This thesis explores emulation and poetic inheritance in Vergil’s Eclogues. Emulation is the vehicle for poetic inheritance, as the new poet imitates the master in order[...]

This thesis is formatted as a student’s reader for a collection of Latin texts concerning magic in the Roman World. The reader includes multiple curse tablets as well as [...]

This thesis explores the role of women as helpers in Homer’s Odyssey and Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica. In writing this thesis, I had two goals: to better understand [...]

This thesis explores the manifestation of the exilic experience within the letters of Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. My research identifies that there are similarities regardi[...]

The Roman historian Livy, when writing his account of the siege of Veii, embellished many of the details with epic language and tone. By examining similarities with othe[...]

This thesis is organized in two parts. The first is a linguistic analysis of the systems of deixis in Greek, Latin, and Armenian. The analyzed text is restricted to the G[...]

This thesis investigates the development of iotacism and the merger of ! and " in Roman and Byzantine manuscripts of the New Testament. Chapter two uses onomastic variat[...]

This thesis explores how Alba Longa played a role in shaping Roman identity and self-perception. It first considers the ways that Roman rites and ceremonies held at Alba,[...]

This paper examines the Timaeus, a metaphysical dialogue of Plato, in an effort to determine the physical underpinnings of morality and rationality. By first analyzing th[...]

This thesis determines whether the Julio-Claudian women were defined by their roles as wives of the current emperors or rather, as mothers of potential emperors. The pap[...]

Much attention has been given to why the architect of Hadrians Pantheon incorporated a coffering scheme of 28 radials into the concrete dome that do not absolutely align [...]

This study explores the poetic implications of power and plot in the Iliad. It examines the nature of Zeus power by identifying its scope, its limitations, and its effect[...]

The impact of beekeeping on the ancient Mediterranean has yet to be thoroughly examined. As an industry whose products leeched into many aspects of cultural importance, s[...]

Tristia 2 is the prime example of Ovids attempt, while in exile, to defend and reinterpret his erotic poetry in the form of an apologia pro vita sua to the emperor who ba[...]

This project examines Caesars three extended battle exhortations in Lucans BellumCivile (1.299-351, 5.319-364, 7.250-329) and the speeches that accompany them in an effor[...]

Apuleius structures his novel the Metamorphoses as a frame narrative containing many embedded stories. These stories often seem disparate and are frequently unrelated to [...]

This study traces the development of the preface in Latin historiography through the works of the major extant Roman historians Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. While each au[...]

Apuleius' Metamorphoses is a novel singularly obsessed with sight, spectatorship, the acquisition of experience from viewing, and the permeability of social and physical [...]

This thesis explores the contributions of three treatises in the Hippocratic Corpus, namely On Art, On Ancient Medicine, and Nature of Man, to the debates surrounding the[...]

This thesis analyzes internal inconsistencies in Tacitus Jewish excursus (Historiae 5.1-13). It focuses on inconsistencies in terms of the Jews mythic history, geography,[...]

Numerous Greek reflexes of the Indo-European serpent-slaying myth retain an inherited theme in which cows are liberated from the serpent. In some reflexes, the cows are r[...]

The aim of the thesis is to examine the portrayals of eros, both its perceived origin and effects on the human body, and eros-afflicted women, who might be compelled to a[...]

This paper examines the ways in which Augustus became the Father of His Country in more than just title. Through the legislation passed under his administration and throu[...]

This paper examines the prose style, genre, diction, and dramatic structures of Caesars commentaries on the Gallic and Civil War. The paper utilizes these elements in or[...]