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
3.2 Classics In/Out of Asia Race, Gender, Antiquity: Reflecting on Asian Femininity in Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden Patricia Kim 152
61.3 Think of the Children! Puella est Pulchra: Misogyny, Slavery, and Modern Stereotypes in Latin Learning Resources Alison John 152
43.4 Augustan Poetry Public Poetics: Propertius, Augustus, and Contested Narratives in 2.1 Morgan King 152
2.2 Language Prohibition Types in Ancient Greek: A Comparative Approach Ian Benjamin Hollenbaugh 152
52.5 COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study Professionalization and Preparation for Graduate Students Amy Pistone 152
57.0 Ancient MakerSpaces Printing the Past: A Hands-on Workshop for STEP Students Integrating Classical Studies with 3D-Printing Technology Angela Commito and Sean Tennant 152
44.5 Roman History Prefect Balance: The Shifting Roles of the Praetorian Prefect Stuart McCunn 152
61.5 Think of the Children! Post-Patriarchal Pandoras for Very Young Readers Rebecca Resinski 152
19.1 Lightning Session 1: History and Literature Population Density and Disease in Greek Medical Theory and Practice: Early Social Distancing? Katherine D. van Schaik 152
75.3 Roman Historiography Poisoning Lucretia: An Allusion to Livy at Tac. Ann. 6.40.1 Nicholas A Rudman 152
12.4 Ancient Scholarship Poets Eat Free: State Dinners, Symbolic Capital, and Distinction in Ptolemaic Alexandria Brett Evans 152
12.6 Ancient Scholarship Poetics and Tradition in Terentianus Maurus (the Best Latin Poet You’re not Reading) Tom Keeline 152
12.3 Ancient Scholarship Poem Division in the Theognidea Alexander Karsten 152
7.4 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Plutarch’s Protean Tyrant Marcaline Boyd 152
7.1 The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World Plutarch’s Politicians and the People: The Politics of Honour in Pericles, Cimon and the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire Thierry Oppeneer 152
41.2 Learning the Rules: Games and Education in the Ancient World Playing at King: Hdt. Hist. 1.114.-16 and the Mythologizing of Children’s Play William Duffy 152
20.4 Believing Ancient Women: A Feminist Epistemology for Greece and Rome Plautus’ Truculentus and Terence’s Hecyra: Patriarchal Authority and Women’s Truth Serena S. Witzke 152
10.3 Roman Comedy Plautinopolis in the Forum: Site-Specificity and Immersive Theater in Plautus’ Curculio Rachel Mazzara 152
4.4 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Plato’s Neglected Critiques of Athens in Republic VIII: Democratic Dimensions of the Cities Nurturing the Timocratic, Oligarchic, and Democratic Youths Melissa S. Lane 152
25.2 Plato Plato's "Crito" and the Democratic Ideology of Courage Joseph Gerbasi 152
4.5 New Perspectives on Plato’s Internal Critique of the Athenian Politeia Plato on the Origins of Freedom Fetishism in Athens René de Nicolay 152
43.2 Augustan Poetry Pirates and Pietas: Sextus Pompey and the Ship Race in Aeneid 5 Elizabeth M Heintges 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
74.1 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Pharr’s Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners Walter M. Roberts 152
25.3 Plato Persuasion vs. Instruction: Protagoras’ Inability to Teach Virtue in Plato Audrey E Wallace 152
22.1 Neronian Literature Persius, Nero, and the Midas(s)es of Rome Konstantinos Karathanasis 152
61.6 Think of the Children! Persephone Reclaimed? Assessing Romantic Retellings of the Rape of Persephone Sierra Schiano 152
6.2 New Approaches to Spectatorship Performing ‘Deep Intersubjectivity’: Spectatorship in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae Anne-Sophie Justine Noel 152
53.1 Eta Sigma Phi Performance Markings in the Bankes Homer Thyra-Lilja Altunin 152
81.2 Homer and Hellenistic Literature Pathos by the Numbers: Homeric Numerical Patterns and Achilles’ 23 Sacks Brian D. McPhee 152
56.4 Triumviral Literature Pastoral Triumphalism and the Golden Age in Eclogue 4 Vergil Parson 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
34.2 Inscriptions and Literacy Painting Words, Writing Images: "Alternative" Literacies in Early Greece and Etruria Elisa Scholz 152
31.2 Breaking the Paradigm: Greek Poetry in the Roman Empire Paianic Revival in the Roman Empire Hanna Golab 152
32.4 Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment Ovid’s Phaethon and Failed Cosmic Vision Ashley Simone 152
64.1 Ovid Ovid’s Council of the Gods (Met. I) and Jupiter’s Tribunicia Potestas Francis Newton 152
43.6 Augustan Poetry Ovid and the Ara Pacis John F Miller 152
64.6 Ovid Overflowing Bodies and A Pandora of Ivory Catalina Popescu 152
13.3 Ancient Theater in Chicagoland Oresteia in Chicago April Cleveland 152
30.6 Philosophical Thought and Language On Nietzsche's 'Philology as Ephexis in Interpretation' Leon Wash 152
66.3 Philosophy in a Roman Context Nihil Adfirma or Quaerite et Invenietis: Finding Common Ground between Cicero and Augustine Laurie A Wilson 152
35.4 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities New Institutionalism and Sole Ruler Legitimization Sam Ellis 152
35.7 New Institutionalism and Greek Communities New Institutionalism and Federal Structures in Ancient Greece: the Case of the Boeotian Territorial Network Christel Müller 152
45.4 Myth and History Networks of Ethnicity in Greek Mythic Genealogies Benjamin Winnick 152
21.1 Reception Neo-Latin in the New World: A Case Study in Student Ambition (and Failure) Theodore R. Delwiche 152
61.2 Think of the Children! Nationalism and Imperialism in Futures Past: Classical Reception in Louisa Capper’s A Poetical History of England: Written for the Use of Young Ladies Educated at Rothbury-House School (1810) Kathryn H. Stutz 152
63.7 The World of Neo-Latin: Epistolography Narrative Design in Marsilio Ficino’s Letter Collection, Book I Simon Smets 152
14.3 On Being Calmly Wrong: Learning from Teaching Mistakes My Mistake: Twenty-Five Years a Captive Mary Ann Eaverly 152
58.2 Migrants and Membership in the Greek City-States Moving Material Culture – The ‘Social Capital’ of Migrants in Membership Regimes of the Hellenistic World Sabine Neumann 152
54.2 Lucian More than Idle Chatter: Powerful Bodies and Personal Agency in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans Suzanne Lye 152