COVER 4 COVER 1 151ST SCS ANNUAL MEETING S C S A BSTR AC TS FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN 2020 PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIAT ION PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIAT ION ABSTRACTS MARRIOTT MARQUIS Society for Classical Studies WASHINGTON D.C. New York University 20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 January 2-5, 2020 Washington, DC FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIAT ION classicalstudies.orgPHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIAT ION FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDED IN 1869 AS THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ABSTRACTS OF THE 151ST SCS ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 2-5, 2020 MARRIOTT MARQUIS WASHINGTON D.C. PREFACE The abstracts in this volume appear in the form submitted by their authors without editorial intervention. They are arranged in the same order as the Annual Meeting Program. An index by name at the end of the volume is provided. This is the thirty-eighth volume of Abstracts published by the Society in as many years, and suggestions for improvements in future years are welcome. The Program Committee thanks the authors of these abstracts for their cooperation in making the timely productions of this volume possible. 2019 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Cynthia Damon, Chair Barbara Weiden Boyd Raffaella Cribiore Simon Goldhill Johanna Hanink Timothy Moore Andrew Riggsby Helen Cullyer (ex officio) Cherane Ali (ex officio) Published by: Society for Classical Studies (founded in 1869 as the American Philological Association) New York University 20 Cooper Sq., 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003 i TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface . i FIRST SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 3, 8:00AM-10:30AM Session 1 Evaluating Scholarship, Digital and Traditional (Organized by the Digital Classics Association) 1 Session 2 Greek and Latin Linguistics (Organized by the Society for Greek and Latin Linguistics) 4 Session 3 Blurring the Boundaries: Interactions Between the Living and Dead in the Roman World (Joint AIA-SCS Session) 8 Session 4 Imperial Virgil (Organized by the Vergilian Society) 10 Session 5 Classics and Archaeology for the General Reader: A Workshop with NEH Public Scholars (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop) 14 Session 6 Lightning Talks #1: Latin and Greek Literature 14 Session 7 Greek Religious Texts 15 Session 8 Voicing the Past 18 Session 9 Tragic Tradition 22 SECOND SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 3, 10:45AM-12:45PM Session 10 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 26 Session 11 The Future of Archaeology and Classics in American Academia (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop) 28 Session 12 Metaphor in Early Greek Poetry 28 Session 13 Readers and Reading: Current Debates 31 Session 14 Pedagogy 33 Session 15 Literary Texture in Augustine and Gregory 35 Session 16 Greek Historiography 37 Session 17 Greek and Roman Novel 41 Session 18 Screening Topographies of Classical Reception 44 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS THIRD SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 3, 1:45PM-4:45PM Session 19 Lesbianism Before Sexuality (Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus) 47 Session 20 Teaching with Coins: Coins at Tools for Thinking about the Ancient World (Organized by Friends of Numismatics) 51 Session 21 Topography and Material Culture in Fifth Century Drama 54 Session 22 State Elite? Senators, Emperors, and Roman Political Culture 25 BCE – 400 CE (Seminar) 59 Session 23 Ordering Information in Greco-Roman Medicine (Organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy) 63 Session 24 Second Sophistic 66 Session 25 Latin Poetry 70 Session 26 Legal Culture 74 Session 27 Approaches to Language and Style 78 Session 28 Classics and Civic Activism (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop) 83 EVENING SESSION JANUARY 3, 5:30-8:30PM Session 29 Session 29: Black Classicism in the Visual Arts (Organized by Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome) 83 FOURTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 4, 8:00AM-10-30AM Session 30 Culture and Society in Greco-Roman Egypt (Organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) 86 Session 31 God and Man in the Second Sophistic: Criticism, Innovation and Continuity (Organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) 90 Session 32 Homer in the Renaissance (Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception) 94 Session 33 Graduate Student Leadership in Classics (Organized by the Graduate Student Committee) 96 Session 35 Humanities Publishing in Transition (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop) 98 Session 36 Lightning Talks #2: Greek Literature 100 Session 37 Foucault and Antiquity Beyond Sexuality 101 Session 38 Hellenistic Poetry: Greek and Latin 104 Session 39 Numismatics 109 iii TABLE OF CONTENTS FIFTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 4, 10:45AM-12:45PM Session 40 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (Organized by Eta Sigma Phi) 113 Session 41 Late Antique Textualities (Organized by the Society for