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
18.1 Foreign Policy Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts Gregory Callaghan 149
17.4 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Life Cycle of a Sign in Aratus' Phaenomena Kathryn Wilson 149
17.3 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Dedication of a Hetaera and Poetic Program: Layering of Sapphic and Homeric Allusion in an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum Alissa A. Vaillancourt 149
17.2 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram Barnaby Chesterton 149
17.1 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Exagoge of Ezekiel Tragicus in its political and historical context Chaya Cassano 149
16.4 Virgil and his Afterlife Italus, Italia, and Ethnic Ideology in Aeneid 7-12 Tedd A. Wimperis 149
16.3 Virgil and his Afterlife Dramatic Manipulations of Vergil's Georgics in Seneca's Phaedra India Watkins 149
16.2 Virgil and his Afterlife The Cupidity of Ascanius in Vergil and Vegio Shannon DuBois 149
16.1 Virgil and his Afterlife More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314-36) Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph Dexter 149
14.4 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Fortuna and Risk: Embodied Chance in the Roman Empire Anna Francesca Bonnell-Freidin 149
14.3 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Risk and Hellenistic Decision-Making Paul Vadan 149
14.2 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Calculating Risk at the Dicing Table Stephen Kidd 149
14.1 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Dicing with Danger: Some Vocabulary and Concepts of Ancient Greek Risk Esther Eidinow 149
13.3 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in North Carolina Sharon James 149
13.2 Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates Initiatives in Georgia Charles Platter 149
12.4 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers How to Be the Perfect Victim of Internet Harassment Donna Zuckerberg 149
12.3 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Strategies for Creating Positive Work Environments in Classical Academia Fiona McHardy 149
12.2 Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Harassment in the Workplace: An Administrator’s Perspective Patrice Rankine 149
11.4 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Philodemus and the Peripatetics on the Role of Anger in the Virtuous Life David Kaufman 149
11.3 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals Robin Weiss 149
11.2 Meeting of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Zeno's Arrow Takashi Oki 149
10.5 Visions of Ancient Cities... The City Gate and Cityscape: Fanum Fortunae, the Arch of Augustus, and the Roman City Alexandria Yen 149
10.4 Visions of Ancient Cities... A Mountain, its Temples and Cultural Identity: Mt Gerizim and the Self-Identification of the Inhabitants of Neapolis Jane Evans 149
10.3 Visions of Ancient Cities... Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia: Reception of Sacred Mountain in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Alexis Belis 149
10.2 Visions of Ancient Cities... Architectural Representation on the Coinage and Imperial Praise from Augustus to Trajan Nathan Elkins 149
10.1 Visions of Ancient Cities... Fragrant Temples: Scent and the Sacred Landscape Britta Ager 149
9.4 Agency in Drama Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A Look at Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes Edwin Wong 149
9.3 Agency in Drama Choreographing Frenzy: Auletics, Agency, and the Body in Euripides’ Heracles Caleb Simone 149
9.2 Agency in Drama Electra’s Living Death in Sophocles’ Electra Jonathan Fenno 149
9.1 Agency in Drama The Agency and Power of the Dying Alcestis Mary Dolinar 149
8.4 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Seeing the Silva Through the Silva: The Religious Economy of Timber Communities in Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis David Wallace-Hare 149
8.3 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Rogo Te ut Me Vindices: A Social Demography of Cursing at Mogontiacum Sarah Veale 149
8.2 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography Roman numeral palaeography: a hazard and a help to editors of Latin texts Orla F. Mulholland 149
8.1 Latin Epigraphy and Paleography The descendants of Roman municipal freedmen in the ordo decurionum and the limits of the macula servitutis Jeffrey Easton 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
7.3 Argumentation in Plato At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato’s Phaedrus. Matthew Shelton 149
7.2 Argumentation in Plato Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias Dale Parker 149
7.1 Argumentation in Plato Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato’s Phaedrus Kenneth Draper 149
6.3 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen, aDNA and the Plague Rebecca Flemming 149
6.2 Medicine and Disease in Galen Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen Amy Koenig 149
6.1 Medicine and Disease in Galen Galen: Text Production and Authority Claire Bubb 149
4.5 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Virgil’s imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics Raymond Kania 149
4.4 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Teaching without text: Didaxis and media in Hor. Serm. 2.3 Alexander Schwennicke 149
4.3 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Didactic warfare: Military imagery and progressive exposure in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Brian Hill 149
4.2 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry The teacher’s dilemma in Greek didactic texts Philip Thibodeau 149
3.5 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Epicurean Emotional Theory and Philodemus’ “On the Gods” Sonya Wurster 149
3.4 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 149
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
3.2 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Beyond the Salutatio: Looking at Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Tablinum in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum Ambra Spinelli 149
3.1 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text The Place Between: Villa Gardens and Garden Paintings Mantha Zarmakoupi 149