Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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Reactions to the beautiful body in Classical Athens : a tri-genre approach
(2014) - ThesisEconomist Daniel Hamermesh’s groundbreaking Beauty Pays, building upon his earlier research, opens with the sentence: “Modern man is obsessed with beauty. ”His book analyses how beautiful individuals benefit (mainly ... -
A philosophy as old as Homer : Giacomo Leopardi and Greek poetic pessimism
(2017) - ThesisThe aim of this thesis is twofold: it explores Giacomo Leopardi’s (1798-1837) interpretation of, and engagement with, Greek pessimistic thought and, through him, it investigates the complex and elusive phenomenon of Greek ... -
A commentary on Statius' 'Thebaid' 1.1-45
(2017) - ThesisThis dissertation discusses the proem of Statius’ Thebaid (1.1-45) and the analysis of the text is split between an introduction, three extended chapters and a lemmatized commentary. Statius’ acknowledgements of his ... -
Reassembling the Iberians : rain, road, coins, crops and settlement in central Hispania Citerior, 206-27 B.C.
(2017) - ThesisThis thesis investigates Iberian communities in central Hispania Citerior during the Roman Republic. I demonstrate the usefulness of an actor-network approach for understanding a topic characterised by scarce archaeological ... -
Julia Domna
(1931) - Thesis