Browsing Classics Theses by Title
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The Emperor Heraclius: investigations into the image of an emperor
(1993) - ThesisThis thesis is an investigation into the image of the emperor Heraclius as depicted by the ancient sources who cover his reign (610-641 A. D.). In order to establish the relevant criteria for the portrayal of an emperor ... -
The erudite world: the transformation of Solinus' 'Collectanea rerum memorabilium', or 'Polyhistor' in late antique geographical writing.
(2019-01-09) - ThesisWhat is the point of compiling anachronistic geographical facts? Why did Solinus’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium have such an enduring influence on later geographies — and how does each geography transform this traditional ... -
Euripidean lyric metres : a classification
(1983) - ThesisIn this thesis two branches of Euripidean lyric metres are discussed: aeolic and prosodiac-enoplian. A. M. Dale established aeolo-choriambic and prosodiac-enoplian as genera subsuming as species a number of various forms ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Firmicus Maternus’ Mathesis and the intellectual culture of the fourth century AD
(2017-06-22) - ThesisThe focus of this thesis is Firmicus Maternus, his text the Mathesis, and their place in the intellectual culture of the fourth century AD. There are two sections to this thesis. The first part considers the two questions ... -
'The flower of suffering' : a study of Aeschylus' Oresteia in the light of Presocratic ideas
(2016-06) - ThesisMy PhD thesis, The Flower of Suffering, offers a philosophical evaluation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia in light of Presocratic ideas. By examining several aspects of the tragic trilogy in relation to some of Aeschylus’ ... -
Food and diet in late antiquity: a translation of Books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' 'Medical compilations', with an introduction and commentary
(1988) - ThesisThe opinion of W. H. S. Jones that Oribasius is 'an author that nobody wishes to read through' is probably coincident with the view of most Classicists who have ever read the Medical Compilations to judge from the almost ... -
Footsteps of the dead : iconography of beliefs about the afterlife and evidence for funerary practices in Etruscan Tarquinia
(2013) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of Etruscan attitudes to the afterlife, based on analysis of the funerary archaeology, architecture, and iconography of death from the ancient city of Tarquinia. The focus on one settlement allowed ... -
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 ... -
Gender and public image in imperial Rome
(2007-11) - ThesisRoman gender was often defined and regulated visually – that is, if and under what conditions a woman or man appeared in public, through personal appearance, or through representations in art or literature. In this discourse ... -
The harmonious organ of Sedulius Scottus : an introduction and translation of selections of his 'Collectaneum in Apostolum'
(2011) - ThesisMost of the limited scholarship on Sedulius Scottus focuses on his poems and treatise, De Rectoribus Christianis. As the product of a central ecclesiastical figure in Liège, the intellectual capital of Louis the German’s ... -
Hospitality in Apollonius Rhodius' Àrgonautica', Books I and II
(1999) - ThesisIn this thesis, Hospitality in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica Books One and Two, I offer a detailed and systematic analysis of the epic motifs used by Apollonius Rhodius. Careful comparison with its principal models, the ... -
Imperial ideology in Latin panegyric, 289-298
(1997) - ThesisFour 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 ... -
Imperii pretium : cultural development and conceptual transformations in the myth of Eteokles and Polyneices from Aeschylus to Alfieri
(2016-06) - ThesisThis thesis contextualises and explores the reconceptualization of the myth of Eteokles and Polyneices in Greek, Latin and Italian tragedy, the literary genre that more than any other offers the opportunity to trace its ... -
The influence of Achaemenid Persia on fourth-century and early Hellenistic Greek tyranny
(2015-02) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of how Greek tyranny in the fourth century and the early Hellenistic age was influenced by Achaemenid Persia and the Ancient Near East. The introduction lays out the problems of interpreting ... -
Intellectual narratives and elite Roman learning in the 'Noctes Atticae' of Aulus Gellius
(2011) - ThesisThis thesis offers a new interpretation of the literary techniques of the Noctes Atticae, a second-century Latin miscellaneous work by Aulus Gellius, with new readings of various passages. It takes as its main subject ... -
Interpretandi scientia : an intellectual history of Roman jurisprudence in the early Empire
(2014-06-24) - ThesisThis thesis proposes a new model of situating Roman jurisprudence in the intellectual world of the Early Empire. Moving away from the traditional question as to the relationship between law and philosophy, I take a wider ... -
Julia Domna
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Katà stoixēion : the collected letters of Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles
(1986) - ThesisThis research, a computer-assisted analysis of fifth century drama covering thirty-six plays: eleven of Aristophanes, eighteen of Euripides, and seven of Sophocles, contains detailed information concerning the distribution ...