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
2.1 Ovidian Poetics, Ovidian Receptions Conjugal reunions: Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice and Euripides’ Alcestis Sergios Paschalis 146
10.4 The Performance of Greek Poetry Composing Archaic Greek Elegy in the Roman Empire: Theognidea 1-18 Lawrence Kowerski 146
68.2 The Classics and Early Anthropology Colourblind: The Use of Homeric Greek in Cultural Linguistics Melissa Funke 146
55.6 Truth and Untruth Coloring Outside the Lines: Magnus Felix Ennodius’ Distorted Declamations Miller Krause 146
28.6 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Colonial Narrative and the Excision of the Seer: The Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides’ Ode 11 Margaret Foster 146
33.2 New Frontiers in the Study of Roman Epicureanism Code-switching for Epicurus in the Late Republic Pamela Gordon 146
4.2 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Coast of Outopia: the Argo in the Tyrrhenian Sea Carolyn MacDonald 146
16.1 Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing in Antiquity Clytemnestra’s Breast as a Receptacle of Memory in Aeschylus’ _Libation Bearers_ Catalina Popescu 146
24.1 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Classics in a Different Voice Carol Gilligan 146
32.1 Untimeliness and Classical Knowing Classics and the Precipice of Time Simon Goldhill 146
24.4 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Classics and the 21st-Century Poem Carl Phillips 146
6.3 What Can Early Modernity Do for Classics? Classical and Neo-Latin Philology: Separated at Birth? James Hankins 146
12.4 Looking Both Ways: Dialogic Receptions in Practice Cinemetamorphosis: Toward a Cinematic Theory of Classical Narrative Martin Winkler 146
7.4 Polyvalence by Design: Anticipated Audience in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry CIL 4.1520: Tracing Love Elegy's Various Readerships in a Pompeian Graffito Barbara Weinlich 146
11.3 Representation of Time in the Hellenistic and Roman World Chronos as all-encompassing – Plato’s Unification of Time Barbara Sattler 146
22.1 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Choral Whispers Timothy Power 146
22.3 Voice and Sound in Classical Greece Choral Ventriloquism in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Sarah Nooter 146
63.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Child Labor in Greco-Roman Egypt: New Texts from the Archive of Harthotes W. Graham Claytor and Elizabeth Nabney 146
61.4 Ancient Greek and Roman Music: Current Approaches and New Perspectives Catullan Choreia: Reinventing the Chorus in Roman Poetry Lauren Curtis 146
39.2 Inflation and Commodity-Based Coinages in the Later Roman Empire Bronze Currency and Local Authority in 4th-century Egypt Irene Soto 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
1.3 The Body in Question Body Horror and Biopolitics in Livy’s Third Decade Paul Hay 146
44.1 ORGANS: Form, Function and Bodily Systems in Greco-Roman Medicine Birth and the Many-Legged Womb Anna Bonnell-Freidin 146
42.3 The Problematic Text: Classical Editing in the 21st Century Beyond variants: Some digital desiderata for the critical apparatus of ancient Greek and Latin texts Cynthia Damon 146
62.2 Making Meaning from Data (Joint SCS/AIA Panel) Beyond Rhetoric: the Correlation of Data, Syntax, and Sense in Literary Analysis Marie-Claire Beaulieu, J. Matthew Harrington, and Bridget Almas 146
19.2 Philosophical Poetics Between Hesiod and the Sophists: Prodicus’ Heracles at the Crossroads Katherine Lu Hsu 146
81.4 Between Fact and Fiction in Ancient Biographical Writing Between Biography and Commentary: The Ancient Horizon of Expectations of Virgil’s Vita Irene Peirano Garrison 146
10.2 The Performance of Greek Poetry Between Athens and Delphi: The Pragmatics of the Delphic Hymns Claas Lattmann 146
34.2 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Behind the façade: Staging the house in Euripides’ Orestes Megan Wilson 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
12.3 Looking Both Ways: Dialogic Receptions in Practice Beasting It – Homeric Similes on the Bayou Corinne O. Pache 146
28.5 Poetics, Politics, and Religion in Greek Lyric and Epinician Bacchylides’ Imitation of Art and Cult in Ode 17 Gregory Jones 146
24.5 Writing outside the Box: Communicating Classical Studies to Wider Audiences Audiences Beyond the Box: Presenting Classics to Orchestra and Balcony Emily Wilson 146
31.2 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Atticist Lexica and Atticistic Pronunciation Carlo Vessella 146
67.2 Profits and Losses in Ancient Greek Warfare Athenian Generals: Private Profit and the Problem of Agency Michael S. Leese 146
73.3 Homer: Poetics and Exegesis Athena hetairos: the replacement of warrior-companionship in the Odyssey John Esposito 146
35.4 Platonism and the Irrational Astrology for Neoplatonists: Rational or Irrational? Marilynn Lawrence 146
58.4 Demystifying Assessment Assessment at the Secondary Level: Demands and Benefits Keely Lake 146
58.1 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Translingual and Transcultural Competence David Johnson and Yasuko Taoka 146
58.5 Demystifying Assessment Assessing Learning Outcomes Online: A longitudinal, collaborative, inter-institutional case study Ryan Fowler and Amy Singer 146
76.6 Civic Responsibility Artistic license and civic responsibility in Greek and Roman declamation Craig Gibson 146
76.3 Civic Responsibility Aristotle on Community and Exchange David J. Riesbeck 146
14.3 Aristotle Aristotle and the Physiology of Sense Organs John Thorp 146
47.1 Women, Sex, and Power Aristotle and the Peripatetics on the Historiography of Martial Rape Kathy L. Gaca 146
34.5 Performance as Research, Performance as Pedagogy Aristophanes in performance in the 21st-century classroom Lily Kelting 146
31.1 Receptions of Classical Literature in Premodern Scholarship Arguing through analogy in Pollux' "Onomastikon" Stylianos Chronopoulos 146
4.1 Intrageneric Dialogues in Hellenistic and Imperial Epic Argeia and Thersander in Antimachos’ Thebaid? Michael Haslam 146
43.3 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius’ Use and Abuse of Platonic Myth in the Metamorphoses Jeffrey Ulrich 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
43.2 Libros Me Futurum: New Directions in Apuleian Scholarship Apuleius and the ‘Impossible Tasks’: Linking together the Heavens and the Earth Elsa Giovanna Simonetti 146