Illinois Open Access Classics Dissertations and Theses

• The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires ?

  Norgard, Amy Lynn (2015-07-08)

  This study observes Horace’s Satires (Book 1 published c. 36-35 BCE, and Book 2 c. 30 BCE) through a lens of the body’s senses and organs involved in perception (eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hands, and tongues). Horace ...
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• A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326 ?

  Abosso, Daniel H (2015-04-27)

  Of all the Biblical epics that survive from antiquity, Claudius Marius Victor’s Alethia, a poem based on Genesis and written in Gaul in the fifth century, is one of the more obscure and difficult. The poem was never part ...
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• The psychology of satire: Epicurean ethics in Horace's Sermones ?

  Yona, Sergio (2015-01-21)

  This study examines the role of Greek philosophy, specifically the ethical doctrines of the Epicurean sect, in Horace’s satiric poetry. It endeavors to highlight the important influence of one of Horace’s contemporaries ...
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• Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica ?

  Marillier, Emily (2014-05-30)

  This thesis comprises a case study, to explore one motif that Petronius uses throughout his work. The chosen topic is the use of descriptions of hair: how Petronius describes hair, where he includes it, and what significance ...
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• A commentary on Jerome's Contra Vigilantium ?

  Oh, Amy (2014-01-16)

  Innkeepers inspired this dissertation. After working on ‘innkeepers’ as a topic for a research seminar paper, I soon discovered that the term caupo counted as an insult according to several church fathers, including Jerome. ...
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• How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate ?

  McConnell, Ryan (2014-01-16)

  The Flavii Apiones, owners of a large estate in Byzantine Egypt (fourth to seventh centuries), appear to become quite wealthy, yet the means by which they acquired that wealth is not always clear. Peter Sarris has argued ...
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• Emissaries in the narrative of Herodotus ?

  Lanski, Alison (2013-08-22)

  Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Nevertheless, scholarship on narrative patterns has yet to consider their importance. This thesis uses methods from linguistics ...
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• Aristophanic Oracles ?

  Karatzoglou, Orestis (2013-05-24)

  Four out of the eleven extant Aristophanic comedies contain, or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to ...
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• The rhetorics of Lucian's Dream ?

  Maloy, Lucian (2012-05-22)

  The autobiographical piece The Dream provides an interesting insight into the satirist Lucian’s early life and professional development. In the work, young Lucian has a dream in which he must decide between following a ...
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• Archilochus, Telephus, and the warrior ethos ?

  Anderson, Adrian (2012-05-22)

  This thesis offers a reinterpretation of the martial fragments of the archaic poet Archilochus. Drawing particularly upon a fresh analysis of the new Telephus-fragment (P. Oxy. LXIX 4708), it is argued that the poet ...
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• On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration ?

  Wash, Leon (2012-05-22)

  The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic ...
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• Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides ?

  Muich, Rebecca M. (2010-08-20)

  This thesis begins to examine the role of Andromache in the Trojan War saga and tradition by providing an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of ...
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• Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the Major "Homeric Hymns" ?

  Strolonga, Polyxeni (2008)

  My dissertation is a study of the narrative pattern of reciprocity in the major Homeric Hymns to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes. I argue that the structure of the Hymns emerges out of a progression of the narrative ...
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• The Rhetoric of "Explanation in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura ?

  Markovic, Daniel (2006)

  The Introduction states the question, points out the inadequacies of the treatments it received in the past, and advances the first two theses, announcing the way in which they will be supported in the following three ...
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• Toward a New Edition of Themistius' Paraphrase of Aristotle's "De Anima" ?

  Bay, Stephen M. (2004)

  Providing a new edition of Themistius' paraphrase of the de Anima is my ultimate objective. However, given the limited scope of a dissertation, I have restricted myself to an examination of only a portion of the paraphrase. ...
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