Browsing by Subject "Ancient languages"
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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 ... -
Violent by Nature: Danger and Darkness in the Pastoral World
(2022)This dissertation challenges the notion of pastoral as a rural utopia by exposing the violence and danger innate to the bucolic world. The classical tradition has historically understood the pastoral world as an idyllic ...
