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
33.0 SCS-33: AncientMakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint Session) At home, visiting graves in Rome: VR environments as spaces for virtual collaboration Dorian Borbonus, University of Dayton, and Niels Bargfeldt, University of Copenhagen 155
33.0 SCS-33: AncientMakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint Session) Using TinkerCAD in 7-12 Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School 155
33.0 SCS-33: AncientMakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint Session) A virtual exploration of art and architecture at the prehispanic capital of Monte Alban through edify’s VR learning platform Alex Elvis Badillo and Marc N. Levine, Indiana State University, 155
34.2 SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries The Terminology of Mystery Cults in Plutarch’s Works: Platonism Religion, and Philosophical Legitimation Francesco Padovani, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen 155
34.3 SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries The Prayer of the Ass: Silent Prayer and a Possible Meaning of the Book 11 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Umberto Verdura, Columbia University 155
34.4 SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries Neither a woman, nor a dog, nor a fly: Plutarch and taboos against entrance into Roman and Greek sanctuaries Serena Emilia Di Salvatore and Carmine Nastri, University of Salerno 155
34.5 SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries Croesus and the Debate over Delphic Ambiguity Rebecca Frank, Colby College 155
34.6 SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries Dio Chrysostom’s Philosophical Prophetess in the First Kingship Oration Stephen Hill, Wyoming Catholic College/University of Virginia 155
35.1 SCS-35: Epigraphy and Materiality The Symbolism of Absence: Public Cenotaphs and Civic Ideology in Archaic Greek Colonies Itamar Levin, Brown University 155
35.2 SCS-35: Epigraphy and Materiality Battlefields and Sacred Ways Matthew Sears, University of New Brunswick 155
35.3 SCS-35: Epigraphy and Materiality Encoding Lives in Epigraphic Form: Family Memories and Empire in Statius, silv. 3.3 and the Flavii’s Monument from Cillium Chiara Battisti, Princeton University 155
35.4 SCS-35: Epigraphy and Materiality Too Much and Never Enough: Timber Supply and Storage at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos (314-167 BCE) Michael McGlin, Temple University 155
36.2 SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine Coining Bodies, Minting Health Figen Geerts, New York University 155
36.3 SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine Technologies of Hope: Amulets and Networks of Care Anna Bonnell Friedin, University of Michigan 155
36.4 SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine To Heal a Wound - Four Medical Plasters recreated from Greco-Roman Medical Texts Allyson Blank, New York University 155
36.5 SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine Galen’s Creative Matter: Seeds, Cities, and Astrolabes Malina Buturovic, Yale University 155
36.6 SCS-36: (New) Materialities of Medicine Conveying Authority and Authenticity through Experiment in the Hippocratic Corpus Michelle Lessard, University of Cincinnati 155
37.1 SCS-37: Ovid Tu mihi sola places: Politics, Law and Sex in Ovid's Ars Amatoria Isabel Cooperman, University of Wisconsin-Madison 155
37.2 SCS-37: Ovid Elegist on the Verge of a Wreck: Movement Metaphors in the Tristia and a Poetic Career in Review Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati 155
37.3 SCS-37: Ovid Fatherhood as a Metaliterary Device: Interpreting Tragic Allusions in Metamorphoses 13 Cecilia Cozzi, University of Cincinnati 155
38.1 SCS-38: Drama and Poetry How Euripides Cyclops 503–10 Revises Odyssey 9 Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan 155
38.2 SCS-38: Drama and Poetry Poetic compounds in Aeschylus and Euripides, not poles apart Hana Aghababian, Cornell University 155
38.3 SCS-38: Drama and Poetry The ἀγών of τὸ σοφόν—An analysis of σοφός, σώφρων, and related terms in Euripides’ Bacchae Huaiyuan Zhang, Penn State University 155
38.4 SCS-38: Drama and Poetry Allusion and Audience in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin 155
