University of Illinois Open Access Classics Dissertations and Theses

University of Illinois Open Access Classics Dissertations and Theses

• Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams 

  Wells, Jessica Rose (2019-11-27)

  The expression “body of work” has long been used to describe the creative output of an author or artist, and the Latin word corpus is traditionally used to signify the bulk of a textual work because it represents a whole ...
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• Hostes deum: Magic in the literature of the Neronian period 

  Arampapaslis, Konstantinos (2019-07-10)

  This study examines magical discourse in the Neronian literature and, more specifically, its role in the works of the three major authors of the period, namely, Petronius, Seneca, and Lucan. It endeavors to trace possible ...
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• Reading character in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum 

  McVey, Aine Clancy (2019-04-15)

  How does the form of a literary text contribute to its function? This project addresses that question by examining how the structure (form) of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus’ imperial biographies, De uita Caesarum (DVC), ...
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• Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus 

  Karatzoglou, Orestis (2019-03-12)

  This dissertation examines the role of the body in the fashioning of the self in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. Even though it is usually argued that for Plato the real self is simply the soul and that the body is ...
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• Oaths and Greed in Tacitus' Histories 

  Dee, Nicholas M. (2017-04-11)

  In Tacitus’ treatment of the various military conflicts of 69-70 CE, the military oath of allegiance (sacramentum) assumes tremendous significance throughout. The historian pointedly begins his narrative with Galba’s failure ...
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• The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires 

  Norgard, Amy Lynn (2015-07-08)

  This study observes Horace’s Satires (Book 1 published c. 36-35 BCE, and Book 2 c. 30 BCE) through a lens of the body’s senses and organs involved in perception (eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hands, and tongues). Horace ...
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• A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326 

  Abosso, Daniel H (2015-04-27)

  Of all the Biblical epics that survive from antiquity, Claudius Marius Victor’s Alethia, a poem based on Genesis and written in Gaul in the fifth century, is one of the more obscure and difficult. The poem was never part ...
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• The psychology of satire: Epicurean ethics in Horace's Sermones 

  Yona, Sergio (2015-01-21)

  This study examines the role of Greek philosophy, specifically the ethical doctrines of the Epicurean sect, in Horace’s satiric poetry. It endeavors to highlight the important influence of one of Horace’s contemporaries ...
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• Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica 

  Marillier, Emily (2014-05-30)

  This thesis comprises a case study, to explore one motif that Petronius uses throughout his work. The chosen topic is the use of descriptions of hair: how Petronius describes hair, where he includes it, and what significance ...
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• A commentary on Jerome's Contra Vigilantium 

  Oh, Amy (2014-01-16)

  Innkeepers inspired this dissertation. After working on ‘innkeepers’ as a topic for a research seminar paper, I soon discovered that the term caupo counted as an insult according to several church fathers, including Jerome. ...
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• How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate 

  McConnell, Ryan (2014-01-16)

  The Flavii Apiones, owners of a large estate in Byzantine Egypt (fourth to seventh centuries), appear to become quite wealthy, yet the means by which they acquired that wealth is not always clear. Peter Sarris has argued ...
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• Emissaries in the narrative of Herodotus 

  Lanski, Alison (2013-08-22)

  Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Nevertheless, scholarship on narrative patterns has yet to consider their importance. This thesis uses methods from linguistics ...
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• Aristophanic Oracles 

  Karatzoglou, Orestis (2013-05-24)

  Four out of the eleven extant Aristophanic comedies contain, or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to ...
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• The rhetorics of Lucian's Dream 

  Maloy, Lucian (2012-05-22)

  The autobiographical piece The Dream provides an interesting insight into the satirist Lucian’s early life and professional development. In the work, young Lucian has a dream in which he must decide between following a ...
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• Archilochus, Telephus, and the warrior ethos 

  Anderson, Adrian (2012-05-22)

  This thesis offers a reinterpretation of the martial fragments of the archaic poet Archilochus. Drawing particularly upon a fresh analysis of the new Telephus-fragment (P. Oxy. LXIX 4708), it is argued that the poet ...
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• On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration 

