Erkenntnisfördernde Parameter römischer Provinzherrschaft sowie die Frage nach der Einheitlichkeit von Transformationsprozessen an der Wende zur Spätantike werden in der Forschung bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Mithilfe eines raumanalytischen Zugangs und am Beispiel der nordaf…
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Roma’nın siyasi hakimiyetine giren bütün bölgelerde olduğu gibi Küçük Asya topraklarındaki Pisidia Bölgesi’nin kentlerinde de Romalı yöneticiler tarafından sistemli bir romanizasyon politikası sürdürülmüştür. Bu kapsamda belli niteliklere sahip olan kentler Roma kolonisi olarak …
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 is a comparative study that examines continuities and instabilities in violent practices inherent in slavery in the ancient world and in America. In particular, it explores the violence used in maintaining slavery in ancient Rome and in the southern United States, an…
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. …
Attempts to understand Tacitus’ treatment of Roman soldiers have tended to focus on his aristocratic bias towards the lower-class citizen soldiers. These studies used evidence from throughout Tacitus’ corpus which show the historian describing the unruly, ruthless, and often vio…
This dissertation is a study of job titles in ancient Greece. Historians have often invoked job titles as evidence for ancient society, economic activity, and the like. The present study distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by making job titles themselves the subject o…
Many ancient and modern scholars are quick to praise the Etruscans for their art and make note of their religiosity. On the other hand, they are just as quick to view the Etruscans as military pushovers to those powers around them and generally devalue the significance that mili…
This project is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles from a landscape biography perspective, approaching monuments and other practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyzes the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary,…
In this thesis I investigate the syntax and prosody of discontinuous classical Latin noun phrases. I argue that they are the result of the interaction of Universal Grammar with syntactic and phonological parameters of language variation.
This dissertation examines how local populations in the Roman East responded to empire-wide trends by focusing on the construction of Roman-style baths. Specifically, it explores the degree to which provincial building industries applied their own well-developed and deeply entre…
The present dissertation examines the widespread presence of tropes of tragic recognition in Roman epic poetry from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue that Roman epic poets draw at once on tragedy and ancient philosophy to address the cognitive instability generated by ci…
This study investigates the female agency present or developed within the Sumerian narratives of “The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi” and “Inanna's Descent into the Underworld,” the Akkadian narratives of “Ishtar’s Descent into the Underworld” and “Ereshkigal and Nergal,” and th…
This project focuses on the intersection of Roman Imperial politics and Christian theology in the 4th century AD. I argue that during the transition to Christianity under Constantine and his successors, Christian theology became the principal realm in which political structure a…
In the final extant letter of his Epistulae Morales, Seneca the Younger attributes the human good to the work of cura, “care” or “concern,” before abruptly discussing how humans, unique among animals, have access to future time. This dissertation argues that Seneca’s distinctive…
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…
For over half a millennium, the Roman Emperorship was the most powerful office in the Late Antique Mediterranean, yet it was never transmitted by any stable or predictable set of constitutional rules. The seemingly erratic nature of power transfer in the Late Empire in particula…
This dissertation is a study of the initial steps of monastic training and socialization in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt with particular focus on connections to philosophical education and social practices, especially in the Neoplatonic tradition. This study explores aspects …
The prevalence of metamorphoses in the ancient myths is something which has drawn my interest while studying Classics. These myths are retold time and time again throughout ancient history, and it is clear they represent important beliefs in early cultures. My focus during this …