This dissertation examines how the ancient reception of Theognis intersects with the text critical methodologies applied to it. Drawing on recent developments in reception studies and textual criticism, it argues that reception offers a new way of thinking about the Theognidean …
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The theme of death pervades the Satyrica, a Roman novel written by Petronius in the second half of the first century C.E. that exists today largely in fragmentary form. This dissertation investigates the role of death in the Satyrica, particularly its philosophical, sociological…
This dissertation examines the relationship of the Latin poet Catullus to the preceding Latin poetic tradition, particularly to the pre-eminent figure of that tradition, pater Ennius. Classical scholarship has long thought the nature of this relationship settled: in a surge of r…
This thesis expands upon the notion that Thucydides’ plague narrative in his History of the Peloponnesian War punctuates his argument for the unique greatness of the Peloponnesian War. Through the plague, Thucydides displays the collapse of Greek society’s standards and practice…
This thesis will examine the teachings on and view of women in Greek culture, philosophy, literature, and theater as well as the early Church Fathers and their impact upon literature and history in general, which has led to antifeminist thinking, the rise of rape culture, and cu…
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the historical context of Pindar’s Olympian 1, the myths and adaptations that Pindar utilizes, and the overarching didactic and cautionary lessons meant for Hieron, Pindar’s benefactor. After I establish the historical context, I argue th…
In this dissertation, I argue that Tacitus used humor as an important rhetorical strategy in his historical works. Well-known features of Tacitus’ style, including variatio, weighted alternatives, and appendix sentences, can create and are used to create humor. I employ a combin…
In a twenty-year prose career championing liberty, John Milton wrote works about the most important issues of his day, including religious liberty, freedom of publication, and freedom from tyranny. In addition, he wrote several tracts advocating for marriage reform. Throughout t…
This thesis seeks to explore De Diversis Verborum Significationibus, the surviving epitome of the lexicon of Herennius Philo of Byblos (ca. 64-148 CE). By placing Philo in the timeline of Greek lexica, his prescriptive style and desire for absolute correctness in speech stands o…
宋代是中國小說發展史中一個承上啟下的重要歷史階段，是時相當一部分小說作品涉及到道教思想及其宗教活動。其小說類型、思想主題及藝術特色具有重要的文學研究價值。神仙思想是道教信仰的核心內容，宋代文言小說中的帝王仕宦神仙形象來源於官僚或皇室服務人員的集體記憶，他們在藝術形象上或莊重威嚴，施政清明，或逍遙安樂，不受羈絆。反映出是時社會中對世俗政治的關注及對治世能臣的讚揚，享樂之風的盛行以及解脫身心的渴望等文化心理。宋代文言小說中的平民仙道人物來自於手工業勞動者、商人、基層官吏、家境各異的讀書學子甚至妓女乞丐等各個社會 階層。他們邋遢狂放，不拘俗禮，不慕名利，曠達…
My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…
This dissertation argues that early modern English literature was an essential part of the first global aesthetic movement—the baroque. While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from English literary his…
This dissertation studies four texts: the Exeter Book, the collected poems of Baudri of Bourgueil, the Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris, and the anonymous eleventh-century Vita Ædwardi Regis. It examines and seeks to define a specific feature of these texts, which t…
Through skillful innovation and manipulations of both genre and media, Philostratus’ Imagines explores the potential roles of art within elite society. Written in the early third century CE, the Imagines is a series of sixty-five ekphrastic descriptions of paintings on display i…
Through investigation of diagrams in Euclid's Elements, this dissertation aims to study how visual knowledge has been transmitted. In the study of the history of the Elements, there has been an assumption that the text and diagrams in the work were both conveyed together. Upon t…
In this dissertation I explore sense perception and emotional psychology in Thucydides’ History from several angles. My primary sensory focus throughout is the visual, while the principal emotion I examine is fear. Vision, as W. R. Connor noted, is “the privileged sense” in the …
This project examines the function of the city of Rome in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Fasti. In doing so, it focuses on the ways in which Ovid plays with concepts and expectations of genre and gender in his depictions of Rome. As Ovid’s two major didactic elegies, the Ars Amatoria a…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Plautus’s comedies, inherently translated works, negotiate foreign characters and foreignness within their hybrid theatrical and extra-theatrical spaces. This project is part of a larger discourse on the tension between Greek, Roman, …
In his Historia Richardi Tertii, Thomas More shares a common goal with Sallust and Tacitus: to help prevent tyranny by promoting civic virtues in readers. After reviewing the similarities between More’s Historia and his classical models, I employ close reading and the insights o…