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
41.2 Marx and Antiquity Marxing out on Fundus: Salvaging the Slave from Virgil’s Farm Tom Geue 147
79.4 Homeric Poetics at the Dawn of Christianity Maronian Nectar: Nonnus, Homer and Vergil Tim Whitmarsh 147
26.4 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Marketing Mende: Athenaeus 11.784c and the Archaeology of Mendaian Amphoras Mark Lawall and Dylan Townshend 147
3.1 Time and Memory Man of the Hour: The Impact of Hourly Timekeeping in Galen’s Fever Case Histories Kassandra Jackson 147
50.1 Identity and Ethnicity Making rhetoric Roman in the first preface of Cicero’s de Inventione (1.1–5) Kyle Helms 147
77.3 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Making Livia Divine: Carmentis, Hersilia, and Ovid’s Poetic Power Reina Callier 147
70.3 Latin Hexameter Poetry Lucan's Hesiod: Erictho as Typhon in Bellum Civile 6.685-94 Stephen Sansom 147
33.1 Livy and the Construction of the Past Livy’s Rejection of Polybius’ συμπλοκή: the Case for Competence Joseph Groves 147
6.5 The List as Genre Lists & Roman Law John Matthews 147
30.3 Euripides Likely Story: Narrative and Probability in Euripides’ Troades Benjamin Sammons 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
24.3 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Libertas plebis: The Metaphor of Slavery in Popular Protest Ellen O'Gorman 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
53.2 Epistolary Epigraphy Law Set in Stone: Inscribing Private Rescripts in Imperial Roman Greece Kaius Tuori 147
56.1 Neo-Latin Texts in a World Context: Current Research Laura Cereta’s In asinarium funus oratio Quinn Radziszewski Griffin 147
9.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Late Byzantine legal practice and prosopography in a contract from the Princeton collection Nicholas Venable 147
51.5 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority Landscapes of Authority: Roman Officials in Second-Century Ephesus Garrett Ryan 147
10.4 Ancient Music and the Emotions Lament in the Land of logos Naomi Weiss 147
64.3 Minting an Empire: Negotiating Roman Hegemony through Coinage Kleopatra VII’s Empire and the Bronze Coinages of Ituraean Chalkis Katie Cupello 147
85.4 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: The Scientific Self at Ptolemaic Courts Marquis Berrey 147
45.1 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Kennedy’s Dialect Twist—Could This Really Be the End? Elena Giusti 147
12.2 Money Matters Kapêloi and Economic Rationality in Fourth-Century BCE Athens Michael Leese 147
59.6 Men and War Justifying Violence in Herodotus’ Histories 3.38: Nomos, King of All, and Pindaric Poetics K. Scarlett Kingsley 147
47.3 The Emperor Julian Julian as Citizen: Attic Oratory and the Misopogon Joshua J. Hartman 147
47.2 The Emperor Julian Julian and Basil of Caesarea on Impostor Philosophers Stefan Hodges-Kluck 147
6.3 The List as Genre Jerome’s De Viris Illustribus and the Beginnings of a Christian Curriculum Irene SanPietro 147
10.1 Ancient Music and the Emotions Is the Idea of “Musical Emotion” Present in Classical Antiquity? Andreas Kramarz 147
48.3 Inscribing Song: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Invisible Stones: Perses and the beginning of book-epigram Michael A. Tueller 147
36.1 Fides in Flavian Poetry Introduction: Fides in the early Roman Principate Claire Stocks 147
76.4 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Interpreting Twelfth-Century Imitation of the Classics: Walter of Châtillon’s Imitation of the Aeneid in the Exordium of the Alexandreis Justin Haynes 147
5.2 The Ides of March: New Perspectives Interpreting the Omens for Caesar's Assassination Richard Westall 147
78.4 New Studies in Asymmetric Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Insurgency and its Application in the Ancient World Lee L. Brice 147
84.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Incertas Umbras: The Mysterious Pastoral in Virgil's Eclogues Rachelle Ferguson 147
61.3 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Inachia, Horace, and Neoteric Poetry James Townshend 147
47.4 The Emperor Julian In Search of a Western Julian: Ammianus and the Latin Tradition Alan Ross 147
75.2 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Imperial Cult in the pompa circensis Jacob Latham 147
23.1 Emperors, Aristocrats, and Bishops in Late Antiquity Imperial Authority and Saeculum Rhetoric from Augustus to Constantine Susan Dunning 147
76.1 Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature Imitation as reincarnation? Rutilius, Messalla, and ‘Ouidius rediuiuus’ at the Thermae Taurinae Ian Fielding 147
50.4 Identity and Ethnicity Identity and Erasure in the Sepulchral Relief of Fonteia Helena and Fonteia Eleusis Grace Gillies 147
46.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy Identifying with Liars in Plato's Republic Laura Ward 147
34.1 Architecture and Self-Definition How Syracusan Was The Carthaginian Treasury? Timothy Smith 147
20.1 How (Not) to Write How Not to Compose Prose: Hegesias of Magnesia as an Antimodel of Style Steven Ooms 147
66.4 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama How New is Aristophanes in New Orleans Wilfred Major 147
61.4 Running Down Rome: Lyric, Iambic, and Satire Horace's Unified, Epicurean Persona in the "Diatribe Satires" (1.1-3) Sergio Yona 147
62.6 Truth and Lies History, Fiction and Genre in Kaminiates’ Sack of Thessaloniki Stephen Trzaskoma 147
63.2 Recovering the Monstrous and the Sublime Historiē in Palimpsest: Ethnographic Wonders in the Old English Orosius Kyle Khellaf 147
3.4 Time and Memory Historical Authority in Pausanias Book I Monica Park 147
85.3 Experimentation: Querying the Body in Ancient Medicine Hippocratic Experimentation and Poetic Simile in Homer Ralph Rosen 147
31.2 Gender and Identity Heroic Action and Exogamy in Homeric Catalogues of Women Goda Thangada 147
4.3 Herodotus at 2500 Herodotus on the Ethics of Retaliation Elizabeth Irwin 147