The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
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 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 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 is an attempt to make Plato’s _Lesser Hippias_ more accessible to students of Plato and Ancient Greek. It consists of two main parts: …
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 offers a reevaluation of the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and a hypothetical document thought to be common to Matthew and Luke, …
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. …
