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
42.4 Herodotus’ “Constitutional Debate” From the Inside Out Herodotus and the “Constitutional Debate” (3.80-82) Brian M. Lavelle 147
20.4 How (Not) to Write Herodotus and the Laws of Thurii David Blair Pass 147
55.4 Sexuality in Ancient Art Hercules and the Stability of Gender Matthew P. Loar 147
8.5 Classica Africana Redux: Re-Visiting the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois Hell to Pay: Classics and Radical Inclusion in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of the Ruling of Men” Harriet Fertik 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
75.3 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Healing Emperors and Healing Gods Trevor Luke 147
45.3 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Happy Vergil Goes North: Aeneid in Russian Letters Zara M. Torlone 147
45.2 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Happy Un-Birthday, Harvard School!: The Aeneid’s Pre-History of Dialectical Interpretation Nandini B. Pandey 147
28.2 Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives Hanc fabulam nescio an tragoediam vocare debeam: Florent Chrestien, Isaac Casaubon, tragedy and Euripides' Cyclops Malika Bastin-Hammou 147
81.3 Ancient Greek Personal Religion Greek Divination as Personal Religion: The Divining Self as Independent of Polis Religion Matthew Paul James Dillon 147
65.1 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Grammars of Government in the Imperial Estate of Saltus Burunitanus John Weisweiler 147
26.2 Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy Getting Produce to Market: Farming and the Technology of Transport in Classical Attica David Lewis 147
14.4 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 George of Pisidia’s Depiction of the Persians and its Classical Antecedents Erik Hermans 147
15.3 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Gendering the Study of Germanophone Refugee Classicists Judith P. Hallett 147
17.1 Rome: The City as Text Gateways to Rome in Aeneid 6 and 7 Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 147
39.4 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach From Stone to Screen to Classroom Gwynaeth McIntyre, Melissa Funke, and Chelsea Gardner 147
32.4 Friendship and Affection Friendship and θυμός in Aristotle Paul Ludwig 147
68.1 Free Speech Freedom as Self-Mastery in Plato's Laws Carl Young 147
16.3 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival Fragmentary Texts, Contradictory Narrative, and the Roman Historical Tradition Christopher Simon 147
16.2 New Approaches to Fragments and Fragmentary Survival Fragmentary Furii and Latin Historical Epic Jessica H. Clark 147
82.3 Women and Water Fluid Dynamics: Interpreting Reproductive Risk in Greco-Roman Medicine Anna Bonnell-Freidin 147
66.1 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Flippin’ the Oedipus Record: Will Power’s Seven and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes Casey Dué 147
65.3 Grammars of Government in Late Antiquity Fiscal Grammars of Governance in Ostrogothic Italy M. Shane Bjornlie 147
51.1 Roman Imperial Ideology and Authority First as History, and Again as Farce: Ironic Echoes in Herodian’s Description of Commodus Patrick Cook 147
53.3 Epistolary Epigraphy Filiation Expressions and the Language of Official Roman Letters Inscribed in Greek Christopher Haddad 147
36.4 Fides in Flavian Poetry Fides in Statius’ Silvae Neil Bernstein 147
29.5 Responses to Homer’s Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present Feminist at the Second Glance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 147
82.5 Women and Water Female Plumbers in the Metamorphoses: Women Talking Water Bridget Langley 147
32.1 Friendship and Affection Family Values: Negotiating Affection in the Attic Orators Hilary Lehmann 147
68.4 Free Speech Eyes to See, Hands to Serve: Ambrose's Transformation of Liberalitas Erin Galgay Walsh 147
7.4 Globalizing the Field: Preserving and Creating Access to Archaeological Collections Expanding the Archive: The Creation of the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Carolyn Heitman, Salmon Pueblo, and Paul Reed 147
33.2 Livy and the Construction of the Past Exemplary Tyrants: Livy on Violence, Due Process, and Protecting the State Jacqueline Pincus 147
9.1 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Eurypylus and beyond: Groups and sub-groups of fragments in P.Oxy. IX 1175 + XVII 2081(b) Giulio Iovine 147
30.4 Euripides Euripides’ Ion: Monody as Agon Claire Catenaccio 147
30.5 Euripides Euripides’ Comic Muse: Cratinus’ Nemesis in Euripides’ Helen Dustin Dixon 147
60.1 Poetry and Place Ethnographic excursus as narrative device in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica Emily Allen-Hornblower 147
77.6 Gender Trouble in Latin Narrative Poetry Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum Civile Patrick Burns 147
15.4 German and Austrian Refugee Classicists: New Testimonies, New Perspectives Ernst Badian on Fritz Schachermeyr's Interpretation of Alexander the Great T. Corey Brennan 147
46.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy Epitasis and Anesis in De Caelo 2.6 Stephen Kidd 147
38.4 Cicero across Genres Epistolary Style and Rhetorical Style: A Path Across Letters and Rhetorical Treatises Francesco Ginelli 147
71.1 Nec converti ut interpres: New Approaches to Cicero’s Translation of Greek Philosophy Epistolary Reflections on Philosophical Translation Sean McConnell 147
53.1 Epistolary Epigraphy Epistles on Granite: Ptolemaic Authority and the Superlative at Philae Patricia Butz 147
59.1 Men and War Elisions of Death and the Ethics of Warfare in Apollonius’ Argonautica Nicholas Kauffman 147
27.2 Objects and Affect: The Materialities of Greek Drama Electra, Orestes, and the Sibling Hand Nancy Worman 147
83.1 Herculaneum in Word and Text Editing in three dimensions: the papyri from Herculaneum Richard Janko 147
39.1 Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Seals Online Catalogue Lain Wilson and Jonathan Shea 147
24.2 Voicing Slaves in the Greco-Roman World Don’t Consult the hariolus: Slave Religions in the Rome of Plautus and Cato the Elder Dan-el Padilla Peralta 147
53.4 Epistolary Epigraphy Documenting Travel in Imperial Egypt: Papyrus vs. Inscribed Letters Patricia Rosenmeyer 147
66.2 New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama Do Something Addy Man: Herbert Marshall’s Black Alcestis Michele Valerie Ronnick 147
75.1 “Theism” and Related Categories in the Study of Ancient Religions Divine Cicero and pious Clodius: invective in the De Domo Sua Jaclyn Neel 147