Theses - Classics
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The Origins and Development of Linguistic Atticism
My thesis entitled ‘The Origins and Development of Linguistic Atticism’ deals with the linguistic debate around the idea of ‘correct Greek’, and especially with the origins and the development of a movement known as Atticism, ... -
The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
This thesis is an investigation of gift-giving in religious contexts in archaic Greece, in which I determine patterns of dedicatory practice across Greece, and then use these patterns as a window onto the mindset of ancient ... -
Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
This thesis broadly conceived is about the relationship between military and civil society in the time of the Roman Principate. It is about making sense of the tensions experienced by the soldiers and veterans of the Roman ... -
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 ...
