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
51.3 Dido in and after Vergil "Dido in the light of Livy" Elena Giusti 149
51.2 Dido in and after Vergil “Deianeirian Dido" Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask 149
50.5 Philology's Shadow II Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière Renaud Gagné 149
50.4 Philology's Shadow II Praeparatio Rabbinica: Zacharias Frankel (1801–1875), the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Septuagint Theodor Dunkelgrün 149
50.3 Philology's Shadow II Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar Constanze Güthenke 149
50.2 Philology's Shadow II Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology Irene Peirano 149
49.6 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire 'What Was He Thinking?': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism' Kathryn Welch 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
49.4 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Rome’s Late Republican Empire: The View from the Danube T. Corey Brennan 149
49.3 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE Josiah Osgood 149
49.2 New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire Scaevola and Rutilius in Asia Kit Morrell 149
48.4 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry David Wright 149
48.3 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic Scott Weiss 149
48.2 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica Andrew McClellan 149
48.1 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic The Programmatic ‘Ordior’ of Silius Italicus Paul Hay 149
47.4 Reception Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo Verity Walsh 149
47.3 Reception Senecan Drama and its Performability: Phaedra’s Last Act (1154-280) Simona Martorana 149
47.2 Reception Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s 'Cosmicomiche', 'Città Invisibili' and 'Palomar' Amy Lewis 149
47.1 Reception Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities Zachary Elliott 149
46.4 Mind and Matter “Matter is not a principle.” Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism Brandon Zimmerman 149
46.3 Mind and Matter Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141 Peter Osorio 149
46.2 Mind and Matter Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus Matthew Gorey 149
46.1 Mind and Matter The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy Chiara Ferella 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
45.3 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Sallust and the Mytilenean Debate Charles Muntz 149
45.2 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero’s Post-Reditum Speeches Julia Mebane 149
45.1 Roman Republican Prose and its Afterlife Recolonizing North Africa: Sallust, French Algeria, and the Maghreb Fantasia Kyle Khellaf 149
44.4 Letters in the Ancient World Enlisting the Voice, Engaging the Soul: Seneca’s 84th Epistle Scott Lepisto 149
44.3 Letters in the Ancient World Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire Kathryn Langenfeld 149
44.2 Letters in the Ancient World The Clementia of Burning Letters Nathaniel Katz 149
44.1 Letters in the Ancient World Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus Chris Bingley 149
43.4 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek Teaching Classics in Community College Kyle Jazwa 149
43.3 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages Thomas Sienkewicz 149
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
43.1 Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek The National Committee for Latin and Greek Mary Pendergraft 149
42.3 Resist Together Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia Regina Ryan 149
42.2 Resist Together “Harassment in Academe:  Reflections and Coping/Resisting Strategies” Barbara Gold 149
42.1 Resist Together Creation and Implementation of Anti-harassment Policy at the University Level Rebecca Futo Kennedy 149
41.5 Outreach Open Mic The State of Amphora, The Outreach Publication of the SCS Wells Hansen 149
41.4 Outreach Open Mic Classics in Public: Year I of the Committee on Public Information and Media Relations Tara Mulder 149
41.3 Outreach Open Mic Non sibi sed suis: Service-Learning in an Advanced Latin Course Mallory Monaco Caterine 149
41.2 Outreach Open Mic The SCS online: Reflections from the Communications Committee T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 149
40.4 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine Reading Celsus in Early Modern Italy Marquis Berrey 149
40.3 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Longue Durée of Classics and Successions in Ancient Scientific and Medical Traditions Paul Keyser 149
40.2 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine The Big O”: Ancient Discourses on the Process of Female Pleasure Erin McKenna Hanses 149
40.1 Afterlives of Ancient Medicine De Galeni Corporis Fabrica: Vesalius' use of Galen and Galenism in the Preface of his Fabrica Luis Salas 149
39.5 Roman Freedmen Roman Manumission and Citizenship in a Provincial Context Rose MacLean 149
39.4 Roman Freedmen The Gens Togata: Costume and Character in Freedmen’s Funerary Monuments Devon Stewart 149
39.3 Roman Freedmen Equally Different: The Performative Function of Late Republican and Early Imperial Elite Discourse on Roman Freedmen Kristof Vermote 149
39.2 Roman Freedmen Fitting In: Freedmen Adaptation in the Roman World Marc Kleijwegt 149