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Plato's Lesser Hippias: Translation and Commentary

Description:: This dissertation is an attempt to make Plato’s _Lesser Hippias_ more accessible to students of Plato and Ancient Greek. It consists of two main parts: …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Berger, David J (creator); Gill, Mary (Director); Hernandez, Pura (Reader); Konstan, David (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Hippias; Lesser Hippias; Hippias Minor; Hippias minor (Plato); Plato; Socrates
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Plutarch and the Philosophical Dialogue

Description:: Plutarch has often been studied as an essayist and biographer, but he has been insufficiently studied as a dialogist. This dissertation aims to illuminate Plutarch’s …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: McDonald, Anne I (creator); Papaioannou, Stratis (Director); Gill, Mary Louise (Reader); Konstan, David (Reader); Brenk, Frederick (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: philosophical dialogue; ancient rhetoric; ancient philosophy; Second Sophistic; Platonism; Rhetoric, Ancient; Philosophy, Ancient; Second Sophistic movement; Platonists; Plutarch
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Primacy and Subsumption in Greco-Roman Epic Literature

Description:: This dissertation analyzes the poetic strategies of primacy and subsumption, and their interactions, in epic poetry across four authors in the Greco-Roman epic tradition. I …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Bissell, Elliston Perot (creator); Reed, Joseph (Advisor); Nieto, Pura (Reader); Pucci, Joseph (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Comparative Epic Poetry
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Remembering the Persian War Differently

Description:: Abstract of "Remembering the Persian War Differently" by David Yates, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011. The Persian War, culminating in Xerxes' invasion of Greece in …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Yates, David Carl (creator); Boedeker, Deborah (Director); Raaflaub, Kurt (Reader); Alcock, Susan (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Persian War; Panhellenism; Social Memory; Memory Theory; Pausanias; Xerxes; Delphi; Periodization; Athens; Corinth; Sparta; Plataea; Salamis; Alexander; Identity; Memory; Collective memory; Monuments; Greek history; Group identity; Herodotus; Xerxes I, King of Persia > 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.; Greece--Delphoi; Greece; Greece--Athens; Greece--Corinth; Greece--Sparta; Greece--Plataiai; Cyprus--Salamis (Extinct city)
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Serio-Comic Elements in Xenophon's Socratic Writings

Description:: Though many of Plato's contemporaries wrote Socratic dialogues of their own, Xenophon is the only one of them whose work has survived intact. Yet, much …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Alderman, Alexander Shane (creator); Konstan, David (Director); Gill, Mary (Reader); Papaioannou, Eustratios (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Socratic dialogue; Bakhtin; Carnival; Xenophon; Bakhtin, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich); Plato
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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The Ancient Novels and the Tragic Tradition

Description:: Ancient novels, represented by the so-called “ideal” Greek romances (Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe, Xenophon’s Ephesiaca, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, and …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Yates, Jennifer Lewton (creator); Bodel, John (Advisor); Konstan, David (Advisor); Laird, Andrew (Reader); Boedeker, Deborah (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ancient Novels; Greek drama (Tragedy); De Chaerea et Callirrhoe (Chariton); Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa); Metamorphoses (Apuleius); Satyricon (Petronius Arbiter); Greek drama (Satyr play)
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The Divine Name Game: A comparison of two Vedānta commentaries on the Viṣṇu-Sahasranāma

Description:: The 8th century theologian Śaṅkara and 12th century theologian Parāśara Bhaṭṭar both wrote commentaries on the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma, a hymn praising the deity Viṣṇu. These …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Dhruv Dhananjay Anand (creator); Buchta, David (thesis advisor); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Authors, Sanskrit; Hindu hymns; Mahābhārata; Vishnu (Hindu deity); Vaishnavism; Vedanta; Advaita; Viśiṣṭādvaita
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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The Epitaph for Bion: Agonism and Fictional Biography As Literary Criticism in Late Bucolic

Description:: The Epitaph for Bion is not an extensively-studied piece of bucolic literature in the modern era and, for the most part, scholars discuss the work …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Troia, Adrianne Margaret d (creator); Reed, Joseph (Director); Hanink, Johanna (Reader); DeBrohun, Jeri (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: bucolic poetry; Epitaph for Bion; Bion; literary criticism; agon; Greek poetry; Pastoral poetry; Criticism
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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The Latin Poetics of Modern Greek Prose, 1821-1945

Description:: Abstract of ‘The Latin Poetics of Modern Greek Prose, 1821-1945’, by Christopher Jotischky, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2024 Although Latin was compulsory for many students …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Jotischky, Christopher Leo (creator); Reed, Joseph (Advisor); Hanink, Johanna (Reader); Calotychos, Vangelis (Reader); Papaioannou, Sophia (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Latin literature; classical reception; Classical studies; Modern Greek Studies; Modern Greece; Greek prose literature, Modern
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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The Myth of Destruction Beyond Floods and Wars: An Essay in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Literature