  Wash, Leon (2012-05-22)

  The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic ...
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• Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides 

  Muich, Rebecca M. (2010-08-20)

  This thesis begins to examine the role of Andromache in the Trojan War saga and tradition by providing an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of ...
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• Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the Major "Homeric Hymns" 

  Strolonga, Polyxeni (2008)

  My dissertation is a study of the narrative pattern of reciprocity in the major Homeric Hymns to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes. I argue that the structure of the Hymns emerges out of a progression of the narrative ...
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• The Rhetoric of "Explanation in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura 

  Markovic, Daniel (2006)

  The Introduction states the question, points out the inadequacies of the treatments it received in the past, and advances the first two theses, announcing the way in which they will be supported in the following three ...
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• Toward a New Edition of Themistius' Paraphrase of Aristotle's "De Anima" 

  Bay, Stephen M. (2004)

  Providing a new edition of Themistius' paraphrase of the de Anima is my ultimate objective. However, given the limited scope of a dissertation, I have restricted myself to an examination of only a portion of the paraphrase. ...
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• The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's "Theaetetus 

  Giannopoulou, Zacharitsa (2002)

  The argument that underlies the thesis is that sophistic logos , both as abstract conceptualization and as concrete verbal expression, is problematic and ineffectual. The Theaetetus, with its central focus on the notion ...
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• Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries 

  Phillips, Richard Lynn (2002)

  The prolegomena examine how humans are portrayed as deliberately procuring invisibility in purportedly historical and fictional accounts and in doing so, attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found ...
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• A Commentary on the Fragments of Anaxandrides 

  Millis, Benjamin Willard (2001)

  This work provides an edition of the fragments of Anaxandrides together with a detailed commentary on them. Particular attention is given to elucidating the nature of his work and situating it within the historical context ...
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• Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature 

  Spencer, Walter Elliott (2001)

  In the second chapter I compare the structural similarities of three narratives of coniuratio by three very different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in ...
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• Studies in Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 

  Smith, Robert Scott (2000)

  The following studies are found within: (1) Tranquillus : Etymology and Meaning Before Seneca; (2) Tranquillitas in Seneca; (3) Composition and Purpose [of De Tranquillitate Animi]; (4) Date of Seneca, De Tranquillitate ...
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• Studies in Sallust's Historical Selectivity in the "Bellum Iugurthinum" 

  Weaire, Gavin Allen (2000)

  Perhaps the greatest cliche of writing on historiography is that historians exercise selectivity in choosing the events to incorporate into their narratives. But it is rare for a work on an ancient historian to take that ...
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• A Commentary to Longus, "Daphnis and Chloe," Book 3 

  Trzaskoma, Stephen Michael (1998)

  Longus' pastoral romance is one of only five complete and extant pieces of extended fiction from antiquity, which form a genre now regularly referred to as the Ancient Novel. Book 3 (of 4) is pivotal in many ways for ...
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• The Renaissance Reception of Terence: Grueninger's Editions of Terence, Strasbourg, 1496/1499 

  Worley, Athanasia L.J.Dollmetsh (1997)

  The frontispieces succeed in focusing the play for readers. However, the frontispieces and texts are a distorting lens in two respects. The central mediating characters are often very minor characters in the plays themselves, ...
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• Artemidorus Arabus: Toward a New Edition of the "Onirocritica" 

  Houlihan, John Arthur (1997)

  1963 marked the publication of a new edition by Roger Pack of Artemidorus' Onirocritica. The most recent edition had been that of Rudolph Hercher, produced almost a century earlier. Nevertheless, as no new witnesses had ...
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• Plato's "Ion": An Exegetical Commentary With Introduction 

  Harris, John Philip (1997)

  Plato's brief dialogue, Ion, represents an encounter between the Athenian philosopher, Socrates, and the Ephesian rhapsode, Ion, in which the philosopher attempts to persuade the rhapsode that his ability in reciting Homeric ...
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• Patterns of Exile in Greek Tragedy 

  Tzanetou, Angeliki (1997)

