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
53.4 Horace and his Legacy Ursine Poetics in Horace and the Classical Tradition Aaron Kachuck 150
26.7 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy The Pedagogy, Perils and Pitfalls of Graphic Novel in the Classroom Aaron L. Beek 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
15.1 Playing with Time Swerving Atoms and Changing Times: Lucretius and his Readers in Late Antiquity Abigail Kate Buglass 150
43.5 Latin Hexameter Poetry Nature's City: Nemea as urbs capta in Statius' Thebaid Adam Kozak 150
3.2 Roman Political Self-Representation A Community of "Second Selves": the alter ego dynamic and the nature of aristocratic influence in the late Republic Adam Littlestone-Luria 150
37.2 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers Inscription Hunting and Early Travellers in the Near East: The Cases of Pococke and Chandler Compared Alastair J.L. Blanshard 150
63.3 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Lyric ephemerality in Sappho Alex Purves 150
28.2 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Gymnasia for the Soul: Proclus and the First Lines of the Parmenides Alex Tarbet 150
44.3 Allusion and Intertext A Vergilian Revision of Homeric Repetition Alexander Forte 150
78.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics Notes on Greek Comparatives Alexander Nikolaev 150
2.5 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Diodorus, Roman Generals, and Ptolemaic Egypt Alexander Skufca 150
74.4 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Graphic Order from Alpha to Omega: Alphabetization in Hellenistic Inscriptions Alexandra Schultz 150
53.2 Horace and his Legacy Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic Alicia Matz 150
68.4 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium Ovid In and After Exile: Modern Fiction on Ovid outside Rome Alison Keith 150
23.4 Attic Oratory Prognosis as a Measure of Excellence: Medical Language in Demosthenes’ On the Crown Allison E Das 150
23.3 Attic Oratory (Dis)Placing Timarchos: The Use of Place in Aeschines 1 Allison Glazebrook 150
82.1 Homer and Reception Iliadic Euphony, Odyssean Cacophony: Homeric Exempla in Philodemus’ On Poems 1 Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 150
82.3 Homer and Reception The Cognitive Life of the Kestos Himas Amy Lather 150
41.3 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusive Beginning Language Courses Amy Pistone 150
26.3 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Open Access Pedagogy: Seeking a Sustainable Model Amy R. Cohen 150
11.3 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Immigrants in Time Amy Richlin 150
30.5 Ovid Watch Janus Looking at Cranaë: A Reconsideration of Janus in Ovid’s Fasti Anastasia Belinskaya 150
75.1 Materiality and Literary Culture Tragic Epigraphy: Euripides’ Archelaus and IG I3 117 Andrea Giannotti 150
52.2 Greek Language Preeminence and Prepositional Thinking in Sappho Andres Matlock 150
30.2 Ovid Ovid’s Cadmus, Herculean Cattle-Thief? Andrew C. Ficklin 150
13.3 Reception and National Traditions From Homer to Lescarbot: The Iliad’s Influence on the First North American Drama Andrew E. Porter 150
88.6 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Herodian, autopsy, and historical analysis Andrew G. Scott 150
7.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt A New Understanding of the State Auction Process(es) in Egypt Andrew Hogan 150
40.6 Podcasting the Classics Pod Save the Classics: Using Podcasts in the Secondary Classroom Andrew J. Carroll 150
35.2 Rome and the Americas American Philological Associations: Latin and Amerindian Languages Andrew Laird 150
89.5 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Ancient Sexualities for Tourists Andrew Lear 150
93.3 Forms of Drama Seneca Tragicus?: Comic Elements in Seneca’s Troades Andrew R. Lund 150
75.3 Materiality and Literary Culture Unwelcome Guest: Envy, Shame, and Materiality in an Ancient Greek House Andrew Scholtz 150
17.1 Theorizing Africana Receptions The reception of St. Augustine in modern Maghrebian novels Anja Bettenworth 150
8.4 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Festive days in Statius’ Thebaid Anke Walter 150
78.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Rethinking discourse segmentation in Herodotus and Thucydides Anna Bonifazi 150
86.3 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Who Framed the acer Halaesus? The Unspoken Memory of the Faliscan People in Virgil's Aeneid Anna Maria Cimino 150
79.3 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Cristoforo Landino’s Metrical Practice in Aeolics Anne Mahoney 150
32.4 Hannibal's Legacy 'Doing their Bit’: Remembering Women’s Contributions during the Second Punic War Anne Truetzel 150
26.8 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Operation #TeachClassics: sharing successful strategies from the UK for boosting Classics teaching in high schools Arlene Holmes-Henderson 150
91.2 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Duels, Dualities, and Double Suns: Natural Philosophy and Politics in Cicero's De re publica Ashley Ariel Simone 150
31.2 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Beyond the Text: Socio-political Implications in Cypriot bilingual Inscriptions Beatrice Pestarino 150
26.9 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching with the Satyrica: Open Educational Resources for Intermediate Latin Beth Severy-Hoven 150
92.5 Homer and Hesiod Reassessing the Evidence for Zenodotus’ “Cretan Odyssey” Bill Beck 150
46.3 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Features and Effects of the Jeweled Style in Juvencus Blaise Gratton 150
15.5 Playing with Time ‘To Be Completed: The Poetry of July to December in Neo-Latin Fasti-poems’ Bobby Xinyue 150
9.2 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Political Παρρησία in Plutarch: When Does It Work? Brad Buszard 150
60.6 Herodotus and Thucydides Dialectics of Hope and Fear in Thucydides Book 6 Bradley Hald 150
77.2 Herculaneum: Works in Progress Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges Brent Seales 150