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Classics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Invitus, Regina: Aeneas Cast as the Unwilling and Unfit Hero 

      Geer, Rachel Leah (University of Kansas, 2011-06-14)
      A particular instance of intertextuality that has received much critical attention is a line of the Aeneid spoken by Aeneas to Dido in the underworld: invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi (6.460). Its striking similarity ...

    • Self-Blame in Cicero's First Catilinarian Oration 

      Huggard-Lee, Tiffany (University of Kansas, 2011-04-22)
      Cicero's oratorical style is not known for being retiring and modest. His usually boastful nature makes it startling that he engages in self-criticism on several occasions in the First Catilinarian Oration. On further ...

    • Understanding Parmenides as a Numerical Monist: A Comparative Study 

      Dugan, Kelly Patricia (University of Kansas, 2011-04-15)
      Among other scholars, G.E.L. Owen and Leonardo Tarán established the traditional view of Parmenides, the 5th century BC Greek philosopher, as a numerical monist. A numerical monist is a philosopher that advocates one true ...

    • The Infamia of the Roman Republic 

      Hazen, Isabelle (The University of Kansas, 1905-05-15)

    • A Defense of the Ambrosian Strophic Sequence of Simaetha's Incantation in Theocritus' Idyll 2 Pharmaceutria, with Reference to the Superiority of its Textual Witness 

      Maltsbarger, Jason Dal (University of Kansas, 2010-07-07)
      In the last century, various scholars have argued that the strophic sequence of Simaetha's incantation in Theocritus' Idyll 2 should not be determined simply on the basis of the textual witness. Rather, they assert that ...

    • A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C. 

      Easton, Jeffrey Adam (University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)
      According to sources writing during the late Republic, Roman dictators exercised supreme authority over all other magistrates in the Roman polity for the duration of their term. Modern scholars have followed this traditional ...

    • War of the Words: Author Assertion and Reader Response in Ovid 

      Jordan, Emilie Elizabeth (University of Kansas, 2009-12-16)
      The focus of this paper is the relationship between Ovid and his readers wherein each side vies for supremacy as the arbiter of the text and the chief interpreter of textual meaning. Through various rhetorical devices, ...

    • To Seek the Boundaries of the Roman Lares: Interaction and Evolution 

      Smith, Mariah Elaine (University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)
      Worship of the Lares is an integral part of Roman life and the Lares are ubiquitous in the art and literature of the Roman world. The Lares are frequently glossed as simply "household gods" and comprise part of domestic ...

    • For Us the Living: Lamentation in Euripides' Ion 

      Wilson, C. L. (University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)
      The character of Creusa in Euripides' Ion is rarely examined by scholars. Her repetitive narrative, the disturbing themes of infant abandonment and rape, and the abruptness of her forgiveness for Apollo have steered scholarly ...

    • A Brief History by the Victor 

      Franks, MaryLee (University of Kansas, 2008-05-27)
      The extent of Etruscan influence on early Rome is nearly impossible to determine because ancient authors have masked Rome's Etruscan heritage. The primary written sources preserve a complex and often disguised account of ...