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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity"”.
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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
… the belief in the power of prophecy in ancient Greece. More specifically, I study how the ancient Greeks used oracles, like those of the famous oracle at Delphi, to make their past, present, and future knowable. I analyze the stories about oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as …
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Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
… dissertation asserts that opposition to Augustus and the establishment of the Principate was pervasive and originating from all social strata. After examining incidents of political resistance and social unrest, the project analyzes literary allusions to those who were killed or exiled while …
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The Sophist In The Cave: Education Through Names In Plato's Republic
<p>The Cratylus is often considered an isolated dialogue in Plato’s corpus, and the major theses of the Cratylus are often seen as disposable and problematic elements in Platonic thought. When one carefully compares this dialogue, however, to Plato’s comments elsewhere about rhetoric and dialectic, …
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Origins of Roman art
<p>My introductory comments on the origins of Roman art deal briefly with the major cultural developments by which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial …
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<i>Non Ego Laudari Curo</i>: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy
<p>My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator is not alien from …
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Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves.
… has been well established in terms of economics and general society. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate this dependence, during the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, through detailed examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include …
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Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric
… Aeschylus contributes to the development of ancient Greek rhetoric through his use and display of πειθώ (often translated “persuasion”) throughout the <em>Oresteia</em>, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays and develops πειθώ as a theme, a goddess, a …
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The Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE
… of imperial disaster relief between 29 BCE and 180 CE. It focuses upon both the process of disaster aid delineating how Roman emperors were petitioned for assistance, the forms disaster relief took, and the political motives individual emperors had for dispensing disaster aid. Chapter 1 …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato and adapts various models …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
<p>Despite centuries of Christian theologians and lay Christians alike assigning and/or accepting an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser …
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Voices on the Horizon: A Theory of Ludic Rhetoric
… </em>begins with the assumption that rhetoric and play offer hope for cooperation and community in a fragmented and divided world. Rhetoric and play share an intellectual trajectory in the history of ideas. The earliest use of the terms rhetor and rhetoric in the Western tradition encouraged …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
<p>The ancient Greeks are prime subjects of study for those wishing to understand the roles that religion and mythology play in a society and how the two interact with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: …
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Augustus, Justinian, and the Artistic Transformation of the Roman Emperor.
… purpose of this thesis project is to discuss and describe the transformation of the image of Roman Emperor through artistic representation and cultural demonstration. The ultimate goal is to determine why the presentation of the office changed so greatly. I have selected certain works of art …
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Orestes and Redemption in Two Different Ages
… in world view, the Orestes stories of the Greek tragedians were compared with the Orestes stories of six 20th-century playwrights. The Orestes plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were contrasted with the similar plays of Hofmannstahl, Jeffers, O'Neill, Giraudoux, Eliot, and Sartre. …
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Amazons of the Ancient World: Women in Greek and Roman Societies as Seen in the Amazon Myth.
<p>The myth of the Amazons began in Ancient Greece. Renditions of the myth were found in art and literature of the Greeks and Romans in the ancient world. The image of the Amazons changed with the culture and ideology that discussed them. The Amazon myth reflected Greek and Roman views of women. …
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Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul
… study models malaria risks for travelers on ancient Roman roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on involvement, of Damasus in contemporary theological disputes, his appropriation of Roman …
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Translational Wit: Seventeenth-Century Literary Translations of Selections from Ovid’s Heroides
… of the difference between original versions and translations of two texts from Publius Ovidius Naso's Heroides, "Phyllis to Demophoon" and "Phaedra to Hippolytus." The first chapter describes John Dryden's system of translational practices and some theoretical issues surrounding literary …
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The Socially Deviant (M)other in Euripides' "Medea" and Two Modern Adaptations
… constructed images of the socially acceptable and socially deviant mothers. The thesis explores how the Grecian, Caribbean, and Irish cultures of Euripides’ <em>Medea </em>(431 BC), Steve Carter’s <em>Pecong </em>(1990), and Marina Carr’s <em>By the Bog of Cats </em>(1998) respectively, all …
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Know Yourself and You Will Be Known: The Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism
… a collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus and is primarily composed of rhetorical statements that were used to preserve the teachings of itinerant Greek philosophers. These collections were used to persuade individuals to join the philosophical schools represented, much like the early …
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