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
28.2 Didactic Poetry How to 'Bee' a Good Wife Michelle Martinez 149
59.1 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany "As Each Came to Mind": Plutarch's Quaestiones and the Mentality of Intricacy Michiel Meeusen 149
22.5 Deterritorializing Classics Back on Circe’s Island: Becoming-Animal with Deleuze and Guattari Michiel van Veldhuizen 149
30.6 Material Girls Butcher Blocks, Vegetable Stands, and Home-Cooked Food: Resisting Gender and Class Constructions in the Roman World Mira Green 149
76.3 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Agesilaus, Athens, and Communicating Civic Virtue Mitchell Parks 149
65.6 Livy and Tacitus Tacitus' Humor in Annals 13-16 Mitchell Pentzer 149
1.4 Classics and Social Justice The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration Molly Harris 149
61.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Curious Case of Phryne: Finding Comedy in Phryne's Trial Molly Schaub 149
35.2 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Praising the Emperor and Promoting his Religious Program: The Panegyrics of Claudius Mamertinus, Himerius, and Libanius to Julian, 362–3 CE Moysés Garcia Marcos 149
22.4 Deterritorializing Classics Euripidean Assemblages Nancy Worman 149
10.2 Visions of Ancient Cities... Architectural Representation on the Coinage and Imperial Praise from Augustus to Trajan Nathan Elkins 149
57.5 Carthage and the Mediterranean The Sufetes of North Africa: Comparative Contexts Nathan Pilkington 149
44.2 Letters in the Ancient World The Clementia of Burning Letters Nathaniel Katz 149
77.5 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Abraham of Hermonthis and the Use of Legal Cultural Archetypes within the Coptic Church Nicholas Venable 149
82.5 The Body and its Travails Forced Cross-Dressing: Women in Togas and the Law of Charondas Nicole Nowbahar 149
27.6 Elegiac Desires Roman Elegy Remixed: Gender and Genre in Catalepton 4 Nicole Taynton 149
61.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The ‘Twin’ Gates of Sleep in Vergil’s Aeneid VI Noah Diekemper 149
8.2 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Roman numeral palaeography: a hazard and a help to editors of Latin texts Orla F. Mulholland 149
12.2 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Harassment in the Workplace: An Administrator’s Perspective Patrice Rankine 149
48.1 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic The Programmatic ‘Ordior’ of Silius Italicus Paul Hay 149
66.3 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Ptolemaic Power and Local Response in Hellenistic Cyprus Paul Keen 149
40.3 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Longue Durée of Classics and Successions in Ancient Scientific and Medical Traditions Paul Keyser 149
18.4 Foreign Policy Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism? Paul McGilvery 149
14.3 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Risk and Hellenistic Decision-Making Paul Vadan 149
29.1 Language and Linguistics Xylander’s Latin Translation of Marcus Aurelius Peter Anderson 149
63.4 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora Learning from Git: Critical Editions as Version Control Peter Heslin 149
2.4 Classical Reception Studies The Imaginary Antiquity of Physical Culture Peter Miller 149
46.3 Mind and Matter Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141 Peter Osorio 149
57.2 Carthage and the Mediterranean Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination Peter Van Dommelen 149
73.1 Augustan Rome Cynthia’s Imperium sine fine: Propertius 2.3 and Roman Cultural Imperialism Phebe Lowell Bowditch 149
35.5 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Praising the rich: Jerome’s consolation for the widow Salvina in Ep. 79 Philip Polcar 149
66.5 Epigraphy and Civic Identity IG XIV 1 and the digital enhancement of inscriptions using photogrammetric modeling Philip Sapirstein 149
4.2 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry The teacher’s dilemma in Greek didactic texts Philip Thibodeau 149
80.2 Reframing Alexandrology Past, Present and Future of Alexander-Studies: beyond Commonplaces and Alexandrocentrism Pierre Briant 149
16.1 Virgil and his Afterlife More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314-36) Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph Dexter 149
37.2 After the Ars: Later Ovid Transforming Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses Rachael Cullick 149
36.2 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War as Multifaceted Disaster Rachel Bruzzone 149
4.5 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Virgil’s imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics Raymond Kania 149
6.3 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen, aDNA and the Plague Rebecca Flemming 149
42.1 Resist Together Creation and Implementation of Anti-harassment Policy at the University Level Rebecca Futo Kennedy 149
79.4 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Enemy of the Gods: Prometheus Bound as Religious Critique Rebecca Raphael 149
42.3 Resist Together Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia Regina Ryan 149
50.5 Philology's Shadow II Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière Renaud Gagné 149
34.1 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Teaching Ablaut in Elementary Ancient Greek Rex Wallace 149
22.2 Deterritorializing Classics Αἰών as Virtual Multiplicity: Durational Thinking in Heraclitus and Empedocles Richard Ellis 149
22.6 Deterritorializing Classics Animal Revolt and Lines of Flight in Lucretius Book Five Richard Hutchins 149
54.3 Ritual and Religious Belief The cult of the Erinyes in the Derveni Papyrus Richard Janko 149
82.2 The Body and its Travails Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius Robert L. Cioffi 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 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