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
52.2 Greek Language Preeminence and Prepositional Thinking in Sappho Andres Matlock 150
52.3 Greek Language One γένος or Two? Embracing Paradox in Pindar’s Nemean 6.1 Peter Moench 150
52.4 Greek Language Let All Marvel at This Stele: Complexity and Performance in the Shem/Antipatros Stele of the Kerameikos Justin S. Miller 150
53.1 Horace and his Legacy Teucer, Twofold: Echoes and exempla in Odes 1.7 Edgar Adrián García 150
53.2 Horace and his Legacy Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic Alicia Matz 150
53.3 Horace and his Legacy Horace the Communist: Marx’s Capital as Satire Katherine Wasdin 150
53.4 Horace and his Legacy Ursine Poetics in Horace and the Classical Tradition Aaron Kachuck 150
54.1 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: A Practical Guide for Users Presentation Kathleen Coleman 150
55.2 Global Feminism and the Classics The Sisters of Semonides' Wives: Rethinking Female–Animal Kinship Margaret Day 150
55.3 Global Feminism and the Classics The Emancipation of the Soul: Gender and Body-Soul Dualism in Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy. Elizabeth LaFray 150
55.4 Global Feminism and the Classics Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus’ Against Apion Sarah Christine Teets 150
55.5 Global Feminism and the Classics Past, Present, Future: Pathways to a More Connected Classics Hilary J.C. Lehmann 150
56.2 Music and the Divine The Music of Sacrifice: Between Mortals and Immortals Pavlos Sfyroeras 150
56.3 Music and the Divine Movements Akin to the Soul’s: Human and Divine Mimēsis in Plato’s Music Spencer Klavan 150
56.4 Music and the Divine Eudoxus of Cnidus on Consonance, Reason/Ratio, and Divine Pleasure Victor Gysembergh 150
56.5 Music and the Divine The Silent Gods of Lucretius Noah Davies-Mason 150
56.6 Music and the Divine Singing for the Gods under the Empire: Music and the Divine in the Age of Aelius Aristides Francesca Modini 150
57.2 Political Thought in Latin Literature The Exemplary Imperialism of Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War Rex Stem 150
57.3 Political Thought in Latin Literature The Politics of Atomism in Cicero Matthew Gorey 150
57.4 Political Thought in Latin Literature Roman Republicanism, Memory, and Identity: Cicero's De Re Publica Marsha McCoy 150
57.5 Political Thought in Latin Literature Seneca's Oedipus and the Limits of Knowledge in Politics Harriet Fertik 150
57.6 Political Thought in Latin Literature Senecan Politics on Stage Lisl Walsh 150
58.2 Ancient Drama / New World Antigone: Anastrophe in Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa Charles Pletcher 150
58.3 Ancient Drama / New World Textual Ruins: The Form of Memory in José Watanabe's Antigona Cristina Perez 150
58.4 Ancient Drama / New World Reimagining Creon and his Daughter in Euripides' Medea: Armida as Queen of the Barrio in Luis Alfaro's Mojada Laurialan Blake Reitzammer 150
58.5 Ancient Drama / New World "Why We Build the Wall": Hadestown in Trump's America Claire Catenaccio 150
59.1 A Century of Translating Poetry “Exquisite classics in simple English prose”: Theory and Practice in the Poets’ Translation Series (1915-1920) Elizabeth Vandiver 150
59.2 A Century of Translating Poetry Quisque suos patimur manes: Trends in Literary Translation of the Classics Rachel Hadas 150
59.3 A Century of Translating Poetry “Tools” of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus Tori Lee 150
59.4 A Century of Translating Poetry Performative Translations of Lucretius and Catullus Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves 150
59.5 A Century of Translating Poetry Faithless: Gender bias and translating the classics Emily Wilson 150
60.1 Herodotus and Thucydides The Dreams of Xerxes, Revisited: Herodotus 7.12-18 and the Role of Religious Ideology in the Second Persian Invasion of Greece Ronnie Shi 150
60.2 Herodotus and Thucydides Amplifying prestige: Herodotus and the Lindian Chronicle in 99 BCE Simone Oppen 150
60.3 Herodotus and Thucydides Apotropaic Lions in Herodotus David Branscome 150
60.4 Herodotus and Thucydides Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Zoology and Ecology in Herodotus’ Histories Colin MacCormack 150
60.5 Herodotus and Thucydides Minos: A Problematic First Thalassocrat in Thucydides’ Archaeology Valerio Caldesi-Valeri 150
60.6 Herodotus and Thucydides Dialectics of Hope and Fear in Thucydides Book 6 Bradley Hald 150
61.1 Literature of Empire A Polytheist or Christian Journey in Alexander’s Letter to Olympias? Matthew W Ferguson 150
61.2 Literature of Empire ‘Even When Sappho is Sung’: Taste in Sapphic and Anacreontic Performance in Early Imperial Symposia David F. Driscoll 150
61.3 Literature of Empire Phaedrus’s Double Dowry: Laughter and Joking in the Fabulae Aesopiae Kristin Mann 150
61.4 Literature of Empire The Historiographic Nature of Lucianic Polemic in the Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit Luther Karper 150
61.5 Literature of Empire Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy David W.F. Stifler 150
61.6 Literature of Empire Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod Colin Pang 150
62.2 Reconnecting the Classics Reconnecting the Classics: The Vocation and the Vocations in the 21st Century Christopher Blackwell 150
62.3 Reconnecting the Classics Philology and the Future of Work Gregory Crane 150
62.4 Reconnecting the Classics In the Mind of a Polymath: Exploring D’Arcy Thompson’s Glossary of Greek Birds Marie-Claire Beaulieu 150
62.5 Reconnecting the Classics The Ship of Theseus: A framework for intertextuality connecting literature, biology, and computation Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 150
62.6 Reconnecting the Classics Object-Oriented Philology Patrick Burns 150
63.1 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Open-ended ἐφήμερος Felix Budelmann 150
63.2 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Ephemerality as exhortation Sarah Nooter 150