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
AIA-SCS Poster Session Opening up the Ancient Mediterranean World (through Unicode and Fonts) Deborah (Debbie) W Anderson 150
93.4 Forms of Drama Sosia, the Cook (?) Sander M. Goldberg 150
93.1 Forms of Drama The meaning of the wave in the final scene of Euripides’s Iphigenia taurica: between traditional cult and innovative human ethics Marco Duranti 150
93.3 Forms of Drama Seneca Tragicus?: Comic Elements in Seneca’s Troades Andrew R. Lund 150
93.5 Forms of Drama The Identity of Catullus the Mimographer John D. Morgan 150
93.2 Forms of Drama Atreus' Indecision in Seneca's Thyestes Isabella Reinhardt 150
92.1 Homer and Hesiod Raising the Dead: The Assyrian Empire as Political Background for Odysseus’ Descent to the Underworld Marcus Daniel Ziemann 150
92.2 Homer and Hesiod A Question of Memory: Who and Whose are You? Justin Arft 150
92.5 Homer and Hesiod Reassessing the Evidence for Zenodotus’ “Cretan Odyssey” Bill Beck 150
92.3 Homer and Hesiod Diomedes, Dione, and Divine Insecurity in Iliad 5-8 Rebecca Ann Deitsch 150
92.4 Homer and Hesiod Voice, Mortals, and Muses in the Hesiodic Aspis 272-86 Stephen A Sansom 150
91.4 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy The Blushing Sage: Somatic Affective Responses in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Chiara Graf 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
91.1 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Socrates and Plato's Socrates in Cicero's Academica Matthew R Watton 150
91.6 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Rethinking Morality: A Senecan Shift in Stoic Sexual Ethics? Joshua M Reno 150
91.5 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Answering the Natural Questions: Pliny Ep. 4.30 and Ep. 8.20 Christopher V. Trinacty 150
91.3 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy Reading as Training: Seneca’s Didactic Technique in De Beneficiis Scott A. Lepisto 150
90.4 Materiality of Writing Spelling Legitimacy: Claudius, Orthography and Re-Foundation Joseph R O'Neill 150
90.2 Materiality of Writing The Battle of Thyrea in Greek Epigram Michael A Tueller 150
90.3 Materiality of Writing An Emperor Makes His Mark: Claudius’ New Letters in the Epigraphic Record Melissa Huber 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
90.1 Materiality of Writing The ancient edition of Archilochus’ works Enrico Emanuele Prodi 150
89.2 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues LGBTQ Parenting and the Profession Kristina Milnor 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
89.4 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Undoing the need to translate: Public Debates about LGBTQ histories in the Classics classroom Marguerite Johnson 150
89.5 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Ancient Sexualities for Tourists Andrew Lear 150
89.6 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Building LGBTQIA+ Community on Diverse Campuses- Faculty’s Role and Responsibilities Shaun Travers 150
88.4 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation The Subalterns Speak: Remembering the Words of Caesar’s Officers Lydia Spielberg 150
88.5 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Fear and hatred: The autopsy reports of Cassius Dio Jesper M. Madsen 150
88.6 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Herodian, autopsy, and historical analysis Andrew G. Scott 150
88.2 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Being There: The Use of Brief Dialogue in Herodotus and Thucydides Christopher A. Baron 150
88.3 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Historical Method and Quasi-Barbaric Historians in Polybius’s Histories Sulochana R. Asirvatham 150
87.5 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Language-Games in Parmenides' Proem Gabriela Cursaru 150
87.2 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides' Alētheia in Anaxagoras and Empedocles Rose Cherubin 150
87.3 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Parmenides on language and the language of Parmenides Shaul Tor 150
87.4 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy The Physicality of Language in Gorgias and Heraclitus Luke Parker 150
87.6 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy Empedocles on Language, Nature and Learning Leon Wash 150
86.1 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil Whose Fatherland? The Use of patria and patrius in Vergil Kevin Moch 150
86.2 What's in a Name?: Race Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Vergil What's Past is Prologue: Roman Identity and the Trojan Cycle in the Aeneid Jennifer Weintritt 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
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
85.2 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Medical Hellenicity in the Letters of Hippocrates Calloway Scott 150
85.3 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Where Medicine and Religion Meet: Honorific Inscriptions in the Asklepieion at Kos Tara Mulder 150
85.4 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Hierarchical Communities: Elite Approaches to Defining botanē in Ancient Medical Practice Katherine Beydler 150
85.5 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean A Glass of Wine a Day... Medical Experts and Expertise in Plutarch’s Table Talk Michiel Meeusen 150
85.6 Medical Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Group Medical Practice in Imperial Rome: The Case of Allianoi Sarah Yeomans 150
84.1 Vergil The Virgilian Beech: The Creation of Italian Nostalgia in the Eclogues David Alan Wallace-Hare 150
84.2 Vergil An Amber River at Georgics 3.522 Julia Scarborough 150
84.4 Vergil Virgil in the theatre: poets, oratory and performance in Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus Talitha E. Z. Kearey 150
84.3 Vergil What’s in an Allusion? A New Examination of Vergil’s Use of Homer James Gawley, Caitlin Diddams, Elizabeth Hunter, Tessa Little 150