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
3.3 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Working with Wax: Observations on the Manufacture of Ancient Bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii David Saunders 149
82.2 The Body and its Travails Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius Robert L. Cioffi 149
18.4 Foreign Policy Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism? Paul McGilvery 149
29.1 Language and Linguistics Xylander’s Latin Translation of Marcus Aurelius Peter Anderson 149
22.2 Deterritorializing Classics Αἰών as Virtual Multiplicity: Durational Thinking in Heraclitus and Empedocles Richard Ellis 149
32.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics πάνυ δὴ δεῖ χρηστὰ λέγειν ἡμᾶς: Expressions of obligation and necessity in Aristophanes Coulter George 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
72.2 Gender and Reception ‘Domesticating’ Roman Religion on the Contemporary Screen Emily Chow-Kambitsch 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 149
51.4 Dido in and after Vergil “Dido Docta: A Scholarly Revision of Aeneid 4 in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri” Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 149
26.2 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Even the Epithets are Necessary”: Ancient Approaches to ‘Illogical’ Homeric Epithets William Beck 149
2.5 Classical Reception Studies “Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather”: The Politics of Memory during the AIDS Crisis Emilio Capettini 149
42.2 Resist Together “Harassment in Academe:  Reflections and Coping/Resisting Strategies” Barbara Gold 149
26.5 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Intraformularity” in epos Adrian Kelly 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
25.3 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity “The Natural Savagery of Slaves”? Slaves as Sexual Aggressors in Revolt Narratives Katharine Huemoeller 149