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
11.1 Prophecy The Meanings of Nature: Philosophy, Science and Divination between Lucretius and Seneca Daniele Federico Maras 147
62.4 Truth and Lies Teaching Romance: Gnômai and Didacticism in Aethiopica Daniel Dooley 147
68.2 Free Speech On Inoffensive Criticism: The Multiple Addressees of Plutarch’s De Adulatore et Amico Dana Fields 147
24.2 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Don’t Consult the hariolus: Slave Religions in the Rome of Plautus and Cato the Elder Dan-el Padilla Peralta 147
65.4 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Rebellion and the Making of a Governmental Grammar in Post-Roman Iberia Damian Fernandez 147
35.3 Standardization and the State Measures and Standards in Hellenistic and Roman Sicily D. Alex Walthall 147
73.1 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Paradigm Shifts in Archaic Rome’s ‘Social Life of Things’ Cristiano Viglietti 147
73.3 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society The Construction of Currency and Roman Imperialism Colin Elliott 147
56.5 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research The Vernacular in a Latin Guise: Neo-Latin Grammars of the Vernaculars throughout Europe” Clementina Marsico 147
36.1 Fides in Flavian Poetry Introduction: Fides in the early Roman Principate Claire Stocks 147
30.4 Euripides Euripides’ Ion: Monody as Agon Claire Catenaccio 147
16.3 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival Fragmentary Texts, Contradictory Narrative, and the Roman Historical Tradition Christopher Simon 147
38.1 Cicero across Genres Seeing the Whole in Cicero’s Brutus Christopher S. van den Berg 147
53.3 Epistolary Epigraphy Filiation Expressions and the Language of Official Roman Letters Inscribed in Greek Christopher Haddad 147
81.1 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Recipes for Domestic Rituals in the Greek Magical Handbooks Christopher Faraone 147
13.3 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Navigating Tricky Topics: The Benefits of Performance Pedagogy Christopher Bungard 147
71.2 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Cicero’s Platonic Methodology Christina Maria Hoenig 147
3.3 Time and Memory Constructing Time under the Roman Empire: The Politics of Time-Reckoning in Herakleia Pontika, Amastris, and Sinope Ching-Yuan Wu 147
21.5 Ancient Kingship Antioch in the Antonine cultural milieu: reception and construction of Seleukid civic past Chiara Grigolin 147
43.3 Fragments from Theory to Practice Speaking in Fragments: Narrators and the Roman Historiographic Tradition in Livy's Third Decade Charles Westfall Oughton 147
51.2 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority The Argonautica of Diodorus Siculus Charles Muntz 147
44.4 The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry Lifeguard Not on Duty: Water as Pastoral Danger in Sannazaro's Ovidian Salices Charles McNamara 147
80.2 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology The Aesthetics of Hellenism in the Modern Olympics Charles H. Stocking 147
31.1 Gender and Identity The Maternal Warrior: Achilles and Gendered Similes in the Iliad Celsiana Warwick 147
16.1 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival When is a Fragment not a Fragment? The Problem of Fragmentary Roman Oratory Catherine Steel 147
66.1 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Flippin’ the Oedipus Record: Will Power’s Seven and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes Casey Dué 147
31.4 Gender and Identity Merchant Matronae: Women, Ships, and Trade in the Hellenistic and Roman World Carrie Fulton 147
7.4 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Expanding the Archive: The Creation of the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Carolyn Heitman, Salmon Pueblo, and Paul Reed 147
42.3 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Darius the Would-Be King: Ambition, Power, and the 'Best Man' in Herodotus' Histories Carolyn Dewald 147
64.5 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Imperial Physician: Asclepius and Roman Coinage Caroline Wazer 147
29.5 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Feminist at the Second Glance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 147
58.4 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Law’s Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Republican Statutes Carlos F. Noreña 147
32.3 Friendship and Affection What Must We Know to Benefit From Aristotle's Lectures on Ethics? Carlo DaVia 147
68.1 Free Speech Freedom as Self-Mastery in Plato's Laws Carl Young 147
56.3 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Calvin’s Latin Carl P. E. Springer 147
82.4 Women and Water Women, Water, and Politics in Aristophanic Comedy Carl Anderson and Maryline Parca 147
76.2 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Classical Poetry & a Carolingian Problem: Ermoldus Nigellus (829) and His Adaptation of Exile Poetry in his Verse-Epistle Ad Pippinum Regnum Carey Fleiner 147
60.5 Poetry and Place ‘Powerful Rhyme’ on an ‘Unswept Stone’: Alkmeonides’ Epigram IG I³ 1469 = CEG 302 and (Re)performance Cameron G. Pearson 147
77.2 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Weaving, Writing, and Failed Communication in Ovid's Heroides Caitlin Halasz 147
72.3 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Situated Knowledges and the Dynamics of the Field Brooke Holmes 147
22.1 Perception and the Senses Scent in the Magical Papyri Britta Ager 147
82.5 Women and Water Female Plumbers in the Metamorphoses: Women Talking Water Bridget Langley 147
42.4 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Herodotus and the “Constitutional Debate” (3.80-82) Brian M. Lavelle 147
60.2 Poetry and Place ‘Here we lie’: The Landscape of Actium and Memories of War in The Greek Anthology Bettina Reitz-Joosse 147
30.3 Euripides Likely Story: Narrative and Probability in Euripides’ Troades Benjamin Sammons 147
52.4 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Dancing on the Borders of Empire: The Wandering Thiasus in Catullus 63 Basil Dufallo 147
45.4 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Vergil's Pessimism: A Reappraisal of the Harvard School and Augustan Poetry Barbara P. Weinlich 147
29.1 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Simone Weil’s Iliad: Misunderstanding Homer? Barbara Gold 147
6.1 The List as Genre Divergent Series: A Poetics of Greek Inventories Athena Kirk 147
40.1 The Future of Classical Education: A Dialogue Classical Education in the UK: Boom or Bust? Arlene Holmes-Henderson 147