Polyphemus is a dynamic character appearing in multiple genres across Greco-Roman literature such as Homer’s Odyssey, Theocritus’ Idylls, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Within these works, there is a tension between his dual ...
This thesis examines surprising parallels between the figure of Vergil’s Ascanius and the historical figure of Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, which have been overlooked. A close examination of the text reveals ...
The "Visions", a spiritual alchemical text by the Late Antique alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis, abounds in bizarre and violent imagery: a sacrificing priest is dismembered harmonically, people are boiled alive and transformed ...
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 ...
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),” ...
The perennial problem of reconciling the character of Seneca the philosopher and Seneca the playwright is both my concern in this thesis, and not my concern at all. While Seneca the Stoic preaches a strict control of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
For centuries, Cleopatra VII has been remembered as a temptress who seduced powerful Roman men like Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius. However, the infamy of Cleopatra’s legend is rooted in the ancient propaganda of her ...
Greek interactions with indigenous Sicilians in the Archaic Period have traditionally been examined through the lens of violent colonization by historians from Ancient Greece all the way through the mid-20th century. ...
Eunuchs, including eunuch priests, were visible at all levels of society in the ancient Mediterranean, but they were perhaps at their most visible in the cult of the Great Mother imported into Rome and Greece from the east. ...