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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
In this text, I address the reception of Greek and Roman imagery in two sculptural works depicting America‟s first president – George Washington. Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington portrays Washington as a Roman ...
Upon the accession of the Emperor Hadrian in A.D. 117, the Roman Empire had reached
its greatest physical extent. With an empire that stretched from Spain to Mesopotamia and from
Britain to Northern Africa, the ruler of ...
In Ancient Greece, women were weavers and the literary women were no exception. In literature, weaving was used as a symbol of the story, and as a physical manifestation of a woman’s power. Weaving was the only place where ...
In late medieval England, unmediated access to God was concentrated primarily in the
hands of priests and clerics. Churchmen provided the lay public with mediated access to
holy rituals, objects, and texts, but the ...
Scholars have treated the Captivi as a special case within Plautus’ corpus, even as the play proves
itself as funny as any of his others; we shall not do differently here. The norm for Plautine farce is
well-developed ...