Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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The language of popular politics from the Gracchi to Sulla
(2005) - ThesisThis thesis will add to the debate on the nature of popular politics at Rome from the time of the Gracchi to Sulla. It examines contemporary evidence in order to reconstruct the terms in which political discourse was ... -
The transmission of classical and patristic texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England
(1993) - ThesisThis thesis consists of a general introduction to the historical and palaeographical background to the subject of the transmission of Classical and Patristic texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, followed ... -
Animal similes and creativity in the 'Posthomerica' of Quintus of Smyrna
(2008) - ThesisThis thesis examines the similes of wild animals in the third century epic poem Posthomerica, of Quintus of Smyrna. The similes are studied in both inter-textual and textual levels. The former approach discusses ... -
Byzantine perceptions of the outsider in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : a method
(1992) - ThesisThis thesis examines the portrayal of outsiders in Michael Psellos's Chronographia, Anna Komnene's Alexiad, and Niketas Choniates's Narrative - using sociological theories of deviancy. The twofold aim is to "treat texts ... -
Aristotle's essences as subject and actuality
(1984) - ThesisThe question which seeks the essence of something, (ti ēn einai), according to the argument of this thesis, was fashioned by Aristotle because of ambiguity or 'homonymy' inherent in the nature of universal predicates. However ...