Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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Footsteps of the dead : iconography of beliefs about the afterlife and evidence for funerary practices in Etruscan Tarquinia
(2013) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of Etruscan attitudes to the afterlife, based on analysis of the funerary archaeology, architecture, and iconography of death from the ancient city of Tarquinia. The focus on one settlement allowed ... -
Intellectual narratives and elite Roman learning in the 'Noctes Atticae' of Aulus Gellius
(2011) - ThesisThis thesis offers a new interpretation of the literary techniques of the Noctes Atticae, a second-century Latin miscellaneous work by Aulus Gellius, with new readings of various passages. It takes as its main subject ... -
Servire and servare : the ideological tradition of dominance, subservience and tyrannicide in Lucan's Pharsalia
(2012) - ThesisThe image of dominance, subservience and tyrannicide is prevalent in Lucan's Pharsalia. For him, Caesar's descendents will dominate the universe and enslave the people. Murder is the only political solution. This ideological ... -
A commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus 'Historiae Alexandri' Book X
(1992) - ThesisThis thesis consists of a text and commentary on Book Ten of Quintus Curtius Rufus' His toriae Alexandri Magni Macedonis; the work was probably written in the middle of the first century A.D. The main body of the commentary ... -
The role of the 'strategoi' in Athens in the 4th century B.C.
(1991) - ThesisThe role of the Athenian generals in the Fourth Century B.C. has remained one viewed in simplistic dismissal as mercenaries and lawless condottieri. Such ideas, based upon the political rhetoric of the Athenian ecclesia, ...