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
82.5 The Body and its Travails Forced Cross-Dressing: Women in Togas and the Law of Charondas Nicole Nowbahar 149
44.1 Letters in the Ancient World Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus Chris Bingley 149
14.4 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Fortuna and Risk: Embodied Chance in the Roman Empire Anna Francesca Bonnell-Freidin 149
10.1 Visions of Ancient Cities... Fragrant Temples: Scent and the Sacred Landscape Britta Ager 149
62.2 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender From Ephesian Artemis to Wonderworking Virgin Mary: The Case of Treskavec Svetlana Makuljević 149
67.3 Coins and Trade Funds, Fashion, and Faith: the many lives of Roman coins in Indo-Roman trade Jeremy Simmons 149
6.3 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen, aDNA and the Plague Rebecca Flemming 149
6.1 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen: Text Production and Authority Claire Bubb 149
75.3 Winning the People Generic Formulae and Geographic Variation in the Tabulae Triumphales Charles W. Oughton 149
65.5 Livy and Tacitus Germanicus, Mutiny and Memory in Tacitus’ Annales 1.31-49 Dominic Machado 149
32.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Gk. ταπεινός ‘low, low-lying’ (Hdt., Pind.+) and IE *temp- ‘to stretch, extend’ Matilde Serangeli 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
32.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek Etymology in the 21st century Alexander Nikolaev 149
29.2 Language and Linguistics Greek, Latin, Roman: Language and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Erik Ellis 149
57.2 Carthage and the Mediterranean Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination Peter Van Dommelen 149
48.2 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica Andrew McClellan 149
12.2 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Harassment in the Workplace: An Administrator’s Perspective Patrice Rankine 149
72.1 Gender and Reception Hector's Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine Victoria Burmeister 149
66.4 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Herodotus Reinscribed: The New Thebes Epigram and Croesus Cameron Pearson 149
28.3 Didactic Poetry Hesiod’s Two Plows: Materiality and Representation in Works and Days Andre Matlock 149
59.3 Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany Historiographic Frames and Ancient Miscellanies Dina Guth 149
38.3 Style and Rhetoric Historiography and intertextuality: the case for classical rhetoric Scott Kennedy 149
56.4 Lyric from Greece to Rome Horace on the Hymnic Genre Brittney Szempruch 149
27.4 Elegiac Desires Horace, Cinara, and the Elegiac Discourse of Desire Aaron Palmore 149
18.3 Foreign Policy How Odious was the Athenian Tribute System? Aaron Hershkowitz 149
31.2 New Age Servius How Servius Dealt with Variant Readings in the Text of Virgil E. Kopff 149
28.2 Didactic Poetry How to 'Bee' a Good Wife Michelle Martinez 149
12.4 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers How to Be the Perfect Victim of Internet Harassment Donna Zuckerberg 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
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to Do Philology with Computers T.J. Bolt, Adriana Casarez, Jeffrey Hill Flynt 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to use the PeriodO gazetteer of period definitions: browsing, submitting, and referencing authoritative period definitions Adam Rabinowitz 149
66.5 Epigraphy and Civic Identity IG XIV 1 and the digital enhancement of inscriptions using photogrammetric modeling Philip Sapirstein 149
34.3 The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek Imagining Ancient Texts through Material Culture and the Spatial Environment John Gruber-Miller 149
44.3 Letters in the Ancient World Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 149
54.1 Ritual and Religious Belief In God’s Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism Christian Barthel 149
13.2 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in Georgia Charles Platter 149
13.3 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in North Carolina Sharon James 149
28.1 Didactic Poetry Injured Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus Katherine Hsu 149
17.2 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram Barnaby Chesterton 149
56.3 Lyric from Greece to Rome Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22 Justin Hudak 149
67.5 Coins and Trade Inter-Provincial Trade in Late Antique Syria from Excavation Coins Jane Sancinito 149
83.1 Historiography and Identity Interstitial Politics: Thucydides, Demosthenes, and the Athenian Character Branden D. Kosch 149
66.1 Epigrpahy and Civic Identity Intertextuality in Athenian Interstate Legislation: The Case of IG II^2 1 John Aldrup-MacDonald 149
84.2 Getting the Joke Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10? Steven Brandwood 149
16.4 Virgil and his Afterlife Italus, Italia, and Ethnic Ideology in Aeneid 7-12 Tedd A. Wimperis 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
61.2 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Language as an Indicator of Cultural Identity in Herodotus’ Histories Emily Barnum 149
63.4 Digital Textual Editions and Corpora Learning from Git: Critical Editions as Version Control Peter Heslin 149
23.3 The Sounds of War Loud trumpets and low bodies Sarah Nooter 149
9.4 Agency in Drama Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A Look at Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes Edwin Wong 149