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
27.1 Humoerotica The Wolfish Lover: The Dog as a Comic Metaphor in Homoerotic Symposium Pottery Marina Haworth 146
16.2 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity The Wet-Nurses of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Maryline Parca 146
73.5 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The way to Ithaca lies through Hades: Odysseus’ nostos and the Nekyia George Gazis 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
81.2 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Use and Abuse of History: Xenophon and Plutarch’s Lives Revisited Eran Almagor 146
32.2 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing The Untimely Scholar: Radicalism and Tradition Constanze Güthenke 146
11.4 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World The Unity of Time in Plautus’ Captivi Robert Germany 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
30.3 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic The Turn of the Screw: Lucan, Tacitus and the Sublime Machine Siobhan Chomse 146
38.1 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution The tragedy of Aimé Césaire: building a future from the ruins of antiquity Adam Edward Lecznar 146
58.3 Demystifying Assessment The Teagle Assessment Project: A Study of the Learning Outcomes for Majors in Classics Michael Arnush and Kenny Morrell 146
10.1 The Performance of Greek Poetry The Songs of the Deliades: Multilingualism in Ritual Contexts Annette Teffeteller 146
54.3 The Site of the Battle of Philippi (42 BCE) Matthew Sears 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
79.2 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects The Semantic Evolution of Δίγλωσσος Robert Groves 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
36.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Seal of Theognis and Oral-Traditional Signature Maxwell A. Gray 146
26.4 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World The Sale of Captives on the Comic Stage: Communal Memory in the 200s BC Amy Richlin 146
56.5 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics The Rule of Three or fere tria? Authorial Artifice in Propertius 4.10 Rebecca Katz 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
76.4 Civic Responsibility The Rhetoric of Cicero's Laudatio Sapientiae: de Legibus 1.58-62 David West 146
5.4 New Fragments of Sappho The Reception of the New Sappho in Latin Literature Llewelyn Morgan 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
54.2 Poster Session The promise and pitfalls of authoring your own e-textbook Brandtly Jones 146
72.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Prehistory of Eternity Alexander Dale 146
48.2 Problems in Ancient Ethical Philosophy The Pre-Emotions of the Stoic Wise Man David Kaufman 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
75.2 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World The Pirate Connection: Rome’s Servile Wars and Eastern Campaigns Aaron Beek 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
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
49.4 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature The Paradoxical Program of Chariton’s Callirhoe Stephen Trzaskoma 146
43.4 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship The Mantle of Humanity: Met. 11.24 and Apuleian Ethics Sasha-Mae Eccleston 146
73.2 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Limits of Lament: Grief, Consummation, and Homeric Narrative Tyler Flatt 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
35.1 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational Parts of the Soul “Against Nature” in Christian Neoplatonism? Gregory Nyssen with Antecedents in Origen and Aftermath in Evagrius Ilaria Ramelli 146
35.5 Platonism and the Irrational The Irrational and the Paranormal: the legacy of E. R. Dodds Greg Shaw 146
55.4 Truth and Untruth The Historia Augusta’s “Audacity to Invent”: Biography and the Ancient Novel in the Late Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 146
78.3 Ancient Books: Material and Discursive Interactions The Hippocratic Critical Days: Texts and Education in Greek Late Antiquity James Patterson 146
20.1 Religion, Ritual, and Identity The Heloreia Festival at Halaisa Archonideia, Tauromenion, and Syracuse Paul Iversen 146
11.1 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World The Greco-Roman Sundial as Virtuoso Greek Mathematics Alexander Jones 146
18.3 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts The Goatherd and the Winnowing-shovel: Interpretation and Signification in Theocritus' Seventh Idyll Matthew Chaldekas 146
1.6 The Body in Question The Gilded Maggot: the disgusting beauty of Christian ascetic bodies Tom Hawkins 146
57.4 Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature The Father’s Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Silvae 2.1 Micaela Janan 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
47.6 Women, Sex, and Power The Erotics of Lettuce? Sexual Knowledge in Columella Book 10 Katharine von Stackelberg 146
54.5 Poster Session The Dicts and Sayings of Greek Philosophers in the Digital Age Denis Searby 146
73.1 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis The Death of Achilles and The Meaning and Antiquity of Formulas in Homer Chiara Bozzone 146
29.2 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society The Curious Case of Chaerephilus & Sons: Vertical Integration and the Ancient Greek Economy Ephraim Lytle 146
27.2 Humoerotica The Consequences of Laughter in Aeschines’ Against Timarchos Deborah Kamen 146
17.2 The Matter of Thebes The Comic and the Tragic Birth of Heracles Dustin Dixon 146