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Browsing Classical languages and literature by Title
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Repetition and Iconicity in Homer
This dissertation investigates the iconic function of repetitions of words and other units of speech in the Iliad and Odyssey as a component of the structural stylistics and aesthetics of Homeric epic. While these works ... -
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 ... -
Roman declamation
(1930)To the student of republican and imperial Rome few studies are more fertile than that of her accomplishments in the field of oratory. Two thousand years lie between our century and the age of Cicero but we ourselves still ... -
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 ... -
“Someone Get a Whip!” Enslaved Women and Violence in Athenian Oratory, Comedy, and Curses
This dissertation examines physical and sexual violence against enslaved women in Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. Because work on Greco-Roman slavery too often prioritizes the narratives of enslaved men, and work ... -
The Sophistic Roman: Education and Status in Quintilian, Tacitus and Pliny
This study is about the construction of identity and self-promotion of status by means of elite education during the first and second centuries CE, a cultural and historical period termed by many as the Second Sophistic. ... -
The Best of the Olympians: The Character of Apollo in the Homeric Epics and Hymns
This dissertation is primarily a character study of the god Apollo in Homeric poetry. A close analysis of Apollo’s characterization over the course of the Iliad and the Odyssey reveals that this god, who has been the topic ... -
The Fugitive: Murder and Exile in the Age of Heroes
This dissertation examines fugitive murderers and the conceptual functions they fulfill in Homeric poetry. The story pattern of the fugitive murderer is a background against which the Homeric poems consistently portray ... -
The Ghost of Slavery: A Closer Examination of Freed People in Classical Athens
Manumission is often assumed to be the absolute end point of enslavement, since the formerly enslaved are now “free” and therefore no longer subject to their enslavers. However, manumission in Classical Athens was not a ... -
The Lived Experience of Short-Statured People in the Early Roman Empire
In the Roman Empire, what constituted a non-normative body, as well as the symbolic values ascribed to it, was not fixed or “natural,” but was instead negotiated as a part of a complex social identity. While research on ... -
The reality of the soul in Plato
(1933)Plato's literary style was naturally adapted for the representation of divergent points of view; and the apparently contradictory statements which he puts in the mouth even of hismost important character, Socrates, cause ... -
Vates and Initiates: Augustan Poetic Manipulation of Greek Mystery Cult
This study argues for the viability of mystery cult as a distinct category of religious experience with a particular presence in the Roman poetic imagination and an especial importance in the Augustan period as locus for ... -
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. ... -
Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
This project explores how fifth-century Athens attempted to appropriate the myth of Telamonian Ajax as a way to express its civic ideology and sociohistorical identity in the decades following the Second Persian Invasion. ...