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
5.2 New Fragments of Sappho "(S)he do the polis in different voices" Joel Lidov 146
36.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "Et Legebat et Mutabatur Intus:" Reading and Conversion in Augustine's Confessions Joshua Benjamins 146
36.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students "To Laugh at One's Enemies:" Vengeance by Humiliation and the Tyranny of the Stronger in Sophocles' Ajax J. LaRae Ferguson 146
2.2 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions 'Romanae spatium Urbis': Ovidian Narrative and Roman Space in the 'Fasti' Leon Grek 146
55.3 A Body of Text: Incorporating Mark Antony into the Second Philippic Alexander Lessie 146
46.5 The Figure of the Tyrant A Bridge to Nowhere: Caligula’s Baiae Procession and Its Models Jake Nabel 146
31.5 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship A Byzantine Scholar at Work: Demetrius Triclinius and Responsion between Separated Strophes in Greek Drama Almut Fries 146
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
11.2 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World A Doctor on the Clock: The Roles of Clocks and Hours in Galen’s Medical Treatises Kassandra Jackson 146
25.2 Ancient Literacy Reprised A Further Look at Literacy and Education in Greek and Roman Egypt Raffaella Cribiore 146
17.4 The Matter of Thebes A Look at Thebes's Place in American Fiction (1962-2010) Michele Valerie Ronnick 146
30.4 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic A New Interpretation of Tacitus Historiae 2.70: Lucan's Caesar and Tacitus' Vitellius Giulio Celotto 146
20.4 Religion, Ritual, and Identity A New Latin Inscription from Cetamura del Chianti: Private Ritual at a Sacred Well Lora Holland 146
20.3 Religion, Ritual, and Identity A new paradigm for Roman imperial priesthoods? Reconsidering the religious elements in associative life in early imperial Italy Zsuzsanna Varhelyi 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
78.4 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions A New Work By Apuleius Justin Stover 146
47.3 Women, Sex, and Power A Taste for the Mentula: Female Critics in the Carmina Priapea Heather Elomaa 146
17.3 The Matter of Thebes A Theban Odyssey: Family, Identity, and Finitude in the Epic Cycle Ella Haselswerdt 146
78.5 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions A “Performative” Lacuna in Petronius’s Affair of Circe and Encolpius (Satyricon 132.1-2) Timothy Haase 146
52.4 Homo Ludens: Teaching the Ancient World via Games A “practomimetic” approach to game-based learning Roger Travis 146
26.2 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat John Hyland 146
22.4 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Acoustic Ironies in Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Allen-Hornblower 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
16.3 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Adult Breastfeeding in Ancient Rome Tara Mulder 146
4.4 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Aeacus’ Heroism and Homeric Reception in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca Joshua Fincher 146
78.2 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions Alexander's Persian Pillow Christopher Brunelle 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
79.3 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects All in a δή’s work: Discourse-cohesive δή in Herodotus’ Thermopylae narrative Coulter George 146
2.3 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Amber Tears and Swan Songs: Ovid and Poetic Authority in Lucian’s Ἠλέκτρου Carrie Mowbray 146
38.2 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution An Aristotelian Verfremdungseffekt; or, the rejection of the Poetics in Postdramatic Theatre Emma Cole 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
9.2 Inscriptions and Literary Sources An Unlikely Muse: Temple Inventories, Their Readers, and Literary Epigram Elizabeth Kosmetatou 146
25.1 Ancient Literacy Reprised Ancient Illiteracy Gregory Woolf 146
77.2 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Animals and Worship in the Temple of Isis at Pompeii Frederick E. Brenk 146
68.3 The Classics and Early Anthropology Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other Franco De Angelis 146
1.4 The Body in Question Apollonius the Pantomime: Silence and Dance in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana Mali Skotheim 146
12.2 Looking Both Ways: Dialogic Receptions in Practice Appropriation and Reflection: The Augustan Age in the Light of Italian Fascism Genevieve Gessert 146
43.2 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius and the ‘Impossible Tasks’: Linking together the Heavens and the Earth Elsa Giovanna Simonetti 146
43.1 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius’ Book of Trans* Formations: A Transgender Studies Reappraisal of Met. 8.24-30 and 11.17-30 H. Christian Blood 146
43.3 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius’ Use and Abuse of Platonic Myth in the Metamorphoses Jeffrey Ulrich 146
4.1 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Argeia and Thersander in Antimachos’ Thebaid? Michael Haslam 146
31.1 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Arguing through analogy in Pollux' "Onomastikon" Stylianos Chronopoulos 146
34.5 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Aristophanes in performance in the 21st-century classroom Lily Kelting 146
47.1 Women, Sex, and Power Aristotle and the Peripatetics on the Historiography of Martial Rape Kathy L. Gaca 146
14.3 Aristotle Aristotle and the Physiology of Sense Organs John Thorp 146
76.3 Civic Responsibility Aristotle on Community and Exchange David J. Riesbeck 146
76.6 Civic Responsibility Artistic license and civic responsibility in Greek and Roman declamation Craig Gibson 146
58.5 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Learning Outcomes Online: A longitudinal, collaborative, inter-institutional case study Ryan Fowler and Amy Singer 146
58.1 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Translingual and Transcultural Competence David Johnson and Yasuko Taoka 146
58.4 Demystifying Assessment Assessment at the Secondary Level: Demands and Benefits Keely Lake 146