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
45.5 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare Mobilizing the Allies: Clientela and Rome’s Relationship with the Socii Bret C. Devereaux (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 154
45.6 New Directions in Roman Republican Warfare Videri/Esse: Performative Realities and Projected Fictions in the Army of the Roman Republic Jessica Clark (Florida State University) 154
46.1 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. Constructing Freedom in Athens in the 4th Century BCE: The Case of Pasion and Phormion Javal Coleman (University of Texas) 154
46.2 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. The Uses and Limits of "Social Death" as a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Ancient Slavery Jinyu Liu (DePauw University) 154
46.3 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. Enslavement, Theology, and Comparison: Varro's ARD in Three Dimensions Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) 154
46.4 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. Enslavement and the Liberal Arts in 18th and 19th Century US Education Sam Flores (College of Charleston) 154
46.5 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. Human Trafficking in the Roman World? Re-Framing a Modern Concept in Roman Terms. Christopher J Fuhrmann (University of North Texas) 154
46.6 Ancient Slavery and Its Reception in Global Perspective. The Authority of Antiquity: The Rebirth of Roman History in Early Modern Europe Sarah E Bond (University of Iowa) 154
48.2 Roman Drama and Critical Theory On Not Knowing Punic: Monolingualism and Empire in Plautus’ Poenulus Ray Lahiri (Yale University) 154
48.3 Roman Drama and Critical Theory (In)visible Scars: Reading Physical and Sexual Abuse in Plautus’ Asinaria and Captivi with Hortense Spillers India Watkins Nattermann (UNC-Chapel Hill) 154
48.4 Roman Drama and Critical Theory Kristeva’s Abject and the Future of the Cena Thyestea Robert Santucci (University of Michigan) 154
48.5 Roman Drama and Critical Theory On Violence Against Trojan Women Kate Meng Brassel (University of Pennsylvania) 154
48.6 Roman Drama and Critical Theory Hercules’ affectus: A Re-Reading of the (In)Human Body in Seneca’s Hercules Furens Simona Martorana (Kiel University / The University of Hamburg) 154
48.7 Roman Drama and Critical Theory Placing Roman Memory, Gender, and Grief: Seneca’s Troades in the Theatre of Marcellus Lisl Walsh (Beloit College) 154
49.1 Imperial Greek Literature Dio Chrysostom’s Chryseis: The Limits of Ancient Literary Criticism Dexter Brown (Yale University) 154
49.2 Imperial Greek Literature Poetry, Knowledge and Anthropomorphism in Oppian’s Halieutica Colin Mac Cormack (The University of Alabama) 154
49.3 Imperial Greek Literature Global Citizens, Inherent Exiles: The Rhetoric of Community in Imperial Greek Literature Eleanor Martin (Yale University) 154
49.4 Imperial Greek Literature “τέλος ἤδη δέρκομαι”. Re-Situating Power in Lucian’s De Dea Syria Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University) 154
49.5 Imperial Greek Literature Time, Space, and Metaliterary Play in Lucian's Icaromenippus Zachary Elliott (University of Pennsylvania) 154
49.6 Imperial Greek Literature A Gift of Roses: Variatio, Philostratus' Letters, and Hermogenes' On Forms Scott J DiGiulio (Mississippi State University) 154
50.1 Greek Philosophy I The Concept of "Physis" in the Sophistic Fragments of Antiphon Luke Lea (Columbia University) 154
50.2 Greek Philosophy I Similarity and Dependence in the Final Ranking of Plato's Philebus Ross Gilmore (University of Kansas) 154
50.3 Greek Philosophy I Crossroads of the Dialogue: Rethinking the "Parabasis" in Plato's Euthydemus Matthew B Pincus (University of Virginia) 154
50.4 Greek Philosophy I The Representation of Athena and the Autochthony Myth in Plato’s Timaeus Valerio Caldesi Valeri (University of Kentucky) 154
50.5 Greek Philosophy I Pragma, Karma, and Pyrrho David H. Sick (Rhodes College) 154
