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
14.3 Archaic Art and Poetry Sparta’s Persian War Epigrams Matthew A Sears (University of New Brunswick) 153
40.2 Ovid Still Waters Run Deep: Interpretations of the Metamorphoses' Pools Becky Kahane (University of Texas at Austin) 153
25.4 Parmenides and Plato Stomach and Womb: Gendered Desire in Plato and Hesiod Kaitlyn Boulding (University of Washington) 153
33.3 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Story Map: A New Narrative Mapping Tool Robert W Groves (University of Arizona) 153
3.6 Ancient Music and the Visual Arts Sympotic Metamorphoses: Seeing, Hearing, and Becoming the Poets in Athenian Vase-Painting Carolyn M. Laferrière (Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Premodern World, University of Southern California) 153
60.5 Infection, Pandemics and the Borders of Medicine Symptoms of Disaster: Plague and Famine in Lucan’s Pharsalia 6.80–117” Michiel Van Veldhuizen (UNC Greensboro) 153
76.1 Homer (2) Taming the Lion/Feeding the Beast: Homeric Fable and the Ethics of Epic Keating P.J. McKeon (Harvard University) 153
53.2 New Comedy, Roman Comedy Te auctore quod fecisset adulescens: Guilt and Accountability in Terence’s Eunuchus Allie Pohler (University of Cincinnati) 153
19.3 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Teaching Contemporary Hate Groups’ Appropriations of Greco-Roman Antiquity Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) 153
65.4 Lessons Learned from Teaching During the Pandemic Teaching High School Latin During the Pandemic and How We Were Changed Robert Patrick (Parkview High School) 153
11.3 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? Teaching Oedipus Remotely with a Comprehensive Commentary: Capitalizing on Collaboration Christopher Blackwell (Furman University) 153
33.1 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Teaching Public Speaking as a Classicist Christopher Francese (Dickinson College) 153
19.2 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Teaching with Luis Alfaro Young Richard Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago) 153
3.3 Ancient Music and the Visual Arts Thamyris, Odysseus, and the Perils of thespesios Stamatia Dova (Professor and chair, Hellenic College, Brookline, Classics and Greek Studies) 153
33.4 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom The 21st century Shield of Achilles Todd Clary (Cornell University) 153
72.2 Building the Accessible Classroom The Accessible Middle School Latin Classroom Marisa Alimento (Crossroads Middle School) 153
51.3 Flavian Literature and its Readers The Aesthetics of Bathos in Early Imperial Latin Literature Thomas Bolt (Florida State University) 153
9.3 The Poetics and Pragmatics of Hellenistic Aesthetics The Aesthetics of Manual Labor: Ecphrastic Representations of Woodwork in Leonidas Matthew Chaldekas (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) 153
5.7 Enslavement and Literary Work in the Roman Mediterranean The amanuensis as vilicus: Enslaved Labor in Roman Agriculture and Authorship Joseph Howley (Columbia University) 153
56.5 Classical Studies Now: Trends, Techniques, and Tools The Aratus Project: Ancient Scholarship and Astronomy in a Multimodal Platform Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan) 153
51.4 Flavian Literature and its Readers The Argo and the Iron Age in Statius’ Achilleid Madeline Thayer (University of Southern California) 153
4.5 Greek Tragedy in the Early Empire The Atreus and Thyestes Dramas in the Imperial Age: Reflections on Tyranny, Conviviality, and Cannibalism Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins University) 153
25.1 Parmenides and Plato The Authenticity of Parmenides B3 DK Stephen White (University of Texas at Austin) 153
22.1 Classics and Banner and Brand The Confederacy, Cato the Younger, and Lost Causes Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University) 153
49.1 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations The controversial past, present, and future of student evaluations Debra A Trusty (University of Iowa) 153
17.3 Old Comedy The Curious Case of Fish-bodied Cecrops: Old Comedy Transtextuality, Hypertextual Parodies, and Coins as Iconic Paratexts Alexei Alexeev (University of Ottawa) 153
52.4 Greek History (1) The Eastern Execution of Lykides in Herodotus 9.5 Irene Elias (University of Pennsylvania) 153
42.5 Late Antiquity The End of the Roman Senate Michele Renee Salzman (University of California Riverside) 153
29.5 Bridging the “Gap”: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cretan polis in the Archaic and Classical periods The epigraphy of Gortyn between order and disorder: buildings, alphabets and the hands of scribes in a polis of archaic Crete Giovanni Marginesu (Università degli Studi di Sassari) 153
25.2 Parmenides and Plato The Eternal Present in an Instant—Plato’s Revision of Parmenidean Time in the Parmenides Huaiyuan Zhang (Pennsylvania State University) 153
79.6 Egypt The Fackelmann Papyri Michael A. Freeman (Duke University) 153
37.3 Reception The Failure of Reception Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University) 153
75.6 Roman Poetry The Garland of Philip as Roman Poetry Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle) 153
31.3 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World The Goddess Feronia and her Worshippers: Gender and Religious Practice in Roman Italy Gaia Gianni (Brown University) 153
24.5 Historiography and Biography The Goddess, the Seeress and the Wife – Tacitean Reception and the Depiction of Germanic Women Teresa Mocharitsch (University of Graz) 153
59.3 Vergil and Authoritarianism The Grammar of Authoritarianism in Virgil's Eclogues 1 Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick) 153
75.2 Roman Poetry The Homeric Line to the Caesar: Apollo’s Epiphany in Horace Sermones I.9 Peter Kotiuga (Boston University) 153
24.2 Historiography and Biography The Interrupting Sea: From Primordial to Historical in Livy’s Cleonymus Digression (10.2) Kyle Khellaf (University of California, Riverside) 153
30.1 Activisms Ancient and Modern The Liberation of Black Earth: What Indigenous and Black Agricultural Movements Can Teach Us About Solon Sarah Teets (University of Virginia) 153
78.6 Philosophi Platonici: Plato in Roman Philosophy The Madman’s Choice: Plato and Plato’s Republic in De Re Publica 1.1-12 Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College) 153
71.3 Gender and Violence in Latin Poetry The Magna Mater’s Uncanny Ease in the Aeneid Katherine Wasdin (University of Maryland) 153
27.0 Ancient MakerSpaces The Mycenaean Atlas Project Robert Consoli (Independent Scholar) 153
25.6 Parmenides and Plato The Odyssean Meta-Reading of Plato's Work Marta Antola (Durham University) 153
11.5 Distanced Classics in a Time of Plague: What Have We Learned? The Pandemic and Undergraduate Greek: Crisis and Opportunity William Owens (Ohio University) 153
7.2 Herculanean Studies: The Next Generation The place of Philodemus’s On Rhetoric in ancient rhetorical theory Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ball State University) 153
7.6 Herculanean Studies: The Next Generation The Player and the Playwrights (MANN 9019) Marden Nichols (Georgetown University) 153
24.1 Historiography and Biography The poet, the grammarian and the Origines: Servius, Vergil and the record of Cato’s history in ancient scholarship Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado Boulder) 153
79.4 Egypt The Private Lives of Public Notaries: Uncovering the Agoranomoi in Greco-Roman Egypt Susan Rahyab (Columbia University) 153
68.2 Roman Philosophy The Problem of Antiochus in Cicero's Academica Andrew C Mayo (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 153
21.1 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary The Promise and Possibility of the Women’s Classical Caucus Nandini B. Pandey (University of Wisconsin--Madison) 153