Classics: Recent submissions
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Mythical models : reflections of Iranian traditions in the classical accounts of Median and early Achaemenid royalty
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis study fills a gap in Achaemenid studies by evaluating possible relationships between the classical accounts of Median and early Achaemenid royalty, on the one hand, and Iranian mythical and legendary traditions, on ... -
Comic exemplarity : a study of Aristophanes' paradeigmata
(2023-06-16) - ThesisThis work investigates the mythical and historical paradeigmata in Aristophanes’ extant comedies, in order to assess the practice of exemplarity in comedy and broaden our knowledge of exemplarity in 5th century literature. ... -
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 ...