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
85.2 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine The Sliding Scale of Experiment-Kinds Paul Keyser 147
14.2 Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia The Satirical and Epical Basis of Damasus’ Anti-pagan Invective Carmen Contra Paganos Diederik Burgersdijk 147
68.3 Free Speech The Rhetoric of παρρησία in Greek Imperial Writers Matthew Taylor 147
54.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Quickening Course and Watery Ways: Deriving Greek κέλευθος ‘path’ from PIE *h1léwdh- Todd Clary 147
56.4 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research The Praise of a Pagan: Pseudo-Longinus in 17th‑century Dutch Scholarship Wieneke Jansen 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
69.2 Language and Meter The Poetics of Syntax: Pindar and the Vedic Rishis Annette Teffeteller 147
16.4 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival The Philology of Fragments Sander Goldberg 147
24.4 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World The Official and Hidden Transcripts of Callirhoe’s Enslavement William Owens 147
50.2 Identity and Ethnicity The National Origins of Phoenician Ethnicity Josephine Quinn 147
55.3 Sexuality in Ancient Art The Mirror, Narrative, and Erotic Desire in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Jeffrey Ulrich 147
11.1 Prophecy The Meanings of Nature: Philosophy, Science and Divination between Lucretius and Seneca Daniele Federico Maras 147
31.1 Gender and Identity The Maternal Warrior: Achilles and Gendered Similes in the Iliad Celsiana Warwick 147
47.1 The Emperor Julian The making of the emperor: Julian and the succession of 361 Kevin Feeney 147
83.4 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Latin Papyri from Herculaneum Sarah Hendriks 147
84.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Lack of a Rogator and Its Implications in Pompeian Electoral Programmata Hayley Barnett 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
67.2 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Inspired Commentator: Plotinus’ Doxographical Ascent Michael Griffin 147
21.6 Ancient Kingship The Inception of the Seleukid Empire Paul Vadan 147
12.3 Money Matters The Imperial Shuffle: Markets and Land Allotment on the Syracusan Frontier Timothy Sorg 147
64.5 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Imperial Physician: Asclepius and Roman Coinage Caroline Wazer 147
49.2 Athenian Unity? The Hoplite Class as a Complex Category in Greek Thought Richard Fernando Buxton 147
83.5 Herculaneum in Word and Text The Herculaneum Graffiti Project: Ancient Wall Inscriptions and Digital Humanities Erika Damer 147
41.3 Marx and Antiquity The Hell of the Populace: Marx, Epicurus, and the Limits of Enlightenment Martin Devecka 147
7.1 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections The Giza Project at Harvard: Consolidated Access to the Pyramids Peter Der Manuelian 147
31.3 Gender and Identity The Gender Ratio in the Attic Stelai Peter Hunt 147
60.3 Poetry and Place The Fragments of Rhianus’ Messeniaca: An Iliad for the Messenian People? Veronica Shi 147
62.3 Truth and Lies The Fool's World in Seneca's Epistle 58 Sam McVane 147
42.1 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out The Fairest of Constitutions? Democracy and Its Discontents in Herodotus’ Histories Ellen G. Millender 147
36.2 Fides in Flavian Poetry The Failure of Fides in the Octavia Lauren Ginsberg 147
10.5 Ancient Music and the Emotions The Experience of the Other: Dance and Empathy in Ancient Mystery Rites Karin Schlapbach 147
2.1 Republican Literature The Epistula ad Tiburtes and Roman-Latin Relations in the 2nd Century BCE Elizabeth Palazzolo 147
12.4 Money Matters The End of Hegemony? Revisiting Athenian Finance and Foreign Policy after the Social War Robert Sing 147
25.5 Thinking through Recent German Scholarship on the Roman Republic The Economics of Roman Political Culture James K. Tan 147
64.1 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage The Distribution of Victoriati in the Po River Valley during the Second Century B.C.E. Dominic Machado 147
30.1 Euripides The Death of the King: Mythological Innovation in Euripides' "Erechtheus" Adam Rappold 147
59.5 Men and War The death of Marcellus in Silius Italicus Punica 15.334-398 John Jacobs 147
73.3 The Anthropology of Roman Culture: Models, History, Society The Construction of Currency and Roman Imperialism Colin Elliott 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
44.1 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
74.3 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare The Athenian Navy and Democracy: Top-Down, Bottom Up or Topsy Turvy? David Rosenbloom 147
70.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Aristaeus Epyllion in Georgics 4 and the Instability of Didactic Knowledge Patrick Glauthier 147
51.2 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority The Argonautica of Diodorus Siculus Charles Muntz 147
20.5 How (Not) to Write The Anti-Program of Thucydides' Archaeology Thomas Beasley 147
67.4 The Commentary and the Making of Philosophy The Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy and the Reception of Plato Danielle Alexandra Layne 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
78.3 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World The Advent of the Night Sortie in Siege Warfare Michael G. Seaman 147
22.2 Perception and the Senses Thaumastic Acoustics: Typhon and the poetics of sight and sound Oliver Passmore 147
81.4 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Testing the Limits of Personal Religion and Civic Identity: The Case of Xenophon at Scillus Hannah Willey 147