Classics Theses: Recent submissions
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Mistress of the East, goddess of the West: Aphrodite and the development of ancient Greek erotica
(2021-07-01) - ThesisMy thesis analyses the interlinked complexities of socially constructed sexualities and the identity of Aphrodite from the Archaic to the late-Classical period in order to reinstate a critical connection between ancient ... -
Economic and social development in the Cycladic Islands, 1000 - 480 BCE
(2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to understand how economic and social development occurred in the Cycladic Islands between the end of the Bronze Age and the Persian Wars, 1000 – 480 BCE. The longue durée of the examination sets the ... -
Etruscan and Latin networks : a semiotic exploration of interconnectivity
(2024-06-10) - ThesisThe Iron Age saw increasing intra- and inter-regional connectivity, social hierarchy, and economic production of settlements in southern Etruria and Latium. Some settlements, such as Rome, prospered, while others did not. ... -
Civic communities as actors in the Western Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian
(2022-06-16) - ThesisThis dissertation re-evaluates the significance of civic communities (ciuitates) – largely autonomous polities with state-like attributes – in the Western Roman Empire, from Augustus to Diocletian. Ciuitates have traditionally ... -
Character and rhetoric in Thucydides
(2023-11-29) - ThesisNaming and evaluating individuals are two of the numerous well-established methods by which Thucydides characterises individuals. While it is uncontroversial that Thucydides uses these and other methods to characterise ...