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
63.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A Christian Amulet in Context: Report on a Re-edition and Study of P.Oxy. VIII 1151 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 146
63.6 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A New Text from the Dossier of the Descendants of Flavius Eulogius C. Michael Sampson 146
64.1 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary The Race at Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.9.1409a32-34 Stadion or Diaulos? E. Christian Kopff 146
64.2 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary Medea's Exit: Dramatic Necessity through Inverted Ritual Eric Dodson-Robinson 146
64.3 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary The Turning Post and the Finish Line: False Boundaries in the Iliad Bill Beck 146
64.4 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary RUN FOR YOU LIFE: FOOTRACES, CHARIOTS AND THE MYTH OF HIPPODAMEIA Olga Levaniouk 146
65.1 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Style, Posture and Deportment in the Frame Narrative of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew Allan Georgia 146
65.2 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Diogenes Laertius and Cross-Cultural Intellectual Debates in the Third Century Jared Secord 146
65.3 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Lactantius’s Plato: Rethinking the Role of Philosophers in De ira Dei Kristina A. Meinking 146
65.4 The Intellectual Culture of the Second to Fourth Centuries CE: Christians, Jews, Philosophers, and Sophists Naming God, Defining Heretics, and the Development of a Textual Culture: Gregory of Nyssa and the Eunomian Controversy Matthew Lootens 146
66.1 μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον: How Greek Instruction Can Reach More Students at More Levels Stronger Beginnings: Teaching First-Semester Greek in a Differentiated Classroom Karen Rosenbecker 146
66.2 μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον: How Greek Instruction Can Reach More Students at More Levels Beginning Classical Greek Online Lauri Reitzammer and Mitch Pentzer 146
66.3 μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον: How Greek Instruction Can Reach More Students at More Levels Teaching Graduate-Level Ancient Greek Online Velvet Yates 146
66.4 μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον: How Greek Instruction Can Reach More Students at More Levels The 2014 College Greek Exam Albert Wantanabe 146
67.1 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Funding Greek Warfare: From Reciprocity and Redistribution to Profit and Wages Matthew Trundle 146
67.2 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Athenian Generals: Private Profit and the Problem of Agency Michael S. Leese 146
67.3 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare The Perils of Plunder: Sparta’s Uneasy Relationship with the Spoils of War Ellen Millender 146
67.4 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare War, Profit, Loss, and the Hellenistic Greek Polis: A Balance Sheet Graham Oliver 146
68.1 The Classics and Early Anthropology Culture and Classics: Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization Eliza Gettel 146
68.2 The Classics and Early Anthropology Colourblind: The Use of Homeric Greek in Cultural Linguistics Melissa Funke 146
68.3 The Classics and Early Anthropology Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other Franco De Angelis 146
68.4 The Classics and Early Anthropology Towards a New Comparativism in Classics Maurizio Bettini and William Short 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
69.4 Historia Proxima Poetis: The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry Poetry in Polybius: The Source Material of Hellenistic Historiography Scott Farrington 146
70.1 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Crossing Over: Greek Shamanism and Indo-European Cosmological Belief Parker Bradley Croshaw 146
70.2 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Trance-former/Performer: Shamanistic Elements in Late Bronze Age Minoan Cult Caroline Jane Tully 146
70.3 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Parmenides’ Proem: Divine Inspiration as a Form of Expression Kenneth Thomas Munro Mackenzie 146
70.4 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Terpander and the Acoustics of Greek Shamanism Amir Yeruham 146
71.1 Travel, Travelers and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture Exile and Identity: The Origins of the Luciferian Community Colin Whiting 146
71.2 Travel, Travelers and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture Philosophy and Travel in the Letters of Synesius Alex Petkas 146
71.3 Travel, Travelers and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture Symbolic Territories: Relic Translation and Aristocratic Competition in Victricius of Rouen David Natal Villazala 146
72.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Motivating Osthoff's Law in Latin Anthony Yates 146
72.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Prehistory of Eternity Alexander Dale 146
72.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek -σι- Abstracts and the Reconstruction of Proterokinetic *-tí- in Proto-Indo-European Jesse Lundquist 146
72.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek εἱαμενή Alexander Nikolaev 146
73.1 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Death of Achilles and The Meaning and Antiquity of Formulas in Homer Chiara Bozzone 146
73.2 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Limits of Lament: Grief, Consummation, and Homeric Narrative Tyler Flatt 146
73.3 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Athena hetairos: the replacement of warrior-companionship in the Odyssey John Esposito 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
73.5 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The way to Ithaca lies through Hades: Odysseus’ nostos and the Nekyia George Gazis 146
73.6 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Exegetic Backgrounds to Aristotle’s "Homeric Problems" Benjamin Sammons 146
74.1 Comedy and Comic Receptions Sophocles, Polemon and fifth-century comedy Sebastiana Nervegna 146
74.2 Comedy and Comic Receptions Paracomic Costuming: Euripides' Helen as a Response to Aristophanes' Acharnians Craig Jendza 146
74.3 Comedy and Comic Receptions Boogeymen in the Playwright’s Closet: Mormolukeia, Generic Aesthetics, and Adolescent Outreach in Old Comedy Al Duncan 146
74.4 Comedy and Comic Receptions Spectator Courts: Metatheater and Program in Terence’s Prologues Patrick Dombrowski 146
74.5 Comedy and Comic Receptions Lucretius at the Ludi: Comedy and Other Drama in Book Four of De rerum natura Mathias Hanses 146
74.6 Comedy and Comic Receptions Alfonso Sastre's Los Dioses y los Cuernos (1995) as a rewriting of Plautus' Amphitruo Rodrigo Goncalves 146
75.1 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World REMEMBERING TO FORGET: THE BATTLE OF OENOE David Yates 146