Classics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Syntactical Effects of Compounding Verbs With Prepositions
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Narrative Structures in Polybius' Histories
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This thesis builds upon recent scholarship that has analyzed Polybius' Histories as a literary work both to offer an interpretation of the narrative structures that define the text and to analyze the implications of these ... -
In utramque partem tum Graece tum Latine: Code-Switching and Cultured Identity in Cicero's Letters to Atticus
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)In this thesis I investigate the linguistic phenomenon of code-switching between Latin and Greek in the letters of Cicero to his friend Atticus. I do this by surveying the individual instances of Greek in the letters to ... -
Esse videtur: Occurrences of Heroic Clausulae in Cicero's Orations
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This thesis expands upon modern studies of Cicero's prose rhythm to provide an interpretation of his purpose in using the heroic clausula (the concluding rhythm of a sentence consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee). ... -
I am Simply Not There: Narrative Perspective in Lucan's Bellum Civile
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Lucan's manipulation of narrative perspective in the Bellum Civile as it relates to the characters Pompey and Caesar. In discussing narrative perspective I employ Gérard Gennette's ... -
An Examination of the Economic Role of Table Fish in Ancient Rome
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)From many ancient sources, including Cicero and Pliny, it is clear that table fish were a luxury good in Rome. However, whether or not local coastal people could obtain fish from the same catches at a less extravagant price ... -
Aesthetic and Ethical Criticism in Herodas' Mimiamboi
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This paper examines Herodas' interest in aesthetic and ethical criticism throughout his mimiamboi. This serious concern with such elevated topics is appropriate, and perhaps even expected, given Herodas' clear effort in ... -
Reconstructing Home in Exile: Ovid's Tristia
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This thesis explores the physical landscapes and social interactions that form Ovid's home in Rome, as well as his vision of a transcendent home made possible through poetry. My case-studies will be poems from Ovid's Tristia ... -
Aeneas and Dido as the Flamen and Flaminica in the Servian Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The Servian commentary on Vergil's Aeneid has two primary authors: one, Servius himself; two, evidence of an earlier commentator sometimes considered to be Aelius Donatus. In a number of notes from this second author, the ... -
The Role of Landscape in Minoan Art
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)It has been said that in Minoan art, we find "some of the world's first landscape paintings." However, Minoan landscape differs from more modern kinds of landscape in important respects, suggesting that the purpose of ... -
Views of Epic Transmission in Sargonic Tradition and the Bellerophon Saga
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)One of the most memorable tales in Homer's Iliad is that of Bellerophon, the Corinthian hero sent as courier with a message deceitfully intended to arrange his death. A similar story is related in the Sumerian Sargon Legend ... -
Women and Words in Virgil and Dante
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This thesis concerns the role that women play as inspirers and interpreters for male heroes in poetry. The classical poet Virgil uniquely and deliberately highlights the presence and words of two women, Cyrene and Deiphobe, ... -
Theocritus and His Descendants in the Pastoral Elegy
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Relative Clauses in Terence
(University of Kansas, 1913) -
Relative Clauses in Ten Plays of Plautus
(University of Kansas, 1913) -
Relative Clauses in Ten Plays of Platus
(University of Kansas, 1913-06) -
Clauses with Dum, Antequan and Words of Similar Meaning
(University of Kansas, 1912-06) -
Homer’s Ideas and Representation of the Gods as Seen in the Odyssey in Books I-VI, IX-XIII
(University of Kansas, 1912-05-15) -
The Imperial Civil Service in Gaul
(University of Kansas, 1911) -
The Genetive and Ablative of Description
(University of Kansas, 1911-06)