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
35.2 Platonism and the Irrational From Plato to Philo: On the Psychology and Physiology of Prophetic Dreaming Jason Reddoch 146
12.1 Looking Both Ways: Dialogic Receptions in Practice From Botticelli to Ovid’s Flora John F. Miller 146
61.1 Ancient Greek and Roman Music: Current Approaches and New Perspectives From Athens to Tarquinia: A Female Musician in Context Sheramy Bundrick 146
36.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Foreign Voices: Caesar's Use of 'Enemy' Speech in the Helvetii Campaign Haley Flagg 146
59.1 40 Years of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women’s History in Classics Following Sarah Ann Hanson 146
13.3 The Impact of Moses Finley Finley in Britain Dorothy Thompson 146
13.2 The Impact of Moses Finley Finley in America Fred Naiden 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
47.4 Women, Sex, and Power Feminist Geography: The Empowered Women of Strabo Duane W. Roller 146
56.6 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Fashion Victim? Domination and the Arts of Coiffure in Augustan Elegy Nandini Pandey 146
6.2 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Exploring the library of a 16th-century Cretan teacher Federica Ciccolella 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
71.1 Travel, Travelers and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture Exile and Identity: The Origins of the Luciferian Community Colin Whiting 146
73.6 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Exegetic Backgrounds to Aristotle’s "Homeric Problems" Benjamin Sammons 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
1.2 The Body in Question Ethiopian Blackness: Aristotelian Commentators on “Affective Qualities” and Racial Characteristics Thomas Cirillo 146
17.1 The Matter of Thebes Eteocles and the Sound of Silence Patrick Lambdin 146
62.5 Making Meaning from Data Enhancing and Extending the Digital Study of Intertextuality Joseph P. Dexter, Matteo Romanello, Pramit Chaudhuri, Tathagata Dasgupta, and Nilesh Tripuraneni 146
55.5 Truth and Untruth Empire and Aporia in Petronius’ Bellum Civile Robert Simms 146
3.4 Law and Empire in the Roman World Empire and Agency: Women and the Law in the Eastern Roman Provinces Mary Deminion 146
23.4 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Embodied Historiography: Models for Reasoning in Tacitus' Annals Jennifer Devereaux 146
80.4 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Elegy and Epic in the Aeneid Deborah Beck 146
80.5 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Elegiac Amor and Mors in Vergil’s ‘Italian Aeneid’ Sarah McCallum 146
6.5 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Early Modern Material Pasts: Architects, proto-archaeologists, and the power of images in the eighteenth century Giovanna Ceserani and Thea DeArmond 146
8.1 Practice and Personal Experience Durkheim, Weber, and Some Problems in the Recent Turn Toward the Individual in Ancient Greek Religion Kenneth Yu 146
7.3 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry Dual Audience in Phaedrus Kristin Mann 146
34.4 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Doubling in practice and pedagogy Amy R. Cohen 146
38.3 Rejecting the Classics: Rupture and Revolution Disenchanting Odysseus: Auerbach and Adorno on the Philhellenic Enlightenment Mathura Umachandran 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
80.3 Vergil, Elegy, and Epigram Dido, Epigram, and Authorship, before and after the Aeneid Michael Tueller 146
35.3 Platonism and the Irrational Dialectic as autopsia: a lesson in Neoplatonic rationality Donka Marcus 146
79.5 Language and Linguistics: Lexical, Syntactical, and Philosophical Aspects Dialectic and Proof in Topics 1.2 Charles George 146
76.2 Civic Responsibility Demosthenic influences in early rhetorical education: Hellenistic rhetores and Athenian imagination Mirko Canevaro 146
26.1 The Other Side of Victory: War Losses in the Ancient World Demosthenes Epitaphios (60), Chaeronea and the Rhetoric of Defeat Max L. Goldman 146
46.2 The Figure of the Tyrant Demosthenes and the Financial Power of Philip II Robert Sing 146
0.1 Presidential Panel - Ancient Perspectives on the Value of Literature: Utilitarian versus Aesthetic Debates about the Value of Literature from Homer to Aristotle Andrew Ford 146
39.1 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Debasement and Inflation in the western Empire during the third century CE Daniel Hoyer 146
81.1 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Death by a Thousand Sources: Biographical Fragmentation and Authorial Inventio in Livy’s AUC Ayelet Haimson Lushkov 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
31.3 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Dating the Catalepton: How Servius Misread Donatus and Created the Collection Dave Oosterhuis 146
2.5 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Daphne’s Posthuman Bodies: Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Science Fiction Benjamin Eldon Stevens 146
8.3 Practice and Personal Experience Cybele and Attis in Domestic Cult at Olynthos: Evidence for Flexibility in Household Ritual Debby Sneed 146
20.2 Religion, Ritual, and Identity Curses, Class, and Gender: Psychological and Demographic Aspects of Roman “Magic” Andreas Bendlin 146
39.3 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Currency and Inflation in Late Antiquity Filippo Carlà 146
56.3 Problems of Triumviral and Augustan Poetics Cupid, Minerva, and Lyric Consciousness: Two Readings of Odes 3.12 Brian McPhee 146
68.1 The Classics and Early Anthropology Culture and Classics: Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization Eliza Gettel 146
23.2 Cognitive Classics: New Theoretical Models for Approaching the Ancient World Crowds in the Corcyraean Stasis Garrett Fagan 146
70.1 Greek Shamanism Reconsidered Crossing Over: Greek Shamanism and Indo-European Cosmological Belief Parker Bradley Croshaw 146
21.4 Empire and Ideology in the Roman World Crinagoras of Mytilene and the Construction of Empire in Greek Epigrams of the Augustan Period Thomas Keith 146
77.3 Innovative Encounters between Ancient Religious Traditions Constantine on the “Rise” of Adam Timothy Heckenlively 146