War-mongering politicians. Dispatched weapons inspectors. Faulty intelligence dossiers exaggerating threats. Domestic deliberations surrounding the necessity for war. Previous and complicated histories of combat. If one …
This thesis explores dreams in the works of the ancient Jewish authors Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. Although the two wrote in different cities, …
Collective identity, as is now well established, is a subjectively understood and socially constructed phenomenon that is subject to change; a single individual has multiple …
This study explores how Early Christian Latin hymns written between the fourth and sixth centuries harnessed the power of song for instruction. I argue that …
This dissertation reappraises the relationship between dithyramb and tragedy by examining the two Dionysiac choral performance-genres against the backdrop of Athens’ vibrant and rapidly growing …
Athens in the fourth century BCE faced many economic and military pressures, to which the Athenians responded with a multitude of political experiments. This dissertation …
Questions regarding immortality and death have been subjects of human inquiry for hundreds of years. The ancient Romans, influenced by Greek, Persian, and Egyptian predecessors …
This dissertation looks at Athenian public finance in the period between 403 and 322 B.C. from the perspective of contemporary Athenian ideas about democracy. Although …
This dissertation reappraises the use of hyperbole by the exiled Roman poet Ovid through close readings of his Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Ibis that …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between pregnant and pre-gravid women and their fetuses in the Roman Empire. It examines the cultural …
Beginning from Mark Payne's recent argument that Theocritean fiction does not adhere to real-world patterns, this study contends that Theocritus use of fiction is consistently …
While modern associations of chaste female behavior may raise ideas of prudish maidens and celibacy, Roman models of women’s chastity centered around marriage; woman was …
This dissertation brings to bear a statistical method and the tools of pragmatics and discourse analysis on an examination of the language of Roman comedy. …
This dissertation answers the question of what it means for an outstanding representative of the long Second Sophistic to have decisively shaped Christian festival rhetoric. …
Violence and violent language have long been associated with Classical invective. Archilochus for instance is said to have driven the Lycambids to suicide through the …
This dissertation explores how the anonymous historical drama, Octavia, restages a brief moment in Neronian history as a powerful challenge to the Julio-Claudians' claim to …
This dissertation describes a conception of the lyric poet�s role as advisor, which Alcaeus adopts in his use of traditional elements of Wisdom Literature and …
