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
12.3 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Hot Topics: Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Charcoal Production Molly Schaub 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
21.5 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century How The Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson’s star text in HERCULES (2014) Monica Cyrino 150
37.6 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers Res Gestae: The Queen of Inscriptions and the History of Epigraphers Morgan Palmer 150
11.5 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro Chorus and Comunidad in Alfaro’s Electricidad and Oedipus El Rey Name: Rosa Andújar 150
47.2 Varro the Philosopher Varro and Antiochus in the Liber de Philosophia Nathan Gilbert 150
29.4 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Historical [Re]constructions: Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood and Proto-Afrocentric Classicism Nicole A. Spigner 150
34.4 Political Enculturation Youthful Military Service and Aristocratic Values in the Late Roman Republic. Noah A.S. Segal 150
56.5 Music and the Divine The Silent Gods of Lucretius Noah Davies-Mason 150
63.6 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Split tunnel: Nonius Datus celebrating and mourning construction Nolan Epstein 150
31.7 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Multilingual Cityscapes: Language and Diversity in the Ancient City Olivia Elder 150
49.1 Contagious Narrative Routes of the Plague in Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Pantelis Michelakis 150
62.6 Reconnecting the Classics Object-Oriented Philology Patrick Burns 150
56.2 Music and the Divine The Music of Sacrifice: Between Mortals and Immortals Pavlos Sfyroeras 150
40.3 Podcasting the Classics Outside the Gaze: Podcasting Ancient Rome as Woman Scholars Peta Greenfield 150
38.4 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Comprehensible Output, Form-focused Recasts, and the New Standards Peter Anderson 150
74.3 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing ‘Game-used Equipment’: Reading Inscribed Athletic Objects Peter J. Miller 150
19.3 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Designing Materialism: Ovid’s Armillary Sphere and the Phaedo Peter Kelly 150
52.3 Greek Language One γένος or Two? Embracing Paradox in Pindar’s Nemean 6.1 Peter Moench 150
1.6 Late Antique Literary Developments Imitation and Emulation in Gregory of Nazianzus’ “On his own affairs” Peter O'Connell 150
83.3 Philosophy Academic Ends of Interpretation: Plato the Sceptic in Cic. Luc. 74 Peter Osorio 150
47.3 Varro the Philosopher Varro the Pythagorean? An Inquiry into the Quadripartite Category System of De Lingua Latina 5.11-13 Phillip Sidney Horky and Grant Nelsestuen 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
59.2 A Century of Translating Poetry Quisque suos patimur manes: Trends in Literary Translation of the Classics Rachel Hadas 150
27.3 Didactic Prose Epitome in the Age of Empire: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic Rachel L Love 150
39.6 What's Roma Got to Do with It? The secondary world of Plautinopolis Rachel Mazzara 150
45.4 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Ralph J Hexter 150
74.5 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Document Titles in Greek Inscriptions Randall Souza 150
30.4 Ovid With Clashing Bronze and Shrieking Pipes: Ovid’s Representation of the Sound of (Mystery Cult) Music Rebecca A. Sears 150
92.3 Homer and Hesiod Diomedes, Dione, and Divine Insecurity in Iliad 5-8 Rebecca Ann Deitsch 150
41.6 Centering the Margins A Diverse Ancient History for a Diversifying Classroom Rebecca Futo Kennedy 150
2.4 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Empathy and Ancient Historiography Regina M Loehr 150
57.2 Political Thought in Latin Literature The Exemplary Imperialism of Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War Rex Stem 150
10.2 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Emerging Markets and Transnational Interactions in Translation and Epicization: the Case of Spain 1549-1569 Richard H. Armstrong 150
51.1 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Of hornets and humans: the etymology of *anthropos* Richard Janko 150
6.3 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions Modern Mapping Before Digitization Richard Talbert 150
69.3 New Directions in Isiac Studies Paper #2: In the Guise of Isis: Visual Symbols and Constructing Identity Richard Veymiers 150
25.2 Greek Semantics Who’s afraid of wonder? θαῦμα and θάμβος. Rik Peters 150
51.5 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language PREPARING THE ELEGIAC DIDO: AMATORY LANGUAGE IN AENEID 1.343-352 Robert John Sklenar 150
23.1 Attic Oratory How to Talk about Money in Attic Oratory: Insults and Iambos Robert K Morley 150
65.3 The Digital Latin Library Is There an Editor in this Text? Robert Kaster 150
50.4 The Romance of Reception “Full of Marvels:” The Early Modern Reception of Heliodorus and the New World Robert L. Cioffi 150
41.5 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusivity with Material Culture in Civilization and History Survey Courses Robyn Le Blanc 150
59.4 A Century of Translating Poetry Performative Translations of Lucretius and Catullus Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves 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
87.2 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides' Alētheia in Anaxagoras and Empedocles Rose Cherubin 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
67.4 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures The Invention of Greek "Literature" Ruth Scodel 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
42.4 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity Legal Lumpiness of the Late Roman Empire Ryan Pilipow 150