  The argument that underlies the present study is that exile, defined as the exclusion from the social, religious and political life in the polis, constitutes in the tragic plays an exploration of civic identity by means ...
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• Studies in Allusion in the "Eclogues" of Vergil 

  MacDonald, Jennifer Susan (1997)

  Vergil has "analyzed" the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single ...
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• The elder Cato: A philological reassessment 

  Churchill, J. Bradford (1996)

  M. Porcius Cato (cos. 195 sc B.C.E.) has been a focal point of study of the literature and politics of Rome of the second century sc B.C.E. He has sometimes been seen as a study in contradictions--an enemy of Greek influence ...
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• Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions 

  Summers, Anastasia Tsakiropoulou (1995)

  Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher and poet of the first century B.C., attempted to modernize Epicureanism by integrating poetry into its doctrines. His goals in his $\pi\varepsilon\rho\grave{\iota} \pi o \iota\eta\mu\ ...
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• Ps.-Seneca "de Spe" (Anth. Lat. 415 Riese): Prolegomena, Text, Translation, Commentary 

  Armstrong, Michael Shawn (1993)

  A critical text of the poem, with full apparatus and English translation, is presented. The manuscript tradition of the Anthologia Latina and the Leidensis Vossianus Latinus Quarto 86 (which contains De Spe) are described. ...
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• Wine, song, and the potens vates: The sympotic structure of Horace's "Odes" 

  Johnson, Timothy Scott (1993)

  Horace's sympotic odes dispel two assumptions that have captivated Horatian studies: (1) There is no linear thematic progression from one book of Odes to another, and (2) book IV represents a decline in Horace's lyric expression.
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• Martial's Catullus: The reception of an epigrammatic rival 

  Swann, Bruce Wayne (1992)

  This thesis examines Martial's insistence on naming Catullus as his primary model for writing epigrams, and traces the survival of Martial's assessment among poets and critics before the nineteenth century. Martial borrowed ...
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• The "Fabulae Hygini" reappraised: A reconsideration of the content and compilation of the work 

  Breen, Anthony Bernard (1991)

  In the field of classical mythology, the work known as the Fabulae Hygini occupies a central position with its wide variety of information and subject matter. However, treatment of the Fabulae outside an apparatus criticus ...
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• Thematic patterns in the "Argonautica" of Apollonius Rhodius: A study in the imagery of similes 

  Broeniman, Clifford Scott (1989)

  It is the aim of this dissertation to demonstrate how the similes of the Apollonius' Argonautica, which are connected by theme, are meant to be read and understood as a unit. These unified similes-groups reveal thematic ...
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• Epictetus on speech: The argument 

  Heisler, Raymond Joseph (1989)

  This thesis consists of a critical text, translation and running commentary on Epictetus II.23 which is entitled On the faculty of speech. In this diatribe, Epictetus discusses the proper role of speech, rhetoric and logic ...
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• Iambe and Baubo: A Study in Ritual Laughter 

  Arans, Olga R. (1988)

  The thesis provides an exploration of the cultural semantics of the myth of Iambe/Baubo. It reconsiders the primary sources and outlines the problems involved. A cross-cultural approach to the subject permits a discussion ...
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• The Interrelationship of Drama and Athletics in Classical Greece 

  Larmour, David Henry James (1987)

  The purpose of the dissertation is to argue for a change in the traditional approach to Greek drama and athletics: rather than viewing drama and athletics as essentially unrelated, it is preferable to consider each activity ...
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• Ammianus Marcellinus' knowledge and use of Republican Latin literature 

  Jenkins, Fred W. (1985)
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• Ammianus Marcellinus' Knowledge and Use of Republican Latin Literature 

  Jenkins, Fred W. (1985)

  Numerous scholars have pointed out real or alleged parallels and borrowings from earlier Latin authors in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus. None have examined the extent of his knowledge of the authors in question ...
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• The Return of Cynthia and The Structure of Propertius Book Iv (Latin, Elegy) 

  Shea, Christine Rita (1984)

  This dissertation argues that Propertius in Book IV of his elegies may have deliberately scuttled an elegantly symmetrical book-structure to meet the demands of context.
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• Consistency and Variation in Cicero's Oratorical Style 

