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
66.2 Homerica More Useful and More Trustworthy? The Cyclical Poem in Scholia Jennifer L Weintritt 151
43.5 Citizenship Migration and Identity Immigration and Exclusion: A Comparative Study Jennifer Roberts 151
65.1 Late Antiquity Julian and Rome’s Eternal Refoundation Jeremy J. Swist 151
79.2 The Roman Army During the Republican Period Men of Bronze or Paper Tigers? Jeremy S. Armstrong 151
78.4 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia After Polity: Hellenistic Networks in Northwestern India (200 BCE – 200 CE) Jeremy Simmons 151
49.1 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory Neoteric Questions Jesse Hill 151
26.1 Legal Culture Socialized Compliance with Greek International Law Jesse James 151
60.6 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Chiomara and the Roman Centurion Jessica Clark 151
57.5 Science in Context Gendering the Brain in Ancient Medicine Jessica L. Wright 151
21.2 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama Epiphanic Visitations: Deities on Temples and in Greek Tragedy Jessica Paga 151
77.3 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West Progymnasmatic Ekphrasis at the Latin School of Arezzo and Vasari’s “Memory Images” Jesús Muñoz Morcillo 151
59.3 Cicero Irony in Cicero’s Letter to Lucceius Joanna Kenty 151
21.6 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama Enacting a House for Eumenides in the Oresteia Jocelyn Moore 151
7.4 Greek Religious Texts Turning hierophany into text: Pausanias on Lebadeia and the oracle of Trophonius Jody Ellyn Cundy 151
53.4 Neo-Latin in the Old and New World: Current Scholarship Aztec Physicians in Greco-Roman Garb John Izzo 151
66.4 Homerica Helen of Troy and Her Indo-European Sisters: Women's Vocal Agency and Self-Rescue in Greek, Indian, and Irish Epic John McDonald 151
70.4 Inscriptions and Dates Erroneous Dates In Athenian State Decrees And Financial Documents John Morgan 151
10.1 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Eris in the Guise of Stasis in Aristotle’s Politics John Mulhern 151
49.2 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory Philodemean Poetics in Horace, Satires 1.2 John Svarlien 151
22.1 State Elite? The Heredity of Senatorial Status in the Early Empire John Weisweiler 151
57.4 Science in Context The Medical Context of Galen’s Protrepticus Jonathan Reeder 151
82.5 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? “Origen’s Resurrection of the Rational Soul and Its Ascent to the Likeness of Angels” Jonathan Young 151
45.1 Roman Cultural History Defining Neighborliness in Republican Rome: Plautus’ Mercator Jordan Reed Rogers 151
47.1 The Lives of Books Imagining tablets and unseeing secretaries: real and imagined logistics of Roman literary production Joseph A Howley 151
67.2 Plato and his Reception Plato’s Apology of Socrates: For What Does Socrates Die? Joseph Gerbasi 151
54.4 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... Anchor Institutions and a Challenge to Classics, Humanities, and Higher Education Joseph M. Romero 151
30.4 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt Climate Science and Ptolemaic Egypt Joseph Morgan 151
40.1 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students The Suffering Man and House: The Centrality of Human Misery in the Odyssey Joseph Slama 151
66.1 Homerica Another Current in Homer's Ocean Joshua M Smith 151
22.2 State Elite? Senatorial Women in the Early Principate: Power without Office Josiah Osgood 151
81.3 Greek Culture in the Roman World Greek Philosophy and Roman Politics in Cicero’s De consulatu suo Jovan Cvjetičanin 151
54.1 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... Toward a New Institutional Future of Classics Joy Connolly 151
83.2 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire Pliny's threptoi: a case of cross-cultural confusion? Judith Evans-Grubbs 151
32.3 Homer in the Renaissance Juan de Mena’s Omero romançado: On (Not) Translating Homer in the Court of Juan II of Castile Julia Claire Hernandez 151
67.3 Plato and his Reception Religious Practice as Play in Plato’s Laws Justin Barney 151
66.3 Homerica Poetically Packed: πυκ[ι]νός in the Iliad Kaitlyn Boulding 151
73.2 Novel Entanglements Time-psychology in the Cena Trimalchionis Karen Ni-Mheallaigh 151
23.2 Ordering Information in Greco-Roman Medicine Numbering the Hours: A New Battleground in Imperial-Period Medicine? Kassandra Miller 151
46.3 Ecocriticism Retelling Rome’s environmental history: Pliny’s Natural History 18 and Columella’s De Re Rustica 1-3 Katherine Beydler 151
50.3 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Macrobius’ Misreadings: Exploring Plato’s Symposium in the Late Antique Latin West Katherine Krauss 151
20.3 Teaching with Coins: Coins as Tools for Thinking about the Ancient World Reading Coins and Stories: Strengthening Student Literacy through Numismatic Concepts Katherine Petrole 151
9.3 Tragic Tradition Maternal Malfunctions: Niobe and Latona in Seneca’s Medea Katherine R De Boer 151
23.4 Ordering Information in Greco-Roman Medicine Big Hospitals: the Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus and rapid-access medical knowledge Katherine van Schaik 151
58.3 Global Receptions Norse Gods in Tyrkland: The Manipulation of the Classical Tradition in Snorra Edda Kathleen Noelle Cruz 151
79.5 The Roman Army During the Republican Period How Loyal Were Middle Republican Soldiers? Kathryn Milne 151
51.3 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies Euripides, Ultra-Moderniste: H.D. and Avant-Garde Failure Kay Gabriel 151
21.1 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama Perverted Return: Odious Epinician and Deadly Athletics in the Oedipus Tyrannus Keating McKeon 151
33.5 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics “The Solution is to Start Building the Community You Imagine”: One Graduate Student’s Experience in Co-founding an Organization and Network of Scholars Dedicated to Antiracism and Pedagogy in Classics Kelly Dugan 151
19.2 Lesbianism Before Sexuality Rethinking Julia Balbilla: Queer Poetics on the Memnon Colossus Kelly McArdle 151
35.3 Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture No One Knows His Own Stock: Ocean Vuong’s Reception of Telemachus and Odysseus Kelly Nguyen 151