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
80.2 SCS-80: Economic History Quantifying the Expenditures of Local Governments during the Roman Principate James Macksoud, Stanford University 155
80.3 SCS-80: Economic History ‘Sacred wealth’ as an economic category in ancient Greek thought and practice Evan Vance, University of California, Berkeley 155
81.1 SCS-81: Platonism and Natural Philosophy Distinctive Features within Plotinus’ Elemental Theory Maxwell Wade, Boston University 155
81.2 SCS-81: Platonism and Natural Philosophy A Nature Akin to Human Nature:’ Human-Plant Relations in Porphyry of Tyre Aaron Johnson, Lee University 155
81.3 SCS-81: Platonism and Natural Philosophy “The Regrettable Reincarnation Thesis” in Timaeus: The Achilles Heel of Neoplatonist Natural Philosophy William Altman, Independent Scholar 155
81.4 SCS-81: Platonism and Natural Philosophy Proclus on Sensible Substance and Particulars Jonathon Greig, KU Leuven 155
82.1 SCS-82: Roman Historiography Reading Cato’s In Galbam at the end of the Origines Lydia Spielberg, University of California, Los Angeles 155
82.2 SCS-82: Roman Historiography Magistra Libidinum Neronis: Calvia Crispinilla and the Power of Vice Caitlin Gillespie, Brandeis University 155
82.3 SCS-82: Roman Historiography Fenestella and the Temporal Rhetoric of Tiberian Literature Paul Hay, Hampden Sydney College 155
82.4 SCS-82: Roman Historiography Monsters of Vice, Masters of One: the Invective Genre in the Historia Augusta Martin Shedd, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 155
82.5 SCS-82: Roman Historiography Cato the "antiquarian" Jackie Elliot, University of Colorado, Boulder 155
83.2 SCS-83: HYBRID: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities Secrecy and the Oracle Lore: On Knowledge Restriction in Ancient Babylonia Netanel Anor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 155
83.3 SCS-83: HYBRID: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities On the secrecy of Maenadic rites Bartek Bednarek, University of Warsaw/ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich 155
83.4 SCS-83: HYBRID: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities How to suppress a secret cult: invective and perverted rites in Cicero’s Catilinarians Isobel K. Köster, University of Colorado 155
83.5 SCS-83: HYBRID: Secrecy and sociogenesis: mysteries, restricted rituals, and the growth of religious communities An Exploration of Secrecy and Sociogenesis from the Palatine Hill Vivian Laughlin, Wake Forest University 155
84.1 SCS-84: HYBRID: The Afterlife of the Body Personhood and the Body in Roman Funerary Monuments Carolyn Tobin, Vassar College 155
84.2 SCS-84: HYBRID: The Afterlife of the Body Reassessing the Relationship between the Platonist(ic) Subtle Body and the Christian Resurrection-Body Nicholas Banner, Trinity College, Dublin 155
84.3 SCS-84: HYBRID: The Afterlife of the Body I see only bones and bare skulls: Skeletons in Lucian's Afterlife A. Everett Beek, North-West University (Noordwes-Universiteit) 155
85.1 SCS-85: Medical Texts Bodily Surfaces in Aelius Aristides’ Third Hieros Logos Artemis Brod, Independent Scholar 155
85.2 SCS-85: Medical Texts The drawings of the Gynaecia of Mustio - where text and materialities meet Micaela Brembilla, Uppsala University 155
85.3 SCS-85: Medical Texts Orator Patiens: Therapeutic Rhetoric in Aelius Aristides's Hieroi Logoi Hana Liu, Stanford University 155
85.4 SCS-85: Medical Texts The Mesopotamian Hippocrates? The Rhetorical Strategies of the Hippocratic treatise De victu 4 in the Context of Mesopotamian Medical Tradition Marko Vitas, Brown University 155
85.5 SCS-85: Medical Texts Suffering with Sickness under Domitian in Pliny’s Letters Trevor Luke, Florida State University 155
86.1 SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic Cicero’s Letters of Exile and The Space of Political Upheaval Vasileios Sazaklidis, University of Texas at Austin 155
86.2 SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic Searching for the Crowd in Cicero's Second Catilinarian Julia Mebane, Indiana University 155
