Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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Narratives of death in Tacitus' Annals
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis argues that we can deepen our understanding of Tacitus’ Annals by reading the narrative through the lens of death. Through close reading and structural analysis, I demonstrate that deaths are important narrative ... -
Tyrants in late antiquity : a rhetorical and historical analysis of Claudian and Sidonius
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThe following thesis is a historical and rhetorical investigation of tyranny in the fifth century CE. The focus of the work is Claudian (c.370-404) and Sidonius (430-486), coupled for their literary and rhetorical kinship ... -
The “Christianisation” of the Iberian Peninsula : an archaeological and historical consideration of Christian space creation by late Roman and Visigothic elites from the fourth to the eighth century CE
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis sheds new light on the Christianisation of the Iberian Peninsula. Christianisation as a whole has been much-studied, and the same is true of Iberian Christianity. The majority of the available textual and ... -
Egypt and the Odyssey : Homeric dialogues with Egyptian travel literature
(2023-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the relationship between Homer’s Odyssey and the Egyptian tradition of travel literature from the second millennium BC. It is a comparative exploration of portrayals of displacement, exile, and ... -
Tacitus and the representation of the legal world in the Annals
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis investigates Tacitus’ views on the law and the narrative function of law-related episodes in the Annals. It adopts the methods of the ‘Law and Literature’ approach, exploring both Tacitus’ literary representation ...