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
14.1 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Dicing with Danger: Some Vocabulary and Concepts of Ancient Greek Risk Esther Eidinow 149
61.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Setting Sun: Light and Darkness in Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile Evan Armacost 149
57.7 Carthage and the Mediterranean Carthage and Hannibal from Zama to Apamea Eve MacDonald 149
12.3 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Strategies for Creating Positive Work Environments in Classical Academia Fiona McHardy 149
81.3 Voicing Ariadne loquens, Ariadne muta: Catullus 64 and the Illusionism of Hellenistic Ekphrastic Epigrams Flora IFF-NOËL 149
28.4 Didactic Poetry A didactic kettle of fish? Literary dimensions of Marcellus’ De Piscibus (GDRK 63) Floris Overduin 149
62.5 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender Mary and the City Francesca Dell'Acqua 149
71.3 Lucretius: Author and Audience Lucretius’ multiple interlocutors in the DRN Giulia Fanti 149
78.2 Lucan after Deconstruction Empedoclean Echoes in Lucan: The Dialectic of Love and Strife in the Proem of the 'Bellum Civile' Giulio Celotto 149
67.1 Coins and Trade Small Change from a Big Island: The Spread of the Sicilian Silver Litra Standard and its Implications for the Tyrrhenian Trade Giuseppe Castellano 149
18.1 Foreign Policy Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts Gregory Callaghan 149
63.3 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora Open Greek and Latin: corpora, editions, and libraries Gregory Crane 149
49.5 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Provincial Commanders in the Sphere of Antonius the Triumvir: the Negotiation of Relationships Hannah Mitchell 149
84.1 Getting the Joke Plautine Prayers and Holy Jokes Hans Bork 149
64.5 Whose Homer? Pindar and the Epic Cycle Henry Spelman 149
30.4 Material Girls Of Soleae and Self-Fashioning: Roman Women’s Shoes from Vindolanda to Sidi Ghrib Hérica Valladares 149
31.5 New Age Servius Modeling Servius for the Digital Latin Library Hugh Cayless 149
16.3 Virgil and his Afterlife Dramatic Manipulations of Vergil's Georgics in Seneca's Phaedra India Watkins 149
50.2 Philology's Shadow II Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology Irene Peirano 149
21.2 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Religious Experience, Ritual Knowledge, and Gender in the Athenian Curse Tablets Irene Salvo 149
67.6 Coins and Trade Trade and Economic Integration in Fourth Century CE Egypt: The Evidence from Coins and Ceramics Irene Soto 149
62.1 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Mother of God, a Mirror of Women in Late Antiquity Ivan Foletti 149
69.2 Porphyry the Polymath "At Once a Poet, Philosopher, and Expounder of Mysteries:” Porphyry’s Embodiment of Homeric Scholarship Jacob Lollar 149
35.3 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Eusebia and Encomium: Julian Writes the Power of Praise Jacqueline Long 149
31.4 New Age Servius Servius Redux James Brusuelas 149
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
52.4 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Jack of All Trades? Medical Practitioners and the Design, Manufacture, and Use of Instruments, Apparatuses, and Machines Jane Draycott 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
67.5 Coins and Trade Inter-Provincial Trade in Late Antique Syria from Excavation Coins Jane Sancinito 149
25.1 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Strategies of Control: The Rationale of Classical Athenian Slave-Owners in Dictating the Sexual Lives of their Slaves Jason Porter 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
67.3 Coins and Trade Funds, Fashion, and Faith: the many lives of Roman coins in Indo-Roman trade Jeremy Simmons 149
21.3 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited The Koine of Cursing in Early Greece: Bindings and Incantations from the Epigraphic Evidence Jessica Lamont 149
21.1 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Administration and Topography in IG I3 4A-B, the Hekatompedon Decrees Jessica Paga 149
64.1 Whose Homer? Rethinking the Odyssey’s Amnesty: Historical and Modern Perspectives Joel P. Christensen 149
34.3 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Imagining Ancient Texts through Material Culture and the Spatial Environment John Gruber-Miller 149
66.1 Epigrpahy and Civic Identity Intertextuality in Athenian Interstate Legislation: The Case of IG II^2 1 John Aldrup-MacDonald 149
21.4 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Ex visu / κατ᾿ ὄναρ Dedications and the Spiritual Lives of Greek and Roman Slaves John Bodel 149
AIA/SCS Poster Session (Friday January 5) The Dates of Roman Triumphs and the Nundinae John Morgan 149
73.3 Augustan Rome Machine, munus, and monument: triumphs of architectural text John Oksanish 149
9.2 Agency in Drama Electra’s Living Death in Sophocles’ Electra Jonathan Fenno 149
33.1 Performing Problem Plays The Performance of Ezekiel’s Exagoge Re-Addressed Jonathan MacLellan 149
26.3 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula Folkloristic Perspectives on Why Poets and Audiences Like Shared Formulas Jonathan Ready 149
65.3 Livy and Tacitus The Comings and Goings of Scipio Africanus: Locating the Arch of Scipio in a Livian Profectio Jordan Rogers 149
59.2 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany What was the Roman Table of Contents? Making meaning from miscellany in ancient and early modern paratext Joseph A. Howley 149
31.3 New Age Servius Evidence from Servius on the Use of Greek Models by Virgil and his Commentators Joseph Farrell 149
75.4 Winning the People By the People, for the People? Structural Reactions in the Landscape of Roman Athens Joshua R. Vera 149
49.3 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE Josiah Osgood 149
24.1 Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions Presentation #1 Julia Hejduk 149
45.2 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero’s Post-Reditum Speeches Julia Mebane 149