Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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Aspects of the vocabulary of Aeschylus
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Cassandra in Aesychylus' 'Agamemnon' : language and character interaction
(1993) - ThesisThis study in four parts examines the Cassandra scene in Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in his sole extant trilogy entitled Oresteia. In the first part, a brief survey of Cassandra's language is given in which I try ... -
The family and gender relations in the speeches of Isaeus
(1999) - ThesisThis dissertation investigates the wealth of information regarding the Classical Athenian family, gender relations, and law found in the inheritance speeches of Isaeus. In examining Isaeus as a corpus of evidence, this ... -
The mirror of life : interpretations of a metaphorical definition of comedy
(1997) - ThesisCicero's dictum, comoedia est imitatio uitae, speculum consuetudinis, imago ueritatis, as found in the prefatory essays to Donatus' commentaries on the Terentian comedies, has become accepted as the standard definition of ... -
The technique of humour of Cratrinus, Eupolis, Pherecrates and Plato and of the poets of the Athenian old comedy
(1974) - ThesisThe thesis examines the technique of humour of the old comedians other than Aristophanes, concentrating particularly upon the four for whom we have the best evidence, viz. Cratinus, Eupolis, Pherecrates and Plato. The ...