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
38.4 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Imagine Seres in Early Imperial Rome: A Reading of Plin. Nat. 6.53-54 and 12.84 Yanxiao He 152
83.6 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Reaching Beyond Rome: A Latin Curriculum Lindsay Samson and Holly Spyniewski 152
11.2 Flavian Epic Statius’ Thebaid and Greek Prose: Reimagining Intertextuality in the Early Empire Thomas J Bolt 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
83.5 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom "I Like this Class, But…": Creating Meaningful Cultural Connections in the Latin Classroom Ellen Sassenberg 152
71.2 Seneca in the Renaissance "Ridentem Dicere Verum Quid Vetat?" – Unmasking Seneca in François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes Stephanie Fan 152
21.5 Reception "The Hydra-Headed Monster of Race-Prejudice": Classics and the Chicago Race Riots Justine McConnell 152
10.1 Roman Comedy "Ut Ego Unguibus Facile Illi in Oculos Involem Venefico!" Pythias and Sight as Power in Terence’s Eunuchus Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld 152
60.5 Tacitus and the Incomplete 'Relating at the Appropriate Time': Tacitus’ Caligula Panayiotis Andreou Christoforou 152
42.2 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law A Case of Cross-Dressing and Rape in Terrence's Eunuchus Cassandra Tran 152
27.5 Education A Child’s Game and Sensory Perception in Minucius Felix’s Octavius Christopher S. van den Berg 152
78.1 New Approaches A Computational Model of Genre Allyn Waller 152
8.2 Greek and Latin Linguistics A Derivational History of κρίμνημι/κρήμνημι 'Hang (Something) Up' and Associated Forms Julia Sturm 152
66.1 Philosophy in a Roman Context A Future for Old Age in Cicero’s "Cato Maior de Senectute" Andres Matlock 152
70.1 Epigraphy and History A Golden Treaty for Philip V Brad L Cook 152
76.1 Flavian Poetry A Metaliterary Celebration of Saturnalian Epigram in Martial 4.46 Emma Brobeck 152
33.4 Recent Work in Digital Classics A Metrical Search Tool for Greek and Latin Poetry Michael Tueller 152
35.5 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities A New Institutionalist Approach to Athenian Deliberation: The Case of the Boulē Alberto Esu 152
19.4 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature A Pentameter Acrostic in Ovid's Ibis Keyne Cheshire 152
35.3 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities A Place for Justice in the Assembly? Pursuing Self-Interest and Helping the Wronged in Athenian International Relations Matteo Barbato 152
67.1 Second Century CE Prose A Purple Passage: Meta-interpretation and the Discovery of Tyrian Dye in Achilles Tatius Theodore Joseph MacDonald 152
38.2 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History A Roman Anthropocene? The End of Nature in Pliny HN 36.1–3 James Taylor 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
53.4 Eta Sigma Phi A-Hunting We Will Go…Or No? Hunting and Warfare in the Aeneid Mary Clare Young 152
83.3 Race Classics and the Latin Classroom Addressing Race and the Legacy of Slavery in the Latin Classroom Louise Michaud 152
14.4 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adjusting Assumptions and Reevaluating Opportunities for Students Ryan Fowler 152
14.6 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes Adventures in Group Work in the Classics Classroom Theodora Kopestonsky 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
27.3 Education Aequitas in Quintilian and the Minor Declamations Nikola Golubovic 152
24.4 Lightning Session 2: Crossing Boundaries Against Smooth Breathing Marks Anthony Vivian 152
55.4 Hidden Transcripts Agamemnon Princeps: Quoting Homer in Suetonius’ Caesars Keating P.J. McKeon 152
39.4 Early Greek Poetry All Hands on Deck: Complementary Nautical Metaphors in Pindar and Bacchylides Joshua A Zacks 152
59.3 Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Supremacy An Unpleasant Legacy — Tacitus and the Misogyny of White Supremacists Teresa Mocharitsch 152
33.3 Recent Work in Digital Classics An Unsupervised Hierarchical Language Model of Ancient Greek Syntax Sophia Sklaviadis 152
55.5 Hidden Transcripts Analyzing the Principate through Antithesis in Suetonius’ De Vita Caesarum Wesley J Hanson 152
41.1 Legalize It: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law Ancient Laws, Modern Prejudices: Athenian Laws Related to Male Prostitution Kostas Kapparis 152
38.1 Natural History and Pliny's Natural History Animality, Humanity and the Species Grid in Roman Literature Colin MacCormack 152
40.4 Roman Anticipations: Material Cognitive and Affective Histories of the Roman Future Anticipation and Analogy in Soranus’ Gynecology Anna Bonnell Freidin 152
32.2 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Arachne’s Tapestry and the Metaphors of Ecphrasis Albert Bates 152
30.3 Philosophical Thought and Language Aristotle on his Predecessors: A New Reading in Metaphysics A 10 Mirjam Engert Kotwick 152
73.3 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls Artifacts as Exposures: Malarial Landscapes in Late Roman Italy David Pickel 152
77.3 Greek Historiography Athens and Herodotus’s Plataea: Audience and Performance in Histories 8.133-9.70 Ian Oliver 152
22.2 Neronian Literature Autophagy in Seneca’s Oeuvre Ursula M. Poole 152
26.2 The Powers and Perils of Solitude in Greek Literature Being Human, Being Alone: Isolation and Heroic Exceptionality in the Odyssey Joel Christensen 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
81.3 Homer and Hellenistic Literature Benjamin’s Niobe: Anger, Violence, and Ambiguity in Iliad 24 Ben Radcliffe 152
62.4 Hybrid Epicenters: Peripheral Adaptation in Flavian Literature Between Life and Death: Hannibal at the Center of the Margins in Silius’ Punica 17 Angeliki Roumpou 152
47.6 Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt Binnenwanderung Revisited: Local Migration in the Roman Arsinoite Alejandro Quintana 152
20.5 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Blaming Ovid’s Leucothoe: The Role of Rape Myths in a Mythological Rape Megan Elena Bowen 152
80.2 Greek Tragedy (2) Blonde Dionysus? Interpreting ξανθοῖσι βοστρύχοισιν in Euripides’ Bacchae Angharad Darden 152