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
54.4 Ritual and Religious Belief Semeta lygra: Reading hieroglyphics with Archaic Greeks Christopher Stedman Parmenter 149
71.4 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius was Wrong!: Seneca’s De Rerum Natura Christopher V. Trinacty 149
45.4 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife A Ciceronian Blind Spot: Caecus, Cethegus, and Ennius in Cicero’s Brutus Christopher van den Berg 149
56.1 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Snake-Throttler in Saffron Clothes. Baby Herakles in the Hippodrome (Pindar, Nemean 1) Claas Lattmann 149
6.1 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen: Text Production and Authority Claire Bubb 149
33.2 Performing Problem Plays Prometheus Bound in a Sicilian Performance Context Colleen Kron 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
50.3 Philology's Shadow II Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar Constanze Güthenke 149
32.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics πάνυ δὴ δεῖ χρηστὰ λέγειν ἡμᾶς: Expressions of obligation and necessity in Aristophanes Coulter George 149
56.6 Lyric from Greece to Rome A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172 Courtney Evans 149
60.3 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World 'The fruits, not the roots': Translating Technologies in Early Modern Europe Courtney Roby 149
63.6 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora The Editor(s) in the Classroom Cynthia Damon 149
7.2 Argumentation in Plato Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias Dale Parker 149
33.3 Performing Problem Plays Burning Down the Fifth-Century Stage Daniel Anderson 149
36.4 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Experiencing the Past: Polybius, ἐμπειρία, and Learning from History Daniel Moore 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
65.1 Livy and Tacitus Reconsidering Livy's Relationship to Valerius Antias David Chu 149
56.5 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste David F. Driscoll 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
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
76.1 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Plutarch and Cassius Dio on Cicero: Flawed Philosopher-Ruler or Unscrupulous Megalomaniac? David West 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
59.5 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Polyvalent Poikilia: The Slippery Concept of Variety in Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium Dawn LaValle 149
39.4 Roman Freedmen The Gens Togata: Costume and Character in Freedmen’s Funerary Monuments Devon Stewart 149
59.3 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Historiographic Frames and Ancient Miscellanies Dina Guth 149
65.5 Livy and Tacitus Germanicus, Mutiny and Memory in Tacitus’ Annales 1.31-49 Dominic Machado 149
12.4 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers How to Be the Perfect Victim of Internet Harassment Donna Zuckerberg 149
76.5 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers Dorota Dutsch 149
29.4 Language and Linguistics When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature Duane Roller 149
31.2 New Age Servius How Servius Dealt with Variant Readings in the Text of Virgil E. Kopff 149
27.1 Elegiac Desires The Naso Equilibrium: Game Theory and the Game of Love in the Ars Amatoria E.Del Chrol 149
83.2 Historiography and Identity Athenians, Amazons, and Goats: Language Contact in Herodotus Edward E. Nolan 149
9.4 Agency in Drama Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A Look at Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes Edwin Wong 149
51.3 Dido in and after Vergil "Dido in the light of Livy" Elena Giusti 149
1.1 Classics and Social Justice At Intersections: Teaching about Power and Powerlessness in the Ancient World Elina Salminen 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
65.2 Livy and Tacitus nec fuit cum Tusculanis bellum: Bloodless Conquests and the Rhetoric of Surrender in Livy Elizabeth Palazzolo 149
81.1 Voicing Pliny's Cultured Nightingale Ellen D. Finkelpearl 149
2.5 Classical Reception Studies “Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather”: The Politics of Memory during the AIDS Crisis Emilio Capettini 149
61.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Language as an Indicator of Cultural Identity in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Barnum 149
72.2 Gender and Reception ‘Domesticating’ Roman Religion on the Contemporary Screen Emily Chow-Kambitsch 149
77.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Papyri from Karanis Emily Cole 149
33.4 Performing Problem Plays What Chorus? Using Performance to Appreciate the Chorus of Menander’s Dyskolos Emmanuel Aprilakis 149
56.2 Lyric from Greece to Rome Explaining Archilochus in antiquity: the indirect tradition Enrico Emanuele Prodi 149
29.2 Language and Linguistics Greek, Latin, Roman: Language and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Erik Ellis 149
80.2 Voicing Vergil’s Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues Erik Fredericksen 149
58.5 Global Classical Traditions Aristotle from Reykjavík to Bukhara: The First Global Phase of the Classical Tradition Erik Hermans 149
58.4 Global Classical Traditions Neoplatonism in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 149
40.2 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Big O”: Ancient Discourses on the Process of Female Pleasure Erin McKenna Hanses 149
38.1 Style and Rhetoric The good, the bad and the clever: rhetoric and anti-rhetoric in the agon of Euripides’ Phoenician Women Esmée Bruggink 149