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
30.3 Euripides Likely Story: Narrative and Probability in Euripides’ Troades Benjamin Sammons 147
30.1 Euripides The Death of the King: Mythological Innovation in Euripides' "Erechtheus" Adam Rappold 147
30.5 Euripides Euripides’ Comic Muse: Cratinus’ Nemesis in Euripides’ Helen Dustin Dixon 147
31.4 Gender and Identity Merchant Matronae: Women, Ships, and Trade in the Hellenistic and Roman World Carrie Fulton 147
31.1 Gender and Identity The Maternal Warrior: Achilles and Gendered Similes in the Iliad Celsiana Warwick 147
31.5 Gender and Identity Heard, but Preferably not Seen: The Subversion of Women’s Social Networks in the Late Republic Krishni Burns 147
31.2 Gender and Identity Heroic Action and Exogamy in Homeric Catalogues of Women Goda Thangada 147
31.3 Gender and Identity The Gender Ratio in the Attic Stelai Peter Hunt 147
73.3 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society The Construction of Currency and Roman Imperialism Colin Elliott 147
73.1 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Paradigm Shifts in Archaic Rome’s ‘Social Life of Things’ Cristiano Viglietti 147
73.2 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society Diachronicity and Metaphor in Roman Conceptions of Courage William Short 147
32.2 Friendship and Affection Socrates and Eudaimonism in the Euthydemus and Meno Iakovos Vasiliou 147
32.4 Friendship and Affection Friendship and θυμός in Aristotle Paul Ludwig 147
32.3 Friendship and Affection What Must We Know to Benefit From Aristotle's Lectures on Ethics? Carlo DaVia 147
32.1 Friendship and Affection Family Values: Negotiating Affection in the Attic Orators Hilary Lehmann 147
32.5 Friendship and Affection "Bloom for Me": The Letters of Nikephoros Ouranos and the Greek Anthology Mark Masterson 147
33.2 Livy and the Construction of the Past Exemplary Tyrants: Livy on Violence, Due Process, and Protecting the State Jacqueline Pincus 147
33.1 Livy and the Construction of the Past Livy’s Rejection of Polybius’ συμπλοκή: the Case for Competence Joseph Groves 147
33.4 Livy and the Construction of the Past Between senatus and populus: Contested contiones in Livy’s Third Decade Anne Truetzel 147
33.3 Livy and the Construction of the Past A Head on the Body Politic? Figuring Authority in Livy's First Pentad Julia Mebane 147
33.5 Livy and the Construction of the Past Choral Dynamics in Livy's AUC XXIII Kyle Sanders 147
34.3 Architecture and Self-Definition Self-Definition of Alexander the Great F. S. Naiden 147
34.2 Architecture and Self-Definition The Tyrant as Liberator: The Treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi Matthew Sears 147
34.4 Architecture and Self-Definition Ritual and Identity at the Restored Epidauran Asklepieion Stephen Ahearne-Kroll 147
34.1 Architecture and Self-Definition How Syracusan Was The Carthaginian Treasury? Timothy Smith 147
48.5 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar and Diodorus on Sicilian mixis Virginia Lewis 147
48.6 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Winter’s Paian: Generic Interdependence and Autonomy in Bacchylides 16 Margaret Foster 147
48.3 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Invisible Stones: Perses and the beginning of book-epigram Michael A. Tueller 147
48.2 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Between Oral and Written: Archaic Epigram & Elegiac Formulae Alan Sheppard 147
48.1 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry A Trader in Song: Hesiod at the funeral games for Amphidamas Alexander Dale 147
48.4 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Pindar, Hieron and the Persian Wars. An Intertextual Reading of Pi. Pyth. 1.71-80 Almut Fries 147
49.4 Athenian Unity? A Deeper Look into the Quarries at Syracuse: Thucydides 7.84-7 in Connection to the Plague Holly Maggiore 147
49.1 Athenian Unity? Territoriality and the Making of Community in the Archaic Period Lisa Pilar Eberle 147
49.2 Athenian Unity? The Hoplite Class as a Complex Category in Greek Thought Richard Fernando Buxton 147
49.3 Athenian Unity? Unanimous Gods, Unanimous Athens? Voting and Divinities in the Oresteia Amit Shilo 147
49.6 Athenian Unity? Xenophon and the Unequal Phalanx: A 4th-Century View on Political Egalitarianism Simone Agrimonti 147
49.5 Athenian Unity? The Invisible Noose Around a Speaker’s Neck: The Nomos Eisangeltikos and the Dangers of Speaking in the Ecclēsia Michael Zimm 147
50.3 Identity and Ethnicity Bilingualism and Youth in the Roman army Egizia-Maria Felice 147
50.5 Identity and Ethnicity Brahmans and Gymnoi: Autochthony and Cultural Memory in the Life of Apollonius Edward Kelting 147
50.4 Identity and Ethnicity Identity and Erasure in the Sepulchral Relief of Fonteia Helena and Fonteia Eleusis Grace Gillies 147
50.2 Identity and Ethnicity The National Origins of Phoenician Ethnicity Josephine Quinn 147
50.1 Identity and Ethnicity Making rhetoric Roman in the first preface of Cicero’s de Inventione (1.1–5) Kyle Helms 147
25.1 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Politics of Elitism: The Roman Republic—Then and Now, in Old Europe and the Brave New Anglophone World Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp 147
25.2 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic “Memory, mémoire, erinnerung”: Interdependencies in French and German Scholarship in Classics—and their Echoes in the Anglophone World Tanja Itgenshorst 147
25.3 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic Publicity, öffentlichkeit, and the Populus Romanus: Finding ‘the public’ in English and German Scholarship on the Late Republic Amy Russell 147
25.4 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Study of Republican Rome and (the Phantom Menace of) the German ‘Sonderforschungsbereich’ Hans Beck 147
25.5 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Economics of Roman Political Culture James K. Tan 147
80.1 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Pulling the Pieces Together: Social Capital and the Olympics, Ancient and Modern Paul Christesen 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
80.3 Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology Minas Minoides, Philostratus’ Gymnastikos and the Nineteenth Century Greek Olympic Movement Zinon Papakonstantinou 147