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
51.6 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Tertullian the "Jurist" and the Language of Roman Law Anna Dolganov 147
49.1 Athenian Unity? Territoriality and the Making of Community in the Archaic Period Lisa Pilar Eberle 147
62.4 Truth and Lies Teaching Romance: Gnômai and Didacticism in Aethiopica Daniel Dooley 147
9.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Taxes, petitions, and the formulation of the ideal relationship between citizen and state in the late Roman empire Patrick Clark 147
61.6 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Talking Donkeys: A Seriocomic Interpretation of Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.2 Geoffrey Benson 147
56.2 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Summum ius, summa injuria: The Function of aequitas in Thomas More’s Utopia and Christopher St. Germain’s Dialogus De Fundamentis Legum Anglie et de Conscientia Roger S. Fisher 147
18.3 Plutarch and Late Republican Rome Sulla and the Creation of Roman Athens Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 147
74.4 Popular Politics and Ancient Warfare Suffragium legionis: Popular Politics and the Army in the Middle-Republic Michael J. Taylor 147
59.3 Men and War Suetonius Περὶ Βλασφημιῶν, and the invective of masculinity Konstantinos Kapparis 147
63.1 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Sublime Failure John Tennant 147
84.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Subdivisions: The Containment of Femininity in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae Mason Johnson 147
27.1 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Stone into Smoke: Mortality and Materiality in Euripides' Troades Victoria Wohl 147
35.4 Standardization and the State State Standards and Metrological Culture in Imperial Rome Andrew M. Riggsby 147
51.4 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Staging Morality: Augustan Adultery Law and Public Spectacle Mary Deminion 147
1.1 Texts and Transmission Spurning Glosses: Etymological Interpretation of Poetry as a Social Phenomenon at Plutarch’s Symposia David F. Driscoll 147
4.1 Herodotus at 2500 Spoofing Herodotus Thomas Harrison 147
24.5 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Speaking up for the Slave in Quintilian, Minor Declamations 340 and 342 Matthew Leigh 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
13.2 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Sophocles after Ferguson: Antigone in St. Louis, 2014 Timothy J. Moore 147
79.2 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Sophistication and Homeric Citation in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim 147
72.2 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Socrates, Gandhi, Derrida Phiroze Vasunia 147
32.2 Friendship and Affection Socrates and Eudaimonism in the Euthydemus and Meno Iakovos Vasiliou 147
72.3 Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World Situated Knowledges and the Dynamics of the Field Brooke Holmes 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
64.2 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage Silver and Power: The Three-fold Roman Impact on the Monetary System of the Provincia Asia (133 B.C.E. – 96 C.E.) Lucia Francesca Carbone 147
81.5 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Silence as a Sign of Personal Contact with God(s): New Perspectives on a Religious Attitude Lucia Maddalena Tissi 147
11.3 Prophecy Signs and Patterns in Aratus' Myth of Ages Kathryn Wilson 147
42.4 Fragments from Theory to Practice Sifting through the textual ruins of antiquity: fragment and body in Montaigne's "On some lines of Virgil" Ariane Schwartz 147
26.5 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy ShoEconomics: Market size and Supply of Footwear in Classical Athens Graham Oliver 147
34.3 Architecture and Self-Definition Self-Definition of Alexander the Great F. S. Naiden 147
38.1 Cicero across Genres Seeing the Whole in Cicero’s Brutus Christopher S. van den Berg 147
58.1 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Seeing the elephant: beyond the querelle of “Roman imperialism” in the Hellenistic world John Ma 147
22.1 Perception and the Senses Scent in the Magical Papyri Britta Ager 147
52.3 Roman Dance Cultures in Context Saltatores vel Pantomimi: Where and How did the Cinaedi Perform? Thomas Sapsford 147
58.3 Rethinking Roman Imperialism in the Middle and Late Republic (c.327 - 49 BCE) Rome at Sea: the Beginnings of Roman Naval Power William V. Harris 147
34.4 Architecture and Self-Definition Ritual and Identity at the Restored Epidauran Asklepieion Stephen Ahearne-Kroll 147
8.3 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Riddling toward Knowledge Tom Hawkins 147
11.4 Prophecy Riddling Recipes: The Elegiac Instructions of Philo (SH 690) and Aglaias (SH 18) Floris Overduin 147
4.2 Herodotus at 2500 Rewriting the North: Herodotus, Aristeas, and the Construction of Authority Renaud Gagné 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
69.1 Language and Meter Rethinking Dactylo-Epitrite in Euripides' Medea Doug Fraleigh 147
36.6 Fides in Flavian Poetry Response/Conclusion. haec pietas, haec fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius’ Thebaid Antony Augoustakis 147
17.3 Rome: The City as Text Reproducing Rome: Campania and the Imperial City in Statius' Silvae Amanda Klause 147
77.5 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Reporting an Underreported Crime: Arethusa in the Metamorphoses Anna Beek 147
81.1 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Recipes for Domestic Rituals in the Greek Magical Handbooks Christopher Faraone 147
57.1 Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception Reception and Staying in the Field of Play Simon Goldhill 147
65.4 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Rebellion and the Making of a Governmental Grammar in Post-Roman Iberia Damian Fernandez 147
29.2 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Reading Homer in Troubled Times: Rachel Bespaloff’s On the Iliad Seth Schein 147
13.1 Performance, Politics, Pedagogy Raising the Stakes: Mary-Kay Gamel and the Academic Stage Amy R. Cohen 147
79.1 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Quintus’ Homer Illusion and the Proem of the Posthomerica Emma Greensmith 147