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
85.1 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments Luis Alejandro Salas 147
85.2 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine The Sliding Scale of Experiment-Kinds Paul Keyser 147
85.3 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Hippocratic Experimentation and Poetic Simile in Homer Ralph Rosen 147
85.4 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: The Scientific Self at Ptolemaic Courts Marquis Berrey 147
12.1 Money Matters Patronage and the Athenian Democracy Andrew Alwine 147
12.3 Money Matters The Imperial Shuffle: Markets and Land Allotment on the Syracusan Frontier Timothy Sorg 147
12.4 Money Matters The End of Hegemony? Revisiting Athenian Finance and Foreign Policy after the Social War Robert Sing 147
12.2 Money Matters Kapêloi and Economic Rationality in Fourth-Century BCE Athens Michael Leese 147
20.5 How (Not) to Write The Anti-Program of Thucydides' Archaeology Thomas Beasley 147
20.4 How (Not) to Write Herodotus and the Laws of Thurii David Blair Pass 147
20.1 How (Not) to Write How Not to Compose Prose: Hegesias of Magnesia as an Antimodel of Style Steven Ooms 147
20.6 How (Not) to Write Whose Hymns?: The Architecture and Authorship of the Homeric Hymn Collection Alexander Hall 147
20.2 How (Not) to Write Xenophon’s Hiero as Literary Criticism: A Revisionary Perspective on Epinician Advice-Giving Laura Takakjy 147
20.3 How (Not) to Write Playing Phthonos: Epinician Genre and Choreia in Plato Theodora Hadjimichael 147
65.1 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Grammars of Government in the Imperial Estate of Saltus Burunitanus John Weisweiler 147
65.2 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity “A Splendid Theater”: Courtly Epithets in a Provincial Society Ariel Lopez 147
65.3 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Fiscal Grammars of Governance in Ostrogothic Italy M. Shane Bjornlie 147
65.4 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Rebellion and the Making of a Governmental Grammar in Post-Roman Iberia Damian Fernandez 147
21.2 Ancient Kingship A Spartan Ghost at Pistoria: Xenophon's Agesilaus and the End of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae Marian Makins 147
21.1 Ancient Kingship Σκηπτοῦχος Βασιλεύς: the Σκῆπτρον and Odysseus’ Kingship in the Odyssey Marie La Fond 147
21.6 Ancient Kingship The Inception of the Seleukid Empire Paul Vadan 147
21.5 Ancient Kingship Antioch in the Antonine cultural milieu: reception and construction of Seleukid civic past Chiara Grigolin 147
21.4 Ancient Kingship A New Approach to the Jewish Antiquities: Flavius Josephus' Philosophy of Monarchy Jacob Feeley 147
21.3 Ancient Kingship Dionysos, Sympotic Ships, and Empire: Banqueting aboard the Thalamegos of Ptolemy IV Kathryn Topper 147
74.3 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare The Athenian Navy and Democracy: Top-Down, Bottom Up or Topsy Turvy? David Rosenbloom 147
74.1 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Political Hoplites: Infantry against Oligarchy in Classical Greece Matt Simonton 147
74.4 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Suffragium legionis: Popular Politics and the Army in the Middle-Republic Michael J. Taylor 147
74.2 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Population Politics and Spartan Imperialism Timothy Doran 147
22.3 Perception and the Senses Ancient Greek Lullabies: Magic or Mundane? Abbe Walker 147
22.1 Perception and the Senses Scent in the Magical Papyri Britta Ager 147
22.6 Perception and the Senses Rewriting the Conversion of Knemon in Menander’s "Dyskolos": Aelian’s "Letter" 15 Emilio Carlo Maria Capettini 147
22.2 Perception and the Senses Thaumastic Acoustics: Typhon and the poetics of sight and sound Oliver Passmore 147
22.4 Perception and the Senses Plato and the Stoics on Non-Rational Feelings and Desires David Kaufman 147
22.5 Perception and the Senses Cicero vs. Lucretius on Thought and Imagination Nathan Gilbert 147
44.1 The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry The Channels of Song in Calpurnius Siculus and Virgil's Georgics Julia Scarborough 147
44.2 The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry The Conflict between Spring and Winter: A Pseudo-Vergilian Bucolic Poem Fabian Zogg 147
44.3 The Bucolic Challenge: Continuity and Change in Later Latin Pastoral Poetry The Commodification of Carmina in Baptista Mantuanus’s Eclogues Caleb M. X. Dance 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
82.1 Women and Water Well-washed Whores: Prostitutes, Brothels and Water Usage in the Roman Empire Anise K. Strong 147
82.2 Women and Water Annie Get Your Jug: Anna Perenna and Water in the Aeneid David Wright 147
82.3 Women and Water Fluid Dynamics: Interpreting Reproductive Risk in Greco-Roman Medicine Anna Bonnell-Freidin 147
82.4 Women and Water Women, Water, and Politics in Aristophanic Comedy Carl Anderson and Maryline Parca 147
82.5 Women and Water Female Plumbers in the Metamorphoses: Women Talking Water Bridget Langley 147
39.1 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Seals Online Catalogue Lain Wilson and Jonathan Shea 147
39.2 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Using Online Tools to Teach Classics in a Small or Non-Existent Classics Program Kristina Chew 147
39.3 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Collaborative Annotation and Latin Pedagogy J. Bert Lott 147
39.4 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach From Stone to Screen to Classroom Gwynaeth McIntyre, Melissa Funke, and Chelsea Gardner 147
39.5 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Dependency Syntax Trees in the Latin 1 Classroom Robert Gorman 147
30.2 Euripides Musical Language and Performance in Euripides' Troades Peter Blandino 147
30.4 Euripides Euripides’ Ion: Monody as Agon Claire Catenaccio 147