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
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
43.3 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages Thomas Sienkewicz 149
43.4 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Teaching Classics in Community College Kyle Jazwa 149
45.3 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Sallust and the Mytilenean Debate Charles Muntz 149
45.1 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Recolonizing North Africa: Sallust, French Algeria, and the Maghreb Fantasia Kyle Khellaf 149
45.2 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero’s Post-Reditum Speeches Julia Mebane 149
45.4 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife A Ciceronian Blind Spot: Caecus, Cethegus, and Ennius in Cicero’s Brutus Christopher van den Berg 149
46.1 Mind and Matter The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy Chiara Ferella 149
46.3 Mind and Matter Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141 Peter Osorio 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
46.2 Mind and Matter Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus Matthew Gorey 149
47.2 Reception Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s 'Cosmicomiche', 'Città Invisibili' and 'Palomar' Amy Lewis 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
47.3 Reception Senecan Drama and its Performability: Phaedra’s Last Act (1154-280) Simona Martorana 149
48.1 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic The Programmatic ‘Ordior’ of Silius Italicus Paul Hay 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
48.2 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica Andrew McClellan 149
48.3 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic Scott Weiss 149
49.2 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Scaevola and Rutilius in Asia Kit Morrell 149
49.3 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE Josiah Osgood 149
49.4 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Rome’s Late Republican Empire: The View from the Danube T. Corey Brennan 149
49.5 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Provincial Commanders in the Sphere of Antonius the Triumvir: the Negotiation of Relationships Hannah Mitchell 149
49.6 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire 'What Was He Thinking?': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism' Kathryn Welch 149
50.2 Philology's Shadow II Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology Irene Peirano 149
50.3 Philology's Shadow II Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar Constanze Güthenke 149
50.4 Philology's Shadow II Praeparatio Rabbinica: Zacharias Frankel (1801–1875), the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Septuagint Theodor Dunkelgrün 149
50.5 Philology's Shadow II Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière Renaud Gagné 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 149
51.3 Dido in and after Vergil "Dido in the light of Livy" Elena Giusti 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
51.5 Dido in and after Vergil "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" Christopher Nappa 149
51.6 Dido in and after Vergil "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" Barbara Leigh Clayton 149
51.7 Dido in and after Vergil "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s 'Ballad of the Queen'" Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 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
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
52.5 Techne and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education Smelling and Smelting: Learning with the Senses in Theory and Practice Valeria V. Sergueenkova 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
55.3 Rhythm and Style The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered James H. Dee 149
55.2 Rhythm and Style Dinner Bells and War Drums: Dactylic Hexameter in Old Comedy Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 149
55.4 Rhythm and Style Evidence from Aristophanes for the Language and Style of Euripides Almut Fries 149
55.5 Rhythm and Style ‘Asianist’ Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the ‘Second Sophistic’ Lawrence Kim 149
55.1 Rhythm and Style Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Abigail Akavia 149
56.5 Lyric from Greece to Rome The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste David F. Driscoll 149
56.3 Lyric from Greece to Rome Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22 Justin Hudak 149
56.6 Lyric from Greece to Rome A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172 Courtney Evans 149
56.4 Lyric from Greece to Rome Horace on the Hymnic Genre Brittney Szempruch 149
56.2 Lyric from Greece to Rome Explaining Archilochus in antiquity: the indirect tradition Enrico Emanuele Prodi 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
57.2 Carthage and the Mediterranean Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination Peter Van Dommelen 149