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
69.2 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions The placement of word shapes in the Iambo-Trochaic Verse of Plautus and Terence: A Unified Field Theory of Theatrical Composition Joseph Smith, San Diego State University 155
69.3 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions Eating Democracy in Aristophanes’ Wasps Paul Eberwine, Princeton University 155
69.4 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions Knemon’s Fall: Tragic Disability in Menander’s Dyskolos Margaret Danaher, Brown University 155
69.5 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions Wasps 1208-1215 and the Non-Elite Symposion Christopher Ell, Brown University 155
69.6 SCS-69: Ancient Comedy and Comic Traditions The Sicilian Character of Sophron's Mimes Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg 155
70.2 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes The First Prototypes on Early Electrum Coinage: From Seemingly Random Emblems to an Iconographic Program Ute Wartenberg, American Numismatic Society 155
70.3 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes Coping with loss and confusion: copying old coins for a new identity Daniel Qin, University of Pennsylvania 155
70.4 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes Prototypes, Copies, and Fakes: A case study of the Croton, Thourioi and the Italiote league Marc Philipp Wahl, Universität Wien 155
70.5 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes Political and Cultural Continuity with Argead Prototypes in Early Hellenistic Royal Coinage Alexander Meuss, Universtität Mannheim 155
70.6 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes The Abduction of Persephone on Coin Types of the Eastern Roman Provinces Jane DeRose Evans, Temple University 155
70.7 SCS-70: Coins, Copies, and Prototypes Imperial imagery on Roman provincial coins: prototypes and derivations Dario Calomino, Università di Roma 155
71.1 SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education Books Written By Children: New Evidence for the Age and Social Background of Copyists Michael A. Freeman, Duke University 155
71.2 SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education Declaiming to One’s Self: The Extended Mind in Rhetorical Education Elizabeth Lavender, Yale University 155
71.3 SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education The Theater of Practical Education in the Works of Xenophon Tobias Philip, Rutgers University 155
71.4 SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education Penelope or Logic: translating dialectica in classical Latin literature Charis Jo, University of Oxford 155
71.5 SCS-71: Rhetoric and Education Who were the audience of Isocrates? A contextual analysis based on rhetorical strategies and communication modes Li Li, King’s College London 155
72.2 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Pax Persica: Small Wars and the Achaemenid Frontiers John Hyland, Christopher Newport University 155
72.3 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Satraps and Regional Governance in the Achaemenid Empire: A Comparative Perspective Rhyne King, DFG Project “The Unexplored Heartland” 155
72.4 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Reviewing the Achaemenid signature: Elamite documentation from Persepolis Wouter Henkleman, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) 155
72.5 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Tradition, Innovation, and Ideology Among the Inscribed Seals from the Persepolis Fortification Archive Christine Chandler, New York University 155
72.6 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Slavery in Egypt Before and After the Persians: Continuity and Change Ella Karev, University of Chicago 155
72.7 SCS-72: Power and Diversity: Centering Achaemenid Persian Imperialism Achaemenid Imperialism, from the 19th century to the present John WI Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara 155
73.1 SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Ptolemaic Propaganda, the Chepel Papyrus, and the Artists of Dionysus Austin A. Hattori, University of Cincinnati 155
73.2 SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Medea's magical music: gendered song and power disruptions in Apollonius’ Argonautica Sarah Cullinan Herring, University of Oxford 155
73.3 SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Empire of the Pantomime: Kinesthetics of Power in Lucian’s On Dance Alyson Melzer, Indiana University 155
73.4 SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Singing in the Streets: Public Deployments of Christian Song in the Late-Fourth Century Charles Cosgrove, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 155
73.5 SCS-73: HYBRID: Music and Power: The View from Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Battle Hymn of the Empire: Domestication and Savagery in Pange Lingua Philip Wilson, Harvard University 155
74.2 SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World Penalties for Officials in Athenian Inscribed Decrees Edward Jones, University of Oxford 155
74.3 SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World Last Wills and Hellenistic Statehood: the Testament of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (SEG IX 7) Luke De Boer, Billkent University 155
74.4 SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World Loan Sharks in the Aegean Sea: Legal Culture and Epigraphy on Amorgos Josh Allbright, University of Southern California 155
74.5 SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World It´s Who You Know. Co-freedmen Networks & Legal Knowledge in the Campanian Wax Tablets Alex Cushing, Loyola University Maryland 155
74.6 SCS-74: HYBRID: Law and Epigraphy in the Greek and Roman World Law as Narrative: Negotiating provincial identities in the early Roman Empire Rafail Zoulis, Yale University 155
75.1 SCS-75: Classics and Pedagogy Teaching Latin in Independent Greece: A Metric of Europeanness? Christopher Jotischky, Brown University 155
75.2 SCS-75: Classics and Pedagogy Classics and the Incarcerated: A Symbiotic Relationship Kirsten Day, Augustana College 155
75.3 SCS-75: Classics and Pedagogy Applying Pedagogical Models from Modern Arabic to Ancient Greek Simeon Ehrlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 155
76.1 SCS-76: Magic and Dreams Dismembered According to the Rigor of Harmony: A Structuralist Reading of Zosimos' Visions Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College 155
76.2 SCS-76: Magic and Dreams Plato, Magoi, and Lived Religion in Fourth-Century Athens: A View from Attic Curse Tablets Christopher Atkins, Yale University 155
76.3 SCS-76: Magic and Dreams Sirens Bind: Siren-Song as Binding Spell in the Odyssey, Plato’s Cratylus, Xenophon’s Memorabilia, and a Roman Curse Tablet from the 1st Century C.E. Catherine Saterson, Yale University 155
76.4 SCS-76: Magic and Dreams Artemidorus and the Panopticism of Urban Life: The Social Worlds of Non-Elites Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University 155
77.1 SCS-77: Measurement and Mathematics Hybrid Mathematical Texts and Greek Intellectual Networks Nick Winters, Northwestern University 155
77.2 SCS-77: Measurement and Mathematics Senecan Geometry and Stoic Surfaces Mason Wheelock-Johnson, Lawrence University 155
77.3 SCS-77: Measurement and Mathematics Scaling down the world, up to a point: ludic limits in Pseudo-Scymnus’ Periodos to King Nicomedes Johannes Wietzke, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 155
78.1 SCS-78: Medieval and Renaissance Reception There are no acrostics in Vergil (but Renaissance has plenty) Alexander Fedchin, Tufts University 155
78.2 SCS-78: Medieval and Renaissance Reception Veronica Franco’s reception of Ovid’s Heroides and Amores, Melanie Racette-Campbell, University of Winnipeg 155
78.3 SCS-78: Medieval and Renaissance Reception Alciato's Local Livy Talia Boylan, Yale University 155
79.1 SCS-79: Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity Filling the bellies of the beasts.” Late antique Christian criticism of animal hunts and the problem of chain consumption Konstanze Schiemann, University of Amsterdam 155
79.2 SCS-79: Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity Animality and Edibility in Ambrose’s Hexameron Lydia Herndon, University of Chicago 155
79.3 SCS-79: Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity The Animal as Index of Difference in Daphnis and Chloe 1.16 Clare Kearns, Brown University 155
79.4 SCS-79: Animal-Human Interactions in Late Antiquity A Christian Paradoxography: Humans, Animals, and Monsters in the Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004-1005) Julie van Pelt, Ghent University 155
80.1 SCS-80: Economic History “Learning from the Enemies”: Institutional Learning and Mimetic Isomorphism in Imperial Fiscal Institutions Umit Ozturk, Stanford University 155