In this dissertation I examine the role played by “unease” in the Homeric epics, the Ancient Near Eastern Gilgamesh texts, and the Indian Rigveda. I position unease as an affect that the texts can provoke in their audiences through poetic devices that interrupt the narrative, dr…
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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…
The dissertation refutes the definition of Bildung as the free development of an individual to his/her organic totality by showing that Bildung ideals are socially constructed. What is universal in the achievement of these socially determined characteristics of Bildung is the re…
This dissertation examines a way of reading Homer in antiquity that I call Homeric supplementation, which involved the imagination of motives, events, places, and circumstances that had been left out of Homer's text. My purpose is to demonstrate the prevalence of this creative f…
The thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions. The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death…
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…
In this work, I examine Ancient Greek Literature for the literary motifs that express the Greek/Barbarian dichotomy across the four "genres" of epic, tragedy, history, and biography/autobiography via a key author from each "genre": Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Xenophon. I ha…
As Iraq moves past its lavish shows for the Arab League and continues to struggle with security and reconstruction, as soldier-writers begin to publish much-needed creative literature recounting life as seen from the war's front, we as readers are responsible to watch not only f…
The centrality of aretē and virtus in the value systems of the Greeks and Romans has been examined by many scholars, yet the lack of a comprehensive study directly comparing the semantic development of each term within their individual historical and cultural contexts represents…
The dissertation analyzes the existence of the three nuances of the perfect tense occurring in the Greek New Testament: resultative-stative, anterior (current relevance), and simple past.