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"Delenda est Carthago [et Iraq]:” A Comparison of the Third Punic War and the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq and Their Manufacturing of the Case For War

Description:
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 …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Del Terzo, David (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor)
Reed, Joseph (reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Punic wars
Ancient Rome
Carthage
Masinissa, King of Numidia, approximately 240 B.C.-148 B.C.
Cato the Elder
Treaty of 201
Polybius
Livy
Appian
Plutarch
War on Terrorism (2001-2009)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Weapons of mass destruction
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021
Cheney, Richard B.
Paul Wolfowitz
Powell, Colin L.
Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-
Manufacturing war
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
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"The Statesman is Certainly a Dream Interpreter": Philo and Josephus on Dreams, Prophets, and Rome

Description:
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, …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Barnett, Anna (creator)
Nieto Hernández, Pura (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Josephus, Flavius
Rome (Empire)
Middle Judaism
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Dream interpretation
Bible. Prophets
Philo, of Alexandria
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
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A Dividing Sea: The Adriatic World from the Fourth to the First Centuries BC

Description:
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 …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Fairbank, Keith Robert (creator)
Oliver, Graham (Advisor)
van Dommelen, Peter (Reader)
Mignone, Lisa (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Economic History
Roman history
Imperialism
Mediterranean Sea--Adriatic Sea
Hellenistic
Piracy
Greek history
Polybius
Collection:
Classics
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A Minor History of Peace

Description:
This study is a narrative history of peace in the classical Greek period from the formation of the Delian League to the death of Alexander …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Samori, Mahmoud (creator)
Oliver, Graham (Advisor)
Scafuro, Adele (Reader)
Sacks, Kenneth (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
History, Ancient
Peace
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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A Translation and Analysis of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Through the Lens of the Aeneid by Virgil

Description:
This is a translation and analysis of the Little Prince from English to Latin. The piece pays homage to the Aeneid by Virgil through emulating …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Kathuria, Viraj N. (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor)
Reed, Joseph (reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin poetry
Translations
Virgil
Aeneis (Virgil)
Petit prince (Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de)
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
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A Variable Tapestry: Identity and Politics in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy

Description:
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 …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Thatcher, Mark R (creator)
Raaflaub, Kurt (Director)
Konstan, David (Reader)
Alcock, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Collective identity
Sicily
Group identity
Ethnicity
Greeks
Italy--Sicily
Italy
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Alcuin's Fortune: An Interpretive Exploration of the Influence of Venantius Fortunatus on the Poetry of Alcuin

Description:
This work looks at the influence of 6th century Latin poet, Venantius Fortunatus, on 8th century Latin poet, Alcuin, a member of the Court of …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Baker, Ellen (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin poetry
Alcuin, 735-804
Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600
Late Antique
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
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Aligning Myth and Experience: The Sanctification of Time in Early Christian Latin Hymns

Description:
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 …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
McGill, Robin E (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (Director)
Harvey, Susan (Reader)
Konstan, David (Reader)
Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Christian
Hymns
Ritual
Time
Christianity
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Aulus Gellius, the Noctes Atticae, and the Literary Logic of Miscellany Under the High Roman Empire

Description:
In the face of the vast amounts of scholarly and literary material in the Roman Empire of the second century CE, a loose genre of …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
DiGiulio, Scott J (creator)
Bodel, John (Director)
Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader)
Rojas, Felipe (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Aulus Gellius
Miscellany
Intratextuality
Second Sophistic
Tacitus
Pliny the Younger
Seneca the Younger
Paratextuality
History of the Book
Reading Practice
Second Sophistic movement
Gellius, Aulus
Tacitus, Cornelius
Pliny, the Younger
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
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Bacchylides’ Athenian Dithyrambs Revisited: A New Formalist and Thematic Approach

Description:
This dissertation offers fresh readings of Bacchylides’ Athenian “dithyrambs” through a new-formalist and thematic approach. While attentive to their ritual and performative contexts, it foregrounds …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Fennerty, Caitlin Heatherington (creator)
Nieto Hernández, Pura (Advisor)
Kidd, Stephen (Reader)
Laird, Andrew (Reader)
García Romero, Fernando (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Greek lyric, Bacchylides, Greek poetry, dithyramb
Collection:
Classics
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Cenotaphs and the Politics of Commemoration: Civic Ideology in the Greek Polis

