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
27.2 Elegiac Desires Ovid's Enchanted Ring Poem: Amores 2.15 Julie Laskaris 149
36.3 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Seneca's Philosophical Thyestes Julie Levy 149
56.3 Lyric from Greece to Rome Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22 Justin Hudak 149
27.5 Elegiac Desires Propertius, Martial and the Monobiblos Justin Stover 149
25.3 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity “The Natural Savagery of Slaves”? Slaves as Sexual Aggressors in Revolt Narratives Katharine Huemoeller 149
52.3 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Clinical Judgment: Methodist and Galenic Approaches Katherine D. van Schaik 149
28.1 Didactic Poetry Injured Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus Katherine Hsu 149
54.6 Ritual and Religious Belief Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea Katheryn Whitcomb 149
81.4 Voicing The Silence of the Sirens in Lycophron’s "Alexandra" Kathleen Kidder 149
44.3 Letters in the Ancient World Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 149
49.6 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire 'What Was He Thinking?': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism' Kathryn Welch 149
17.4 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Life Cycle of a Sign in Aratus' Phaenomena Kathryn Wilson 149
25.6 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Minding the Mistress: The Household Power Struggle to Control Female Slave Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean Kathy Gaca 149
72.3 Gender and Reception The Modernist Sappho and the Genre of the Fragment Kay Gabriel 149
43.2 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Communication, Cohesiveness, and Continuity: Fighting for the Survival of the Classics Keely Lake 149
7.1 Argumentation in Plato Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato’s Phaedrus Kenneth Draper 149
49.2 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Scaevola and Rutilius in Asia Kit Morrell 149
39.3 Roman Freedmen Equally Different: The Performative Function of Late Republican and Early Imperial Elite Discourse on Roman Freedmen Kristof Vermote 149
62.3 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Virgin, the Magi, and the Empress Kriszta Kotsis 149
43.4 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Teaching Classics in Community College Kyle Jazwa 149
45.1 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Recolonizing North Africa: Sallust, French Algeria, and the Maghreb Fantasia Kyle Khellaf 149
32.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Tradition and Renewal in Pindaric Diction: Some Remarks on the IE Background of Pindar P. 2.52–6 Laura Massetti 149
52.2 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Teaching Trees – Tree Teaching: The Ancient Art of Grafting Laurence Totelin 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
79.3 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing and Contesting Delphic Oracles in Euripides’ Ion Lisa Maurizio 149
20.3 The Classics Tuning Project Presentation of the alumni survey data Lisl Walsh 149
64.3 Whose Homer? Bringing Up Achilles: Child Heroes in Homer and Pindar Louise Pratt 149
40.1 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine De Galeni Corporis Fabrica: Vesalius' use of Galen and Galenism in the Preface of his Fabrica Luis Salas 149
41.3 Outreach Open Mic Non sibi sed suis: Service-Learning in an Advanced Latin Course Mallory Monaco Caterine 149
3.1 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text The Place Between: Villa Gardens and Garden Paintings Mantha Zarmakoupi 149
39.2 Roman Freedmen Fitting In: Freedmen Adaptation in the Roman World Marc Kleijwegt 149
82.1 The Body and its Travails Sleeping with the Tyrant: The Death of Alexander of Pherae in Plutarch’s Life of Pelopidas Marcaline Boyd 149
77.3 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Dark Sappho:The “Method of Chamaeleon” in P.Oxy. 2506 Mark de Kreij 149
23.6 The Sounds of War Civil War in the Key of Caesar: Traumatic Soundscapes in Lucan Mark Thorne 149
40.4 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine Reading Celsus in Early Modern Italy Marquis Berrey 149
78.3 Lucan after Deconstruction The Remains of the Day. A Reading of 'Bellum Civile' 8 Martin Dinter 149
9.1 Agency in Drama The Agency and Power of the Dying Alcestis Mary Dolinar 149
43.1 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek The National Committee for Latin and Greek Mary Pendergraft 149
62.4 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Survival and Rhetoric of Aphrodite in Byzantine Art Mati Meyer 149
32.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. ταπεινός ‘low, low-lying’ (Hdt., Pind.+) and IE *temp- ‘to stretch, extend’ Matilde Serangeli 149
83.3 Historiography and Identity Brasidas and the Myth of the Un-Spartan Spartan Matthew A. Sears 149
64.2 Whose Homer? THEOPOMPUS’ HOMER: EPIC IN OLD AND MIDDLE COMEDY Matthew Farmer 149
46.2 Mind and Matter Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus Matthew Gorey 149
7.3 Argumentation in Plato At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato’s Phaedrus. Matthew Shelton 149
54.2 Ritual and Religious Belief Debating Paganism in a Christian Empire Mattias Gassman 149
37.1 After the Ars: Later Ovid Patterns of Prayer: Pleas for Help in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and the Suppressed Rape of Lavinia Megan Bowen 149
57.6 Carthage and the Mediterranean Carthaginian Manpower Michael Taylor 149
34.2 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek The Function and Context of an Ancient Greek Textbook: A New Approach Michael Laughy 149
53.1 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Catullus Transformed: Antiquity Resurrected for Reformation in Theodore Beza’s 1579 Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Quinque Michael Spangler 149
21.6 Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Asklepios and St. Artemios: comparative perspectives on Hellenistic, late ancient, and early Byzantine narratives of incubation Michael Zellmann-Rohrer 149