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…
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This thesis argues that Lucretius employs five coherent groups of imagery in his De Rerum Natura to explain the fundamental laws and processes of his materialist philosophy. These groups, embedded in human experience, guide Lucretius' reader through the difficult, and at times u…
This thesis looks at the nature and evolution of communal responses to socio-economic problems in imperial Italy and Gaul. Ancient analysis of this topic tended to view any popular expression of discontent as the result of the moral failings of the plebs, or, somewhat more gener…
This thesis is an analysis of the performance reception of Aristophanes' 'Frogs' across the English-speaking world; in which I include Britain, North America, Africa and Australasia. It will draw on the growing trend of performance reception as a branch of Classical Reception, a…
The nature of the Republican constitution has been much contested by scholars studying the history of the Roman Republic. In considering the problems of the late Republic, the nature of the constitution is an important question, for if we do not understand what the constitution …
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…