• Analyzing the Aeneid and its Translations with Topic Models and Word Embeddings 

  Langen, Carter (2022)

  We review new advances in word embeddings and apply them to cross-lingual literary analysis of Latin and English translations of Latin. We introduce word embeddings, summarize the developments to them that allow them to ...
• When the Emperor Wasn't Divine: Patient-Doctor Interactions in Tacitus' Annals 

  Bayona, Joshua (2022)

  In his Annals, a sixteen book history of the Roman Empire, the Roman historian Tacitus includes four episodes of an emperor or a member of the imperial class interacting with a doctor. Although there has been much scholarly ...
• Corrupted and Corrupting: Thucydides' Critique of Democracy in the Sicilian Expedition 

  Fanikos, Jack (2021)

  In Books VI and VII of his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides writes his account of the Sicilian Expedition, a massive Athenian campaign in Sicily against Syracuse, its allies, and, eventually, Peloponnesian ...
• OPEN INVITATIONS: PARTICIPATION, IMPROVISATION, AND PARTICIPATORY MODELS OF SPECTATORSHIP IN ARISTOPHANES AND PLATO 

  Crusius, Helena (2021)
• The fall Of Oedipus : changes in his sense of identity and fate 

  Rui, Yangshuyan (2021-05)

  In this thesis, I focus on Oedipus' sense of himself, regarding his kingship, social identity, and fate in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, and then draw out Oedipus' reactions and how emotions change when these subjects are ...
• Of epic proportions : an examination of Polyphemus, narrative, and culture in Greco-Roman epics 

  Nicholson, Alice (2021-05)

  Polyphemus became a staple character throughout Greco-Roman epic, appearing in famous epics such as Homer’s Odyssey, Vergil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Using Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s “Monster Culture (Seven Theses),” ...
• Fight or flight? : manifestations of moral injury in Homer’s Iliad 

  Galumbeck, Alix (2021-05)

  While Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder arises as a well described consequence of war, moral injury presents as a more nuanced manifestation of psychological damage. Coined by Jonathan Shay, moral injury examines the reaction ...
• Nemo at the oars : rowing in the ancient Mediterranean, from Homer to Virgil 

  Barchas, Madison (2021-05)

  This thesis looks at rowing in the ancient Mediterranean World, specifically how the emergence of a special class of dedicated rowers in the 5th century intersects with a rise in the personification of boats in the art and ...
• The Virtues of the Dead: Women's Funerary Monuments in Classical Attica 

  Johnson, Hope (2020)

  This thesis addresses the topic of women's funerary stelai from Classical Attica which praise the virtue of the deceased. In contrast to earlier scholars, I argue for a holistic approach when analyzing these monuments, ...
• Founding Figures: A Comparative Analysis Between Rome's Romulus and China's Huangdi 

  Blood-Cheney, Claire (2020)

  By studying the Greco-Roman worlds and their literature in relation to other cultures, we can develop a more complex and holistic understanding of the ways in which ancient civilizations developed and interacted. Although ...
• The one of the soul, divine providence, and mystical union in Iamblichus 

  Tucker, Alexandra (2020)

  Neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus (ca. 242–ca. 325) believed that the human soul contains a component, called the One of the soul, that links human beings back to the highest level of divinity. Although Iamblichus holds ...
• The practice of farming and responsibility for oneself : what we can learn from Vergil about our modern agrarian problem 

  McClain, Taylor (2020)

  In the United States there has been a steady decrease in the number of people who live on small farms. This is a problem because something is being lost as we continuously move away from small farms. It is hard to convey ...
• Up with the bonnets! : Lucanian and Vergilian reception in the Scottish neo-Latin epic the Grameid 

  Hughes, Oliver (2020)

  The subject of this paper is an unfinished neo-Latin epic called the Grameid, written in Scotland in 1691 by a man named James Philp, which celebrates the deeds of its hero, the Scottish nobleman John Graham of Claverhouse, ...
• Silencing the scream : representations of pain through visual media in Ancient Roman culture 

  Dulaney, Gwynne (2020)

  This thesis explores the Stoic concepts of pain, which calls attention to the idea that pain should be silenced and unexpressed. I put forth an argument that pain is most effectively comprehended through visual aids such ...
• Italia restituta : the politics of Trajan’s signature program 

  Burgess, John (2020)

  The term Italia restituta refers to Trajan’s domestic political program, aimed at bolstering infrastructure and population on the Italian peninsula. I first discuss Trajan’s imperial legacy, then his political philosophy. ...
• Lixae calonesque : reconsidering non-combatant forces in the Roman army 

  Bradley, Katherine (2020)

  A group of non-combatants within the Roman army known as the lixae have long been assumed to play a commercial role similar to the sutlers of later armies, but this interpretation is far from certain and many details of ...
• Blowing in the Wind: The Effect of Translation on Ecclesiastes' Breath Motif 

  Kohrman-Glaser, Eliana (2015)

  This thesis discusses the translation of the Septuagint Ecclesiastes as an example of the most literal style of translation in the Septuagint. By examining the breath motif in the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes and evaluating ...
• Negotiating Allusions in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius 

  Breitenfeld, Paul Brucia (2019)

  Scholars have come to recognize over the last few decades that Apuleius’ novel, the Metamorphoses, must be allowed to enjoy multiple, coexisting interpretations. To that end, I demonstrate how a certain class of allusions, ...
• Io and Trauma in Ovid's Metamorphoses: Rape and Transformation 

  Sawyer, Maggie (2019)

  This close reading of the Io episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue between classical studies and psychology by examining indicators of trauma in the character Io. Unlike previous studies ...
• The Platonic Defense of Homeric Allegoresis in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs 

  Kwon, Jake Samuel (2019)

  With the emergence of new ethical critiques driven by dialectic and rational discourse in Greece, the beloved Homeric poems began to fall under heavy criticism, most notably by Plato, who has Socrates launch a more ...

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