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
23.4 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Ego filia: Maternal Rejection in Catullus 63 Erin McKenna 148
23.6 Mothers and Daughters in Antiquity Imperial Mothers and Daughters in Second-Century Rome Mary Boatwright 148
24.1 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Greco-Roman Studies and Digital Classics Gregory Crane 148
24.2 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Working in Digital Humanities and Classics at the Small Undergraduate University Bruce Robertson 148
24.3 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Digital Work, Student Research, and the Tenure Track Marie-Claire Beaulieu 148
24.4 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession Philology, Technology, Collaboration: 16 Years of the Homer Multitext Christopher Blackwell 148
24.5 Digital Classics and the Changing Profession DH 101 (Classics) Christopher Johanson 148
25.2 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Economic anthropology, economic theory and the study of ancient religions Barbara Kowalzig 148
25.3 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Magical Power, Cognition, and the Religion of the Intellectual in the Roman Imperial West Andreas Bendlin 148
25.4 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Divining data: temples, votives, and quantitative sensibilities Dan-el Padilla Peralta 148
25.5 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Greek Libations from a Visual Perspective Milette Gaifman 148
25.6 God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the Study of Ancient Religion Cult Dynamics and Information Technologies: The Case of Mithraism Matthew McCarty 148
26.1 Spectacle and Authority Cato’s Triumph: Cato’s Attempt to Redefine the Roman Triumph. Noah Segal 148
26.2 Spectacle and Authority In Omnis Provincias Exemplum: Imperial Cults and Urban Connectivity in the Roman Empire Benjamin Crowther 148
26.3 Spectacle and Authority Flavian Restoration and Innovation in Domitian’s Ludi Saeculares Susan Dunning 148
26.4 Spectacle and Authority Pompa diaboli: Christian Rhetoric, Imperial Law, and the Roman Games Jacob Latham 148
26.5 Spectacle and Authority Julian II’s Supernatural Publicist: Fama in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus Angela Kinney 148
27.1 Legal Authority Alia tota serenda fabula: documentary fantasies in Livy’s Trials of the Scipios Lydia Spielberg 148
27.2 Legal Authority Krateros and the Decrees in Andokides On the Mysteries Edwin Carawan 148
27.3 Legal Authority Deconstructing an Athenian Decree: IG I3 84 and the Composition of the Inscribed Document John Aldrup-MacDonald 148
27.4 Legal Authority Normative Legal Interpretation in Lysias Tongjia Zhang 148
27.5 Legal Authority Persuasive Authority: Continuity and Precedent in the Rescripts of Severus Alexander Zachary Herz 148
28.1 Time as an Organizing Principle Pompey the Great and the Value of the Past in Seneca’s De Brevitate Vitae Jonathan Master 148
28.2 Time as an Organizing Principle Imperium Cum Fine: The Saeculum and Post-Roman Anxieties in Augustan Rome Paul Hay 148
28.3 Time as an Organizing Principle The will of Zeus and the time of the Iliad Yukai Li 148
28.4 Time as an Organizing Principle Time in the Scholia to the Iliad Bill Beck 148
28.5 Time as an Organizing Principle The Manipulation of Historical and Moral Turning Points in Sallust: A Comparative Perspective Brian Mumper 148
29.2 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Lessons for a Hellenist from Amy Richlin's "Arguments with Silence" Nancy Rabinowitz 148
29.3 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Amy Richlin’s Challenge: Erasing/Tracing Roman Women’s Participation in Religious Life Fanny Dolansky 148
29.4 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Humor and History Sandra Joshel 148
29.5 Feminist Scholarship in the Classics: Amy Richlin's Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women (2014), (Workshop) Re-Reading Ovid's Rapes Mary-Kay Gamel 148
30.2 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Silver Coinage, Sovereignty, and Symmachia: Byzantion and Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. Nick Cross 148
30.3 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Epigraphical Evidence for sovereign lending in Classical Athens Georgios Tsolakis 148
30.4 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Roman Coins Abroad: Foreign Coinage and Strategies of Sovereignty in Ancient India Jeremy Simmons 148
30.5 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) Sovereignty and Coinage. The case of the late cistophori of Tralles Lucia Carbone 148
30.6 Sovereignty and Money (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) When Sovereignty is not enough: Money Supply in 4th-Century CE Egypt Irene Soto 148
31.2 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) Why the Standards Matter for College and University Educators John Gruber-Miller 148
31.3 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) Recontextualizing the Teaching of Ancient Greek within the New Standards for Classical Languages Wilfred Major 148
31.4 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) Material Culture and the Greek and Latin Classroom Liane Houghtalin 148
31.5 The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages (organized by the Committee on Education) The New Standards for Learning Classical Languages and Latin Teacher Education Teresa Ramsby 148
32.2 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) The Queen of Dysphonia: Virgilian and Propertian Perspectives on Cleopatra Catalina Popescu 148
32.3 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) What Sanskrit Drama Might Teach Us about Music and Audience Reception of Later Greek Drama Nancy Sultan 148
32.4 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) Ancient Greek Nomoi and Western Program Music: Some Methodological Issue Sylvain Perrot 148
32.5 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) ‘Very much below the other arts of the Grecian people’: Modern Adaptations of Ancient Greek Music, 1841-1932 Jon Solomon 148
32.6 Ancient Music and Cross-Cultural Comparison (organized by MOISA) The Classical Avant Garde: Harry Partch and Greek Music Sean Gurd 148
33.2 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Virgil, Creator of the World Catherine Conybeare 148
33.3 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Reassembling to theion: Greek religion as an actors’ category Tim Whitmarsh 148
33.4 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Classics in the Providential Order of the World Simon Goldhill 148
33.5 Philology's Shadow: Theology and the Classics Theology's Shadow Erik Gunderson 148
34.1 What's in a Name? An Ennian inscription for a statue of Cato in Plutarch’s Cato Maior Jackie Elliott 148