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 thesis concerns scenes of deliberation in the Homeric epics. The language of psychological motivation that Homer employs is vastly different from our own. The goal of this thesis is to attempt to understand the complex ...
Examines Plato's Protagoras as a masterpiece of writing where literary and dramatic elements constitute its philosophical import. Part one, "A Dialogue of Contradictions," helps us understand the Protagoras as an exploration ...
I aim to explore Trajan's motive for providing grand munificence to poor girls by examining depictions of poor girls on coins and his arch in Beneventum. I also explore the use of education as part of this political agenda ...
Barlow's Columbiad evokes Virgil's Aeneid by using the motifs of revelation and
interpretation to explore the role of the past in informing the present. Virgil creates an opposition between Aeneas, who receives prophecies ...
The myths of ‘Procne, Tereus, and Philomela’, ‘Procris and Cephalus’, and ‘Ceyx and Alcyone’, all tales of very different and doomed relationships between mortals in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, provide structure for the poem. ...
References to the Amazons, a mythical race of warrior women, are widespread in ancient
literature. They were generally represented as a defeated Other in their relations with the Greeks,
reaffirming the patriarchal nature ...
In Plato's Symposium, the interlocutors take turns giving speeches about love. The careful reader can draw several parallels between love as it is discussed throughout this dialogue and recollection as it is presented in ...
In this thesis I posit a new reading of the dramatic structure of Prometheus Desmotes, in which the textual and visual features of the play's performance are principally oriented towards the impression of a keen awareness ...
In the earliest versions of the Romulus and Remus myth (as reported by later authors) Romulus kills his brother, Remus, when he jumps over the newly built walls of Rome. In ensuing narrations of the Roman foundation myth, ...
I argue that in the Aeneid natural imagery establishes Aeneas’s deep-rooted bond
to Italy and Turnus’s ties to foreign lands, thus undermining Turnus’s claim to the Latin
throne. Through close readings of specific passages ...
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 ...
The Sirens first appear in Book XII of Homer's Odyssey, and from this episode has emerged a tradition of the dangerously seductive and powerful feminine singing voice. In this essay, I argue that the Sirenic tradition can ...