Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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After the daggers : politics and persuasion after the assassination of Caesar
(2010-06-22) - ThesisIn this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir ... -
From the Republic of Letters to the Olympus: The Rise and Fall of Medical Humanism in 67 Portraits
(Veloren Publishers, 2004) - Book itemIn this article the first portrait book of physicians and philosophers, Joannes Sambucus' Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque Icones [...] (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574) is examined as a prism of ... -
A family of gods : a diachronic study of the cult of the divi/divae in the Latin West
(2010-06-22) - ThesisThis thesis examines the establishment and development of the worship of the emperor and his family members in the Latin West, tracing specifically the cult of those who were officially deified at Rome and received the ... -
From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson
(2010-06) - ThesisAs a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied ... -
Talking politics : constructing the res publica after Caesar’s assassination
(2010-06) - ThesisThe nature of the Republican constitution has been much contested by scholars studying the history of the Roman Republic. In considering the problems of the late Republic, the nature of the constitution is an important ...