  Panayiotou, George (1984)

  This dissertation--a comparative synchronic stylistic study--is intended to dispel the prevalent misconception that Cicero's style is monotonously the same, overornate, bombastic, self-indulgent. The question we set out ...
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• Aristotle's "analytics": A Textual History With New Collations Of The Major Manuscripts 

  Williams, Mark Faison (1982)

  The standard scholarly text of Aristotle's Analytics is that of Sir David Ross (Oxford: 1949, 1964). This thesis examines the textual evidence underlying Sir David's work, and corrects many errors that have found their way ...
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• Vocabularium Bruxellense: A Study of Its Sources With Particular Reference to Paulus's Epitome of Festus 

  Saenger, Silke-Margarete Junge (1977)
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• Linnaeus on Intoxicants: Pharmacology, Sobriety and Latinity in Eighteenth-Century Sweden 

  Parker, Henry Herbin (1977)
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• A Concordance to Statius 

  Klecka, Joseph Anthony (1977)
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• A Latin translation of the "Rhetorica ad Alexandrum" from the thirteenth century 

  Stapleton, Patricia Alice (1977)
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• Studies In The Manuscript Tradition Of The "ranae" In Aristophanes 

  Eberline, Charles Nelson (1976)
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• Lyric Iambic Metres in Aeschylus 

  Saenger, Rudolf Wolfram (1976)
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• Perfection In The Virtuous Life: A Study In The Relationship Between Edification And Polemical Theology In Gregory Of Nyssa's "de Vita Moysis." 

  Heine, Ronald Eugene (1974)
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• A History of the Diatribe From Its Origin Up to the First Century B. C. And a Study of the Influence of the Genre Upon Lucretius, Iii, 830-1094 

  Wallach, Barbara Price (1974)
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• The Latin Preposition 'In' With Personal Object 

  Schwane, John George (1973)
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• Thematic Unity in the Early Epinician Odes of Pindar 

  Newman, Frances Stickney (1972)
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• Alcuin's 'Adversus Elipantum Libri Iv,' Books I-Ii Edited With an Introduction 

  Gonzalez, Paul Victor (1971)
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• Meter and Sense in Homeric Verse 

  Beck, Roger Lyne (1971)
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• The Biography of Didius Julianus in The 'Historia Augusta' 

  Wagner, Cherryl Ann (1969)
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• Unity and Poetic Technique in the Odes of Bacchylides 

  Pieper, Gail Worsnopp (1969)
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• The Use of Gnomes in Sophocles' Poetry 

  Shucard, Stephen Cary (1968)
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• Traditional and Individual Ideas in Bacchylides 

  Demarque, Marlene Cutler (1966)
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• Thomas Magistros' Recension of the Sophoclean Plays 'Oedipus Coloneus,' 'Trachinae,' 'Philoctetes' 

  Dietz, Hans Peter (1965)
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• Latin Punctuation in the Classical Age 

  Wingo, Elvis Otha (1963)
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• Greek Lexicography in the Papyri 

  Naoumides, Mark (1961)
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• The Philosophy of History of Pompeius Trogus 

  Pendergast, Joseph Sylvester (1961)
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• A Critical Analysis of the Hypotheses Concerning Ovid's 'Error' 

  Thibault, John Crowell (1960)
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• Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Stephanites Kai Ichnelates 

  Papademetriou, John-Theophanes (1960)
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• Paired Expressions in Homer 

  Gienapp, Norman Frank (1957)
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• Contributions to the Study of the Thoman Recension of Aeschylus 

  Bryson, Elizabeth Agnes Emily (1956)
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• The Verbal Categories in The Greek of The Synoptic Gospels 

  Coughanowr, Euphrosyne Natsi (1955)
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• Pudor as a Criterion in Latin Literature 

  Swanson, Roy Arthur (1954)
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• Sequence of Thought and Motivation in the 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius 

  Stockin, Frank Gordon, Jr. (1954)
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• Psychological Vocabulary in Roman Poetry 

  Covey, Delvin L. (1952)
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• Wit, witticisms and humor of Plautus 

  Harrison, Annabel Ruth (1909)
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