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
69.3 Porphyry the Polymath The Medical Side of Porphyry’s Intellectual Portrait Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 149
72.3 Gender and Reception The Modernist Sappho and the Genre of the Fragment Kay Gabriel 149
62.1 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Mother of God, a Mirror of Women in Late Antiquity Ivan Foletti 149
27.1 Elegiac Desires The Naso Equilibrium: Game Theory and the Game of Love in the Ars Amatoria E.Del Chrol 149
43.1 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek The National Committee for Latin and Greek Mary Pendergraft 149
33.1 Performing Problem Plays The Performance of Ezekiel’s Exagoge Re-Addressed Jonathan MacLellan 149
3.1 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text The Place Between: Villa Gardens and Garden Paintings Mantha Zarmakoupi 149
56.5 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste David F. Driscoll 149
48.1 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic The Programmatic ‘Ordior’ of Silius Italicus Paul Hay 149
78.3 Lucan after Deconstruction The Remains of the Day. A Reading of 'Bellum Civile' 8 Martin Dinter 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
41.2 Outreach Open Mic The SCS online: Reflections from the Communications Committee T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 149
81.4 Voicing The Silence of the Sirens in Lycophron’s "Alexandra" Kathleen Kidder 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
41.5 Outreach Open Mic The State of Amphora, The Outreach Publication of the SCS Wells Hansen 149
57.5 Carthage and the Mediterranean The Sufetes of North Africa: Comparative Contexts Nathan Pilkington 149
62.4 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Survival and Rhetoric of Aphrodite in Byzantine Art Mati Meyer 149
4.2 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry The teacher’s dilemma in Greek didactic texts Philip Thibodeau 149
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
62.3 Goddess Worship...and the Female Gender The Virgin, the Magi, and the Empress Kriszta Kotsis 149
1.4 Classics and Social Justice The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration Molly Harris 149
61.5 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The ‘Twin’ Gates of Sleep in Vergil’s Aeneid VI Noah Diekemper 149
64.2 Whose Homer? THEOPOMPUS’ HOMER: EPIC IN OLD AND MIDDLE COMEDY Matthew Farmer 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
78.5 Lucan after Deconstruction Thirty Years’ War: Lucan’s Cato since 1988 Tim Stover 149
66.6 Epigraphy and Civic Identity Three Documents of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus CHING-YUAN WU 149
36.2 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War as Multifaceted Disaster Rachel Bruzzone 149
23.5 The Sounds of War Towards a Thucydidean theory of affect Brad Hald 149
67.6 Coins and Trade Trade and Economic Integration in Fourth Century CE Egypt: The Evidence from Coins and Ceramics Irene Soto 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
79.1 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult Sarit Stern 149
42.3 Resist Together Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia Regina Ryan 149
37.2 After the Ars: Later Ovid Transforming Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses Rachael Cullick 149
53.2 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Translating Confucius: Intorcetta’s First Attempts Rodney John Lokaj and Alessandro Tosco 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
82.4 The Body and its Travails Undressed for Success? Contradictions of Early Greek Nudity in Text and Image Sarah C. Murray 149
30.2 Material Girls Unveiling female feelings for objects: Deianeira and her ὄργανα in Sophocles’ Trachiniai Anne-Sophie Noel 149
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
58.3 Global Classical Traditions Vergil in the Antipodes: the Classical Tradition and Colonial Australian Literature Sarah Midford 149
80.2 Voicing Vergil’s Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues Erik Fredericksen 149
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
4.5 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Virgil’s imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics Raymond Kania 149
3.4 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 149
23.2 The Sounds of War What Brought the Walls of Jericho Down? Andreas Kramarz 149
33.4 Performing Problem Plays What Chorus? Using Performance to Appreciate the Chorus of Menander’s Dyskolos Emmanuel Aprilakis 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
29.4 Language and Linguistics When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature Duane Roller 149
76.5 The Art of Biography in Antiquity Women in Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers Dorota Dutsch 149
19.5 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Words as Citizens in Romulus’s Asylum Adam Gitner 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) Working with Geospatial Networks of the Roman World using ORBIS Scott Arcenas 149