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
58.5 SCS-58: Slavery Theodora’s Little Child: Enslaved Motherhood in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Sarah Breitenfeld, Davidson College 155
58.6 SCS-58: Slavery Lucretia as Ideal Woman and Ideal Slaver in First Century BCE Rome Katherine Huemoeller, University of British Columbia 155
59.1 SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy Cicero's appeal to natural law in Philippics 10 & 11 Reece Edmunds, Princeton University 155
59.2 SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy What Trembles Within? Affective Anagnorisis in Seneca's Thyestes Rebecca Moorman, Boston University 155
59.3 SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy Socrates and the Seven Sages Emma Dyson, University of Pennsylvania 155
59.4 SCS-59: Greek and Roman Philosophy Roman Precursors of Modern Human Rights Doctrine: Cicero and Tertullian Bruce Frier, University of Michigan 155
60.1 SCS-60: Classical East and West: Case studies in philosophy and medicine to discuss methods, aims, and results of comparative research (Seminar) Roles, Boundaries, Blurriness? Reading Seneca Epistle 47 in Early Medieval China Benjamin Porteous, Harvard University 155
60.2 SCS-60: Classical East and West: Case studies in philosophy and medicine to discuss methods, aims, and results of comparative research (Seminar) The One and Many in Heraclitus and the Heng Xian Didier Natalizi Baldi, Harvard University 155
60.3 SCS-60: Classical East and West: Case studies in philosophy and medicine to discuss methods, aims, and results of comparative research (Seminar) A Philological Approach to Comparative Studies? The Development of Pulse Lore in Classical Greco-Roman and Chinese Medicine James Zainaldin, Vanderbilt University 155
61.2 SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching ChatGPT vs. AP Exam vs. Classicist: Wrestling with Innovative Pedagogy in the Age of the Metaverse Colin Shelton, University of Arizona, and Allison Das, Kinkaid School 155
61.3 SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching Finding the ‘Heart-Shaped’ Connection: Looking at Latin Learning from Middle School to Post-Graduation Johanna Clark, Hunter College, CUNY 155
61.4 SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching A Classics Professor’s Guide to Mutually Beneficial Relationships with K-12 Latin Teachers Robert Holschuh-Simmons, Monmouth College 155
61.5 SCS-61: Reaching over the Divide: Perspectives from K-12, College, and University Classics Teaching Supporting Collaboration with K-12 Latin Teachers (Current and Prospective): Notes from Nascent Initiatives in Tennessee Salvador Bartera, and Jessica Ann Westerhold, University of Tennessee Knoxville 155
62.1 SCS-62: Centering the Margins: Thinking Anew with the Drama of the Ancient Mediterranean Poetics in The Triumph of Horus: Ritual Drama from an Aristotelian Perspective Alison Hedges, Independent Scholar 155
62.2 SCS-62: Centering the Margins: Thinking Anew with the Drama of the Ancient Mediterranean Euripides’ Medea and the Necessity of Violence Elke Nash, University of New Hampshire 155
62.3 SCS-62: Centering the Margins: Thinking Anew with the Drama of the Ancient Mediterranean The Liberation of Light’: Phaethon, Transcendence, and Replenishment in Aidaa Peerzada’s SHINING Emma Pauly, University of California, Los Angeles 155
62.4 SCS-62: Centering the Margins: Thinking Anew with the Drama of the Ancient Mediterranean Swollen-foot: The Possibilities of a Disabled Self-Performance of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Sydney Hertz, Barnard College 155
63.1 SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean Burning Mortal Materials: the Transformation and Reassemblage of the Body in Homeric Funerals Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles 155
63.2 SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean Floral Ornament at the Grave: Acanthus Plants between Nature and Facture William Austin, Princeton University 155
63.3 SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean The Purity of Sacrificial Ornament: A Ritual-Ecological Framing of the “Boukrania and Fillets” Motif Mary Danisi, Cornell University 155
63.4 SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean Roman Plaster: The Semantics and Mechanics of a Craft Ecology Jessica Plant, University of Cambridge 155
63.5 SCS-63: From Elements to Ecologies: Art, Media, and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean Grafted Trees atop Mt. Nebo: Byzantine Art and Practice Amongst the Trees Matthew Westermeyer, Cornell University 155
64.1 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II Vergil on Nature and Culture: a Re-reading of Eclogue 10 Thomas Munro, Yale University 155
