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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
… six extended battle sequences from the Aeneid of Virgil and the Metamorphoses of Ovid are examined and analysed with regard to their use of word order, simile, catalogue, and other such stylistic features. The overall aim is to consider Ovid’s literary debt to his immediate epic predecessor …
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On the indebtedness of Virgil to Catullus
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On the indebtedness of Virgil to Catullus
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Virgil Ortiz: American Indian Artist, Representational Trickster, and Identity Shapeshifter
… As such, contemporary American Indian artist, Virgil Ortiz, his art, and the discourse surrounding both art and artist are examined to reveal the strategies and tactics employed in his constitution of a politics of representation that broaden the spectrum of considerations of American Indian …
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A performer's guide to Virgil Thomson's Five Songs from William Blake
… Acts and The Mother of Us All, American composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) did write nearly seventy songs for voice and piano, including several important song cycles. One of these cycles, the Five Songs from William Blake, represents an impressive composition for the baritone voice. …
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The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts
… of this study examines Hesiodic, Platonic, and Virgilian texts, as example cases, to demonstrate apocalypticism among even the most high-profile Greco-Roman authors. Thus, I lay the groundwork for new scholarly lines of inquiry on the apocalypticism of these and potentially other Greco-Roman …
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The Poet at Work: Concepts of Authorship in the Ancient Reception of Virgil
This thesis explores how Virgil's readers imagined the authorial techniques and biographical persona of Virgil, the most canonical – yet extraordinarily elusive – Latin poet. While ancient biography is often dismissed as transparently fictional, this thesis makes a case for taking biographical …
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A Transcription for Solo Organ: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Op. 53, by Virgil Thomson
… is to provide a transcription for solo organ of Virgil Thomson's Symphony on a Hymn Tune. The study is two-fold: first, to explore the early life and career of Thomson with a focused view on how his organ and composition studies influenced the composition of Symphony on a Hymn Tune; and second, …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
The earliest Virgilian manuscripts are from the fourth century, so all we have are multiple receptions of Virgil. Virgil’s most famous commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the …
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Grandpa Bandit
… Bandit </em>tells the story of elderly Virgil Wells, an upstanding citizen who is forced to partake in criminal activities in order to be able to provide for his ailing wife, Mary. As their funds decrease and their medicare is terminated, Virgil applies for work but is overlooked. His …
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Frustrated desire and controlling fictions : the natural world in ancient pastoral literature and art
… desire in the pastoral literature of Theocritus, Virgil, and Longus. First, the locus amoenus describes a pleasing botanical place that can create a narrative frame around depictions of desire or can inspire desire itself. The visuality of the descriptions of loca amoena is then compared with …
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LE ETIMOLOGIE GRECHE NEI COMMENTARII DI SERVIO A VIRGILIO
… V century CE) is undoubtedly his commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. This thesis provides the first ever complete lexicon of the Greek etymological notations (i.e. implying Greek language in all its forms) that Servius included in his commentary on Virgil. The notes have been …
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The book of stone: a library for Blacksburg, Virginia
… stillness and reconciliation; then leave us as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." T.S. Eliot This thesis is a search for an imposed credible order in a town library. As such it is simply a vehicle developing a process to produce architecture …
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A Historic Acquittal Re Examined: Would the Earps and Doc Holliday Escape Indictment Under The Modern Grand Jury System
… During a month-long proceeding, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Wyatt's close friend John Henry "Doc" Holliday, stood accused of murder in the deaths of William "Billy" Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury. Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer, applying the laws of the …
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Florence Price: The Hidden Pioneer of Imposed Simplicity
… aesthetics, iconic works by Copland and Virgil Thomson are analyzed to quantify these aesthetics, which can then be applied to the analysis of Price's pieces. Price’s Sonata in E Minor for piano (1932) contains many of these qualities and precedes the earliest examples of both Copland and …
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History, Historical Archaeology, and Cultural Resource Management: A Case Study from Jasper County, South Carolina
Virgil Noble (1996) has noted a deficiency in historical archaeological research within the sphere of cultural resource management, attributable to inadequacies within regulatory agencies, resulting in trite methodological exercises. This thesis demonstrates that another problem can be found in the …
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Musical Thinking as Exemplified in Music Criticism
… M. Greene, and D. W. Gotshalk and critics Virgil Thomson and M. D. Calvocoressi were surveyed, and their outlines of the critical process were used to develop a paradigm for the thought process involved in the formulation of music criticism. Thirty pieces of written music criticism from the …
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The Transformation of Electricity in my Brain
… be my favorite contemporary artist and author" - Virgil Hale Rhames
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Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem)
… questions around the Roman epic Aeneid by Virgil. The poet died before completing his poem. The relative completeness of the books of the Aeneid are quantitatively determined by applying Markowitz's modern portfolio theory. Modern portfolio theory optimizes the weights of the securities in …
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