50.6 Greek Philosophy I Platonic Philosophy in Hellenistic Alexandria: The Case of Eratosthenes of Cyrene Sara Panteri (University of Michigan) 154
51.1 Ovid I Natus Uterque Dea: Virgilian Allusion and Epic Mirroring in the Proem of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Kenneth Draper (Indiana University) 154
51.2 Ovid I Wool Cloaks and Inside Jokes: Ovidian Wordplay for Messalla Corvinus Paul Hay (Hampden-Sydney College) 154
51.3 Ovid I From foot to Muse: metapoetic feet as structural devices in Ovid’s Amores Luizados Santos Souza (University of Cincinnati) 154
51.4 Ovid I Ovid’s Poetic Nervus: A Metapoetic Interpretation Tianqi Zhu (University of Cincinnati) 154
51.5 Ovid I The End of History? Ovid’s Pythagoras and deep time James Calvin Taylor (Colby College) 154
52.1 Greek Tragedy THE VOICE OF THE FURIES: SONIC AFFECT IN AESCHYLUS’ EUMENIDES Caleb Simone (Columbia University) 154
52.2 Greek Tragedy Reclaiming a Father: A Psycho-Analytical Interpretation of Neoptolemus’ Fictitious Tale (Ph. 343-90) Cecilia Cozzi (University of Cincinnati) 154
52.3 Greek Tragedy Jurisprudential Discussions in Euripides’ Hippolytus Stephen James Hughes (Harvard University) 154
52.4 Greek Tragedy A Lost Tragedy for a Lost War? Receiving Euripides’ Lost Philoctetes Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University) 154
52.5 Greek Tragedy The Riddle of the Sphinx at the Crossroads of Genre Margaret Foster (University of Michgian) 154
53.1 Reception and its Contexts ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, ἀόρατον? Invisible Man, the Odyssey, and Ralph Ellison’s “Basement Studio” and Federal Writers Project Interviews Benjamin Stephen Haller (Virginia Wesleyan University) 154
53.2 Reception and its Contexts “A wanton dalliance with impious bookes”: Lucy Hutchinson and Her Lucretius Jamie K. Wheeler (Princeton University) 154
53.3 Reception and its Contexts A Salty Reception: Situating the Legend of Carthage’s Destruction in the Folklore of the Medieval Maghreb Chris S Saladin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) 154
53.4 Reception and its Contexts Dido the Suffragist? The Carthaginian Queen and the Discourse about Women’s Rights in the U.S., 1880-1920 Timothy A. Joseph (College of the Holy Cross) 154
53.5 Reception and its Contexts Helen Chesnutt's The Road To Latin in the 21st Century Classroom Amy R. Cohen (Randolph College) 154
53.6 Reception and its Contexts Jocasta's Last Hours in Martha Graham's Night Journey: Identity, Responsibility, and Violence through the Dancing Body Nina Papathanasopoulou (College Year in Athens (CYA) / Society for Classical Studies (SCS)) 154
55.2 Translation and the Visual The Visuality and Materiality of Alexander Pope's Original Subscriber Editions of Homer Richard H Armstrong (University of Houston) 154
55.3 Translation and the Visual Homer Between Hypertext and Paratext: The Cover Art of Two Adaptations of the Iliad Katherine R De Boer (Xavier University) 154
55.4 Translation and the Visual Reorienting Narratives: Optatian and the Unachievable Translation Clara Lazzoni Lazzoni (Edinburgh University) 154
55.5 Translation and the Visual Translating the Mythical Female Body in the Graphic Novel: Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing is Monsters Elizabeth Bobrick (Wesleyan University) 154
55.6 Translation and the Visual Helen in Trans-lation: Putting a Trans Helen on Stage Julia M Perroni (University of Wisconsin) 154
55.7 Translation and the Visual Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi, and the Translation of Greek Myth into the Visual Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) 154
56.1 Homer The Demon Citadels and Their Endless Summer: Indic Tripura and the Island Kingdoms of the Odyssey Emily Blanchard West (St. Catherine University) 154
56.2 Homer Disappearing into thick aēr: The function of aēr in Homer and Anaximenes Benjamin J. Folit-Weinberg (University of Bristol) 154