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
10.2 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Zeno Peripateticus? Cicero’s Rhetorical Philosophy in De Officiis Michael Vazquez 151
71.2 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity Movement, Sight, and Sound in Archaic Song-and-dance Poetry: Erotic and Ritual Kinesthesia and Synesthesia in the ‘Newest Sappho’ Michel Briand 151
22.4 State Elite? The ‘Roman Revolution of Constantine’ and the Resilience of Roman Senators Michele Salzman 151
29.6 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts "Every Time I Think about Color It’s a Political Statement:" Classical Elements in the Art of Emma Amos Michele Valerie Ronnick 151
9.4 Tragic Tradition Fear, Hope, and Resignation in Seneca’s Troades Michelle Currie 151
76.1 Style and Stylistics Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 150–161: "Entwining Greek with Asian Speech" Milena Anfosso 151
37.4 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality The Power of Oedipus: Michel Foucault with Hannah Arendt Miriam Leonard 151
47.3 The Lives of Books Which classics come in red and green? The creation of the Loeb Classical Library canon. Mirte Liebregts 151
69.3 Public Life in Classical Athens The Lives of Lycurgus: Self-Commemoration in Fourth-Century Athens Mitchell H. Parks 151
22.3 State Elite? Respectful Distance? Diocletian, Rome, and the Senatorial Elite Monica Hellström 151
7.3 Greek Religious Texts Reconsidering Hellenistic Theologoumena: Between Callimachus and Euhemerus Monica Park 151
60.5 Sisters Doin' it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary Always Advanced By Her Recommendations: The Vestal Virgins and Women’s Mentoring Morgan E. Palmer 151
2.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Noun Incorporation in Ancient Greek? Nadav Asraf 151
43.3 Citizenship Migration and Identity Power Struggles: Neaira and the Threat to Citizenship Naomi Campa 151
77.1 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West Decorum, Obscenity, and Literary Authority in the Letters of Poggio Bracciolini and Panormita Nathan M Kish 151
32.5 Homer in the Renaissance From Peisistratus to the papacy - Homeric translation and authority in the reign of Nicholas V Nathaniel Hess 151
80.1 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity Representations of Interstate Cooperation in the Archaic Treasuries at Olympia: A Constructivist’s Interpretation Nicholas Cross 151
52.4 New Perspectives on the Atlantic Facade of the Roman World The Ocean of Mount Atlas: Atlantic History and/in the Ancient World Nicholas Purcell 151
61.1 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons Using Cross-Dressing to Understand Ancient Conceptions of Gender and Identity Nicole Nowbahar 151
53.6 Neo-Latin in the Old and New World: Current Scholarship The Pax Augustea in Fascist Italy: A Catholic Response to the Augustan Bimillenary Nicolò Bettegazzi 151
17.1 Greek and Roman Novel Freedom and Confinement Aboard the Ship of Lichas (Satyricon 100–115) Nikola Golubovic 151
72.5 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Expanding Classics through the visual and performing arts, in and out of the classroom Nina Papathanasopoulou 151
59.1 Cicero A Farewell to Arms? Cicero’s Pro Fonteio and the Shortage of Commanders in the Republic’s Last Generation. Noah A.S. Segal 151
21.5 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama How To Do Things Without Maps | New Cartographies & the Cyclops Nolan Epstein 151
80.5 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity The Herakleion and Expressions of Political Identities at Gades from the Hellenistic to Early Modern Age Pamina Fernández Camacho 151
39.1 Numismatics Heraclean Coinage: The Italiote League between Polybius and Diodorus Parrish Elizabeth Wright 151
54.3 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... Different Strokes for Different Folks: Three Universities, Three “Classics” Patrice Rankine 151
4.1 Imperial Virgil “Aeneas, Hercules, and Augustus: the Ambiguous Heroes of Virgil’s Aeneid” Patricia Craig 151
25.1 Latin Poetry Homer redivivus? Rethinking Ennian Metempsychosis Patrick Glauthier 151
49.3 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory ‘Poeticness’ as a Continuous Variable: Rethinking Prosaism in Horace Odes 4.9 Patrick J. Burns 151
37.6 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality The Body Politic: Foucault and Cynics Paul Allen Miller 151
49.4 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory The Poetics of Wormwood: Bitter Botany in Lucretius and Ovid Paul Hay 151
70.3 Inscriptions and Dates Dating, and Dating by, the Antikythera Mechanism Paul Iversen 151
87.1 Ancient Ethics Political Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics IX.6 Paul W. Ludwig 151
36.4 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature Bearing a Burden, Pericles, and Aristophanes' Frogs Pavlos Sfyroeras 151
68.3 Greek and Latin Comedy Braunfels’s Aristophanic opera, Die Vögel Peter Burian 151
87.3 Ancient Ethics Brutus' Philosophical Position in On Virtue Peter Ishmael Osorio 151
88.4 Archaic Poetics of Identity Pindar’s Nemean 5 and the Problem of Aeginetan Descent from the Aiakidai Peter Moench 151
51.5 Problems in Performance: Failure in Classical Reception Studies The Birds Doesn't Take Off: Aristophanes' Victorian Burlesque and Why It Failed Peter Swallow 151
20.4 Teaching with Coins: Coins as Tools for Thinking about the Ancient World Teaching with Coins at the MFA Boston Phoebe Segal 151
40.4 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students A Philosophy of Paradox in Augustine's Confessions Phoebe Wing 151
35.5 Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture A Palimpsest of Performance: The Construction of Classicism in the Vallabha Tradition Priya Kothari 151
12.2 Metaphor in Early Greek Poetry Paper #2 - Does Greek Pain Have Teeth? Pura Nieto Hernández 151
16.3 Greek Historiography The Aesthetics of War: Symmetry and Civic Virtue in Thucydides’ Sicilian Expedition Rachel Bruzzone 151
19.4 Lesbianism Before Sexuality Sappho's Mythic Models: Figuring Lesbian Desire through Heterosexual Paradigms Rachel Lesser 151
68.4 Greek and Latin Comedy Dropping the Dramatic Illusion: A Narratological Model of Plautine Metatheater Rachel Mazzara 151
70.2 Inscriptions and Dates How old are the earliest Mycenaean tablets? Absolute and Relative Chronology of the Linear B Tablet Deposits of the Room of the Chariot Tablets (RCT) and the North Entrance Passage (NEP) at Knossos Rachele Pierini 151
86.4 Augustus and After princeps proferendi imperi incuriosus: Tiberius and the pax augusta Rebecca Edwards 151
19.3 Lesbianism Before Sexuality 'I clitorize, you clitorize, they clitorize...': The Anatomy of Female Homoeroticism in the Roman Empire Rebecca Flemming 151
31.4 God and Man in the Second Sophistic The Didactic Oracle: The Delphic Oracle in Plutarch’s ‘Delphic Dialogues’ Rebecca Frank 151