Theses - Classics
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
(2020-07-18)This dissertation consists of three chapters, each developing one of the three elements of the subtitle. The first, "Aristotle against Eleatic monism", analyses Aristotle's refutation of Eleatic monism in Physics 1.2-3 in ... -
Conceptions of Law in Classical Athens
(2020-04-30)This thesis investigates the underlying assumptions Athenians had about their laws: it seeks to ask what Athenians assumed their laws were for, and where they thought those laws got their authority. It neither answers nor ... -
Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
(2020-05-16)This thesis explores how the Romans constructed their past and what it looked like by using its material remains in the period from the first century BC to the second century AD. Using a combination of texts, objects, and ... -
In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
(2019-11-06)This thesis explores the motif of carpe diem. I argue that close analysis of the carpe diem motif can make a key contribution to questions of performance, textuality, and the evocation of present time, which are central ...
