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
64.3 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts An Examination of Epigraphical and Numismatic Evidence for the Invocation of Jupiter in Roman Imperial Italy using Network Analysis Zehavi Husser 151
83.4 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire Taught as a Child: The Family-Forging Effect of Instruction in Early Christianity and its Historical Influences Zane McGee 151
26.2 Legal Culture Death of a Crossdresser: Legal Storytelling in Pomponius Zachary R Herz 151
32.4 Homer in the Renaissance The Abbé d’Aubignac and the Death of Homer Will Theiss 151
27.5 Approaches to Language and Style 'Criticus Nascitur, Non Fit': Latin Textual Criticism and the Cult of Male Genius Verity Walsh 151
4.4 Imperial Virgil "Imperial Tityrus: Virgil in Calpurnius Siculus" Vergil Parson 151
42.4 Classics Graduate Education in the 21st Century Distance Technology and Graduate Classics Education Velvet Yates 151
71.3 Moving to the Music: Song and Dance in Antiquity Komos and Choros: The Language of Dance in Greek Vase-Painting Tyler Jo Smith 151
25.4 Latin Poetry Hesiod's Typhon and the Many-Mouth Topos Treasa M Bell 151
29.4 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts Centaurs and Equisapiens Tom Hawkins 151
45.4 Roman Cultural History A Second Coming of Age: Ritual Shaving as a Roman Rite of Passage Timothy M Warnock 151
80.4 Monumental Expressions of Political Identity Refashioning the East in the Roman Provinces: The Relief of Nero and Armenia at Aphrodisias’ Sebasteion Timothy Clark 151
73.5 Novel Entanglements The Novel and Bookspace Tim Whitmarsh 151
88.1 Archaic Poetics of Identity Intertextual Impersonation in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo Thomas James Nelson 151
27.2 Approaches to Language and Style A Stylometric Analysis of Latin Literary Genre Thomas J. Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Joseph Dexter 151
62.3 Translating Evil in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture Evil (Not) Then and Evil Now: A Test Case in ‘Translating’ Cultural Notions Thomas G Palaima 151
2.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Etymologies of ἄπειρος Thomas Davies 151
69.4 Public Life in Classical Athens Making Necessity of a Virtue: Hidden Value Judgments in Forensic Suggnōmē Ted Parker 151
13.3 Readers and Reading: Current Debates Bad Readers: Anecdote, Affect and Audience in Ancient Virgilian Literary Criticism Talitha E. Z. Kearey 151
78.3 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia Networks and Networking in the Economy of Seleucid Uruk Talia Prussin 151
39.2 Numismatics Coins, Continuity, and Change: “Hellenization” in the Post-Seleucid Levant Tal A. Ish-Shalom 151
87.2 Ancient Ethics Aristotle on Deliberation and Necessitarianism Takashi Oki 151
17.3 Greek and Roman Novel A Letter in a Land without Letters: Longus’ Intrageneric Interlocutors T. Joseph MacDonald 151
82.2 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neither the Body Without the Soul: Why does Medicine Matter? Svetla Slaveva-Griffin 151
39.4 Numismatics The Hadrianic Revolution of the Coin Legend Sven Betjes 151
55.1 Women in Rage Women in Protest... Putting Pressure on the Patriarchy: The Subversive Power of Women's Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic Suzanne Lye 151
29.5 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origins of The Image of the Black in Western Art Stuart McManus 151
35.2 Classical Reception in Contemporary Asian and Asian American Culture Princess Turandot, an Occidental Oriental Stephanie Wong 151
4.5 Imperial Virgil “Broch Reads Virgil” Stephanie Quinn 151
29.3 Black Classicism in the Visual Arts When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, The Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa Stefani Echeverria-Fenn 151
21.4 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth-Century Drama The Bed, the Hearth, the Statue, and the Veil. Material Objects, Marriage and emotions in Euripides' Alcestis Stauroula Valtadorou 151
18.1 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception Reverse Archaeology: Constructing Ancient Roman Spaces on Screen Stacie Raucci 151
63.2 What's New in Ovidian Studies? Proserpina’s Pomegranate and Ceres’ Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid’s Account of Ceres and Proserpina Sophie Emilia Seidler 151
72.4 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Integrating diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in the Latin classroom, and reconsidering the place of Classics in non-western traditions Sonya Wurster 151
75.4 Greek History Carving Communities in Stone: Cosmopolitan Space on Hellenistic Kos Sjoukje M Kamphorst 151
24.4 Second Sophistic Sophists: Public Identity and Roman Provincial Coinage Sinja Küppers 151
16.1 Greek Historiography Why Herodotus is Worth Copying: The Scholia on Book 1 Simone A. Oppen 151
6.4 Lightning Talks 1: Latin and Greek Literature Latinization, multilingualism and language shift in the Western provinces Simona Stoyanova 151
76.2 Style and Stylistics “Why is it impossible to do it well?” Aristotle and Quintilian on Narrative Brevity in Forensic Oratory Sidney Kochman 151
1.5 Evaluating Scholarship: Digital and Traditional Grant Awards as Pre-Publication Review Sheila Brennan 151
50.4 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Gellius’ Convivial Scenes and Roman Intellectual Identity in the Noctes Atticae Scott J. DiGiulio 151
76.4 Style and Stylistics Ne procaces manus rapiant: Stylistic Shifts as a Defensive Strategy in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia Scheherazade J Khan 151
82.3 Soul Matters: How and Why Does Soul Matters to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism? Neoplatonic Language of the Soul in Cyril’s Scholia on the Incarnation Sarah K Wear 151
85.5 Theatre of Displacement How Sweet Are Tears: The Uses of Lamentation in The Trojan Women and Queens of Syria. Sarah J. Thompson 151
81.5 Greek Culture in the Roman World Christian Interaction with Greek Tragedy in the Second and Third Centuries Sarah Griffis 151
54.3 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics... How Can Administrators Support Public Outreach and Digital Humanities? Sarah E. Bond 151
2.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Non-Conventional, Non-Formulaic, and Recent Linguistic Features in Homeric Epics Sara Kaczko 151
50.2 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Theognis at Dinner: Metasympotics through Time Sara De Martin 151
72.2 If Classics is for Everybody Why Isn't Everybody in My Class? Increasing the diversity of graduate students in Classics: The University of Michigan’s Bridge M.A. and Bridge to the Ph.D Programs Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Sierra P. Jones 151
64.2 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts Maritime Networks and Moral Imagination: Samothracian Proxeny as an Archaeology of Coalition Sandra Blakely 151