Classics: Recent submissions
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Parmenides 1.31-32 and the Status of Opinion: A Case for the Negative Reading on Orthodox and Unorthodox Arrangements
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)While the meaning of lines 31-32 of Fragment 1 (DK 1.31-32) in Parmenides' epic-style poem seem to have significant implications for the overall argument of the poem, attempts to understand them have resulted in generations ... -
The indefinite quis in Cicero's letters
(University of Kansas, 1930) -
"Identifying Minoan Myth."
(2016-12)This study links Minoan images (glyptic and fresco) in an attempt to identify a mythology that these images illustrate. The study focuses on the role of the Hyperborean Maidens in assisting Leto in her birth of Artemis and Apollo. -
"The Gournia Megaron."
(Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2016-12)This study looks at the plan of the Gournia megaron, an abbreviated version of the full plan as seen at Pylos, for example, cites several other examples of this abbreviated plan, and postulates that it was therefore ... -
"A Large Stylistic Group of Sealstones Dated to the Mid-Fifteenth Century B.C."
(Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1989)This study takes a large group of mid-15th c. BC sealstones and attempts to discern and internal stylistic development that replicates the larger stylistic development within Minoan sealstones of the Late Bronze Age (ca. ... -
What constitutes the beginning of a Latin sentence
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
Hekate: a Symbol of the Dangers of Feminine Knowledge in Euripides
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Without looking at the Argonautica and later Roman portrayals of Hekate, such as Ovid and Seneca, I want to explore Hekate’s relationship with Greek tragedy. How does a goddess evolve so quickly from possessing a share of ... -
Excavations at Gournia, 2010-2012
(The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015-09)This article presents previous research at Gournia, the overall goals of our project, a new plan of the settlement, and our 2010-2012 excavations in eight areas: the Pit House, the Northwest Area, the North Cemetery, North ... -
Bearing Razors and Swords: Paracomedy in Euripides’ Orestes
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae, and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ ... -
From Germanicus to Corbulo: The Evolution of Generalship under the Principate in Tacitus' Annales
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Tacitus’ Annales present a comprehensive account of the formative early years of the Roman principate. Though the effects of the change from republic to principate are most frequently made evident through Tacitus’ portrayal ... -
The Songs of Gods and Men: Internal Songs and Singers in Archaic Greek Epic
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Within Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns, there are a number of songs performed by internal characters over the course of the narrative. Despite similarities in theme and content between these songs, when they ... -
Characters of Love: Propertius and Cynthia in 'Elegies' 1
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)In the Monobiblos, the characterizations of Cynthia and Propertius develop in traceable trajectories. The goal of this thesis is to provide a close analysis of specific poems in Propertius’ Elegies that contribute to and ... -
The Physical, Human, and Moral Geographies of Judaea in Tacitus’s Histories and Josephus
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)“The Physical, Human, and Moral Geographies of Judaea in Tacitus’s Histories and Josephus” concerns the reputation of Judaea and the Judaean people within the texts of Tacitus and Josephus, and specifically how both of ... -
Medea nunc sum: Staging, Ekphrasis, and Identity in Seneca's Medea
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This thesis analyzes the use of vivid descriptive language in Seneca’s tragedy Medea, with an emphasis on the fourth act of the play. I argue that the nurse’s speech in this act functions as an ekphrasis, a term commonly ... -
The critical treatment of myths in Cicero and Lucretius
(University of Kansas, 1928) -
Minoan Women
(Routledge, 2016)This study focuses on what we know about women in Bronze Age Crete (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Rather than tracing ancient Minoan women through time, period by period, this study takes the point of view of the women themselves, ... -
Origins of the Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Master
(Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 1979)This short study augments Younger 1978 (AJA 82, 285-299) by investigating elements of the Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Group's style in seals that impressed sealings in Crete. It is postulated that the M-V Lion Group started in ... -
The agrarian problem of ancient Rome
(University of Kansas, 1923) -
The effect of emphasis upon the arrangement of attributive modifiers of nouns
(University of Kansas, 1921) -
Taxation in the Roman provinces in the last century of the republic
(University of Kansas, 1920)