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Browsing by Department "Classical Studies"
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A Commentary on Ovid's Ceyx and Alcyone Narrative (Met. XI.410-748)
(2015)This thesis seeks to analyze the longest story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, tale of Alcyone and Ceyx. Despite its length, its placement within the entire work, and the presence of the work's eponymous hero, Morpheus, the Alcyone's ... -
Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
(2012)This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities devised ... -
Athenian Democracy on Paper
(2018)Thousands of public records survive from democratic Athens. Nearly all of them are inscribed on stone (or more rarely metal). A century and more of study has revealed that these inscriptions were the tip of the iceberg. ... -
Beyond Republicanism: Political Thought in Tacitus’ Minor Works
(2019)This dissertation examines how the Roman historian Tacitus’ political thought in his minor works (the Dialogus, the Germania, and the Agricola) departs from the political thought of his Republic-era predecessors. Tacitus ... -
Democritus and the Critical Tradition
(2013)Modern scholars cannot agree how extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty ... -
Enslaved and Freed Persons in Roman Military Communities Under the Principate (27 BCE–284 CE)
(2020)This dissertation explores the lives of persons enslaved or formerly enslaved to soldiers and veterans of the Roman imperial armies (27 BCE–284 CE). Previous scholarship on the subject has been sparse and one-sided, mostly ... -
Feminine Imperial Ideals in the Caesares of Suetonius
(2008-04-23)The dissertation examines Suetonius' ideals of feminine conduct by exploring the behaviors he lauds or censures in imperial women. The approach comes from scholarship on the biographer's practice of evaluating of his male ... -
Figures in the Shadows: Identities in Artistic Prose from the Anthology of the Elder Seneca
(2009)The anthology of the elder Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 39 AD) contains quotations from approximately 120 speakers who flourished during the early Empire. The predominant tendency in modern scholarship has been to marginalize ... -
Forging a History: the Inventions and Intellectual Community of the Historia Augusta
(2017)This dissertation reexamines the origins, intent, and perceived historical value of the fourth-century series of Latin imperial biographies known as the Historia Augusta. Over the course of the twentieth century, the text ... -
In the Bird Cage of the Muses: Archiving, Erudition, and Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt
(2010)<p>This dissertation investigates the prominent role of the Mouseion-Library of Alexandria in the construction of a new community of archivist-poets during the third century BCE in the wake of Alexander the Great's conquests. ... -
Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
(2019)This dissertation investigates ancient language ideologies constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses ... -
Marginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
(2023)This study analyzes marginalized voices and nontraditional pathways of higher education in the late Roman Empire and diversifies our notion of who was part of “the” educated elite in ancient higher education. I focus on ... -
Matrona Visa: Women's Public Visibility and Civic Identity in Hispania Tarraconensis
(2020)This dissertation examines evidence for the public visibility of elite women in Roman cities in the province of Hispania Tarraconenesis from the first through the third centuries C. E. By focusing on the epigraphic evidence ... -
Monumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome
(2019)“Monumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome” is a comprehensive study of public infrastructure in Rome under the emperor Claudius (41-54 CE). Recent scholarship has targeted Claudius’ reign ... -
Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the "Odyssey": A Study on "Tisis"
(2010)This dissertation examines the interplay of ethics and poetic craft in the <italic>Odyssey</italic> through the lens of the theme of <italic>tisis</italic>, "retribution." In this poem <italic>tisis</italic> serves two main ... -
People and Identities in Nessana
(2008-04-22)Abstract In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial ... -
Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient Philosophy
(2011)This dissertation investigates how recognition of Plato's <italic>Republic</italic> as a pedagogical text and of the milieu of competing disciplines in which it composed suggests new readings of its philosophical content. ... -
Plato's Cretan Colony: Theology and Religion in the Political Philosophy of the Laws
(2016)The Laws is generally regarded as Plato’s attempt to engage with the practical realities of political life, as opposed to the more idealistic, or utopian, vision of the Republic. Yet modern scholars have often felt disquieted ... -
Playing the Tyrant: The Representation of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy
(2016)In my dissertation, I trace the depiction of the tyrant-figure in fifth-century Athenian tragedy, and how this figure reflects Athenian changing self-identity over the course of the fifth century. Given the crucial function of ... -
Rereading Lucretius: The Plague of Athens and Epicurean Attachment in De Rerum Natura
(2023)This dissertation addresses the problem of the concluding passage of Lucretius’ didactic poem De Rerum Natura, which famously consists of a vivid and evocative account of the Plague of Athens of 430 BCE that ends abruptly ...
