Browsing by Subject "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 ... -
Anger Eliminativism: Stoic and Buddhist Perspectives
(2022)Many psychologists and philosophers hold that anger is a completely normal and often healthy human emotion. This position perhaps traces back to Aristotle, who argued that anger is morally good when it is moderated, such ... -
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. ... -
Dedication and Display of Portrait Statues in Hellenistic Greece: Spatial Practices and Identity Politics
(2016)This dissertation models a new approach to the study of ancient portrait statues—one that situates them in their historical, political, and spatial contexts. By bringing into conversation bodies of evidence that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
(2016)“Globalizing the Sculptural Landscape of Isis and Sarapis Cults in Roman Greece,” asks questions of cross-cultural exchange and viewership of sculptural assemblages set up in sanctuaries to the Egyptian gods. Focusing on ... -
Liberation in the Midst of Futility and Destruction: Romans 8:19-22 and the Christian Vocation of Nourishing Life
(2014)In an era of ecological upheaval that has led some scientists to declare that human activity has inaugurated a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, the apocalyptic theology of the Apostle Paul speaks a timely word of ... -
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 ... -
Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman World
(2017)Sarcophagi belonging to Jewish patrons are an important source of evidence for reconstructing the variety of ways that ancient Jews interacted with visual culture in Late Antiquity. During this period, from the 2nd to 5th ... -
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 ... -
Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato
(2016)This dissertation seeks to identify what makes Cicero’s approach to politics unique. The author's methodology is to turn to Cicero’s unique interpretation of Plato as the crux of what made his thinking neither Stoic nor ... -
Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
(2020)This dissertation revolves around a central observation that, although the methodological differences among Greek mathematical writings are striking, these differences do not lie primarily along lines of subject matter or ... -
Sophocles’ Ancient Readers: The Role of Scholarship on the Reception of Greek Tragedy
(2021)There is a modern scholarly consensus that Sophocles’ popularity was so great in antiquity that criticism surrounding him was overwhelmingly positive but vague and without depth; he was, in their view, almost “beyond criticism” ... -
Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
(2016)This dissertation interrogates existing scholarly paradigms regarding aetiology in the Histories of Herodotus in order to open up new avenues to approach a complex and varied topic. Since aetiology has mostly been treated ... -
The Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Roman Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula
(2012)This dissertation is an epigraphic study of the Roman auxiliary units raised on the Iberian Peninsula based on a corpus of over 750 inscriptions. It presents the literary and epigraphic evidence for late Republican allied ... -
The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
(2023)This dissertation answers the question, “How were scribes in the ancient world trained?” The following social history elevates the marginalized voices of ancient scribes, emphasizing their personhood and their agency as ... -
The Longest Transference: Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature
(2014)This dissertation identifies Cicero's <italic>Consolatio</italic>, Seneca's <italic>Ad Polybium de consolatione</italic>, and Boethius' <italic>De consolatione Philosophiae</italic> as self-consolations, in which these Roman ...
