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
51.2 Lightning Talks 2: Poetry and Language Archilochus fr. 93a W: Musical Diplomacy on Thasos? Timothy C Power 150
46.2 Thirty Years of the Jeweled Style: Reassessing Late Antique Poetry Argento auroque coruscis scripta notis: Optatianic reflections on the ‘jeweled style’ Michael Squire 150
83.1 Philosophy Aristotle’s Uses of ‘ἕνεκά του’ and ‘οὗ ἕνεκα’ Takashi Oki 150
36.3 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Association and Archive: The Technitai of Dionysus as Keepers of Knowledge Mali Skotheim 150
93.2 Forms of Drama Atreus' Indecision in Seneca's Thyestes Isabella Reinhardt 150
28.6 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Augustine, Manichaeism, and the Allegorical Interpretation of Creation: Foundations of an Androcentric Anthropology. David Morphew 150
38.2 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Aut Latine aut nihil? A tertium quid Tom Keeline 150
65.5 The Digital Latin Library Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts Virginia K. Felkner 150
4.2 Satire Before the Ars Poetica: Poema and Poesis in Lucilius and Varro Marcie Persyn 150
88.2 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation Being There: The Use of Brief Dialogue in Herodotus and Thucydides Christopher A. Baron 150
44.5 Allusion and Intertext Beyond Ornamentation: Seneca, Vergil's Aeneid, and the Interlocutor Sophia R Elzie 150
50.5 The Romance of Reception Beyond the Ethnicity of Fragments Yvona Trnka-Amrhein 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
64.6 Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope Blank Marks: Absence as Interpretation of Queer Erotics in 20th-21st Century Reception of Sappho Mary Mussman 150
17.3 Theorizing Africana Receptions Bodies in Dissent Sarah Derbew 150
41.4 Centering the Margins Bringing the Outside In: Incorporating Marginalized Identities and Modern Topics into an Introductory Mythology Course Yurie Hong 150
89.6 LGBTQ Classics Today: Professional and Pedagogical Issues Building LGBTQIA+ Community on Diverse Campuses- Faculty’s Role and Responsibilities Shaun Travers 150
3.4 Roman Political Self-Representation Bureaucratic Consistency and Dynastic Continuity: The Case of Titus Zachary Herz 150
43.2 Latin Hexameter Poetry Caesar and the Poetics of Nefas in Lucan's Civil War Isaia Crosson 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
24.1 Latin Prose Interaction Cicero, Brutus 63–9 and the history of Cato’s Origines Jackie Elliott 150
74.6 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Circular by Design: Graphic Clues in Magical and Cultic Graffiti Irene Polinskaya 150
14.2 Greek Political Thought Citizens’ wisdom and (other arguments for) the defence of moderate democracy in Aristotle’s Politics Georgia Tsouni 150
13.5 Reception and National Traditions Classical Reception within the Vietnamese Diaspora Kelly Nguyen 150
40.4 Podcasting the Classics Classics for the People Vanya Visnjic 150
48.3 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Cleomachus: A Case Study in “Cinaedism” Thomas Sapsford 150
27.6 Didactic Prose Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10 Victoria Austen-Perry 150
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship CommentarySandbox: Creating Custom Digital Commentaries for the Classroom Bret Mulligan 150
38.4 What Can Active Latin Accomplish Comprehensible Output, Form-focused Recasts, and the New Standards Peter Anderson 150
36.2 Systems of Knowledge and Strategic Planning in Ancient Industries Constructing Cetariae: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Building the Roman Fish Salting Industry Christopher F. Motz 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
3.5 Roman Political Self-Representation Contested Recycling: Conflicting Heritage Values in Dio Chysostom’s Rhodian Oration Cynthia Susalla 150
41.3 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusive Beginning Language Courses Amy Pistone 150
41.5 Centering the Margins Creating Inclusivity with Material Culture in Civilization and History Survey Courses Robyn Le Blanc 150
9.1 Truth to Power: Literary Rhetorical and Philosophical Responses to Autocratic Rule in the Roman Empire Creating polytopic and de-centered identities: A Greek answer to exile imposed by the Roman Policy? Maria Vamvouri Ruffy 150
61.5 Literature of Empire Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy David W.F. Stifler 150
79.3 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Cristoforo Landino’s Metrical Practice in Aeolics Anne Mahoney 150
2.3 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Croesus in conversation: past tense and dramatic form in Herodotus Tobias Joho 150
82.2 Homer and Reception Cut Him Down To Size: Homeric Epitomes in Greco-Roman Antiquity Massimo Cè 150
32.2 Hannibal's Legacy Cycles of Death and Renewal: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Forces in the Republican Senate Cary Barber 150
2.2 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Cyrus the Cupbearer: Near Eastern Influence in Ctesias' Persica C Sydnor Roy 150
83.4 Philosophy De Mortuis Nil Dicendum Est? On Sextus Empiricus Against the Mathematicians VIII.98 and Stoic Indefinite Propositions Marion Durand 150
73.4 Greek Religion Defending Delos: The Role of the Temple of Apollo in the third century BCE Michael McGlin 150
19.3 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Designing Materialism: Ovid’s Armillary Sphere and the Phaedo Peter Kelly 150
53.2 Horace and his Legacy Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic Alicia Matz 150
60.6 Herodotus and Thucydides Dialectics of Hope and Fear in Thucydides Book 6 Bradley Hald 150
48.5 Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women? Kirk Ormand 150
78.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Differential agent marking in classical Greek David Goldstein 150
2.5 Principles and Practices of Greek Historiography Diodorus, Roman Generals, and Ptolemaic Egypt Alexander Skufca 150
92.3 Homer and Hesiod Diomedes, Dione, and Divine Insecurity in Iliad 5-8 Rebecca Ann Deitsch 150