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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
(2019-05-18)Two types of divinities predominate in Plato’s later dialogues, the traditional and cosmic gods. This thesis focuses on the traditional gods and inquires into their cosmological status and function in the Timaeus and the ... -
Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
(2019-04-27)Ovid’s Metamorphoses offers a meandering sequence of mythological transformations with no formal scheme – or so scholars have long thought. This thesis wagers that the poem does offer a scheme for understanding the world, ... -
Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
(2019-04-27)This thesis is concerned with early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and ... -
Language and the politics of Roman identity
(2019-03-23)This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest sense as the political and cultural practices involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman ...
