Histories of medicine in the ancient Greco-Roman world have traditionally been centered on elite men, despite elite men representing only a small portion of medical practitioners in the ancient world. While recent studies have begin to correct this picture, ideas of folk and eli…
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The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic perspective. This thesis consists of two parts. The first…
This study examines the first representations of historical events on public monuments in Athens during the fifth century BC. In the Near East and Egypt, for much of their history, leaders commonly erected monuments representing historical figures and contemporary events. In Arc…
This dissertation contextualizes Roman sculpture within its local environment, giving particular attention to the honorific statue groups of the imperial family in the first and second centuries CE. Previous studies focus primarily on issues of style and typology, whereas this p…
Prehistoric Town Planning in Crete was published in 1950 by Richard Hutchinson. He determined there was no evidence of town planning on Minoan Crete except for two instances. Hutchinson's approach compared the layout of the few excavated Minoan towns to other contemporary sites,…
This dissertation concerns a crucial episode in the international legal history of nation-building: the Greek-Turkish population exchange. Supported by Athens and Ankara, and implemented largely by the League of Nations, the population exchange showcased the new pragmatism of th…
Thessaloniki, a city with an Ottoman, Byzantine, and Sephardic past, is located in the Balkan area of Macedonia, in northern Greece. Its history is the story of people who have come from someplace else. For several hundred years, the majority population of the city was comprised…
In this dissertation, I extensively re-examine P. Mich. inv. 2958, a secondcentury-C.E. musical papyrus excavated by the University of Michigan at Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Fayum, Egypt in 1924. In contrast to pre-existing scholarly opinion, I argue that this musical papyrus c…
Turkey is currently engaged in reassessing its policies concerning its ethnic and religious minorities, and the question of how to deal with an undeniable heterogeneity in a state that has long attempted to present itself as ethnically and religiously homogenous is a central iss…
This dissertation presents a comprehensive study of a fragmentary text of Greek prose fiction generally known as The Sesonchosis Novel (2nd century CE). It provides a new picture of the scope, character, and date of the work with the help of two new papyrus fragments and explore…
This dissertation seeks first of all to demonstrate the likelihood that the author of the Book of Daniel was familiar with the Histories of Herodotus. Writing in the middle of the second century B.C.E., at a time when the influence of Hellenistic culture was being increasingly f…
In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, knots were thought to possess magical power in addition to having practical value. One especially beneficent knot was the square knot, i.e. the Herakleotikon hamma or nodus Herculeus, which ancient literary sources identify as having apotropai…
This dissertation treats for the first time as an object of archival research Russian state and society in connection with political and religious reforms in Greece during the years 1833–1844, a crucial period in the history of both countries. It argues that the Russian governme…
Most writers of histories of schools begin with the Greek educational system, perhaps because the Western perspective of most English language historians makes the Greek civilization a convenient starting point. This study shows that the classroom preceded the Greek civilization…
This dissertation analyzes how the three fifth-century Greek church historians, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, narrate non-Christian and non-Jewish cultic and political activities during the reigns of Valens and Theodosius I (364-395). This study demonstrates the essential rol…
The document known as Anonymus dialogus cum Iudaeis (hereafter referred to as ADI), an originally Greek work, was previously known only in Georgian and Armenian translations. José H. Declerck found a twelfth or thirteenth century copy of the Greek original, which was composed in…
A second-century CE visitor to Euboea would have encountered a considerably different world than that encountered by the first Roman visitors to the island three hundred years beforehand, in the late third century BCE. In the course of Rome's expansion into the eastern Mediterra…
The fact that the three major military orders participated in some way in the history of the Latin Principality of Achaia for nearly three hundred years is not often discussed by historians. No systematic examination of the orders in the Morea from 1208-1500 has previously been …
This study attempts to understand and explain the rise and fall of Greek-Cypriot irredentism and its geopolitical goal of union with Greece. The major question to be addressed concerns the type of state that emerged from the geopolitical neutralization and emotional unfulfillmen…