64.2 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II Imagining Affect: Movement and Emotion in the Georgics Aaron Seider, College of the Holy Cross 155
64.3 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II Darkness Golden: Dark Ecology in Vergil's Golden Age Erica Krause, University of Virginia 155
64.4 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II Vergil’s Rivers: A Case Study in Non-Human Agency Kresimir Vukovic, University of Venice, Ca' Foscari 155
64.5 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II Durando saecula uincit: Time of Plants and Time of Men in Virgil's Oeuvre Francesco Grotto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 155
64.6 SCS-64: HYBRID: Green Vergil II The Vergil Garden in Naples C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia 155
65.1 SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero Remember Patroklos Bruce M. King, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research 155
65.2 SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero Queer Paradigms of Achilles and Patroclus Celsiana Warwick, University of Iowa 155
65.3 SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero Queer Cassandra: Re-Reading Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Hudson, University of California, Santa Barbara 155
65.4 SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero "Costume is Flesh": Trans*ing Pentheus in Anne Carson’s Bakkhai Emily Waller Singeisen, University of Pennsylvania 155
65.5 SCS-65: HYBRID: Queering the Hero Looking Back: Queer Orpheus and His Modern Reception in Two Queer French Films Em Roalsvig, University of California, Santa Barbara 155
66.1 SCS-66: Hellenistic History The Tale of Two Bad Ptolemies David Levene, New York University 155
66.2 SCS-66: Hellenistic History Rethinking the Role of the Alexandrian "Mob" in Ptolemaic Succession Politics Allen Alexander Kendall, University of Michigan 155
66.3 SCS-66: Hellenistic History Land Transfer and Property Rights: Infrastructural Power in Seleucid Asia Minor Qizhen Xie, Brown University 155
66.4 SCS-66: Hellenistic History Moving away from water-centered narratives of Hellenistic Egypt: Ptolemaic Presences in the Western Desert Giulio Leghissa, University of Toronto 155
66.5 SCS-66: Hellenistic History The Persian Techniques of Alexander's Historians Samantha Blankenship, University of Tennessee Knoxville 155
66.6 SCS-66: Hellenistic History Shame and tyranny in Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni Anja Bettenworth, University of Cologne 155
67.2 SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory Besieged Memory: Intertextuality and the Classical Past in Procopius’ Treatment of the City of Rome Jessica L. Moore, Iowa State University 155
67.3 SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory Didactics and Literary Memory in Macrobius’ Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis Katherine Krauss, Australian Catholic University 155
67.4 SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory Legal Principles: (Re)positioning Rome’s Legal History in Tacitus’ Annals 3.25-28 K.P.S. Janssen, Leiden University/University of Edinburgh 155
67.5 SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory Melanthios: (Mis)memorialisation Beyond the Tragic Canon Tom Lister, University of Oxford 155
67.6 SCS-67: Intertextuality and Greek and Roman Cultural Memory Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Shipwreck Epigrams Robert Rohland, University of Cambridge 155
68.1 SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature Meliboeus esse coepi: A critical reading of Sidonius Epistula VIII.9 Noel Lenski, Yale University 155
68.2 SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature An Ovidian audax aranea at Work in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae Lucy McInerney, Brown University 155
68.3 SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature Constructing Virgil’s Authority in Pseudo-Asconius’ Commentary on the 'Verrines' Gianmarco Bianchini, University of Toronto 155
68.4 SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature Animals, Nature, and Power: the Zoological Content of Solinus' Collectanea Giovanni Piccolo, University of Melbourne 155
68.5 SCS-68: Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature Challenging Philosophy Through Elegy: Boethius’ use of Ovid’s exile poetry in the Consolatio Victoria Lansing, University of Oxford 155
69.1 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions Mihi plurumum credo: Alcmena’s Resistance to Psychological Manipulation in Plautus’ Amphitruo Allie Pohler, University of Cincinnati 155