles’ Antigone Lucy Van Essen-Fishman 146
45.5 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Reflexivity and Integrity in Sophocles' Philoctetes John Gibert 146
45.6 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Dead Man Walking: The Use of Funerary Motifs in Euripides’ Orestes Wendy Closterman 146
46.1 The Figure of the Tyrant Inheriting War: Father and Son in the Peloponnesian War Rachel Bruzzone 146
46.2 The Figure of the Tyrant Demosthenes and the Financial Power of Philip II Robert Sing 146
46.3 The Figure of the Tyrant Tyrant labeling and modes of sole rulership in Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke Marcaline Boyd 146
46.4 The Figure of the Tyrant “You, too, son, must die!”: Caesar’s prophecy and the death of Brutus Ioannis Ziogas 146
46.5 The Figure of the Tyrant A Bridge to Nowhere: Caligula’s Baiae Procession and Its Models Jake Nabel 146
46.6 The Figure of the Tyrant Liberator or Tyrannus? The Ideology of Libertas in Usurpation and Civil War Tristan Taylor 146
47.1 Women, Sex, and Power Aristotle and the Peripatetics on the Historiography of Martial Rape Kathy L. Gaca 146
47.2 The archaeology of the classical clitoris Rebecca Flemming 146
47.3 Women, Sex, and Power A Taste for the Mentula: Female Critics in the Carmina Priapea Heather Elomaa 146
47.4 Women, Sex, and Power Feminist Geography: The Empowered Women of Strabo Duane W. Roller 146
47.5 Women, Sex, and Power The Apotheosis of Poppaea Sebastian Anderson 146
47.6 Women, Sex, and Power The Erotics of Lettuce? Sexual Knowledge in Columella Book 10 Katharine von Stackelberg 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
48.3 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Lucretian Temporality: the problem of the Epicurean Past in the De Rerum Natura Georgina White 146
48.4 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Love and the Structure of Emotion in Lucretius Pamela Zinn 146
48.5 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Reason in Philodemus's De dis 1 Sonya Wurster 146
48.6 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy Real Harm, not Slight: the Prerequisites for "Natural Anger" in Philodemus' On Anger and their Influence on Vergil David Armstrong 146
48.7 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy More than Meets the Eye: Public Attention and Moral Conduct in Seneca Erica Bexley 146
49.1 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Sites of Memory and Ancient Reception of Poets: Archilochos on Paros. Erika Taretto 146
49.2 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Lycurgus and Other Lies: Plutarch's "Agis and Cleomenes" and the Rhetoric of Political Revival Mallory Monaco Caterine 146
49.3 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Retrospective Portrait Statues and the Hellenistic Reception of Herodotus Catherine Keesling 146
49.4 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature The Paradoxical Program of Chariton’s Callirhoe Stephen Trzaskoma 146
49.5 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Tacitus' Dialogus de ... Re Publica Brandon Jones 146
49.6 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Plague in the Time of Procopius: Thucydides, Intertextuality, and Historical Memory Jessica Moore 146
50.1 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Exile as a Mode of Genius: Metellus Numidicus and the Performance of Exile W. Jeffrey Tatum 146
50.2 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics The Exile of Coriolanus: Space, Identity, and Memory in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Alexandra Kennedy 146
50.3 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Acti Fati … Romanam Condere Gentem: The Politics of Exile in Vergil’s Aeneid Kenneth Sammond 146
50.4 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Resonances of Tiberius’ Exile in Ovidian Literature Sanjaya Thakur 146
50.5 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Ira Caesaris and Ovid’s Exile Epistles: A New Reading Jayne Knight 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
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
52.4 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games A “practomimetic” approach to game-based learning Roger Travis 146
53.1 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Out of the Pietist Labyrinth: Susanna Sprögel’s Latin Verses Owen Ewald 146
53.2 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Greek and Roman Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae apodictica methodus Eric Hutchinson 146
53.3 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe … quae mihi satis liberalis et humana visa K. T. S. Klos 146
53.4 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Love's Imperium in Garcilaso's Third Latin Ode Joseph D. Reed 146
53.5 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe Myths of Poetry and Praise: Orpheus in Poliziano's and Statius' Silvae Marco Romani Mistretta 146
53.6 Neo-Latin Texts in the Americas and Europe José Manuel Peramás’ De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio (1777): [world]views of America in a little-known Neo-Latin epic on Columbus’ voyages to the "New World" Maya Feile Tomes 146
54.1 Poster Session The Chinese Room and the Chess Player: on reading and language proficiency in Classics Eduardo Engelsing 146