86.3 SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic Dialogue across Fragments? Quotations of Republican Tragedy in Varro and Cicero Scott Di Giulio, Mississippi State University 155
86.4 SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic Mea Vox Occidit: Voice and Silence in Cicero's Letters from Exile Tiziano Boggio, University of Cincinnati 155
86.5 SCS-86: Voices of the Late Republic 'Enslaved to the courts': slavery and/as politics in Cicero's early speeches Olivia Elder, University of Oxford 155
87.1 SCS-87: Virgil Deserti Coniugis Iras: Aeneas, Helen, and Abandonment Colin Lacey, Boston University 155
87.2 SCS-87: Virgil Blindness and Vergil's Auditory Imagination Brayden Hirsch, Boston University 155
87.3 SCS-87: Virgil The Homeric Language for Rescue in Virgil’s Aeneid Peter Kotiuga, Boston University 155
87.4 SCS-87: Virgil Orestes and cosmic chorality in Aeneid 12 Cynthia Liu, University of Oxford 155
87.5 SCS-87: Virgil Spinning Yarns and Spinning Songs: Clymene in Vergil’s Georgics (4.345–349) Matthew Sherry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 155
88.1 SCS-88: Language and Linguistics Corpus-Wide Computational Analysis of Anagrammatic Wordplay in Latin Literature Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Elizabeth D. Adams, University of Texas at Austin 155
88.2 SCS-88: Language and Linguistics Explaining Ancient Greek Enclitics: A New Analysis Stephen Trazskoma, California State University, Los Angeles 155
88.3 SCS-88: Language and Linguistics New Perspectives on Messapic Language and Culture Michele Bianconi, University of Oxford 155
88.4 SCS-88: Language and Linguistics Accents, Pronunciation, and Normativity of Oral Speech in Late Antiquity Yuliya Minets, University of Alabama 155
89.1 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry The Syracusia Affair: Archimelus, Moschion, and Sicilian Cultural Politics Brett Evans, Georgetown University 155
89.2 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry Rivers as Sources and Symbols of Displacement: The Representation of Three Callimachean Rivers in Lycophron’s Alexandra Kathleen Kidder, University of Houston 155
89.3 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry Hellenistic Jewish Epic Between Homer and the Septuagint Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford 155
89.4 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry Deciphering the Alexipharmaca’s “Incomplete” Acrostic Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis 155
89.5 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry Playing with Traditions: Lucilian Satire and Herodian Mime Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh 155
89.6 SCS-89: The Silver Age of Hellenistic Poetry Erotic Objectification in the Epigrams of Philodemus Matthew Chaldekas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 155
90.1 SCS-90: Non-Canonical Greek Pedagogy (Workshop) Who Wants to be Normal Anyway?: Biblical Greek and Interlingual Pedagogy Daniel Golde, The Jewish Theological Seminary 155
90.2 SCS-90: Non-Canonical Greek Pedagogy (Workshop) Looking Beyond Athens in the First-Year Greek Classroom Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College 155
90.3 SCS-90: Non-Canonical Greek Pedagogy (Workshop) Why Prose Fiction for Intermediate Greek Courses? Robert Groves, University of Arizona 155
91.1 SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity Classical Tradition and the Alterity of the New World in Peter Martyr’s Letters to Pomponius Laetus Nicoletta Bruno, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald 155
91.2 SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity The Early Modern Re-Invention of Rome’s ‘African Monstrosities’ Elena Giusti, Warwick University 155
91.3 SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity Patagonian Giants, Orinocan Acephaloi: The Recursive Printed Legacy of the "Plinian Races" Transplanted to the Americas, Image and Text Julia C. Hernandez, New York University 155
91.4 SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity Insolitum est feminam scire Latine: on the gender of Latin in early modern educational treatises Irene Peirano Garrison, Harvard University 155