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
22.5 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture The Memory of Fire and the Rebuilding of the City Salvador Bartera 150
44.2 Allusion and Intertext The ‘Modern’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds Samuel D Cooper 150
65.1 The Digital Latin Library The Digital Latin Library Samuel J Huskey 150
15.4 Playing with Time Rebuilding Rome: Reading Ovid’s Fasti as a Chronological History of the City of Rome Samuel L. Kindick 150
93.4 Forms of Drama Sosia, the Cook (?) Sander M. Goldberg 150
68.2 Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship Sara Myers 150
55.4 Global Feminism and the Classics Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus’ Against Apion Sarah Christine Teets 150
47.4 Varro the Philosopher “Si Homo Est Bulla: Varro’s Roman Cynicism and de Rebus Rusticis” Sarah Culpepper Stroup 150
17.3 Theorizing Africana Receptions Bodies in Dissent Sarah Derbew 150
45.2 The Future of Classics Speaker/facilitator Sarah E Bond 150
63.2 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Ephemerality as exhortation Sarah Nooter 150
64.3 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound Sarah Olsen 150
85.6 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Group Medical Practice in Imperial Rome: The Case of Allianoi Sarah Yeomans 150
4.4 Satire Friend or Enemy?: Humor and Contradiction in Juvenal 11-13 Scheherazade Jehan Khan 150
91.3 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Reading as Training: Seneca’s Didactic Technique in De Beneficiis Scott A. Lepisto 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Make Your Own Ancient Studies Podcast Scott Aaron Lepisto 150
2.6 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography The Impact of Evidentiary Bias on Macro-Level Approaches to Greek History Scott Lawin Arcenas 150
26.4 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Conflict Analysis in History and Civilization Courses Seán Easton 150
78.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics Discourse (dis-)continuity in relative clauses: Evidence of contact-induced pragmatic expansion in Latin oratio obliqua Sean Gleason 150
39.3 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Plautus at the Ludi Megalenses: Defining Romanitas in Pseudolus Seth Jeppesen 150
67.3 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Epigraphic Egocentrism and Ancient Literary Invention Seth Larkin Sanders 150
87.3 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides on language and the language of Parmenides Shaul Tor 150
89.6 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Building LGBTQIA+ Community on Diverse Campuses- Faculty’s Role and Responsibilities Shaun Travers 150
76.2 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity The Imperial Adventus: Evolving Dialogues between Emperor and City in the Third Century C.E. Shawn Ragan 150
33.1 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics Inside Stories: Amateurism and Activism in the Classical Works of Naomi Mitchison Sheila Murnaghan 150
29.1 African Americans and the Classics by Margaret Malamud Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism Shelley Haley 150
60.2 Herodotus and Thucydides Amplifying prestige: Herodotus and the Lindian Chronicle in 99 BCE Simone Oppen 150
38.3 What Can Active Latin Accomplish A Day in the Life of an Active Latin Teacher Skye Shirley 150
12.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students Dorians are Allowed to Speak Doric: Theocritus' Idyll XV in the Context of Panhellenization Sophia Decker 150
44.5 Allusion and Intertext Beyond Ornamentation: Seneca, Vergil's Aeneid, and the Interlocutor Sophia R Elzie 150
56.3 Music and the Divine Movements Akin to the Soul’s: Human and Divine Mimēsis in Plato’s Music Spencer Klavan 150
35.4 Rome and the Americas Seeing Rome in the Andes: Inca architectural history and classical antiquity Stella Nair 150
90.5 Materiality of Writing Wrapping Up the Book: Membrana in Horace Sat. 2.3.2 and Ars P. 389 Stephanie Ann Frampton 150
67.6 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures Ancient Mesopotamian Literate Culture Stephen J. Tinney 150
92.4 Homer and Hesiod Voice, Mortals, and Muses in the Hesiodic Aspis 272-86 Stephen A Sansom 150
50.3 The Romance of Reception The Early Reception of Achilles Tatius and Modern Views of Ancient Prose Fiction Stephen M. Trzaskoma 150
79.2 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches The Classical Tradition in the Personal Correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman Stephen Maiullo 150
19.5 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Another Look at Proserpina's Cosmic Text in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae Stephen Wheeler 150
72.5 Hellenistic Poetry Resonant Presence in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo Stephen White 150
1.5 Late Antique Literary Developments The Interdisciplinary Teacher: Augustine's "Contra Academicos" as a Dialogue about Rhetoric Stevie Hull 150
88.3 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Historical Method and Quasi-Barbaric Historians in Polybius’s Histories Sulochana R. Asirvatham 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
10.5 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Travesty: the ultimate domestication of epic Susanna Braund 150
41.2 Centering the Margins Nuts & Bolts: Building the Foundations of an Inclusive Classroom Suzanne Lye 150
83.1 Philosophy Aristotle’s Uses of ‘ἕνεκά του’ and ‘οὗ ἕνεκα’ Takashi Oki 150
5.4 Law Money and Politics The Afterlives of Royal Land Grants Talia Prussin 150
84.4 Vergil Virgil in the theatre: poets, oratory and performance in Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus Talitha E. Z. Kearey 150
85.3 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Where Medicine and Religion Meet: Honorific Inscriptions in the Asklepieion at Kos Tara Mulder 150
14.1 Greek Political Thought "Philanthrōpia, Democracy, and the Proof of Power" Ted Parker 150
86.4 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Constructing Ethnicity in Miniature: Cultural Memory in the World of the Aeneid Tedd Wimperis 150