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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ancient Languages"”.
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'A Manly Desire to Learn' : the Teaching of the Classics in Nineteenth Century Scotland
… as a result, more undergraduates studied these ancient languages than ever before, or since. The thesis also details the very different institutional traditions exemplified by the nation's ancient schools and universities which were the subject of extensive government examination by a succession …
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Captured Image: Creating Textual Images of First Peoples
… They are not "Indians" at all but in their ancient languages, "People." If European and Euro-American writers have not been accurate about the names of the People, how accurate is the bulk of what we know about them? This thesis aims to critically examine how image-makers used the power of …
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Old Japanese in the "Man'yousyuu", books one and two: Grammar, translations, and analytical concordance
I created a comprehensive analytic concordance of the first two books of the Man'yousyuu, an Old Japanese anthology of poetry. In addition, I transcribed all 234 poems in the corpus using a transcription system which faithfully and consistently indicates consonant and vowel distinctions reflected …
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A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C.
… early dictatorships and an analysis of ancient epigraphic evidence, however, reveal inconsistencies in the traditional model. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new model of the early Roman dictatorship that is based upon a reexamination of the evidence for the nature of …
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Translation of Homilia in divites by Basil of Caesarea with Annotation and Dating
This dissertation provides an English translation of Basil of Caesarea's sermon Homilia in divites based on Yves Courtonne's Greek text. I have included details of Basil's scriptural content in the notes. The searches to identify the scriptural content were done using LXX and GNT as databases and …
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
This thesis looks at over 3,000 inscriptions of unmarried daughters, under the age of 20, during the Roman Empire. It discusses the formulaic ways in which daughters were described on their tombstones based on their age and the Roman virtues valued at the time. It primarily focuses on descriptors, …