Description:: This study explores the Myth of Destruction in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean context, focusing on the Sumerian, Akkadian, Greek and Latin sources, with occasional recourse …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Vitas, Marko (creator); Hanink, Johanna (Advisor); Rojas Silva, Felipe (Reader); Nieto Hernández, Pura (Reader); Rutz, Matthew (Reader); Masetti Rouault, Maria-Grazia (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Archaic Greece; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Cross-cultural studies; Ancient Mediterranean; Akkadian language; Sumerian literature; Destruction and pillage; Homer; Gilgamesh; Atrahasis (Old Babylonian epic); Hesiod
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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THE OUTSIDER WITHIN: SELF-SECLUSION BY THE ROMAN ELITE FROM TIBERIUS TO HADRIAN

Description:: Abstract of (THE OUTSIDER WITHIN: SELF-SECLUSION BY THE ROMAN ELITE FROM TIBERIUS TO HADRIAN), by (Darrel Janzen), Ph.D., Brown University, May 2018. This dissertation examines …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Janzen, Darrel Clair (creator); Bodel, John (Advisor); Mignone, Lisa (Reader); Uden, James (Reader); Putnam, Michael (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Roman history; Latin literature
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Valerius Flaccus' Roman Epic

Description:: This dissertation argues that Valerius Flaccus explores the difficulties of imperial history and elite achievement under the Roman principate through his mythological epic, the Argonautica. …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Landrey, Leo R (creator); Reed, Joseph (Director); Bodel, John (Reader); Konstan, David (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Latin Epic; Rome; Valerius Flaccus; Audacity; Epic poetry, Latin; Valerius Flaccus, Gaius > active 1st century; Rome (Empire)
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Inheritance and Vietnamese Ambivalence

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Description:: This dissertation is the first major study to examine the history of Greco-Roman classical reception within Vietnamese contexts. Previous scholarship in classical reception has overlooked …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Sutherland, Kelly Nguyen (creator); Hanink, Johanna (Advisor); Chin, Tamara (Reader); Britto, Karl (Reader); Vasunia, Phiroze (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: classical reception; Vietnamese diaspora; Francophone studies; Vietnamese American studies; French Empire; American imperialism
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Vergil's Self-Referential Simile: Thematic Construction through Internal Allusion in the Aeneid

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Description:: This dissertation examines allusive correspondences between simile and narrative within the Aeneid. Rather than illustrating a limited tertium comparationis, the similes of the Aeneid engage …
Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Schell, Keeley C. (creator); Putnam, Michael (director); Nieto Hernandez, Pura (reader); DeBrohun, Jeri (reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Aeneid; Vergil; motif; intratextual; Aeneis (Virgil); Simile; Allusions; Virgil
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Views of Carthage from Rome: Polybius and Livy on Hannibal in the Age of Imperial Growth

Description:: This thesis explores the portrayal of Carthage through the lens of Hannibal in the works of Polybius and Livy. First, this thesis explores Hannibal in …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Qiao, Horace (creator); Oliver, Graham (thesis advisor); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Hannibal, 247 B.C.-182 B.C.; Historiae (Polybius); Ab urbe condita (Livy); Tunisia--Carthage (Extinct city); Historians
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Virgilian Imitation in Colonial Latin America

Description:: This dissertation offers the first paradigmatic study of Latin poetry written in colonial Latin America in the style of Virgil. The aim of this project …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Valdivieso, Erika (creator); Laird, Andrew (Advisor); Reed, Joseph (Reader); Bass, Laura (Reader); Thomas, Richard (Reader); Cacho Casal, Rodrigo (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Humanism; Latin American literature; Virgil; Latin poetry; Didactic poetry, Latin; Epic poetry, Latin; Pastoral poetry
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Watching the World Unravel: Juvenal's Satirical Mechanics

Description:: Though there have recently been many examinations of ancient Romans' moral and aesthetic visual practices, Juvenal, the most vivid Roman verse satirist, has up to …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Haase, Timothy (creator); Bodel, John (Director); Reed, Jay (Reader); Freudenburg, Kirk (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: visuality; reference; representation; Roman literature; Roman satire; Imperial Rome; Symbolism; Latin literature; Juvenal
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Water in Seneca's Natural Questions

Description:: This dissertation explores how the science and ethics of Seneca’s Natural Questions support each other, as well as how the literary features of the work …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Sappenfield, Fiona Ellingham (creator); Bodel, John (Advisor); DeBrohun, Jeri (Reader); Reed, Joseph (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Latin literature; Philosophy, Ancient; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Withdrawal in Indian and Hellenistic Culture: The Ideal Spaces for Cultivating Detachment

Description:: In the second half of the first millennium BCE, both India and Greece developed ideals for withdrawal from society. In India, these ideals came in …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Flynn, James B. (creator); Oliver, Graham (thesis advisor); Buchta, David (thesis advisor); Nieto, Pura (reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ethics; Religion; Philosophy; Ancient India; Hellenistic Greece; Withdrawal; Renunciation; Space
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Xenia and the Unity of Time in Pindar's Victory Odes

Description:: The question of compositional unity has intrigued Pindaric scholarship for centuries. I seek a new approach to the question by examining the role which the …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Sigelman, Asya C (creator); Konstan, David (Director); Nieto, Pura (Reader); Boedeker, Deborah (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: chronos; poetic unity; xenia; Pindar
Language:: English
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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