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
93.4 Forms of Drama Sosia, the Cook (?) Sander M. Goldberg 150
45.2 The Future of Classics Speaker/facilitator Sarah E Bond 150
45.3 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Joy Connolly 150
45.4 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Ralph J Hexter 150
45.5 The Future of Classics speaker/facilitator Dan-el Padilla Peralta 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
90.4 Materiality of Writing Spelling Legitimacy: Claudius, Orthography and Re-Foundation Joseph R O'Neill 150
63.6 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Split tunnel: Nonius Datus celebrating and mourning construction Nolan Epstein 150
39.2 What's Roma Got to Do with It? Staging Thebes in the 2nd Century BCE Hannah Čulík-Baird 150
71.4 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture Statuary Alteration as Prediction Error: A Cognitive Theoretical Approach to Reuse Diana Y. Ng 150
24.2 Latin Prose Interaction Statuary Analogies and Cicero’s Judgment of Caesar’s Style (Brutus 262) Christopher S. van den Berg 150
15.3 Playing with Time Stop the Clock! Time in Apuleius' "Apology" Lauren Miller 150
15.1 Playing with Time Swerving Atoms and Changing Times: Lucretius and his Readers in Late Antiquity Abigail Kate Buglass 150
79.4 Neo-Latin in a Global Context: Current Approaches Syphilitic Trees: Immobility and Voicelessness in Ovid and Fracastoro Kat Vaananen 150
5.2 Law Money and Politics Tax Symmories as Micro-Credit Syndicates: The Grain Tax Law in 4th Century Athens J. Andrew Foster 150
26.6 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching Beginning Greek Online Wilfred Major 150
26.9 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Teaching with the Satyrica: Open Educational Resources for Intermediate Latin Beth Severy-Hoven 150
63.5 Aesthetics and Ephemerality Temporalities of stone, hand, and light in Posidippus’ Lithika Verity Platt 150
74.2 Graphic Display: Form and Meaning in Greek and Latin Writing Tesserae Nummulariae: Creating a Typology of Graphic Display on Portable Latin Labels Lindsay Holman 150
53.1 Horace and his Legacy Teucer, Twofold: Echoes and exempla in Odes 1.7 Edgar Adrián García 150
58.3 Ancient Drama / New World Textual Ruins: The Form of Memory in José Watanabe's Antigona Cristina Perez 150
8.1 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity The Aeneid, Book VI: Vergil’s Dream of the Afterlife Jeff Brodd 150
5.4 Law Money and Politics The Afterlives of Royal Land Grants Talia Prussin 150
90.1 Materiality of Writing The ancient edition of Archilochus’ works Enrico Emanuele Prodi 150
90.2 Materiality of Writing The Battle of Thyrea in Greek Epigram Michael A Tueller 150
71.5 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Beforelives of Votives: Prospective Memory and Religious Experience in the Roman Empire Maggie L. Popkin 150
91.4 Ethics and Morality in Latin Philosophy The Blushing Sage: Somatic Affective Responses in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Chiara Graf 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
82.3 Homer and Reception The Cognitive Life of the Kestos Himas Amy Lather 150
37.4 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers The Correspondence of Günther Klaffenbach and Louis Robert (1929‒1972) Daniela Summa 150
44.4 Allusion and Intertext The Daemon Grows: Some Offshoots of Empedocles in Horace’s Ars Poetica Justin Hudak 150
7.3 Culture & Society in Greek Roman & Byzantine Egypt The development of papyrology in North America Gabi Stewart 150
65.1 The Digital Latin Library The Digital Latin Library Samuel J Huskey 150
60.1 Herodotus and Thucydides The Dreams of Xerxes, Revisited: Herodotus 7.12-18 and the Role of Religious Ideology in the Second Persian Invasion of Greece Ronnie Shi 150
50.3 The Romance of Reception The Early Reception of Achilles Tatius and Modern Views of Ancient Prose Fiction Stephen M. Trzaskoma 150
80.1 Responses to Environmental Change in the Roman World The Effects of Environmental Change on Wild and Domestic Animal Populations in Roman Antiquity Michael MacKinnon 150
55.3 Global Feminism and the Classics The Emancipation of the Soul: Gender and Body-Soul Dualism in Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy. Elizabeth LaFray 150
10.3 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives The Epics of Lepanto: Between Tradition and Innovation Maxim Rigaux 150
57.2 Political Thought in Latin Literature The Exemplary Imperialism of Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War Rex Stem 150
1.3 Late Antique Literary Developments The Face of Vice: The Monsters of the 'Psychomachia' Kathleen M. Kirsch 150
3.1 Roman Political Self-Representation The Funerary Monument of Lucius Munatius Plancus and Aristocratic Self-Representation Carolyn Tobin 150
71.1 Prospective Memory in Ancient Rome: Constructing the Future Through Text and Material Culture The Future of the Past: Fabius Pictor and Dionysios of Halicarnassos on the Pompa Circensis (Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 7.70-72) Jacob A. Latham 150
50.2 The Romance of Reception The Greek Novel, ‘Asianic’ Style, and the Second Sophistic Lawrence Kim 150
61.4 Literature of Empire The Historiographic Nature of Lucianic Polemic in the Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit Luther Karper 150
93.5 Forms of Drama The Identity of Catullus the Mimographer John D. Morgan 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
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
75.2 Materiality and Literary Culture The Imperial Bellerophon: Reading Archaic Tablets as Modern Books in the Second Sophistic Joseph Howley 150
1.5 Late Antique Literary Developments The Interdisciplinary Teacher: Augustine's "Contra Academicos" as a Dialogue about Rhetoric Stevie Hull 150
67.4 Ancient Mediterranean Literatures The Invention of Greek "Literature" Ruth Scodel 150