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
73.2 Gender, Power, and the Body in Late Antiquity The Promise of Arrival: Travel Narratives and the Transformative Potential of Elsewhere Maia Kotrosits (Denison University) 153
10.4 Transformations of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance The Protean Pathways of Enargeia: Renaissance Epic and the Theory of Blank Verse Richard H Armstrong (University of Houston) 153
78.3 Philosophi Platonici: Plato in Roman Philosophy The Reception of the Myth of Er in the Latin Philosophical Tradition Jeffrey Ulrich (Rutgers University) 153
43.3 Hellenistic Poetry The Repentant Rapist: A Menandrian Strategy of Characterization in Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe (frr. 67–75 Pf.) Brian McPhee (Indiana University, Bloomington) 153
55.2 Gender and Power The Representation of Women in the Epithets of the Greek funerary Inscriptions from Rome Monica Di Rosa (University of Calgary) 153
42.1 Late Antiquity The Return of the Pompilian Era: Romulus, Numa, and their Estrangement from Emperors in Ammianus Marcellinus Jeremy Swist (Xavier University) 153
17.1 Old Comedy The Rhetoric of Innovation in Old Comedy: An Athenian Cultural Recovery Project? Daniel Anderson (Coventry University) 153
54.1 Greek Tragedy The Road to Understanding: Parmenides in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Isabella Reinhardt (University of Pennsylvania) 153
13.6 "What Is a Woman?," or, Intersextional Feminisms: Exploring Ancient Definitions of Womanhood Beyond the Binary The Rope, the Witch, and the Non-Binary in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Victoria Hodges (Rutgers University) 153
20.3 Eta Sigma Phi: The Next Generation The Sensations of Chariot Racing John Harrop (Truman State University) 153
32.4 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics The Social Status of the Drone in Vergil and other Ancient Writers on Apiculture Matthew Leigh (Oxford University) 153
53.5 New Comedy, Roman Comedy The Soldier and the Specific Girl in Menander and Plautus Hannah Sorscher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 153
40.1 Ovid The Stars in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Sam Kindick (University of Colorado Boulder) 153
8.4 Religion The Strength of Ambiguity: Constructing Belief in the Apotheosis of Julia, daughter of Nikias (IG Bulg. I2 345) Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University) 153
32.3 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics The Tormented Master of Vergil’s Georgics Philip Thibodeau (Brooklyn College) 153
73.4 Gender, Power, and the Body in Late Antiquity The Veil Down There: Pubic Hair and Tertullian’s De virginibus velandis Cassandra Casias (Duke University) 153
31.7 Epigraphy and Gender in the Greco-Roman World The Vestal Virgins and Cross-Gender Mentoring at Rome: Epigraphic Evidence from the Atrium Vestae Morgan Palmer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 153
16.5 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius The Virtue of Audacity in Statius' Silvae and Thebaid Stephen M Kershner (Austin Peay State University) 153
19.1 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom The Voice of the Vanquished: The Role of the Babylonian Talmud in the Study of Classics Daniel R Golde (Jewish Theological Seminary) 153
22.4 Classics and Banner and Brand The “traps” of Classics: the use of (Western) Classics in Chinese state propaganda Xinyi Huang (University of South Carolina) 153
74.2 Modern Platforms for Ancient Performances Theater of Zoom: Women of Trachis for Frontline Medical Providers Mike Lippman (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) 153
65.5 Lessons Learned from Teaching During the Pandemic Their Children or My Own: A Latinist’s Work-Life Balance in a Post-Pandemic World Benjamin Joffe (The Hewitt School) 153
3.2 Ancient Music and the Visual Arts Things that Sing: objectified music in archaic and early classical Greece Deborah Steiner (Professor, Columbia University, Department of Classics) 153
41.2 Seneca Time and Enslavement in Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilius 47 and 124 Mason Wheelock-Johnson (University of Wisconsin - Madison) 153
5.5 Enslavement and Literary Work in the Roman Mediterranean Tiro Beyond the Ciceros: The Social Standing of a Freed Literary Worker Nicole Giannella (Cornell University) 153
37.1 Reception Tityrus Unrevived in Petrarch's Pastoral Poetry Diana Librandi (UCLA) 153
48.2 Roman History To Whom Does the King Kneel?: The Absent Supplicandus on Roman Republican Coinage in the First Century BCE Anna Accettola (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) 153
49.4 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations Tough Love with Soft Gloves Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida State University) 153
56.2 Classical Studies Now: Trends, Techniques, and Tools Toward a Data-Driven Latin Prose Composition Course Patrick J. Burns (University of Texas at Austin / Quantitative Criticism Lab) 153
69.1 Greek History (2) Trading in the Dark: Smugglers, State, and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean Ümit Öztürk (Stanford University) 153
55.1 Gender and Power Transgressive Reproduction in Against Timarchos and Against Neaira Hilary Lehmann (Knox College) 153
7.7 Herculanean Studies: The Next Generation Trumpian Bureaucracy in 62 CE: Junian Latins, Wax Tablets, and Procedural Barriers to Citizenship Alex Cushing (University of Toronto) 153
32.2 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Unlevelling the Fields of the First Georgic Katherine Dennis (Princeton University) 153
16.2 Petronius, Lucan, and Statius Untangling Quartilla’s Orgy and Sexual Terminology in Petronius’ Satyricon Ashley Kirsten Weed (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 153
2.4 IOS Panel Ovid and the Natural World, SCS 2022 Up the Garden Path: Reading and Inscribing Ovid in the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay Joanna Paul (Open University) 153
49.6 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations Using Critical Self-Evaluations to be a Better Instructor E. Del Chrol (Marshall University) 153
19.4 The Ancient World and the Contemporary Classroom Using the ancient ars memoriae to learn vocabulary Tom Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis) 153
2.3 IOS Panel Ovid and the Natural World, SCS 2022 Vegetative suffering in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester) 153
59.7 Vergil and Authoritarianism Vergil, Syme, and Augustan Authority James Aglio (Boston University) 153
58.5 The World of Neo-Latin Epic Vergilian Divine Machinery in Thomas Campion’s De Pulverea Coniuratione Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 153
59.4 Vergil and Authoritarianism Vergil’s Victores: a study of the epithet victor in the Georgics Damon Hatheway (Boston University) 153
32.7 The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics Virgil in the Cane Fields of Brazil Erika Valdivieso (Princeton University) 153
26.6 Extending Roman Personhood and Authorship Were Martyrs Persons? Barbara Gold (Hamilton College) 153
6.5 Queer Representations and Receptions of Amazons What Do We Call Courageous Women? Donna Dodson (Brandeis University) 153
21.2 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary What the WCC Means to Me Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles) 153
21.3 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary What Women('s Classical Caucus Members) Want Caroline Cheung (Princeton University) 153
60.7 Infection, Pandemics and the Borders of Medicine What would Hippocrates do? Contagious classical reception in the time of COVID-19 Nicolette D'Angelo (Oxford University) 153
21.4 WCC Past, Present, and Future: A Celebration of the WCC’s 50th Anniversary Where Mission Meets Strategy: Restructuring the Women’s Classical Caucus for the 21st Century Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 153
19.6 Inclusivity and Assessment in the Classroom Why I'm Tentatively Hugging Ungrading Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College) 153
48.1 Roman History Why Metrological Standardization? Andrew M Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin) 153