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The role and performance of Herodotus as Narrator of the Histories
(1987)
This dissertation examines the importance of Herodotus as narrator of the Histories. It is noted that Herodotus assumes the stance of both an overt and covert narrator. Herodotus narrates most of the Histories in a very overt fashion. There are sections, however, that Herodotus relates in a much more covert manner by withdrawing ...
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 had on memory, and I focus on textual allusion as a mechanism that allowed poets to guide readers through ...
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 Catiline. My comparative examination of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, Velleius Paterculus' Historiae, and Lucan's ...
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. Because the city of Rome holds a particularly important place in the ancient Roman imagination, leaving ...
Written on Running Water: Ovidian Poetics in the Roman Waterscape
Written on Running Water: Ovidian Poetics in the Roman Waterscape analyzes the symbolic value of water in Ovid’s poetry and considers how this was affected by the reorganization of the Roman water supply under Augustus. Agrippa and Augustus gained enormous political capital by restructuring and coordinating the city’s hydraulic ...
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 we have evidence. This project aims to perform an extensive study of the sixty-two fragmentary plays of ...
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 predecessor, the Roman historian Livy. Their cultural context includes the Greek Second Sophistic, and these ...
Simplicius as a source for and an interpreter of Parmenides
(1983)
The importance of Simplicius as source for the Presocratics is widely recognized, yet his interpretations of them have been largely ignored. This study presents a systematic examination of his interpretation of Parmenides with a view to vindicating Simplicius as a serious interpreter of the Presocratics.All the passages in ...