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
66.1 Philosophy in a Roman Context A Future for Old Age in Cicero’s "Cato Maior de Senectute" Andres Matlock 152
66.2 Philosophy in a Roman Context Cicero and the Affinity Argument Matthew Watton 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
66.4 Philosophy in a Roman Context The Pleasures of Flattery and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Seneca’s Natural Questions Chiara Graf 152
66.5 Philosophy in a Roman Context The Dark Mirror of Julia: Visuality, Prostitution, and the Principate in Seneca’s De beneficiis Mary McNulty 152
66.6 Philosophy in a Roman Context Epictetus, Caesar, and the Animals: A Fable Kate Meng Brassel 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
67.2 Second Century CE Prose Divine Vision and Sensory Paradox: Knowing the Body in Aelius Aristides’ "Hieroi Logoi" Calloway Scott 152
67.3 Second Century CE Prose Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18) Patrick Glauthier 152
67.4 Second Century CE Prose “Not More This Than That”: Favorinus as Practical Pyrrhonist David H. Sick 152
68.1 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Teaching the “Political Animals” of Contemporary America: Addressing Real-Time Inequality and Exclusion in the Classroom Jessica Blum-Sorensen and Nathan Dennis 152
68.2 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Thinking Classics, Talking Slavery Sophie Mills 152
68.3 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Roman Enslavement and the Concealed Racist Rhetoric of Today’s Beginning Latin Textbooks Kelly Dugan 152
68.4 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Recreating the Voice of the Gladiator for the Secondary Classroom Emma Vanderpool 152
68.5 Difficult Topics in the Classroom Using Juvenal’s Satires to Examine Questions of Racism Ian Lockey 152
69.2 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE Memories of the King: Political Power, Placehood, and Performativity in Early Rome and Etruria Hilary W. Becker and Jeffery A. Becker 152
69.3 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE The Etruscan Spectacle of Fasces In Regal Rome: Some Unnoticed Implications T. Corey Brennan 152
69.4 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE Feeding the Nascent City: Archaeobotanical and Zooarchaeological Evidence from Early Rome Victoria Carley Moses, Laura Motta, and Katherine Beydler 152
69.5 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE “Romulus’ Tomb” and the Archaic City of Rome Parrish Wright 152
69.6 Between Myth and Materiality: The Origins of Rome 800-500 BCE Building Diversity in Early Rome John N. Hopkins 152
70.1 Epigraphy and History A Golden Treaty for Philip V Brad L Cook 152
70.2 Epigraphy and History Managing Sanctuary Records: The Case of the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos Michael McGlin 152
70.3 Epigraphy and History Lesbian Dialect and the Roman élite: Julia Balbilla and Neos Theophanes Hugh J Mason 152
70.4 Epigraphy and History Sebastoi in the Countryside: Praying for Imperial Success in Rural Bithynia Deborah Sokolowski 152
70.5 Epigraphy and History Hadrian’s Birthday and the Athenian Month Hadrianion John D. Morgan 152
70.6 Epigraphy and History Counting Victories or Years? The Curious Case of the Sinopean Victory List Chingyuan Wu 152
71.1 Seneca in the Renaissance Cannibals, Cats, and Coteries: Wright's 1674 Mock-Thyestes Maria Haley 152
71.2 Seneca in the Renaissance "Ridentem Dicere Verum Quid Vetat?" – Unmasking Seneca in François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes Stephanie Fan 152
71.3 Seneca in the Renaissance Servilis vs. Puerilis: Seneca’s De Tranquillitate Animi Erin Jo Petrella 152
71.4 Seneca in the Renaissance In Eloquendo Corrupta Pleraque? Humanist Evaluations of Seneca's Prose Style Natha Kish 152
72.1 Pagans and Christians The Libri Pontificales at the End of Paganism Mattias Gassman 152
72.2 Pagans and Christians The Acts of Silvester: History, Legend and Sundays in Rome Michele Salzman 152
72.3 Pagans and Christians Sophrosyne as a Virtue of Ascetic Women in Late Antiquity Anysia Metrakos 152
72.4 Pagans and Christians Julian's Platonopolis? Matthew Lupu 152
72.5 Pagans and Christians Column Cryptography: The Theodosian Obelisk as Cipher for the Fictional Life of Theodulus the Stylite Charles Kuper 152
73.1 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls Systems Change Without Demographic Collapse? Trans-Mediterranean Trade and the Justinianic Pandemic Henry Gruber 152
73.2 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls The River and the City: The Tiber as a Case Study in Roman Ecohistory Krešimir Vuković 152
73.3 New Environmental History: Promise and Pitfalls Artifacts as Exposures: Malarial Landscapes in Late Roman Italy David Pickel 152
74.1 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Pharr’s Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners Walter M. Roberts 152
74.2 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks The Changeling: From Alpha to Omega and Modern Language Students Karen Rosenbecker 152
74.3 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Greek Troublesome and Troubling: Teaching Greek with Textbooks by the Joint Association of Classical Teachers Douglas Hill 152
74.4 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Eleanor Dickey’s Learn Latin from the Romans Ashley Weed 152
74.5 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Transitioning from a Grammar-Translation Approach to Active Latin via Ørberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: How One Latin Program is Making the Shift MaryLiz Williamson and Diane Beste 152
74.6 Lightning Session: Greek and Latin Textbooks Tali et Tituli: Roleplaying with Wheelock Mitchell Parks 152
75.1 Roman Historiography Livy, Orosius, and the Rebuilding of Augustan Rome David Levene 152
75.2 Roman Historiography Exemplary Audiences Andrea Pittard 152
75.3 Roman Historiography Poisoning Lucretia: An Allusion to Livy at Tac. Ann. 6.40.1 Nicholas A Rudman 152
75.4 Roman Historiography Slavery, Geography, and Medicine in Tacitus' Agricola Charlotte Hunt 152
75.5 Roman Historiography Tacitus’ Historiographical Technique: Moderatio in the Tiberian Narrative and Documentary Sources from the Tiberian Principate Christopher R Ell 152
75.6 Roman Historiography Morbid Joy: Laetus in Tacitus Emma N Warhover 152