Theses - Classics
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
This is an investigation of the ways that divine presence was manufactured through the technological, and foremost the mechanical, in the ancient Greek world. The dissertation seeks both to expand the existing vocabulary ... -
Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
This thesis explores accounts of impaired consciousness in three groups of sources that spread out between the 5th/4th century BCE and the 2nd century CE, namely, a selection of treatises from the Hippocratic Corpus, some ... -
Britannia's Bodies: Corporeal Representation in the Art of Roman Britain
This thesis gives some much-needed attention to the art of Rome’s most North-Westerly province, the aim being to bring it into a conversation of equals with that of the rest of the Roman world. There have long been questions ... -
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚA ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ: a linguistic analysis of the early Greek alphabets
(2021-01-30)Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’, instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic ...