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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
John of Salisbury (c. 1115/1120-1180) is known for his treatises in which he conveyed his ideas about education, society, virtue, and several other topics to …
This dissertation explores the role of mystery cults and other religious rituals in Petronius’ Satyrica. One of the most complex issues in the study of …
This dissertation employs a comparative sociological framework to consider how the economically- and culturally-entangled peoples of the Mediterranean and Near East constructed social distinction and …
This thesis explores the practice of displaying oaths in Hellenistic Greece when negotiating civic privilege. Citizenship oaths, or oaths of allegiance, are familiar to us …