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
76.4 Where Does it End?: Limits on Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity The Kings as Imperial Models in the Fourth-Century Epitomators Jeremy Swist 150
73.5 Greek Religion The lex sacra from Ptolemais Revisited. Maryline G. Parca 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
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
37.5 Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers The Method and Madness of Matteo Della Corte Holly Sypniewski 150
44.6 Allusion and Intertext The Muses and Redacted Antiquity: Rodulfus Tortarius’ poetic adaptation of Valerius Maximus Kyle Conrau-Lewis 150
56.2 Music and the Divine The Music of Sacrifice: Between Mortals and Immortals Pavlos Sfyroeras 150
26.7 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy The Pedagogy, Perils and Pitfalls of Graphic Novel in the Classroom Aaron L. Beek 150
28.4 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Philosophical Allegoresis of Plato and Scripture in Numenius, Origen and Amelius Ilaria Ramelli 150
87.4 Language and Naming in Early Greek Philosophy The Physicality of Language in Gorgias and Heraclitus Luke Parker 150
73.3 Greek Religion The Place of the Club-bearer: Thoughts on the New Festival Calendar from Arcadia Kyle W Mahoney 150
1.4 Late Antique Literary Developments The Poet and the Virgin: Avitus of Vienne’s Ascetic Aesthetic David Ungvary 150
57.3 Political Thought in Latin Literature The Politics of Atomism in Cicero Matthew Gorey 150
44.1 Allusion and Intertext The Reception of Sappho in Plato's Phaedrus in Light of the Expanded Text of Sappho 58 Mary R. Bachvarova 150
17.1 Theorizing Africana Receptions The reception of St. Augustine in modern Maghrebian novels Anja Bettenworth 150
12.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Role of Parmenides’ Goddess as Θέα Δαίμων David Bicknell 150
32.1 Hannibal's Legacy The Roman Senate in the Third Century BC Fred Drogula 150
72.1 Hellenistic Poetry The Same River Twice: The Anaurus-crossing(s) and Narrative Strategy in Apollonius' Argonautica Keith Penich 150
39.6 What's Roma Got to Do with It? The secondary world of Plautinopolis Rachel Mazzara 150
62.5 Reconnecting the Classics The Ship of Theseus: A framework for intertextuality connecting literature, biology, and computation Pramit Chaudhuri and Joseph P. Dexter 150
33.4 Feminist Re-Visionings: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Classics The silencing of Laura Riding Elena Theodorakopoulos 150
56.5 Music and the Divine The Silent Gods of Lucretius Noah Davies-Mason 150
55.2 Global Feminism and the Classics The Sisters of Semonides' Wives: Rethinking Female–Animal Kinship Margaret Day 150
26.1 Lightnings Talks 1: Pedagogy The Student Becomes the Classicist: Engaging and Empowering Students in the Classroom Molly Harris 150
88.4 Contemporary Historiography: Convention Methodology and Innovation The Subalterns Speak: Remembering the Words of Caesar’s Officers Lydia Spielberg 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
42.3 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity The Theodosian Code in its Christian Conceptual Frame Mark Letteney 150
42.2 Power and Politics in Late Antiquity The Three Accessions of Julian the Apostate: Social Power and the Question of Late Roman Imperial Legitimacy JaShong King 150
28.1 Allegory Poetics and Symbol in Neoplatonic Texts The Use of Allegory in Late Neoplatonic Psychagogy James Ambury 150
84.1 Vergil The Virgilian Beech: The Creation of Italian Nostalgia in the Eclogues David Alan Wallace-Hare 150
43.1 Latin Hexameter Poetry The Voice of Nature and its Consolatory Force in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Clifford A. Robinson 150
1.2 Late Antique Literary Developments The war with Gildo and the publication of the Letters of Symmachus Christopher Lougheed 150
31.3 Epigraphic Approaches to Multilingualism and Multilingual Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean The Xanthos Trilingual and Beyond: Interlingual Patterns in Greek-Lycian-Aramaic Inscriptions Leon Battista Borsano 150
44.2 Allusion and Intertext The ‘Modern’ Prometheus in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds Samuel D Cooper 150
25.1 Greek Semantics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 147-148: A New Possible Semantic Interpretation Milena Anfosso 150
75.1 Materiality and Literary Culture Tragic Epigraphy: Euripides’ Archelaus and IG I3 117 Andrea Giannotti 150
35.3 Rome and the Americas Transformation of Roman Poetry in Colonial Latin America Erika Valdivieso 150
8.5 Epic Gods Imperial City: Religion and Ritual in Latin Epic from Beginnings to Late Antiquity Travels with Martyrs: Epic Journey Motifs and Sacred Landscapes in Late Antique Poetry Laura K. Roesch 150
10.5 Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approahces and New Perspectives Travesty: the ultimate domestication of epic Susanna Braund 150
80.3 Responses Under the Plane Tree: Cultivation in Ancient Urban Pollution Kaja Tally-Schumacher 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
15.2 Playing with Time Unlucky in Love: Games of Chance and Amatory Strategies in Roman Elegy Christopher S Dobbs 150
49.2 Contagious Narrative Unnamed Victims and Named Survivors in Greek Plague Narratives Jennifer B. Clarke Kosak 150
75.3 Materiality and Literary Culture Unwelcome Guest: Envy, Shame, and Materiality in an Ancient Greek House Andrew Scholtz 150
53.4 Horace and his Legacy Ursine Poetics in Horace and the Classical Tradition Aaron Kachuck 150
26.4 Lightning Talks 1: Pedagogy Using Conflict Analysis in History and Civilization Courses Seán Easton 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
47.2 Varro the Philosopher Varro and Antiochus in the Liber de Philosophia Nathan Gilbert 150
47.3 Varro the Philosopher Varro the Pythagorean? An Inquiry into the Quadripartite Category System of De Lingua Latina 5.11-13 Phillip Sidney Horky and Grant Nelsestuen 150
13.2 Reception and National Traditions Ventriloquizing the Classics: Cicero and Early American Gothic James Uden 150