Este trabajo tiene una triple intención. Primero, revisar lo que ha sucedido en términos de diálogo interreligioso en América del Sur después de que el Concilio Vaticano II diera luz verde al diálogo entre católicos y miembros de tradiciones no cristianas. Segundo, buscamos demo…
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Alexander Pope’s Dunciad explicitly draws from major literary and philosophical texts ranging from the Bible to The Aeneid to Paradise Lost, but scholars have heretofore not observed how The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius shapes and informs the text. After establishing th…
This dissertation analyzes growth and graduality in Vergil’s Bucolics . In the Bucolics , Vergil unifies various forms of growth, defined in this study as increase over time. There is the growth of organic life forms—that is, the move towards biological maturity that occurs over…
This dissertation argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual anal…
In this dissertation I examine the role played by “unease” in the Homeric epics, the Ancient Near Eastern Gilgamesh texts, and the Indian Rigveda. I position unease as an affect that the texts can provoke in their audiences through poetic devices that interrupt the narrative, dr…
Over the last three decades, the salience of the ancient Greek poet Pindar’s Theban identity and its role in his poetics has found greater awareness among critics. Nevertheless, such discussions of Pindar’s “Thebanicity” have largely been focused on the poems that were performed…
The Homeric poems have a keenness of observation for nature: they describe wildlife with attention to the subtle gestures of animal behavior, emotions in terms of physiology, and battle wounds with a level of detail that reveals an interest in human internal anatomy. The next ge…
This thesis focuses on the characterization and representation of the Eastern Other for a Greek audience in the introductory sections of two works of 5th century Greek literature. In particular, I will examine the parodos of Aeschylus’ Persae and Book 1 of Herodotus’ Histories. …
This paper investigates William Strachey’s A True Reportory, a stylized eyewitness account of Strachey’s 1609–1610 voyage to the Jamestown colony, showing how the text utilizes Vergil’s Aeneid to set a precedent for the British colonization of the New World. By using the Aeneid …
No século V a.C., assistiu-se a um conflito que opôs Gregos a Persas, que ficaria conhecido como Guerras Pérsicas, e que ajudou a consolidar a formação de uma identidade pan-helénica. Esta identidade foi concebida em simultâneo e por oposição à criação da imagem do “Outro” não-g…
Farklı asırların edebî yükünü taşıyan klasik şiirlerin söz varlığını ortaya çıkarmak klasik şiir çalışmalarına katkı sağlamaktadır. Bu sebeple bağlamlı sözlük çalışmaları klasik Türk edebiyatının ürünlerini daha geniş kapsamlı bir biçimde inceleme fırsatı sunmaktadır. Eserlerde …
La presente investigación aborda la relación entre arte e historia en el pensamiento de Hegel. Para ello, se toma como pauta de análisis la lectura hegeliana de la tragedia griega. Su propósito es esclarecer el lugar que corresponde al arte en el pensamiento de Hegel en relación…
In this doctoral dissertation I seek to reassess the innovativeness of the young Corduban poet Lucan’s masterpiece, the Civil War. Faced with the abrupt closure of Lucan’s poem 546 lines into Book 10, I adopt the view propounded by Haffter, Masters and Tracy, that what most have…
The Classical period introduces epic: a form of literature that reflects the cultural values of society as well as the evolution and transitioned of those values throughout the eras. It is within epic that a reader can trace society’s change in religious beliefs. The goal of thi…