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
8.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Ancient Greek: The Syntactical Properties of Morphemes Nadav Asraf 152
8.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics A Derivational History of κρίμνημι/κρήμνημι 'Hang (Something) Up' and Associated Forms Julia Sturm 152
8.3 Greek and Latin Linguistics Doric Zeus is the Rising Sun: Accentuation, Morphology and Proto-Indo-European Root *telh2- Domenico Muscianisi 152
8.4 Greek and Latin Linguistics The Etymology of Latin lībra Michael Weiss 152
25.3 Plato Persuasion vs. Instruction: Protagoras’ Inability to Teach Virtue in Plato Audrey E Wallace 152
25.4 Plato The Midwifing Function of the Theaetetus’ Midwifery Digression Brian A. Apicella 152
25.1 Plato Framing Socrates: The Euthyphro and the Phaedo as Literary Context for the Apology Ethan Schwartz 152
25.5 Plato “Telling Old Wives’ Tales” with Thrasymachus: Proverbs and the Attempt to “Go Viral” with Definitions of Justice in Plato’s Republic John Roger Tennant 152
25.2 Plato Plato's "Crito" and the Democratic Ideology of Courage Joseph Gerbasi 152
21.1 Reception Neo-Latin in the New World: A Case Study in Student Ambition (and Failure) Theodore R. Delwiche 152
21.4 Reception Pilgrimages to Lesbos: Reflections of Sappho and Female Homoeroticism in Three Greek Novels of the late 1920s Christopher L Jotischky 152
21.5 Reception "The Hydra-Headed Monster of Race-Prejudice": Classics and the Chicago Race Riots Justine McConnell 152
21.3 Reception Caesar, Vercingetorix, and National Identity in 19th Century France Marsha McCoy 152
21.2 Reception Cato Among the Feminists: 18th Century Female Writers on Cato the Younger Thomas E. Strunk 152
64.6 Ovid Overflowing Bodies and A Pandora of Ivory Catalina Popescu 152
64.4 Ovid Visualizing Voice in the Story of Echo and Narcissus Mariapia Pietropaolo 152
64.2 Ovid Metaformalism, or Setting a Baseline for Detecting Anagrammatic Play in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Patrick J. Burns 152
64.3 Ovid Latona and the Frogs: Ovid’s Hydraulic Politics Cynthia Jordan Bannon 152
64.1 Ovid Ovid’s Council of the Gods (Met. I) and Jupiter’s Tribunicia Potestas Francis Newton 152
64.5 Ovid Re-Presenting Woman: Pandora in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Alicia Matz 152
77.2 Greek Historiography Ring Composition and Narrative Consequence in the Story of Rhampsinitus and the Thief (Hdt. 2.121) Jasmine A. Akiyama-Kim 152
77.5 Greek Historiography Contractualism and Community: Xenophon’s Anabasis in its Sophistic Context Alex Lee 152
77.3 Greek Historiography Athens and Herodotus’s Plataea: Audience and Performance in Histories 8.133-9.70 Ian Oliver 152
77.1 Greek Historiography Herodotus on the Origins of Language Rachel Wong 152
77.4 Greek Historiography Learning from Experience: Failure and Success in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia Matthew Sherry 152
77.6 Greek Historiography Strabo’s Roman World: Imperial Centers and Cultural Memory Maxwell R Dietrich 152
5.2 Greek History The Quantum of Evidence in the Athenian Popular Courts Stephen James Hughes 152
5.1 Greek History The Economic Logic of Fines in Gortyn Becky Kahane 152
5.6 Greek History Eumenes II's Appeals to Rome: Not So Appealing After All Gregory J. Callaghan 152
5.4 Greek History Growing an Empire: Classical Macedonian Expansionism and its Early Hellenistic Legacy Talia Prussin 152
5.5 Greek History The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrius Poliorcetes: Panegyric, Resistance and Attic Tradition Thomas J. Nelson 152
5.3 Greek History The Shape of Anchisteia: Proximity and Care in Demosthenes 43, Against Macartatus Hilary Lehmann 152
78.1 New Approaches A Computational Model of Genre Allyn Waller 152
78.3 New Approaches Gaming the Classroom: Assassin's Creed Odyssey as a Learning Tool for First Year Undergraduates Debra Ann Trusty 152
78.2 New Approaches Semantic Intertextual Search with Latin Word-Embedding Models Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri 152
1.2 Merchants and Markets in Late Antiquity Emporium Aegyptium: Egypt as a Global Marketplace Irene Soto Marín 152
1.3 Merchants and Markets in Late Antiquity Aediles and Agoranomoi in Late Antiquity: Imperial Policy and the Decline of Marketplace Oversight Kevin Woram 152
1.4 Merchants and Markets in Late Antiquity Ecclesiastical Participation in Cypriot Economies: An Archaeological Perspective Catherine Keane 152
2.2 Language Prohibition Types in Ancient Greek: A Comparative Approach Ian Benjamin Hollenbaugh 152
2.4 Language Roman Women’s Useful Knowledge: Historical Examples in Women’s Speech in Dionysius of Halicarnassus Eva Carrara 152
2.6 Language Maximus Planudes’ (Domesticating?) Translation of Ovid’s Heroides 7 Maria Kovalchuk 152
2.5 Language Green Classics: The Benefits of Accurately Translating Columella David A. Wallace-Hare 152
2.1 Language “Godlike Askanios, from Faraway Askania”, or the Anatolian Connection of an Eponymous Hero Milena Anfosso 152
2.3 Language ‘Style is the Woman Herself:’ Gendering Verbal Art in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus Alyson L Melzer 152
3.2 Classics In/Out of Asia Race, Gender, Antiquity: Reflecting on Asian Femininity in Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden Patricia Kim 152
3.3 Classics In/Out of Asia Classical Architecture and the Kaiping Diaolou: Diasporic Identity in Late Qing and Early Republican Guangdong, China Helen Wong 152
3.4 Classics In/Out of Asia Homer at Home: Classics, the Cultural Revolution, and the Construction of Identity Dora Gao 152
3.5 Classics In/Out of Asia Parthénos or Apárthenos? Girls’ Piety and Sex in Greek New Comedy and South Asian Popular Cinema Arti Mehta 152
3.1 Classics In/Out of Asia Understanding Ângela: Gender and Ancient Mediterranean Slavery in Early Modern China Stuart McManus 152
4.2 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Voting for the Guardians: Election, Lottery, and Moderated Democracy in Plato’s Laws Jeremy Reid 152