Browsing Classics Theses by Title
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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 ... -
A philosophy as old as Homer : Giacomo Leopardi and Greek poetic pessimism
(2017) - ThesisThe aim of this thesis is twofold: it explores Giacomo Leopardi’s (1798-1837) interpretation of, and engagement with, Greek pessimistic thought and, through him, it investigates the complex and elusive phenomenon of Greek ... -
The Platonic 'Theages' : an introduction, commentary and critical edition
(1988) - ThesisThe Theages poses a number of problems for the interpreter of Plato and the Platonic dialogue. Traditionally, the most controversial one concerns the authenticity of the work: is Plato its author, and what criteria may be ... -
Plautus' 'Mercator': a commentary
(2001) - ThesisThis thesis comprises an introduction, a lemmatic commentary, and indices. The introductory chapter, apart from a brief discussion of a more general nature, investigates the play and the relation it bears to Philemon's ... -
The poetics and politics of Ovidian intertexts in Statius' Thebaid
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to offer the first in-depth exploration of the extent and the significance of Ovidian intertexts in Statius’ Thebaid, with particular emphasis on the ways they interact with the readers’ perception of the ... -
The protagonists in the satires of Juvenal
(1987) - ThesisThe persona theory has been applied to various branches of Latin poetry, but is incomplete without also considering both audience and, where relevant, addressee. By extension it may be seen that not only addressees, but ... -
Quintus Smyrnaeus : Posthomerica XII, a commentary
(1979) - ThesisThis commentary sets out (1) to monitor closely a sizable portion of imperial Greek epic poetry, and to arrive, on the basis of available evidence (vi2., extant Greek poetry, primarily), at an idea of the funds (both ... -
Re-constructing the slave: an examination of slave representation in the Greek polis
(2006) - ThesisThis thesis examines the ways in which slaves are represented in classical Greek sources. The aim of this study is to examine the ideology which informed Greek depictions of slaves. Through such an analysis, we can learn ... -
Reactions to the beautiful body in Classical Athens : a tri-genre approach
(2014) - ThesisEconomist Daniel Hamermesh’s groundbreaking Beauty Pays, building upon his earlier research, opens with the sentence: “Modern man is obsessed with beauty. ”His book analyses how beautiful individuals benefit (mainly ... -
Reassembling the Iberians : rain, road, coins, crops and settlement in central Hispania Citerior, 206-27 B.C.
(2017) - ThesisThis thesis investigates Iberian communities in central Hispania Citerior during the Roman Republic. I demonstrate the usefulness of an actor-network approach for understanding a topic characterised by scarce archaeological ... -
The records of the Fratres Arvales : a study of their ritual
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Representations of empire : images of foreign peoples and places on Roman coinage (138 B.C.-96 A.D.)
(2017-12-08) - ThesisThis thesis examines figural representations of foreign peoples and places on Roman coinage. An accompanying appendix thoroughly catalogues this imagery between its earliest extant appearance in approximately 138 B.C. and ... -
Representing the symposion : identity and performance in the 'Symposia' of Plato and Xenophon
(2003) - ThesisThis thesis contends that to uncover the 'real' symposion from its literary and artistic representations is a difficult task. Every representation of the symposion is informed by its author's wider textual ambitions. Its ... -
The role of the 'strategoi' in Athens in the 4th century B.C.
(1991) - ThesisThe role of the Athenian generals in the Fourth Century B.C. has remained one viewed in simplistic dismissal as mercenaries and lawless condottieri. Such ideas, based upon the political rhetoric of the Athenian ecclesia, ... -
The role played by the sanctuary at Isthmia in the rise of the Corinthian polis from the eighth to the sixth century BC
(1997) - ThesisBringing together selected evidence from sanctuaries and burials outside and within the Corinthia, the present study discusses the material in five chapters. Each is devoted to providing an insight into a particular aspect ... -
Romans overseas : Roman and Italian migrant communities in the Mediterranean world
(2014) - ThesisIn this thesis, I characterise the Roman republican diaspora in the western Mediterranean, on the basis of the various activities which prompted the migration of individuals from Italy. The intention of my discussion is ... -
Seeking the Face of God : a study on Augustine's reception in the mystical thought of Bernard of Clairvaux and William of St. Thierry
(2010-11-30) - ThesisThe present thesis examines the way in which two twelfth century authors, the Cistercian monks, Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) and William of St. Thierry (c. 1080-1148), used Augustine (354-430) in the articulation of ...