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
28.4 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Philosophical Allegoresis of Plato and Scripture in Numenius, Origen and Amelius Ilaria Ramelli 150
28.3 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Proclus on Analogy Matteo Milesi 150
28.2 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts Gymnasia for the Soul: Proclus and the First Lines of the Parmenides Alex Tarbet 150
28.1 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Use of Allegory in Late Neoplatonic Psychagogy James Ambury 150
27.6 Didactic Prose Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10 Victoria Austen-Perry 150
27.5 Didactic Prose Animal Speech, Sermo, and Imperialism in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Wesley J Hanson 150
27.4 Didactic Prose In the Margins: Humanist Scholars on Pliny in Print Clare Woods 150
27.3 Didactic Prose Epitome in the Age of Empire: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic Rachel L Love 150
27.2 Didactic Prose Empire of Magic: Imperial Historiography in Pliny the Elder's History of Magic Trevor Stacy Luke 150
27.1 Didactic Prose In Good Form: Hermogenes and the Didactic Strategy of On Forms of Style Byron MacDougall 150
26.9 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching with the Satyrica: Open Educational Resources for Intermediate Latin Beth Severy-Hoven 150
26.8 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Operation #TeachClassics: sharing successful strategies from the UK for boosting Classics teaching in high schools Arlene Holmes-Henderson 150
26.7 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy The Pedagogy, Perils and Pitfalls of Graphic Novel in the Classroom Aaron L. Beek 150
26.6 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching Beginning Greek Online Wilfred Major 150
26.5 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Greek and Latin Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Socially Conscious Classics Pedagogy Kelly P. Dugan 150
26.4 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Conflict Analysis in History and Civilization Courses Seán Easton 150
26.3 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Open Access Pedagogy: Seeking a Sustainable Model Amy R. Cohen 150
26.2 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Learning Latin, Learning How to Learn: Student Agency, Identity, and Resilience Kristina A Meinking 150
26.1 Lightnings Talks 1: Pedagogy The Student Becomes the Classicist: Engaging and Empowering Students in the Classroom Molly Harris 150
25.4 Greek Semantics How Long Does the "Right Time" Last? Kairos in Galen's On Crises and On Hygiene Kassandra Jackson Miller 150
25.3 Greek Semantics ΣΥΝΕΣΙΣ: Insight into (its) Deeper Meaning in Classical Greece Carlo DaVia 150
25.2 Greek Semantics Who’s afraid of wonder? θαῦμα and θάμβος. Rik Peters 150
25.1 Greek Semantics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 147-148: A New Possible Semantic Interpretation Milena Anfosso 150
24.4 Latin Prose Interaction Lucius Anicius Gallus, Conqueror and Tripartite Divider Kevin Scahill 150
24.3 Latin Prose Interaction Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284) Cynthia J Bannon 150
24.2 Latin Prose Interaction Statuary Analogies and Cicero’s Judgment of Caesar’s Style (Brutus 262) Christopher S. van den Berg 150
24.1 Latin Prose Interaction Cicero, Brutus 63–9 and the history of Cato’s Origines Jackie Elliott 150
23.4 Attic Oratory Prognosis as a Measure of Excellence: Medical Language in Demosthenes’ On the Crown Allison E Das 150
23.3 Attic Oratory (Dis)Placing Timarchos: The Use of Place in Aeschines 1 Allison Glazebrook 150
23.2 Attic Oratory Reapportioning Honors: Intertextuality in Against Leptines Mitchell H. Parks 150
23.1 Attic Oratory How to Talk about Money in Attic Oratory: Insults and Iambos Robert K Morley 150
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
22.4 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Identifying Demi-gods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules Claire Stocks 150
22.3 The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture Domitianic ‘Arachnes’ and ‘Lucretias’: An Inter-discursive Perspective Emma Buckley 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
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
21.4 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century “I shall sing of Herakles”: writing a Hercules oratorio for the twenty-first century Emma Stafford 150
21.3 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century Hercules' birthday suit: performing heroic nudity between Athens and Amsterdam Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 150
21.2 Re-evaluating Herakles-Hercules in the Twenty-first Century Herakles/Vajrapani, the companion of Buddha Karl Galinsky 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
19.4 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Sailing the High(er) Seas: Manilius’s Celestial Traces in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica Darcy Krasne 150
19.3 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Designing Materialism: Ovid’s Armillary Sphere and the Phaedo Peter Kelly 150
19.2 The Cosmic-Text: Metapoetics and Philosophy in Latin Literature Summoning Forth the Gods in Lucretius: an Idealist Interpretation of Venus and Mars Gordon Campbell 150
18.2 Academic Mentoring in Classics Mentoring in Independent Schools Giselle Furlonge 150
18.1 Academic Mentoring in Classics School Without Walls Internship Program Jane Brinley 150
17.3 Theorizing Africana Receptions Bodies in Dissent Sarah Derbew 150
17.2 Theorizing Africana Receptions Reader-Response to Racism: Audre Lorde and Seneca on Anger Ellen Cole Lee 150
17.1 Theorizing Africana Receptions The reception of St. Augustine in modern Maghrebian novels Anja Bettenworth 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
16.4 From APA to SCS: 150 Years of Professional Classics in North America Speaking as a Classicist: The APA/SCS and American Politics Lee T Pearcy 150