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
63.3 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Lyric ephemerality in Sappho Alex Purves 150
63.4 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Me and my shadow Katharine Earnshaw 150
63.5 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Temporalities of stone, hand, and light in Posidippus’ Lithika Verity Platt 150
63.6 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Split tunnel: Nonius Datus celebrating and mourning construction Nolan Epstein 150
64.2 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope “ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι,” or, Going Amazon: Queering the Warrior Women in the Iliad Rowan Ash 150
64.3 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound Sarah Olsen 150
64.4 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Homo Urbanus or Urban Homos?: The Metronormative Trope, Philo’s Therapeuts, and Ancient Queer Subcultures James Hoke 150
64.5 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Normal for Byzantium is Queer for Us Mark Masterson 150
64.6 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Blank Marks: Absence as Interpretation of Queer Erotics in 20th-21st Century Reception of Sappho Mary Mussman 150
65.1 The Digital Latin Library The Digital Latin Library Samuel J Huskey 150
65.2 The Digital Latin Library What does a (digital) critical edition look like? Hugh Cayless 150
65.3 The Digital Latin Library Is There an Editor in this Text? Robert Kaster 150
65.4 The Digital Latin Library Pragmatic or Pure? Two Experiments in Editing Cynthia Damon 150
65.5 The Digital Latin Library Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts Virginia K. Felkner 150
67.2 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Writing in the Achaemenid Empire Elspeth Dusinberre 150
67.3 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Epigraphic Egocentrism and Ancient Literary Invention Seth Larkin Sanders 150
67.4 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures The Invention of Greek "Literature" Ruth Scodel 150
67.5 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Phoenician and Punic Civilizations Josephine Crawley Quinn 150
67.6 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Ancient Mesopotamian Literate Culture Stephen J. Tinney 150
68.2 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship Sara Myers 150
68.3 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid, Christine de Pizan and Gavin Douglas Carole Newlands 150
68.4 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid In and After Exile: Modern Fiction on Ovid outside Rome Alison Keith 150
68.5 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid in the #MeToo Era Daniel Libatique 150
69.2 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #1: The Cult of Isis, from ‘Oriental’ to Global Laurent Bricault 150
69.3 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #2: In the Guise of Isis: Visual Symbols and Constructing Identity Richard Veymiers 150
69.4 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #3: Where Art Meets Text: Potent Words and Vivid Images in the Isiac Cults Molly Swetnam-Burland 150
69.5 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #4: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Christian Apologetics Eleni Manolaraki 150
69.6 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #5: Origins, Dialogues, and Identities: Shifting Perspectives on Greek Hymns to Egyptian Gods Ian Moyer 150
70.1 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Mapping the unmapped: digital annotation of premodern geographies Chiara Palladino 150
70.2 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology “Is that a place or a person?” Teaching classics with a digital annotation platform Valeria Vitale 150
70.3 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology G.I.S., Military History, and the Mapping of Nuanced Imperialism Gabriel Moss 150
70.3 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology Accessing Economic, Material, and Social Networks in Antiquity Through GIS and Linked Data Ryan Horne 150
70.6 Geospatial Classics: Teaching and Research Applications of GIS Technology GIS at 50: the many uses of a mature research tool Eric Poehler 150
71.1 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Future of the Past: Fabius Pictor and Dionysios of Halicarnassos on the Pompa Circensis (Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 7.70-72) Jacob A. Latham 150
71.2 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Remembering to Mourn in Tacitus' Annals: Germanicus' Death and the Shape of Grief Aaron M. Seider 150
71.3 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Ad futuram memoriam: The Augustan Ludi Saeculares Eric Orlin 150
71.4 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Statuary Alteration as Prediction Error: A Cognitive Theoretical Approach to Reuse Diana Y. Ng 150
71.5 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Beforelives of Votives: Prospective Memory and Religious Experience in the Roman Empire Maggie L. Popkin 150
71.6 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Fusing of Ancestor Worship and the Cult of Martyrs in Late Fourth Century Gold Glass Susan Ludi Blevins 150
72.1 Hellenistic Poetry The Same River Twice: The Anaurus-crossing(s) and Narrative Strategy in Apollonius' Argonautica Keith Penich 150
72.2 Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Orpheus, and the Sirens: beyond poetical aemulatio matthieu real 150
72.3 Hellenistic Poetry Organizing Snakes: Nicander’s Literary and Biological Catalog Kathryn Dorothy Wilson 150
72.4 Hellenistic Poetry Nicander’s Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric Thomas James Nelson 150
72.5 Hellenistic Poetry Resonant Presence in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo Stephen White 150
72.6 Hellenistic Poetry Poets and lovers: the remedy for love in Theocritus’ Idyll 11 and Hermesianax’s fr. 7 P Maria Gaki 150
73.1 Greek Religion Knowledgeable Encounters in Early Greek Religion Eric Wesley Driscoll 150
73.2 Greek Religion An Infant μύστης at Pelinna? Evidence for the Initiation of Children into Bacchic-Dionysiac Mystery Cults Colleen Kron 150
73.3 Greek Religion The Place of the Club-bearer: Thoughts on the New Festival Calendar from Arcadia Kyle W Mahoney 150
73.4 Greek Religion Defending Delos: The Role of the Temple of Apollo in the third century BCE Michael McGlin 150
73.5 Greek Religion The lex sacra from Ptolemais Revisited. Maryline G. Parca 150