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
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to Do Philology with Computers T.J. Bolt, Adriana Casarez, Jeffrey Hill Flynt 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) Semantic Inferencing for the Archaeologist Sebastian Heath 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to use the PeriodO gazetteer of period definitions: browsing, submitting, and referencing authoritative period definitions Adam Rabinowitz 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) Working with Geospatial Networks of the Roman World using ORBIS Scott Arcenas 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to create a citable, machine-actionable data model with the Homer Multitext Casey Dué 149
AIA/SCS Poster Session (Friday January 5) New Methods in Engineering Greek Theatrical Masks Sophia S. Dill 149
AIA/SCS Poster Session (Friday January 5) The Dates of Roman Triumphs and the Nundinae John Morgan 149
1.1 Classics and Social Justice At Intersections: Teaching about Power and Powerlessness in the Ancient World Elina Salminen 149
1.2 Classics and Social Justice Engaging Minority Students: Modifying Pedagogical Practice for Social Justice Casey Moore 149
1.3 Classics and Social Justice Reading Homer in and outside the Bars: An Educational Project in Post-Conflict Colombia Rodrigo Verano 149
1.4 Classics and Social Justice The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration Molly Harris 149
1.5 Classics and Social Justice First Do No Harm: Responsible Outreach and Community Engagement Amy Pistone 149
2.2 Classical Reception Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations of the Classics in the works of two mulatto writers in Brazil Andrea Kouklanakis 149
2.3 Classical Reception Studies Dining like Nero: Antiquity and Immersive Dining Experiences in late 19th-century and early 20th-century New York Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis 149
2.4 Classical Reception Studies The Imaginary Antiquity of Physical Culture Peter Miller 149
2.5 Classical Reception Studies “Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather”: The Politics of Memory during the AIDS Crisis Emilio Capettini 149
3.1 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text The Place Between: Villa Gardens and Garden Paintings Mantha Zarmakoupi 149
3.2 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Beyond the Salutatio: Looking at Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Tablinum in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum Ambra Spinelli 149
3.3 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Working with Wax: Observations on the Manufacture of Ancient Bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii David Saunders 149
3.4 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 149
3.5 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Epicurean Emotional Theory and Philodemus’ “On the Gods” Sonya Wurster 149
4.2 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry The teacher’s dilemma in Greek didactic texts Philip Thibodeau 149
4.3 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Didactic warfare: Military imagery and progressive exposure in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Brian Hill 149
4.4 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Teaching without text: Didaxis and media in Hor. Serm. 2.3 Alexander Schwennicke 149
4.5 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Virgil’s imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics Raymond Kania 149
6.1 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen: Text Production and Authority Claire Bubb 149
6.2 Medicine and Disease in Galen Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen Amy Koenig 149
6.3 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen, aDNA and the Plague Rebecca Flemming 149
7.1 Argumentation in Plato Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato’s Phaedrus Kenneth Draper 149
7.2 Argumentation in Plato Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias Dale Parker 149
7.3 Argumentation in Plato At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato’s Phaedrus. Matthew Shelton 149
7.4 Argumentation in Plato The Road to Dialectic is Long and Steep: Xenophon and Plato on the Hesiodic ‘Path to Aretê’ Image Collin Hilton 149
8.1 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography The descendants of Roman municipal freedmen in the ordo decurionum and the limits of the macula servitutis Jeffrey Easton 149
8.2 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Roman numeral palaeography: a hazard and a help to editors of Latin texts Orla F. Mulholland 149
8.3 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Rogo Te ut Me Vindices: A Social Demography of Cursing at Mogontiacum Sarah Veale 149
8.4 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Seeing the Silva Through the Silva: The Religious Economy of Timber Communities in Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis David Wallace-Hare 149
9.1 Agency in Drama The Agency and Power of the Dying Alcestis Mary Dolinar 149
9.2 Agency in Drama Electra’s Living Death in Sophocles’ Electra Jonathan Fenno 149
9.3 Agency in Drama Choreographing Frenzy: Auletics, Agency, and the Body in Euripides’ Heracles Caleb Simone 149
9.4 Agency in Drama Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A Look at Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes Edwin Wong 149
10.1 Visions of Ancient Cities... Fragrant Temples: Scent and the Sacred Landscape Britta Ager 149
10.2 Visions of Ancient Cities... Architectural Representation on the Coinage and Imperial Praise from Augustus to Trajan Nathan Elkins 149
10.3 Visions of Ancient Cities... Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia: Reception of Sacred Mountain in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Alexis Belis 149
10.4 Visions of Ancient Cities... A Mountain, its Temples and Cultural Identity: Mt Gerizim and the Self-Identification of the Inhabitants of Neapolis Jane Evans 149
10.5 Visions of Ancient Cities... The City Gate and Cityscape: Fanum Fortunae, the Arch of Augustus, and the Roman City Alexandria Yen 149
11.2 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Zeno's Arrow Takashi Oki 149
11.3 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals Robin Weiss 149
11.4 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Philodemus and the Peripatetics on the Role of Anger in the Virtuous Life David Kaufman 149
12.2 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Harassment in the Workplace: An Administrator’s Perspective Patrice Rankine 149
12.3 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Strategies for Creating Positive Work Environments in Classical Academia Fiona McHardy 149