38.5 SCS-38: Drama and Poetry Empty Nesting: Mother-Bird Similes in Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles Allison Jodoin, Boston University 155
39.1 SCS-39: Classics and the Postcolonial in the Americas (Workshop) Hacking as a Methodology for Post-Colonial Studies in Haitian Literature Tom Hawkins, The Ohio State University 155
39.2 SCS-39: Classics and the Postcolonial in the Americas (Workshop) From Conformity to Cultural Resistance: A new Heritage discourse in the Antigones of Mexico Andres Carrete, University of Texas at Austin 155
39.2 SCS-39: Classics and the Postcolonial in the Americas (Workshop) Untimely Greeks in the Caribbean: Greek and African Antiquities as a Time before Colonialism in Marcial Gala’s Call me Cassandra Cristina Pérez Díaz, Columbia University 155
40.1 SCS-40: Late Antiquity Augustine on Norms of Belief in Friendship Alexander Vega, Harvard University 155
40.2 SCS-40: Late Antiquity Porphyry, the Bible, and Christian allegory Matteo Milesi, University of Michigan 155
40.3 SCS-40: Late Antiquity Allusions Without Purpose: Reassessing Tacitean Borrowings by Ammianus Marcellinus Trevor Lee, The Ohio State University 155
41.1 SCS-41: Numismatics Heracleote and Amastrian Connectedness: External Prosopographies (and Coins) Chingyuan Wu, Peking University 155
41.2 SCS-41: Numismatics The Political and Economic Implications of Nero’s Olympic Series of Alexandrian Coinage Samantha Doleno, Washington University in St. Louis 155
41.3 SCS-41: Numismatics Glancing Back, Looking Forward: Prototype-Type-Metatype in Roman Numismatic Aegidophoric Portraiture Alexei Alexeev, University of Ottowa 155
42.2 SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice Supporting Accessibility and Inclusion in Study Abroad and Experiential Learning Contexts Michael Goyette, Eckerd College 155
42.3 SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice Sinners, Saints and Socrates Micheal Joseph Duchesne, Stanford University 155
42.4 SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice Myth and Voice Initiative: Reflective Practice Efi Spentzou, Royal Holloway University of London 155
42.5 SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice Poverty, Social Justice, and Fear of the Poor in the Ancient Greek World: Aporophobia, Ancient and Modern Aida Fernandez Prieto, Manchester Metropolitan University 155
42.6 SCS-42: HYBRID: Topics in Classics and Social Justice The Hurt of the Past, the Wounds of the Present Emily Allen-Hornblower, Rutgers University 155
43.1 SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions Scapegoating in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: The Story of Thelyphron Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University 155
43.2 SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions Cave Pamphilen: Reading the Witch in Apuleius’ Postcolonial Context JuliAnne Rach, University of California, Los Angeles 155
43.3 SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions Impetus Indignationis Meae: Apuleian Attitudes Towards Didactic and Moral Storytelling, Metamorphoses 10.29-10 Christopher Parkinson, University of Melbourne 155
43.4 SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions Orienting the Ass: Queer Objects in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Francesca Martelli, University of California, Los Angeles 155
43.5 SCS-43: HYBRID: Apuleius and His World: New Approaches, New Directions The Metamorphoses as Apuleius’ Platonic Myth Brando Legott, Florida State University 155
44.1 SCS-44: Tacitus Omnium consensu: The origins of a Tacitean dictum in Vitellian coinage Allyn Waller, Stanford University 155
44.2 SCS-44: Tacitus Generic Intrusion and Exemplary Depletion in Tacitus’ Histories 3 Elizabeth Raab, Yale University 155
44.3 SCS-44: Tacitus Legitimate Successor or Successful Imposter?: (False) Neros in Tacitus’s Histories and Annals Jasmine Akiyama-Kim, University of California, Los Angeles 155
44.4 SCS-44: Tacitus Destabilizing Communication in Tacitus: "Loaded" Alternatives in Historiae 1 Theodore Boivin, University of Cincinnati 155
45.1 SCS-45: Political History What Did the Censors Ask Pompey? Plutarch and the Recognitio Equitum of 70 BCE Noah Segal, University of Minnesota 155
45.2 SCS-45: Political History The Unusual Assassination of Milonia Caesonia Nathaniel Katz, University of Texas at Austin 155