Browsing Classics Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The language of popular politics from the Gracchi to Sulla
(2005) - ThesisThis thesis will add to the debate on the nature of popular politics at Rome from the time of the Gracchi to Sulla. It examines contemporary evidence in order to reconstruct the terms in which political discourse was ... -
The language of the gods : oblique communication and divine persuasion in Homer's Odyssey
(2010-06) - ThesisOften praised for its sophistication in the narrator- and character-text, the Odyssey is regarded as the ultimate epic of a warrior’s much-troubled nostos. As a corollary of both its theme and the polytropia of the main ... -
Letters to the emperor : epistolarity and power relations from Cicero to Symmachus
(2007-06) - ThesisTraditionally Latin prose letters have been classified in one of two ways: often they are seen as historical documents to be mined for political, historical and social information; otherwise they are viewed as literature, ... -
A lexicon to Diodorus Siculus
(1981) - ThesisThe decision to undertake the compilation of a lexicon to an ancient author needs little apology. When the author is Diodorus and the lexicon is the first, none whatsoever is needed and it is ray modest hope that the present ... -
A lexicon to Pindar
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Linguistic and literary studies in the "Epitome historion" of John Zonaras
(1996) - ThesisJohn Zonaras, a high-ranking judge, subsequently a monk in the twelfth-century Byzantine Empire, is well known as author of a universal history that stretches from the Creation to his own time and a collection of canon ... -
Linguistic evidence for Mycenaean epic
(2003) - ThesisIt is now widely acknowledged that the Greek epic tradition, best known from Homer, dates back into the Mycenaean Age, and that certain aspects of epic language point to an origin for this type of verse before the date of ... -
A literary study of Pindar's fourth and fifth Pythian odes
(1989) - ThesisPythian 4 is Pindar's grandest ode. It was commissioned along with Pythian 5 to celebrate the chariot victory at Delphi of Arcesilas IV of Cyrene. The lengthy myth of Pythian 4 narrates the tale of Jason and the Argonauts, ... -
Local defence of Rome's north-east frontier - third to seventh centuries AD
(1993) - ThesisThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the function of local communities in the defence of the late Roman Empire along the North-East frontier. The North-East is defined as those lands between 37 and 49 degrees longitude ... -
Madness in Socratic philosophy : Xenophon, Plato and Epictetus
(2019-06-27) - ThesisMy central claim is that three Socratic philosophers, Xenophon, Plato and Epictetus, engage with views presented as non-philosophical in their discussions of madness, and this engagement, which has not been sufficiently ... -
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 ... -
Myth and argument in Plato’s Phaedrus, Republic, and Phaedo
(2016-05) - ThesisMyth and Argument in Plato’s Phaedrus, Republic, and Phaedo investigates the role played by eschatological myth in the arguments of Plato’s Phaedrus, Republic and Phaedo. It argues that a reconsideration of the agenda ... -
Myth and personal experience in Roman love-elegy, with consideration of the Hellenistic background
(1979) - ThesisThis 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 ... -
Narrative structure and narrative texture in the 'Aithiopika' of Heliodorus
(1997) - ThesisThis thesis consists of four individual studies, divided into two sections; "Narrative Structure" and "Narrative Texture". The first chapter ("Heliodoros and the Conventions of Romance") addresses the issue of the essence ... -
Other times, other customs? : analysing the 'Gesta Roberti Wiscardi'
(2002) - ThesisThis thesis approaches the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi as a means of gaining an insight into the cultural values of its author and intended audience. A detailed study is made of the various role models within the poem: the ideal ... -
Petronius' 'Satyrica' : sources and affinities
(1995) - ThesisIn the ongoing debate over the genre of the Satyricon of Petronius, the theories that the work is a parody of the Greek romance or that it is a mock-epic have reached a level of orthodoxy. The Satyricon's stylistic and ... -
Philetas of Cos : the poetical fragments
(1997) - ThesisThe greatest impediment in our effort to reconstruct the history of Greek literature of the 4th c. B.C. is the almost complete loss of important poets such as Antimachus of Colophon, a loss which leaves us in the dark as ...