Browsing by Subject "Greek"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Naked and Unashamed: A Study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene in the Greco-Roman World
(2010)This dissertation presents a study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type in its cultural and physical contexts. Like many other naked Aphrodites, the Anadyomene was not posed to conceal the body, but with arms raised, naked ... -
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. ... -
Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
(2019)This dissertation examines how three ancient Christian poets scripted female biblical figures as models of emboldened faith for all to emulate. Through imagined speech and narrative embellishment, they brought familiar ...
