Modern scholars on Lysias 19 “On The Property Of Aristophanes” have been divided about whether the plaintiffs who prosecuted the politician Aristophanes’ brother-in-law charged him by γραφή or πογραφή. This paper argues ...

The eponymous hero of Philostratus’ first work, the Life of Apollonius of Tyana, uses his status as a unique representative of perfected and divinely ordained Hellenic philosophy on earth—that is, as the quintessential ...

My senior thesis provides a comprehensive way of reading Euripides’ tragedy Medea by encompassing both the traditional Greek heroic and maternal aspects of Medea’s identity, in particular explaining how this reading clarifies ...

Comparing the epic poets, Homer and Hesiod, to the lyric poet Sappho, this paper will explore the complex relationship of these poets to memory and poetry.

My senior thesis, titled Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades’ Love in Thucydides and Plato, concerns the decline of Athenian politics during the late 5th century BCE and the Peloponnesian War. I argue that Thucydides attributes ...