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
41.4 Seneca Parallels of Anger and Fear in Seneca’s Thyestes Michelle Currie (Colby College) 153
41.5 Seneca Senecan Trimeter and Humanist Tragedy Aleksandr Fedchin (Tufts University) 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
42.2 Late Antiquity Forged Letters and Court Intrigue in the Reign of Constantius II Kathryn A. Langenfeld (Clemson University) 153
42.3 Late Antiquity Merit and Morality in the Letters of Libanius: The Case of Ep. 359 and 366 Mikael Papadimitriou (New York University) 153
42.4 Late Antiquity “A Condemnation of Nature”: The Reception of Propatheia in Late Antiquity Zakarias D Gram (University of California-Los Angeles) 153
42.5 Late Antiquity The End of the Roman Senate Michele Renee Salzman (University of California Riverside) 153
43.1 Hellenistic Poetry Embodied Divinities and Divine Kings: Callimachus’ Subversive Portrayal of Zeus in the Hymn to Zeus and Hymn to Delos India Watkins Nattermann (UNC-Chapel Hill) 153
43.2 Hellenistic Poetry Female Vocational Education in Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis Maria V Kovalchuk (University of Pennsylvania) 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
43.4 Hellenistic Poetry Medea Destroys Theocritus: A Metapoetic Reading of Apollonius Rhodius’ Talos Episode Michael Knierim (University of Illinois) 153
48.1 Roman History Why Metrological Standardization? Andrew M Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin) 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
48.3 Roman History Concordia Tiberiana: The Temple of Concord on Late Tiberian Sestertii Anne F LaGatta (University of Southern California) 153
48.4 Roman History From Parthica Capta to Rex Parthiis Datus: Crisis and Flexibility in Trajanic Imperial Ideology Timothy F Clark (University of Chicago) 153
48.5 Roman History People of the Water: Wetlands, Centuriation, and Italian Identity in Cisalpina Bryn E Ford (University of Pennsylvania) 153
48.6 Roman History Portoria and State Revenues during the Roman Principate James Macksoud (Stanford 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
49.2 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations On the Constructive Use of the Student Evaluation Narrative Ryan Fowler (Franklin and Marshall College) 153
49.3 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations Finding the Usefulness of Student Evaluations Even After Tenure Steven L Tuck (Miami University) 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
49.5 On Being Calmly Wrong 2.0: Learning from Student Evaluations Hurts So Good?: Evaluation and Consolation Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina, Asheville) 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
50.1 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Black Athena Before Black Athena: Elision and Dismissal Maghan Keita (Villanova University) 153
50.2 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Entangled on the Nile Vanessa Davies (Bryn Mawr) 153
50.3 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena “I did not want to approach my study of ancient history directed by WHITE scholarship”: Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) to Ivan van Sertima (1933-2006) Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) 153
50.4 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Modernist Poets at the Margins: The Prophetic Arts and Aesthetics of Kahlil Gibran and Melvin Tolson Yujhan Claros (Columbia University) 153
50.5 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Bernal, Snowden, and the Politics of Black Antiquity Christopher Parmenter (New York University) 153
50.6 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Exiting Frank M. Snowden, Jr’s Anthropological Gallery: Toward an Understanding of Egyptian Influence in Ancient Greek Visual Representations of Africans Najee Olya (University of Virginia) 153
50.7 (Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome:) Black Athena before Black Athena Delineating the Two Cradles: Black Discourse on Kemetic Influence on Greece Talawa Adodo (Temple University) 153
51.1 Flavian Literature and its Readers Religion in Martial’s apologia pro opere suo Jovan Cvjetičanin (University of Virginia) 153
51.2 Flavian Literature and its Readers Wormwood as a Programmatic Device in Pliny the Elder and Lucretius Nathaniel Fleury Solley (University of Pennsylvania) 153
51.3 Flavian Literature and its Readers The Aesthetics of Bathos in Early Imperial Latin Literature Thomas Bolt (Florida State University) 153
51.4 Flavian Literature and its Readers The Argo and the Iron Age in Statius’ Achilleid Madeline Thayer (University of Southern California) 153
51.5 Flavian Literature and its Readers Achilles Breaks Gender: Clothing, Gender, and Embodied Identity in Tertullian’s De Pallio Ky Merkley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 153
52.1 Greek History (1) Gatsby in Aegina: Economic Exclusivity and the Problem of Archaic Greek Aristocracy Evan Vance (University of California, Berkeley) 153
52.2 Greek History (1) Political Violence and Economic Growth in Ancient Greece Scott Lawin Arcenas (University of Montana) 153
52.3 Greek History (1) Solon’s Remedy against Hybris or Paranomon Edwin Carawan (Missouri State University) 153
52.4 Greek History (1) The Eastern Execution of Lykides in Herodotus 9.5 Irene Elias (University of Pennsylvania) 153
52.5 Greek History (1) Inscribing the Mediterranean: Greek Myths of Rape and Network Theory Stephanie L Larson (Bucknell University) 153
52.6 Greek History (1) Explosion or Expansion: Genealogical Networks and The Synoecism of Megalopolis Benjamin Winnick (University of British Columbia) 153
53.1 New Comedy, Roman Comedy Arsinoe II and the "Case Maker" of Apollodorus of Carystus. Justin S Dwyer (University of British Columbia) 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
53.3 New Comedy, Roman Comedy Age-grade initiation and gender ambiguity in Plautus' Casina Cassandra Tran (McMaster University and Mount Allison University) 153
53.4 New Comedy, Roman Comedy Financial Foreplay in Plautus’s Mostellaria and Catullus 5 George Fredric Franko (Hollins 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
54.1 Greek Tragedy The Road to Understanding: Parmenides in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Isabella Reinhardt (University of Pennsylvania) 153
54.2 Greek Tragedy Liminal Landscapes and Civic Alienation in Euripides’ Hippolytus Tedd A. Wimperis (Elon University) 153
54.3 Greek Tragedy Revenge, Trauma, and the Dynamics of Pain and Pleasure in Euripides’ Medea Afroditi Angelopoulou (University of Southern California) 153
54.4 Greek Tragedy A Gap in the Epic Tradition: Prologue and Plot in Euripides’ Trojan Women Amelia M Bensch-Schaus (University of Pennsylvania) 153