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This dissertation explores the nature and significance of fear in the works of Seneca the Younger. While a variety of emotions have already been examined within the writings of this author, fear remains largely neglected despite its...
Critics have long remarked on the differences between the Argonautic epics of Apollonius Rhodius and Valerius Flaccus, and have attempted to understand the latter’s reception of the former. This dissertation calls into question the...
This dissertation examines the Hellenistic concept of enargeia (self-evidence/vividness) in both its philosophical and literary dimensions and then applies this concept to a close reading of Lucretius' De rerum natura. I argue that the...
This thesis presents a transcription and preliminary analysis of the Latin text of book 6 of Josephus' Jewish War found in the 9th century St. Gallen Codex 627. This is the first transcription of any book of the fifth- or sixth-century...
My dissertation is about the location of Hesiod's poetics in the spaces of the farm. One of my main assertions is that the farm consists of three spaces, those of cultivated, grazed, and wild nature. I argue that the poet and farmer...
Tyrants play a major role in Greek literature and political philosophy, and occupy a certain prominence on the tragic stage. Many city-states, from Athens to Syracuse to Heraclea on the Black Sea, experienced periods in which tyrants...
This dissertation provides an overall interpretation of the 'Bellum Civile' based on the examination of an aspect completely neglected by previous scholarship: Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife....
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of sexual insults and slander as a means of character defamation in the speeches of the Attic orators Lysias and Aeschines. I intend to investigate in what ways these authors utilized...
This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia...
This dissertation investigates the literary, cultural, and intellectual contexts of Galen’s Protrepticus. In this work Galen seeks to persuade young men to cultivate an art or skill in order to have a successful life rather than...
The late fourth-century work often called Pseudo-Hegesippus, or De Excidio Hierosolymitano (On the Destruction of Jerusalem), is a rendition of Jewish history from the second century BCE to 70/74 CE. It ends with the destruction of...
Diodorus Siculus composed a universal history, the Bibliotheke, covering the origins of humanity down to the events of the year 60/59 B.C. sometime before the fateful battle of Actium (31 B.C.). Although fifteen of his forty original...
This thesis is an in-depth analysis of Book IV of the Aeneid focusing on the suicide of Dido. Book IV is an especially popular book to be read particularly in translation classes, which is why it is such a good example for such an...
This thesis seeks to analyze the socio-familial roles described in Odyssey 8.581-886 (kinsman, son-in-law, father-in-law, companion, brother) and how the Homeric heroes grieved for these specific people. This thesis also compares these...
Due to the variety of its subjects, its calendar-based structure, and its tendency to escape the boundaries of genre Ovid’s Fasti can at times give the impression of a disjointed and repetitive text. A key element of the poem, which at...
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