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
23.3 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Cognitive Structure of Roman Ritual Practice Jacob Mackey 146
54.1 Poster Session The Chinese Room and the Chess Player: on reading and language proficiency in Classics Eduardo Engelsing 146
7.2 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry The Audience for Elegy: Inferences from Pompeii Peter Knox 146
81.3 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing The Art of Suetonius’ Nero: Focus, (In)Consistency and Character Molly Pryzwansky 146
24.3 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences The Art of Love/The Love of Art Jane Alison 146
75.6 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World The Armenian Factor in Constantine’s Foreign Policy Lee E. Patterson 146
47.2 The archaeology of the classical clitoris Rebecca Flemming 146
47.5 Women, Sex, and Power The Apotheosis of Poppaea Sebastian Anderson 146
60.1 The Intellectual Legacy of M. Terentius Varro: Varronian Influence on Roman Scholarship and Latin Literary Culture The Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and the Creation of the Roman National Identity Isaia Crosson 146
23.5 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World The Affective Sciences and Greek Drama Peter Meineck 146
4.5 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic The Aesthetics of Slaughter in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica Nicholas Kauffman 146
63.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt The Account of Demosthenes’ Death in P.Berol. inv. 13045 Davide Amendola 146
66.4 μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον: How Greek Instruction Can Reach More Students at More Levels The 2014 College Greek Exam Albert Wantanabe 146
70.4 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Terpander and the Acoustics of Greek Shamanism Amir Yeruham 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
49.5 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Tacitus' Dialogus de ... Re Publica Brandon Jones 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
54.4 Poster Session Subversive Metatheater in Ancient Comedy Erin Moodie 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
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
75.3 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World Staging Revolt: Theater in the Sicilian Slave Wars Grace Gillies 146
74.4 Comedy and Comic Receptions Spectator Courts: Metatheater and Program in Terence’s Prologues Patrick Dombrowski 146
29.3 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Specialization Among Citizens in Classical Greece Mark Pyzyk 146
74.1 Comedy and Comic Receptions Sophocles, Polemon and fifth-century comedy Sebastiana Nervegna 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
49.1 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Sites of Memory and Ancient Reception of Poets: Archilochos on Paros. Erika Taretto 146
30.5 (Inter)generic Receptions in and of Early Imperial Epic Silius Italicus and Homer Arthur Pomeroy 146
29.5 Slavery and Status in Ancient Literature and Society Sicily and the Eclogues of Vergil Matthew Leigh 146
14.1 Aristotle Self-Love and Self-Sufficiency in the Aristotelian Ethics Jerry Green 146
31.4 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Scribes, language, and education in Petra in the 6th century CE Marja Vierros 146
5.3 New Fragments of Sappho Sappho and her Brothers Eva Stehle 146
18.5 Hellenistic and Neoteric Intertexts Salty Sequences in Catullus and Meleager Charles Campbell 146
64.4 Charioteering and Footracing in the Greek Imaginary RUN FOR YOU LIFE: FOOTRACES, CHARIOTS AND THE MYTH OF HIPPODAMEIA Olga Levaniouk 146
21.2 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Rome and the “Immortal Gods”: an Ideology for Empire Larisa Masri 146
21.1 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Roman Senatorial Reactions to the Extortion and Abuse of Provincials and Foreigners before 149 B.C.E. Lekha Shupeck 146
59.2 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics Roman Law and the Marriage of Underage Girls Bruce Frier 146
39.4 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Roman Coinage, between Commodity and Currency Gilles Bransbourg 146
28.1 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Rocking the Boat: The Iambic Sappho in the New Sappho Fragment David Wright 146
37.4 Empires, Kingdoms, and Leagues in the Ancient Greek World Rhodes, the Cyclades, and the Second Nesiotic League John Tully 146
56.2 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Revolutionary Horaces Jeri DeBrohun 146
81.5 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Returning to Novelistic Biography with Sesonchosis Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 146
49.3 Ancient Receptions of Classical Literature Retrospective Portrait Statues and the Hellenistic Reception of Herodotus Catherine Keesling 146
58.2 Demystifying Assessment Rethinking the Latin Classroom: Changing the Role of Translation in Assessment Jacquelie Carlon 146
50.4 Roman Exile: Poetry, Prose, and Politics Resonances of Tiberius’ Exile in Ovidian Literature Sanjaya Thakur 146
75.1 War, Slavery, and Society in the Ancient World REMEMBERING TO FORGET: THE BATTLE OF OENOE David Yates 146
26.5 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Remembering the ‘Greatest Shame’: Roman, Persian, and Christian Responses to the Emperor Valerian as Prisoner of War Craig Caldwell 146
5.5 New Fragments of Sappho Reimagining the Fragments of Sappho Diane Rayor 146
21.6 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Regulating and ‘Romanizing’ the Environment Cynthia Bannon 146
45.5 Discourses of Greek Tragedy: Music, Natural Science, Statecraft, Ethics Reflexivity and Integrity in Sophocles' Philoctetes John Gibert 146
34.1 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Reconsidering choral projection in Aeschylus through performance Simone Oppen 146