Classics (School of): Recent submissions

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    • A commentary on select 'Epistles' of Horace 

      Davidson, Graham Donald Forbes (1988) - Thesis
      Horace's first book of Epistles comprise twenty poems which purport to be written by him to persons of varying ages and stations in life. They are not real letters, but rather are so shaped as to give the flavour of a ...

    • Apuleius and Lyly 

      Rawlings, Linda Edwards (1982) - Thesis
      This work is a study of the contribution which Apuleius' Metamorphoses made to the development of the Euphuistic style apparent in John Lyly's Euphuest The Anatomy of Wit. While not proving conclusively Apuleius' direct ...

    • Shared themes in the Roman elegists 

      Yardley, John Charles (1976) - Thesis
      The thesis is a detailed analysis of a selection of poems on similar themes by the Roman elegists in an attempt to estimate the originality of each poet in his treatment of each theme. The literary history of the themes ...

    • Imperial ideology in Latin panegyric, 289-298 

      Rees, Roger (1997) - Thesis
      Four Latin panegyrics survive from the period 289 to 298. They originate from Gaul. The empire was governed by collegiate rule, with Diocletian and Maximian joint Augusti (the Dyarchy) until 293, when the imperial college ...

    • Myth and personal experience in Roman love-elegy, with consideration of the Hellenistic background 

      Whitaker, Richard Anthony (1979) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the manner in which the Roman love-elegists used myth to illustrate personal experience. It is shown that the elegists were probably indebted to the poets of the Hellenistic period for the various ...