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 ...
Cicero’s Cato Maior and Laelius, just a “pair of minor dialogues,” have struggled not only to secure consistent names for themselves but even a dependable characterization of their genre. However much the variations of ...
In this paper I suggest that Atlanta rather functions as a repoussoir for the inherent homoeroticism of the male athletic spaces and practices in which the various episodes of her myth take place. Her unexpected presence ...
It is commonly held that we read autobiographies because we want to see ourselves represented in others’ accounts of their experiences; we want to be able to appropriate the authorial identity, and we engage with texts ...
If, as the popular saying goes, we are what we eat, then what nature of beast is the Thebaid, an epic that participates in a consumption most extreme – cannibalism? This perverse and perverted consumption is not limited ...
The satires of Persius are famously humorless. As Heinsius suggests, the dearth of humor may derive from the satirist’s adherence to the staid ways of Stoicism, since, at first blush, Stoicism and laughter would seem to ...
Helen of Troy, arguably the most famous adulteress in literature, has captivated audiences
for millennia. She stands at the crux of many intellectual debates which were occurring in Classical Athens, such as the unresolvable ...
There have been numerous studies concerning piracy as an occupation by such renown scholars as Henry Ormerod and Erich Ziebarth, who consider piracy to be an unambiguous trend that occurred throughout history up through ...
Lucan's Pharsalia has been noted for many things: violent battles, lengthy and formal
speeches, failed, if unusual, prophecies, even the frequent personal interjections of its narrator. The mutiny scenes in Books 5 and ...
In this study I employ a literary approach to analyze the poet’s presentation of Demeter
and Aphrodite as divine representatives of gender paradigm in the Homeric Hymns to Demeter and Aphrodite. To begin, the notion of ...
Sophocles’ Electra ends with the chorus’ declaration that the House of Atreus is now free.
ὦ σπέρμ᾽ Ἀτρέως, ὡς πολλὰ παθὸν
δι᾽ ἐλευθερίας μόλις ἐξῆλθες
τῇ νῦν ὁρμῇ τελεωθέν. Sophocles, Electra 1508-1510
O seed of Atreus, ...
At the very outset of his Protrepticus, Clement of Alexandria runs through a short
list of mythical musicians and alludes to their magical powers: Arion and his
enchantment of the dolphin, Amphion and his musical assembly ...
In CHAPTER I, I briefly review previous scholarship that focuses on mimesis in classical literature. I argue in CHAPTER II that Seneca’s plays strongly display mimetic syntax, a feature previously ascribed to his poetic ...
In my thesis I explore the implications of this shift in the focus of the Iliad from the μῆνις
of Achilles against Agamemnon to the opposition between Hector and Achilles. I examine the
implications of the plot-shift ...
This thesis argues that a combination of inspired and didactic poetry, a combination of metaphysical content and ethical nature should be considered when discussing Proclus' Works and Days Commentary.
The aim of this thesis is to give a new reading of sections 1.16-18 of Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo (published in 1098) that argues against the almost unanimous opinion of previous interpreters that this passage ...
This 2012 master’s thesis argues, contra the previous work of Karl Popper and Gregory Vlastos,
that the role of philosophical eros, and love more broadly, in Plato’s political philosophy is
worthwhile and beneficial for ...
Claudian‘s De Raptu Proserpinae, an unfinished epic poem which treats the god of the underworld‘s abduction of the eponymous maiden and her mother‘s frantic search for her missing daughter, is a departure from the poet‘s ...
Long after their initial composition, the texts of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were characterized by an enduring cycle of textual fixity and plasticity. As witnessed by the ―wild‖ papyri of Egypt and the marginalia of ...
Archilochus’ life and the lethal effects of his poetry are legendary. Lycambes, having
promised his daughter Neoboule in marriage to Archilochus, breaks his oath. Archilochus writes
venomous iambics against Lycambes and ...