• Suppose it’s Sulpicia: a reading of the Corpus Sulpicianum 

  Nicchitta, Novella (2021-02-01)

  In this study, I have analyzed the poems from the Corpus Sulpicianum (3.8–3.18) as the creation of a single author, Sulpicia. My argument in favour of the uniformity of the cycle is based on the consistency of the authorial ...
• A study in Epicurean poetics: Virgil's eclogues 

  Douglas, David (2020-01-28)

  In this thesis I propose a reading of Virgil’s Eclogues which draws heavily on the author’s background in Epicurean philosophy. My aims are twofold: firstly to illuminate the literary complexities of Virgil’s bucolic poetry, ...
• The classical reception of the hybrid minotaur 

  Lohrasbe, Devon (2018-08-29)

  This thesis offers an interpretation of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur that accounts for its popularity in fifth century Athens. The myth of the Minotaur had particular political resonance in Classical Athens because ...
• Beyond the speaker: the audience in Seneca the Elder 

  Barney, Neil (2018-08-07)

  Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae and Suasoriae (c. 39 CE) provide a window onto declamation (fictional forensic or deliberative oratory) during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BCE–CE 14). Although widely practiced ...
• Designing women : studies in the representation of femininity in Roman society 

  Shumka, Leslie Joan (2018-07-12)

  This dissertation aims to explore the rôle of cultus (body care) and ornatus (adornment and dress) in the lives of women in the central period of Roman history. Literary, archaeological, and documentary evidence is assembled ...
• Pliny the elder’s history: recording the past in the Naturalis historia 

  Van Roessel, Arnoldus (2018-05-23)

  Pliny’s Naturalis Historia is remarkable for its references to its sources throughout the text. There is little space between citations in the text, and Pliny provides much information in indirect statements. As a result, ...
• Textile tools and production at a Mycenaean secondary centre 

  MacDonald, Max K. (2017-08-31)

  This thesis is a study of textile production in the Late Bronze Age, using new evidence uncovered by excavations at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, Greece. Textile production is a nearly forgotten art. To the Mycenaeans of the ...
• Foedera naturae in Lucretius' De rerum natura 

  Tee, Lauren (2016-09-02)

  Lucretius wrote his six-book philosophical epic poem De Rerum Natura a few decades before the fall of the Roman Republic and the start of the principate and the reign of Augustus in 27 BC, in a time of great social and ...
• Athenian and American Slaving Ideologies and Slave Stereotypes in Comparative Perspective 

  Butler, Graham (2015-09-08)

  Many contemporary classical scholars, such as Benjamin Isaac and Denise McCoskey, frame the ancient Athenian attitudes toward their slaves as akin to or the same as White American racism. In this thesis, I argue that ...
• Charis and Hybris in Pindaric Cosmology 

  Beauvais, Glenn E. (2015-08-27)

  Although Pindar’s victory songs, or epinikia, were commissioned and performed to celebrate athletic victories, they present persistent reflections on the narrow limits of human prosperity, the inexorable cycle of success ...
• Cato, Christ, and Piers: the Disticha Catonis and Christian literacy in Piers Plowman 

  Baer, Patricia Ann (2015-08-18)

  Langland's use of moral distichs from the medieval text known as the Disticha Catonis has been noted but never critically examined as a whole. The figure of 'Cato' and the distichs attributed to him stand out in Piers ...
• The image of the city in antiquity: tracing the origins of urban planning, Hippodamian Theory, and the orthogonal grid in Classical Greece 

  Kirkpatrick, Aidan (2015-06-22)

  The orthogonal, or rectangular, grid plan arose out of a need to organize the sprawling cities of Ancient Greece. To one particularly enigmatic figure in history, this problem was met with a blueprint and a philosophy. The ...
• Betrayed, Berserk, and Abandoned: War Trauma in Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes 

  Binus, Joshua Robert (2014-06-04)

  Sophocles’ Ajax and Philoctetes can be read as allegories of warriors who experience war trauma. The ancient Greeks already knew of the effects of war trauma through prior literature, and the plays were produced during a ...
• Marcomannia in the making 

  Bullard, Eva (2013-09-03)

  During the last stages of the Marcommani Wars in the late second century A.D., Roman literary sources recorded that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was planning to annex the Germanic territory of the Marcomannic and ...
• Spiral Fluted Columns and the Mechanical Screw: The History of a Mathematical Idea in Ancient Architecture and Mechanical Technology 

  Henderson, Georgina Jane (2013-09-03)

  This thesis examines the stone-carved architectural spiral fluted column from second-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia to the fourth-century A.D. Roman Empire, and establishes its relationship to technological devices such as ...
• Tubuli and their Use in Roman Arabia, with a Focus on Humayma (Ancient Hauarra) 

  Harvey, Craig Andrew (2013-08-28)

  This thesis examines the tubulus, a ceramic heating pipe developed by the Romans to create wall cavities through which hot air could circulate. An extension of the hypocaust system, tubuli systems were one of the most ...
• Pauline Christianity as a Stoic Interpretation of Judaism 

  Coad, Diotima (2013-04-22)

  This thesis investigates the social context of the Apostle Paul and the communities to which he preached with the aim of showing that early Pauline Christianity was shaped by a social milieu that included: first, a Greco-Roman ...
• Remembering the Mycenaeans: how the ancient Greeks repurposed their prehistoric past 

  Van Damme, Trevor (2012-08-30)

  This thesis argues that in Archaic and Classical Greece (700-336 B.C.E.), the construction of social and civic identities relied on the redeposition and repurposing of older artifacts, including architecture, dating from ...
• Juvenal, Martial and the Augustans: an analysis of the production and reception of satiric poetry in Flavian Rome 

  Pass, Angelica (2012-08-30)

  This thesis is about the creation, reception and dissemination of poetry in Flavian Rome as depicted in the satires of Juvenal and the epigrams of Martial. It deals with their relationship with their Augustan predecessors, ...
• Granaries and the grain supply of Roman frontier forts: case studies in local grain production from Hauarra (Jordan), Vindolanda (Britain), and Vindonissa (Switzerland) 

  Koon, Kelsey Marie (2012-08-29)

  This thesis addresses the question of whether Roman military garrisons on the frontiers of the Empire could sustain their annual supplies of grain from the local countryside; and if they could, to what extent. The paper ...

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