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
31.6 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Written Practice: Western Sicily Thea Sommerschield 150
4.5 Satire Satire and Epic: The Case of Statius' Thebaid Thomas J Bolt 150
72.4 Hellenistic Poetry Nicander’s Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric Thomas James Nelson 150
48.3 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Cleomachus: A Case Study in “Cinaedism” Thomas Sapsford 150
5.3 Law Money and Politics The Temple of Artemis on Lemnos: Athenian Land Allotment and Imperial Banking in the Fifth Century BCE Tim Sorg 150
51.2 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Archilochus fr. 93a W: Musical Diplomacy on Thasos? Timothy C Power 150
3.6 Roman Political Self-Representation Aemulatio Traiani? Constantine’s Restored Dacia and the Tervingi Timothy Campbell Hart 150
2.3 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Croesus in conversation: past tense and dramatic form in Herodotus Tobias Joho 150
6.4 Mapping the Classical World since 1869: Past and Future Directions What Difference Has Digitization Made? Tom Elliott 150
11.4 Theatre and Social Justice: The Work of Luis Alfaro 9-1-1 is a Joke in Yo Town: Justice in Alfaro’s Borderlands Tom Hawkins 150
38.2 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Aut Latine aut nihil? A tertium quid Tom Keeline 150
59.3 A Century of Translating Poetry “Tools” of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus Tori Lee 150
27.2 Didactic Prose Empire of Magic: Imperial Historiography in Pliny the Elder's History of Magic Trevor Stacy Luke 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship Mapping Text with Recogito Valeria Vitale 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
60.5 Herodotus and Thucydides Minos: A Problematic First Thalassocrat in Thucydides’ Archaeology Valerio Caldesi-Valeri 150
40.4 Podcasting the Classics Classics for the People Vanya Visnjic 150
63.5 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Temporalities of stone, hand, and light in Posidippus’ Lithika Verity Platt 150
56.4 Music and the Divine Eudoxus of Cnidus on Consonance, Reason/Ratio, and Divine Pleasure Victor Gysembergh 150
27.6 Didactic Prose Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10 Victoria Austen-Perry 150
80.2 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World Living Backwards: Roman Attitudes toward the Environment Victoria Pagán 150
10.4 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Virgil’s Venus-virgo in Christian Early Modern Epic Viola Starnone 150
22.2 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Incendiary Memories: The Intermediality of Nero in Flavian Poetics and Politics Virginia Closs 150
65.5 The Digital Latin Library Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts Virginia K. Felkner 150
89.3 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Pedagogy and Classics: Finding a Happy Medium when Discussing Ancient Homoeroticism in the Classroom Walter Penrose 150
16.5 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America Opening the Gates: The American Philological Association/Society for Classical Studies 1970-2019 Ward Briggs 150
27.5 Didactic Prose Animal Speech, Sermo, and Imperialism in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Wesley J Hanson 150
26.6 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching Beginning Greek Online Wilfred Major 150
14.4 Greek Political Thought Kritias and Plato's Ur-Athens as Oligarchy William S. Morison 150
51.3 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language East versus West in the Lyrics of Ibycus William Tortorelli 150
41.4 Centering the Margins Bringing the Outside In: Incorporating Marginalized Identities and Modern Topics into an Introductory Mythology Course Yurie Hong 150
50.5 The Romance of Reception Beyond the Ethnicity of Fragments Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 150
3.4 Roman Political Self-Representation Bureaucratic Consistency and Dynastic Continuity: The Case of Titus Zachary Herz 150
30.1 Ovid Gendering the Golden Age in Ovid's Ars Amatoria Zackary Rider 150
40.5 Podcasting the Classics Looted: Lessons Learned Zoe Kontes 150
9.5 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Friendship with the powerful? Perspectives pro and con in the Roman empire Zsuzsa Varhelyi 150