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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Roman literature"”.
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Translation of Schanz's history of roman literature.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Includes bibliography. N.B.: Pages 7, 8, 39 missing from originals.
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… scholarly discussion of gender within the literature of the Roman Empire by erasing the trans potentiality of these texts’ fluid and multifaceted conception of gender. The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed body means that we cannot analyze gender in the Greco-Roman world from …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her victims. These victims are often children or young men, who may be eaten or killed so …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her victims. These victims are often children or young men, who may be eaten or killed so …
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Mixing the Roman miles: Character Development in Terence's Eunuchus
… as well as their self-perceived position within Roman society. The first chapter traces the development of the figure of the adulescens amator in Roman literature and examines how Terence's incorporation of mythological burlesque defies dramatic conventions. The second chapter analyzes key …
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Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity
… people in ancient Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman literature within their historical and generic contexts, I provide an alternative reading of the purpose of these accusations and stories. I argue that consumption of another is a statement of power, and those who can consume freely or dictate …
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Captatio in law, life and literature : a study of the topos of inheritance-hunting in the context of Roman testamentary legislation and social practice
"Captatio and the captator are stock elements of literature and undoubtedly existed in life, but as actual practice and figure in Roman society they are nearly impossible to identify" (Champlin 1989: 212). Captatio (inheritancehunting), as it appears in Latin literature, can be defined as the …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
A critical analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity …
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Cultural memory and imagination: dreams and dreaming in the Roman Empire 31 BC – AD 200
… of dreams and dreaming in the early Roman Empire (31 BC – AD 200). Background information on dreams in different cultures, especially those closest to Rome (the ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece) is provided, and dream reports in Greco-Roman historical and imaginative literature are …
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Studies in fourth and fifth century Latin literature with particular reference to Ausonius
… works of a number of authors of the Later Roman Empire. The works<br/>considered are those of Ausonius, Rutilius Namatianus, the anonymous<br/>Querolus and, to a lesser extent, Sidonius Apollinaris. The authors<br/>will be discussed in turn, beginning with Ausonius, the …
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Romans and Goths in late antique Gaul: asepcts of political and cultural assimilation in the Fifth Century AD
… on the socio-cultural interaction between Gallo-Romans and barbarians in fifth century Gaul. Its aim is to investigate how both Romans and barbarians, particularly the Gothic people, shared a common living space within imperial territory, how this space was created, and to which extent both sides …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire is full of descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… conflagration had a powerful hold on the ancient Roman literary imagination. This phenomenon represents a unique confluence between literary tradition and urban reality: Greco-Roman literature offers a wide array of poetic, philosophical and historiographic reflections of cities destroyed by fire, …
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Reading dreams : an audience-critical approach to the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew.
… and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Chapter Two describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world. This religious character of dreams is further described by considering the practice of dreams in ancient …
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The Body of Christ and the Law: A Comparative Study of Romans 7:4 and Galatians 2:19
<p>In Romans and Galatians, Paul refers to a spiritual death to sin (Rom 6:2) and to the law (Rom 7:4; Gal 2:19). As the means of the believer's death to the law, Paul mentions the "body of Christ" in Rom 7:4 and the "law" in Gal 2:19. These verses seem to suggest some sort of relationship between …
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Cerberus Amator: Underworld Imagery in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius
In my thesis, I explore the mythological figure of Cerberus in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius. My objective is to bring to light the imaginative and provocative way that both of these poets employ the imagery and history of Cerberus and by so doing to illustrate the way in which both poets …
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Every dog has their poem: readings in the Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… theories commonly applied to Greek and Roman gender and sexuality, the Penetrative Model associated with Foucault, and structuralism, associated in classics with French historians Marcel Detienne, J-P Vernant, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. While still penetrated, many of these women actively …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman audience. I explore the cultural resonance of the social metaphors Lucretius uses to explain atomic movement, …