Browsing Classical languages and literature by Title
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A study of Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus
(1957)It is the intention and purpose of this thesis to study the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles. Since there is a real need for an investigation of the Coloneus as a work of art and not as a philosophical treatise or a theological ... -
Agonistic Intertextuality: Studies in Pindar and Bacchylides
This dissertation critiques the notion that the 5th century BCE praise poets Pindar of Thebes and Bacchylides of Ceos were natural adversaries. Both ancient and modern scholarship assumes a situation of competition between ... -
All Italy an orchard: landscape and the state in Varro's de Re Rustica
This project examines the way in which Varro, in his de Re Rustica, interacts with the political and social issues of his day. Written at the end of the Republic, the dRR belongs contextually to a period wherein farms and ... -
Allusion and Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity: Ausonius, Prudentius, and Claudian
This dissertation explores the influence of poetry on the construction and perpetuation of culturally dominant narratives. I demonstrate that late antique poets were particularly sensitive to the effect that their work ... -
Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder
This dissertation examines the role of philosophical allegory in the Aeneid, focusing on tendentious allusions to Epicurean atomism as it is presented in Lucretius. I argue that Virgil, drawing upon a popular strain of ... -
The Building of Verse: Descriptions of Architectural Structures in Roman Poetry
The Building of Verse: Descriptions of Architectural Structures in Roman Poetry examines depictions of architecture in the literature of the Roman poets Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Propertius, Statius, and Martial. These poets, ... -
Caesarian Conflict: Portrayals of Julius Caesar in narratives of civil war
(2012-09-13)This dissertation investigates the poignancy of civil war for Rome in the late Republican through early Imperial period, as focalized through depictions of Julius Caesar and, to a more limited degree, the Caesar-like ... -
Columella's Georgics: Form, Method, Intertextuality, Ideology
This dissertation consists of a study of Columella’s georgic poem in the context of the technical treatise on agriculture of which it is an integral part. I consider four aspects in order to arrive at an interpretation ... -
Craft and Cosmogonies: The Reception of Hesiod in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias
The poems attributed to Hesiod and composed in the 8th century BCE were highly influential in Socrates’ and Plato’s Athens of the 5th to early 4th centuries BCE. This dissertation examines Plato’s reception of the poetry ... -
Craftsmen, Identity, and Status in the Literature of Flavian Rome
This dissertation integrates material, literary, and social historical perspectives on crafts to show how Flavian era authors reflect on the status and social value of their writing. The poet Martial is the focus of this ... -
En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Labé
This dissertation examines the reception of Augustan elegy using three case studies: verse epitaphs from imperial Rome, Maximianus’s late antique Elegies, and sixteenth-century French author Louise Labé’s à légies. Through ... -
Euripides and Gender: The Difference the Fragments Make
(2013-07-25)Euripides and Gender: The Difference the Fragments Make Research on gender in Greek tragedy has traditionally focused on the extant plays, with only sporadic recourse to discussion of the many fragmentary plays for which ... -
Giton's Performance of Status in the Satyrica of Petronius
The character Giton in Petronius’s Satyrica represents one of the most multifaceted characters in this piece of literature. The thesis of this dissertation is that Giton performs slavery in various ways throughout the ... -
The Honey Bee and Apian Imagery in Classical Literature
This work is a cultural and literary history of the bee and apian imagery in ancient Greece and Rome, and seeks to offer a better understanding of how apian imagery is used throughout antiquity. In three chapters, I explore ... -
I Do What I Want: Freedom and Power in Classical Athens
This project investigates the ideology of freedom and power underlying democratic citizenship in classical Athens using philological analysis and modern theoretical approaches, including performance and power studies. In ... -
Inscribing Augustan Personae: Epigraphic Conventions and Memory Across Genres
This dissertation investigates the ways in which authors writing during the reign of the emperor Augustus, a period of increased epigraphic activity, appropriate epigraphic conventions in their work. Livy, Ovid, and Virgil ... -
Killer Queen: Clytemnestra as Goddess, Heroine, and Monster
This dissertation examines the mythological figure of Clytemnestra across genre and time. From Homeric poetry through late Greek tragedy, this duplicitous husband-murderer reflects ancient Greek male anxieties about women. ... -
Leaving Rome: Alienation from and Attachment to the City in Augustan Literature
(2013-07-25)Leaving Rome: Alienation from and Attachment to the City in Augustan Literature explores how Roman authors of the Augustan period write about leaving Rome as a way of discussing different levels of attachment to the city. ... -
The Livian historiographical tradition
(1999)This dissertation examines the relationships of the Roman historians Florus, Granius Licinianus, and Lucius Ampelius to their second century CE or High Imperial historical and cultural contex and to their source and ... -
Lucan's Natural Questions: Landscape and Geography in the Bellum Civile
This dissertation is an analysis of the role of landscape and the natural world in Lucan's Bellum Civile. I investigate digressions and excurses on mountains, rivers, and certain myths associated aetiologically with the ...