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Description:: 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. …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Hull, Stephany (creator); Pucci, Joseph (Advisor); Harvey, Susan (Reader); Conant, Jonathan (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Physics; Ethics; Rhetoric, Ancient; history of education; Plato; Timaeus (Plato); Philosophy, Ancient; Metaphysics (Aristotle); Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430; Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern); Dialogues (Plato); Cicero, Marcus Tullius; late antiquity; cassiciacum; Autobiographies; Neoplatonism; Plotinus; Pythagoras and Pythagorean school; Logic; mnemotechnics
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: For decades, the “urban thesis” of early Christianity has posited that the church in the first few centuries of its existence was based primarily in …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Davis, Elizabeth Rae (creator); Han, Jae (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Roman; Urban/rural; late antiquity; Medieval Religion; environment and religion
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation uses the histories of late antique shorthand-writers to present a new model for understanding the intellectual formation of non-elite literate people. Late ancient …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Kirsh, Ella (creator); Conant, Jonathan (Advisor); Pucci, Joseph (Reader); Harvey, Susan (Reader); Leyser, Conrad (Reader); Brown University. Department of Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: late antiquity; History from below; Classics
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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