Description:
This dissertation uses cenotaphs (empty tombs) to develop a new model for understanding ancient state formation. Long dismissed as merely substitutive or supplementary, cenotaphs have …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Levin, Itamar (creator)
Oliver, Graham (Advisor)
Hanink, Johanna (Reader)
Russell, Amy (Reader)
Hall, Jonathan (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Greek archaeology
Greek history
ancient Greek religion
Greek Epigraphy
state formation
polis
Cenotaphs
Collection:
Classics
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Choruses for Dionysus: Studies in the History of Dithyramb and Tragedy

Description:
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 …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Wellenbach, Matthew C (creator)
Hanink, Johanna (Director)
Boedker, Deborah (Reader)
Nieto Hernandez, Pura (Reader)
Ford, Andrew (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
ancient theater and performance
Greek tragedy
choruses
Great Dionysia
fifth century BCE
Athens
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Dithyramb
Greece--Athens
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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City of Praise: The Politics of Encomium in Classical Athens

Description:
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 …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Parks, Mitchell H (creator)
Scafuro, Adele (Director)
Hanink, Johanna (Reader)
Reed, Joseph (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Athens
fourth century BCE
encomium
epideictic
political thought
Hypereides
Praise
Laudatory poetry
Rhetoric
Democracy
Political science
Xenophon
Isocrates
Plato
Demosthenes
Aeschines
Lycurgus
Hyperides
Greece--Athens
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Community and Collective Action in the Roman Republican Army (218 – 44 BCE)

Description:
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 …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Machado, Dominic (creator)
Bodel, John (Advisor)
Mignone, Lisa (Advisor)
Oliver, Graham (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Rome (Empire)
Roman army
Collective action
Roman Spain
Roman history
Community development
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Constructing the Self through Imitation: Divine Aspiration and Supplantation in Darius, Augustus, and Horace

Description:
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 …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Hong, Anya (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Horace
Darius I, King of Persia, 548 B.C.-485 B.C.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Old Persian inscriptions
Achaemenian inscriptions
Iran--Bisutun Site
Res gestae divi Augusti (Augustus, Emperor of Rome)
Carmina (Horace)
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Contradiction and Truth in Euripides: A Study of the Trojan Women, Helen, and Orestes

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kapach, Avichai Natanel (creator)
Hanink, Johanna (Advisor)
Kidd, Stephen (Reader)
Nieto Hernández, Pura (Reader)
Mastronarde, Donald (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Philosophy in literature
Poetry
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Canon (Literature)
Classicists
Collection:
Classics
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D?mos and Dioik?sis:Public Finance and Democratic Ideology in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens

Description:
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 …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Welser, Christopher Scott (creator)
Scafuro, Adele (Director)
Boegehold, Alan (Reader)
Konstan, David (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Athens
public finance
Finance, Public
Democracy
Greece--Athens
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Disruptive Verse: Hyperbole and the Hyperbolic Persona in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Description:
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 …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Philbrick, Rachel S (creator)
Reed, Joseph (Director)
Hanink, Johanna (Reader)
Nieto Hernandez, Pura (Reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
exile
Augustan poetry
Scythia
Roman empire
Authors, Exiled
Hyperbole
Latin literature
Golden age
Ovid > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Rome (Empire)
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Divining Disaster: Signs of Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture

Description:
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 …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Van Veldhuizen, Michiel C (creator)
Nieto Hernández, Pura (Advisor)
Boedeker, Deborah (Reader)
Hanink, Johanna (Reader)
Patton, Kimberley (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
ancient Greek religion
Divination
Mythology, Greek, in literature
History, Ancient
Disasters
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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Dramatic Space, Culture, and Performance in Republican Italy

Description:
The Roman theater created its particular form of public discourse by self-consciously borrowing from its Mediterranean neighbors at the dawn of its emerging empire. This …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Carley, Mac (creator)
Russell, Amy (Advisor)
Debrohun, Jeri (Reader)
Rodriguez, Gretel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ancient Mediterranean
Architecture, Roman
Religion, Roman
Spatial history
Latin drama
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
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