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Early Bronze Age Seal Impressions from Keos
(Harald Boldt Verlag KG, 1974)Early Bronze Age hearths from Ayia Irini, Keos, were impressed by stamp seals. This study presents a selection of these impressions with a discussion of their subjects. -
"Gournia’s Recent Contributions to Animal Studies"
(Peeters, 2021-08)This study brings together the representations of animals at Gournia, Crete, found during the recent excavations, 2010-2015. -
furor illa et movit Erinys: The Presentation and Agency of Tisiphone in Statius' Thebaid
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The purpose of this paper is to provide new insight into the Fury Tisiphone, who prominently appears in Statius’ Thebaid. I examine the development of the Erinys from its earliest origins in Homer to, as I argue, its ... -
Paired, clustered, and recurrent similies in Homer’s Iliad
(University of Kansas, 2005-05-31)This paper explores relationships among similes in Homer's Iliad. The first five points of the paper examine some of the possible relationships and associations that occur among similes that are paired or clustered in close ... -
Narrative in Aegean Art: A Methodology of Identification and Interpretation
(Press universitaires de Louvain, 2020-07-01)This study continues previous work on identifying narratives and myths that are illustrated in Aegean Bronze Age art. The study first details its aim and evolution; second, it lays out a general methodology for identifying ... -
Review of Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete, by Emily S. Anderson.
(Journal of Greek Archaeology, 2019-09)Review of the book, Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete by Emily S. Anderson, which the reviewer finds erroneous in many aspects. -
Review-article of Early Cretan Seals by P. Yule
(Goettingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1988)This review-article assesses the book Early Cretan Seals by Paul Yule (1980) and its treatment of the stylistic groups, classes, iconography and chronology of PrePalatial (ca. 2200-1725 BCE) seals from Crete. Minor adjustments ... -
20th and 21st Century Political Interpretations of Virgil’s Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Virgil’s works have been interpreted in striking ways during periods of political upheaval in the 20th and 21st centuries. Following the end of World War I, Benito Mussolini saw the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics as good ... -
“How Strangely Chang’d”: The Re-creation of Ovid by African American Women Poets
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This project examines the re-creation of Ovid by African American women poets. Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved Black woman writing in colonial America, engages with Ovid’s account of Niobe in her epyllion “Niobe in Distress.” ... -
Boundaries and Religion in Propertius Book 4
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This thesis focuses on Propertius’ use of the imagery of physical boundaries in Book Four, specifically walls, doors, and gates. Propertius’ fourth book of poetry engages closely with the culture of his time, perhaps ... -
Subtle Manipulation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Medea Across Time and Genre in Greek and Roman Literature
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This thesis focuses on the character of Medea, analyzing her ability to adapt her rhetoric across genre and time period. Specifically, I will look at Medea’s speech through three lenses—dialogue, epistle, and monologue—each ... -
Sophisticating a Cyclops: Polyphemus and Galatea in Roman Wall-Painting
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This thesis thoroughly examines Roman wall-paintings involving Polyphemus and Galatea. The goal of this thesis is to consider what ideas these paintings can offer concerning Roman values and aspirations. The different ... -
Appendix A. Inscriptions in Cretan Hieroglyphic on Seal 484.
(The British School at Athens, 2019-03)This study publishes a MM II-III four-sided prism seal from Palaikastro, east Crete, with Pictographic inscriptions on three sides. -
Aegean Bronze Age Sealstones and Fingerrings: Chronology and Functions
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-05)Facilitated by the volumes of the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (Berlin 1960-2009), scholars studying Minoan and Mycenaean sealstones and sealings of the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 2300-1300 BCE) have worked in ... -
Innovations in Latin Teaching: Implementing the “Flipped Latin Classroom” at the University of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)The University of Kansas is one of many post-secondary institutions across the country that has experienced a significant decline in the number of students enrolled in Latin and Greek courses. In order to address this ... -
DECUS POSTERITAS REPENDIT: Reevaluating Cremutius Cordus in Tacitus' Annals
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)In one of the best known passages in the Annals, Tacitus gives an account of the trial and death of Aulus Cremutius Cordus (A. 4.34-35), a Roman historian documenting the transitional period from the Roman Republic to the ... -
Optima Carme: A Reexamination of the Nurse in the Ciris
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This thesis examines the Ciris, a Pseudo-Vergilian epyllion of uncertain date, and analyzes the figure of the nurse Carme, a character who has largely been ignored in previous studies of the poem. The Ciris narrates the ... -
A critical study of Horace Serm. I. 10
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
Word order in subordinate clauses in Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
The effect of emphasis on the position of the attributive
(University of Kansas, 1932)