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Ennodius' panegyric to Theoderic to Great: A translation and commentary.
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Empathy and Compassion in the Medicine and Literature of the First and Second Centuries AD
… amount of ‘cross-chatter’ between some of the literature in this era. The medical writer Aretaeus demonstrates a high level of empathy and compassion towards his patients and their families. A contextual and philological analysis of each passage exhibiting these emotions serves to highlight and …
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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
"In the second chapter I compare the structural similarities of three narratives of coniuratio by three very different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in Tacitus' Annales (15.48--74), and Cicero's Catilinarians. All three stories have …
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
The prolegomena examine how humans are portrayed as deliberately procuring invisibility in purportedly historical and fictional accounts and in doing so, attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found in the extant invisibility spells. How does the practitioner envision …
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"The Rhetoric of ""Explanation in Lucretius' ""De Rerum Natura"
The Introduction states the question, points out the inadequacies of the treatments it received in the past, and advances the first two theses, announcing the way in which they will be supported in the following three chapters. Chapter One addresses Lucretius' choice of presenting Epicurus' …
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"Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the Major ""Homeric Hymns"""
My dissertation is a study of the narrative pattern of reciprocity in the major Homeric Hymns to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes. I argue that the structure of the Hymns emerges out of a progression of the narrative from strife to reconciliation, and I claim that the gods are celebrated for …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
"Vergil has ""analyzed"" the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create …
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Studies in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi
"The following studies are found within: (1) Tranquillus : Etymology and Meaning Before Seneca; (2) Tranquillitas in Seneca; (3) Composition and Purpose [of De Tranquillitate Animi]; (4) Date of Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi ; (5) Sources and Predecessors [of De Tranquillitate Animi]. Several …
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The Ethics of the Ode: The Ancient Tradition and Two Modern Examples
"Chapters three and four examine the work of two classically trained (though otherwise very different modern poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chapter three discusses the ways in which Shelley used the ode form as a means of championing both his own poetry and his revolutionary …
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El Discurso De Respuesta en La Obra Primigenia De Ruben Dario (1888-1898)
"Dario's awareness of the duality of Spanish American culture, as illustrated by Simon Bolivar's 1819 Discurso de Angostura, makes his literary work more significant. This cultural dilemma of belonging to either Europe or America leads Dario to formulate a literary discourse that responds to the …
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Rome and the Latins: A New Model
The institutional crises of the fifth and fourth centuries actually arose from conflicts between two separate but overlapping political constructs. The Latin war of 340-338 was the critical turning point after which all the federal institutions became de facto Roman institutions. The continuity in …
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"Aristotle's ""analytics"": A Textual History With New Collations Of The Major Manuscripts"
The standard scholarly text of Aristotle's Analytics is that of Sir David Ross (Oxford: 1949, 1964). This thesis examines the textual evidence underlying Sir David's work, and corrects many errors that have found their way into his text due to his relying on the inadequate work of his predecessors, …
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Consistency and Variation in Cicero's Oratorical Style
This dissertation--a comparative synchronic stylistic study--is intended to dispel the prevalent misconception that Cicero's style is monotonously the same, overornate, bombastic, self-indulgent. The question we set out to answer is whether there are any substantial stylistic differences between …
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The Return of Cynthia and The Structure of Propertius Book Iv (Latin, Elegy)
This dissertation argues that Propertius in Book IV of his elegies may have deliberately scuttled an elegantly symmetrical book-structure to meet the demands of context.
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Knowledge and Use of Republican Latin Literature
Numerous scholars have pointed out real or alleged parallels and borrowings from earlier Latin authors in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus. None have examined the extent of his knowledge of the authors in question nor the use which he made of their works. This dissertation attempts to do …
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The Interrelationship of Drama and Athletics in Classical Greece
The purpose of the dissertation is to argue for a change in the traditional approach to Greek drama and athletics: rather than viewing drama and athletics as essentially unrelated, it is preferable to consider each activity in the light of its relationship with the other.
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Lyric Iambic Metres in Aeschylus
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"Studies In The Manuscript Tradition Of The ""ranae"" In Aristophanes"
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"A Latin translation of the ""Rhetorica ad Alexandrum"" from the thirteenth century"
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Meter and Sense in Homeric Verse
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