Theses - Classics
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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 ... -
Aristotle on the metaphysical status of mathematical entities
(2019-07-19)The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an account of the metaphysical status of mathematical entities in Aristotle. Aristotle endorses a form of realism about mathematical entities: for him as well as for Platonists, ... -
Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative
(2019-01-26)This thesis challenges one of the fundamental assumptions about Rome’s political upheaval in the third century CE. This period is conventionally defined by the growing political influence of the army at the expense of the ...
