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
42.5 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law Reading and Contextualizing Aselgeia in Tenth-Century Byzantine Law Mark Masterson 152
41.1 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law Ancient Laws, Modern Prejudices: Athenian Laws Related to Male Prostitution Kostas Kapparis 152
43.5 Augustan Poetry “Amor is a God of Peace”: Propertius 3.5 and the Algiers Relief Andrew C Ficklin 152
43.1 Augustan Poetry Certissima Signa: Marking Land and Text at the Edges of Georgic One Frances Bernstein 152
43.2 Augustan Poetry Pirates and Pietas: Sextus Pompey and the Ship Race in Aeneid 5 Elizabeth M Heintges 152
43.3 Augustan Poetry Filial Piety and Menoetes' Fall in Aeneid 5 Hannah Sorscher 152
43.4 Augustan Poetry Public Poetics: Propertius, Augustus, and Contested Narratives in 2.1 Morgan King 152
43.6 Augustan Poetry Ovid and the Ara Pacis John F Miller 152
44.1 Roman History Roman Magistrates and the Finance of Ludi in the Mid-Republic James Alexander Macksoud 152
44.3 Roman History Ecological Diversity and Italian Unity: Imagining Tota Italia in the Central Apennines Bryn E Ford 152
44.5 Roman History Prefect Balance: The Shifting Roles of the Praetorian Prefect Stuart McCunn 152
44.4 Roman History Mobilising Inequalities: Income Inequality as an Incentive in Rural-Urban Migration Thomas A. Leibundgut 152
44.2 Roman History Taxing Status in the Republic? Re-evaluating the Origins of the Summa Honoraria Drew A. Davis 152
45.3 Myth and History οὐ κατ᾽ ἀνδραγαθίην σχὼν ἀλλὰ κατὰ γένος: Spartan Kingship, Generational Power, and the Agōgē Luke Madson 152
45.1 Myth and History The Cosmological Significance of the Wedding of Zas and Chthoniè in Pherecydes of Syros, as a Response to Hesiod Xavier Gheerbrant 152
45.4 Myth and History Networks of Ethnicity in Greek Mythic Genealogies Benjamin Winnick 152
45.2 Myth and History Eumelos of Corinth and the Founding of the Isthmian Games John J. Haberstroh 152
46.2 Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature Lost Voices and the Politics of Language: Classical Literature in Irish Isabelle Torrance 152
46.3 Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature Latin and the Creation of a Usable Past in Colonial Nyasaland Emily Greenwood 152
46.4 Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature Boundary Crossings: the Creation of Modern Theater in Post-Colonial Ghana Sarah Nooter 152
46.5 Indigenous Voices and Classical Literature Medea's Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Euripides on the Body's Tragedies Nancy Worman 152
47.7 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt “Anything Illicit:” Censorship and Book-Burning in Roman Egypt Susan Rahyab 152
47.2 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt A Study on Composition and Reception: ἄλλο προοίμιον of Plato’s Theaetetus (PBerol inv. 9782) Marta Antola 152
47.3 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt The Funeral Stele of Heliodora Roger Bagnall, Cathy Calloway, and Alexander Jones 152
47.4 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt Epic Poetry in Egypt: The Forgotten Epyllium Telephi Martina Delucchi 152
47.5 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt Scribes and Grammarians in Roman Egypt Michael Freeman 152
47.6 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt Binnenwanderung Revisited: Local Migration in the Roman Arsinoite Alejandro Quintana 152
48.1 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine Galen on "Natural" Personalities, Intractable Souls and Bodily Mixtures Ralph Rosen 152
48.2 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine Beneath the Skin: Investigating Cutaneous Conditions as Somatisations of Gendered Emotions Chiara Blanco 152
48.3 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine Mind-Body Balance and Sexual Regimen in Antiquity Brent Arehart 152
48.4 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine The Emotions as Causes in Galen Andrew Mayo 152
48.5 Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine Using Literary Eremetic Space to Prevent Emotional Distress in Galen’s De Indolentia Molly Mata 152
49.2 Laughing with the Gods: Religion in Greek and Roman Satire Comedy Epigram and other Comedic Genres Dionysian Theology and Anthropology: Animal Sacrifice in Greek Comedy Bartek Bednarek 152
49.3 Laughing with the Gods: Religion in Greek and Roman Satire Comedy Epigram and other Comedic Genres Heracles’ Inheritance and Other Paradoxes: Aristophanes on Euripides and the Anthropomorphism of the Gods Avi Kapach 152
49.4 Laughing with the Gods: Religion in Greek and Roman Satire Comedy Epigram and other Comedic Genres Scapegoats and Slapstick: Laughing with Expulsion in Aristophanes’ Acharnians Brian Credo 152
49.5 Laughing with the Gods: Religion in Greek and Roman Satire Comedy Epigram and other Comedic Genres “O Bearded Hermes, what’s up with your prick?” – Gods, Erection, and Philosophy in Callimachus’ Iambi Ekatarina But 152
51.2 Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives The Philosophy of Compost (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.146-264) Mark D. Usher 152
51.3 Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives Shared Suffering and Cyclic Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid Aaron M. Seider 152
51.4 Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives Chaos(mos): A Posthuman Ecocritical Reading of Natura in Seneca’s Thyestes Simona Martorana 152
51.5 Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives Erictho and Ecofeminism in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Laura Zientek 152
51.6 Latin Literature and the Environmental Humanities: Challenges and Perspectives The Poetry of Plumbing: Roman Hydraulics as Cultural Icons Bridget Langley 152
52.2 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study More than Brains in Jars: A Graduate Perspective on the Future of Classics Graduate Studies Alicia Matz 152
52.3 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study Digital Teaching and COVID-19 Hannah Čulík-Baird 152
52.4 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study The Latin Pedagogy You Didn’t Learn in Grad School Thomas Hendrickson 152
52.5 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study Professionalization and Preparation for Graduate Students Amy Pistone 152
52.6 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study Building Outward Bridges Nandini Pandey 152
53.1 Eta Sigma Phi Performance Markings in the Bankes Homer Thyra-Lilja Altunin 152
53.2 Eta Sigma Phi Silence: A Versatile Tool Jacob Sorge 152
53.3 Eta Sigma Phi Cicero’s Argument for Expediency in the Pro Murena Hope Langworthy 152
53.4 Eta Sigma Phi A-Hunting We Will Go…Or No? Hunting and Warfare in the Aeneid Mary Clare Young 152