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, …
The Adriatic Sea both connected and divided the shores of the Italian and Balkan peninsulas in the Hellenistic period (fourth to first centuries BC). The …
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 …
From Polybius in the second century BCE to Delbrück in the twentieth century CE, scholars have devoted significant energy to understanding how the Roman army …
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 studies the relationship between contradiction and truth in the tragedies of Euripides, focusing especially on the Euripides’ use of mutually incompatible versions of …
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 …
In a world riddled with earthquakes and plagued with epidemics, how did the Ancient Greeks cope with, and conceptualize, disaster? This study focuses on the …
This dissertation employs contemporary dress theory to reappraise narratives concerning the construction of normative gender roles that appear in Homeric, Classical, and Hellenistic sources. My …
This dissertation offers a re-reading of the work of Augustine of Hippo as a case study of philosophical and rhetorical education in the Greco-Roman world. …
The scholarly consensus on war and the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic era has recently shifted, and scholars now recognize that military institutions continued to …