Late Antiquity) 115 Session 42 Classics Graduate Education in the 21st Century (Organized by the Committee on College and University Education) 118 Session 43 Citizenship, Migration, and Identity in Classical Athens 121 Session 44 From Illustration to Context: Figure-Decorated Pottery in Pedagogical Settings 124 Session 45 Roman Cultural History 124 Session 46 Ecocriticism 127 Session 47 The Lives of Books 130 Session 48 Chorality 132 Session 49 Latin Poetics and Poetic Theory 135 SIXTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 5, 1:45PM-4:45PM Session 50 Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era (Organized by the International Plutarch Society) 139 Session 51 Problems in Performance: Failure and Classical Reception Studies 142 Session 52 New Perspectives on the Atlantic Façade of the Roman World (Seminar) 147 Session 53 Neo-Latin in the Old and New World: Current Scholarship 150 Session 54 Administrative Appointments: A Contribution to the Dialogue on the Present and Future of Classics, Humanities, and Higher Education from Administrative Perspectives 154 Session 55 Women in Rage, Women in Protest: Feminist Approaches to Ancient Anger (Seminar) 159 Session 56 Lucan, Statius, and Silius 162 Session 57 Science in Context 167 Session 58 Global Receptions 172 Session 59 Cicero 177 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS SEVENTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 5, 8:00AM-11:00AM Session 60 Sisters Doin’ it for Themselves: Women in Power in the Ancient World and the Ancient Imaginary (Organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus) 180 Session 61 Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons 184 Session 62 Translating “Evil” in Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Modern American Culture (Seminar) 186 Session 63 What’s New in Ovidian Studies (Organized by the International Ovidian Society) 189 Session 64 Social Networks and Interconnections in Ancient and Medieval Contexts (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) 194 Session 65 Late Antiquity 197 Session 66 Homerica 201 Session 67 Plato and his Reception 205 Session 68 Greek and Latin Comedy 209 Session 69 Public Life in Classical Athens 213 EIGHTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 5, 11:45AM-1:45PM Session 70 Inscriptions and Dates (Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) 217 Session 71 Moving to the Music (Organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage) 220 Session 72 If Classics is for Everybody, Why Isn’t Everybody in my Class? Building Bridges and Opening Doors to the Study of Classics 223 Session 73 Novel Entanglements 224 Session 74 Personhood and Authorship: Collective Living Commentary on a Project of Tom Habinek 228 Session 75 Greek History 228 Session 76 Style and Stylistics 231 Session 77 Constructing a Classical Tradition: East and West 235 AIA'S EIGHTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 5, 12PM-3:00PM Session 78 Inter-Regional Networks in Hellenistic Eurasia (Joint AIA-SCS Session) 238 Session 79 The Roman Army During the Republican Period (Joint AIA-SCS Session) 240 Session 80 Monumental Expressions of Political Identities (Joint AIA-SCS Session) 244 v TABLE OF CONTENTS NINTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS JANUARY 5, 2:00PM-4:30PM Session 81 Greek Culture in the Roman World (Organized by the American Classical League) 248 Session 82 How and Why Does Soul Matter to the Various Discourses of Neoplatonism (Organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) 251 Session 83 Childhood and Fictive Kinship in the Roman Empire 255 Session 84 Variant Voices in Roman Foundation Narrative 258 Session 85 Theatre of Displacement: Ancient Tragedy and Modern Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (Organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) 261 Session 86 Augustus and After 263 Session 87 Ancient Ethics 267 Session 88 Archaic Poetics of Identity 270 vi FIRST SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS Session 1: Evaluating Scholarship, Digital and Traditional (Organized by the Digital Classics Association) Title: Evaluating Digital Scholarship on its Own Terms: A Case Study Name: Samuel Huskey This paper will discuss how a multidisciplinary department made up of classicists and other humanities scholars at a large public research university developed and implemented a policy for evaluating digital scholarship. The challenges will be familiar to most faculty members, regardless of the nature or size of their departments. In this instance, the majority of faculty members were not engaged in digital scholarship of any kind. Some were firmly committed to the book as the gold standard of scholarly productivity. Others recognized the potential of digital scholarship, but had reservations about the ephemeral nature of so many digital projects. Still others took the view that building digital tools and resources is something other than scholarship; tools might support scholarly work, but they do not by themselves make an original contribution to scholarship. Nevertheless, with the university pushing ahead with a digital scholarship initiative, the department agreed that adopting a policy on digital scholarship would, at the very least, put it in the running for precious resources.