The objective of this dissertation is to consider the embodied, relational nature of early Christian thought by examining the doctrine of the prayer of the heart. The opening discussion explores salient features of this ancient practice, its theological foundation, and biblical …
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I examine the two chief anatomical and physiological (embodiment) theories of voluntary animal motion from the time of Aristotle (b. 384 B.C.) to that of Mondino (d, A.D. 1326). The formal study of animal motion commenced with the Greek natural philosopher Aristotle who wrote th…
Negotiating Identity: Greek Emporia in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean, uses literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources to explore identity construction and preservation in diverse communities of traders, from the seventh to the fourth centuries BCE. Emporia were c…
As the scope of liberal democracy expands globally, and its attendant legal apparatus engages increasingly varied kinds of subjects, mental illness remains a resistant, troubling, unaccountable experience, generating confused claims of responsibility for a "vulnerable population…
This is a study of Strabo's conception of the Greeks as an ethnographic subject and the interplay between his ethnographic representation and Greek literary traditions, authorial self-construction and private and communal memory. Six chapters comprise this study. Each of the fir…
This dissertation consists of the first complete critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18 from all known Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin sources since the publication of Frederick Field's Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum g…
In this dissertation, I explore the 2nd century C.E. reality through the writings of Lucian of Samosata, a native Syrian who wrote in Greek and was a Roman citizen. Lucian wrote a large volume of works that cannot be filed under one specific genre, including Satires, admonitory …
The dissertation focuses on a topic of surprising cultural and political importance in the United States from 1821 to Independence from Turkey. Each chapter provides context helpful in assessing how cultural values interacted with political precedents and political expediency in…
In this thesis I present four of my own discoveries relating to archaic poetic language and lay out the implications for the prehistory and development of both epic and lyric poetic genres in early Greece. In my discussions I attempt to forge a methodology encompassing several d…
This dissertation is designed to trace the influence of Ephrem the Syrian on the Greek-speaking Christianity through the corpus of the Greek Ephrem. Despite Hemmerdinger-Iliadou's extensive study and Géerard's classification (CPG), studies of the Greek Ephrem has been meager. Th…
This dissertation considers the various treatments of the Persian Wars (490; 480-479 B.C.) as they appear in different poetic genres in Greece during the Classical period. Chapter One treats the lyric and elegiac accounts of Simonides and Pindar, who were among the first to comp…
The current study investigated the impacts of a program that employed a blend of sports and cultural enrichment, known as Olympism, to build bridges between Greek and Turkish Cypriot children residing on the island of Cyprus. The program, called Doves Olympic Movement Summer Cam…
My dissertation examines the influence of iambos , a genre of archaic Greek abusive poetry, on Greek literature of the late antique period. Recently, there has been a great deal of work done on iambos ' influence on classical and Hellenistic Greek poets as well as a number of La…
These pages seek to elucidate why Congress responded to the 1974 Turkish intervention in Cyprus with an arms embargo that cost the United States its highly valued military bases and facilities in Turkey. The decision was at the time attributed to the influence of politically eng…
Turkey and Greece are frequently seen as two irreconcilable neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean. The disagreements they have now, such as the Aegean disputes and the Cyprus question, contribute much to this conventional wisdom. Furthermore, the nationalistic history-writing a…
The thesis examines the nature and provenance of the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet, a Byzantine book on dream interpretation written in Greek in the tenth century. The Oneirocriticon, which is the longest and most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation, has greatl…
In 1295, a priest in Constantinople named Gregory Chioniades became interested in Islamic science and astronomy. He set out for the Mongol (Ilkhani) capital of Tabriz in modern Azerbaijan to pursue his studies. There he met and studied with Shams al-Buklhari, who was familiar wi…
An edition, translation, commentary, and introductory discussion, of Galen's treatise De diebus decretoriis, Kitab 'ayyam al-buh[dotbelow]ran "On the Critical Days," compiled from all accessible Arabic manuscripts. The Arabic translation was made by H[dotbelow]unayn Ibn Ish[dotb…
Abu Bakr Muh[dotbelow]ammad b. Zakariyya' ar-Razi was a Persian physician, alchemist, and philosopher who lived ca. 250/859-313/925. Among his most important medical works is a multi-volume Arabic text called the Kitab al-H[dotbelow]awi , i.e. The Comprehensive Book or The Book …