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
30.2 Material Girls Unveiling female feelings for objects: Deianeira and her ὄργανα in Sophocles’ Trachiniai Anne-Sophie Noel 149
24.2 Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions Presentation #2 Arum Park 149
22.3 Deterritorializing Classics Minority and Becoming: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Case of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Assaf Krebs 149
64.4 Whose Homer? Subversion of the Homeric Simile in Pindar’s Victory Odes Asya C. Sigelman 149
76.1 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Anonymous Verses in Notorious Lives: the Historia Augusta through the Mirror of Suetonius Barbara Del Giovane 149
42.2 Resist Together “Harassment in Academe:  Reflections and Coping/Resisting Strategies” Barbara Gold 149
51.6 Dido in and after Vergil "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" Barbara Leigh Clayton 149
17.2 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram Barnaby Chesterton 149
67.4 Coins and Trade Roman Coins and Long-Distance Movement. East to West Benjamin Hellings 149
58.1 Global Classical Traditions The Classical Tradition and the Translation of Latin Poetry in Twentieth-Century China Bobby Xinyue 149
23.5 The Sounds of War Towards a Thucydidean theory of affect Brad Hald 149
73.2 Augustan Rome Regulating Bribery or Generosity? Augustus’ Laws on Ambitus Brahm H. Kleinman 149
83.1 Historiography and Identity Interstitial Politics: Thucydides, Demosthenes, and the Athenian Character Branden D. Kosch 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
3.4 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 149
18.2 Foreign Policy Carthaginian Strategy and Expenses in the First Punic War Bret Devereaux 149
28.6 Didactic Poetry Monsters Must Bear Monsters: Genealogical Continuity and Poetic Awareness in Theogony 287-94 and 979-83. Brett Stine 149
36.1 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Dialogues with History: The Platonic Picture of Critias and the Thirty Brian Bigio 149
4.3 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Didactic warfare: Military imagery and progressive exposure in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Brian Hill 149
84.3 Getting the Joke The End of Juvenal Satire 1 and the Imitation of Lucilius and Horace Brian S. Hook 149
19.3 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Speech as Medicine in Ciceronian Oratory Brian Walters 149
10.1 Visions of Ancient Cities... Fragrant Temples: Scent and the Sacred Landscape Britta Ager 149
56.4 Lyric from Greece to Rome Horace on the Hymnic Genre Brittney Szempruch 149
75.2 Winning the People Modeling Crowd Behavior in Ancient Rome: Claques and Complex Adaptive Systems Bryan Brinkman 149
34.4 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Sustaining a Secondary School Greek Program C. Emil Penarubia 149
65.4 Livy and Tacitus Family, Land, and Freedom in Tacitus’ Agricola Caitlin Gillespie 149
37.3 After the Ars: Later Ovid Ovid's viscera: Tristia 1.7 and Metamorphoses 8 Caitlin Hines 149
9.3 Agency in Drama Choreographing Frenzy: Auletics, Agency, and the Body in Euripides’ Heracles Caleb Simone 149
66.4 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Herodotus Reinscribed: The New Thebes Epigram and Croesus Cameron Pearson 149
53.3 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century Carl Springer 149
19.2 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Going Underground: Linguistic Metaphors and the Politics of Varro’s De lingua Latina Carolyn MacDonald 149
76.4 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Pilgrimage as Biography in Antiquity: Travel, Process, and Liminality in Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana Carson Bay 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
1.2 Classics and Social Justice Engaging Minority Students: Modifying Pedagogical Practice for Social Justice Casey Moore 149
84.4 Getting the Joke Summus Minimusque Poeta: Silent Epigram in Juvenal Satire 1.1-30 Catherine Keane 149
60.4 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World Neither Nasty nor Brutish, but Short: Thomas Hobbes’ Abbreviated Translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric Charles McNamara 149
45.3 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Sallust and the Mytilenean Debate Charles Muntz 149
13.2 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in Georgia Charles Platter 149
75.3 Winning the People Generic Formulae and Geographic Variation in the Tabulae Triumphales Charles W. Oughton 149
17.1 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Exagoge of Ezekiel Tragicus in its political and historical context Chaya Cassano 149
26.4 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula The Lives of Formulas: Linguistic Productivity and the Development of Epic Greek Chiara Bozzone 149
57.3 Carthage and the Mediterranean Origin and development of Punic settlements in Sardinia until the age of Romanization Chiara Biasetti Fantauzzi 149
46.1 Mind and Matter The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy Chiara Ferella 149
66.6 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Three Documents of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus CHING-YUAN WU 149
44.1 Letters in the Ancient World Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus Chris Bingley 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 149
27.3 Elegiac Desires Female Networks in Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto 1-4 Christian Lehmann 149
80.5 Reframing Alexandrology Creating a Commonplace: Alexander’s Visit to Jerusalem in Judeo-Christian Narratives Christian Thrue Djurslev 149
38.2 Style and Rhetoric A Song of Dice and Ire: Games of Chance and Anger in Greek Oratory Christopher Dobbs 149
51.5 Dido in and after Vergil "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" Christopher Nappa 149