[First posted in AWOL 16 September 2020, updated 30 October 2023]
Open Access Classics Dissertations at Duke University
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Violent by Nature: Danger and Darkness in the Pastoral World
(2022)This dissertation challenges the notion of pastoral as a rural utopia by exposing the violence and danger innate to the bucolic world. The classical tradition has historically understood the pastoral world as an idyllic ...The Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading
(2023)The Theognidea is the most significant work of archaic Greek elegy, but questions of its origins have long dominated its study. This dissertation reads the Theognidea as the product of widespread, rhetorically motivated ...The Longest Transference: Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature
(2014)This dissertation identifies Cicero's <italic>Consolatio</italic>, Seneca's <italic>Ad Polybium de consolatione</italic>, and Boethius' <italic>De consolatione Philosophiae</italic> as self-consolations, in which these Roman ..."The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
(2010)This dissertation focuses on the artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the Athenians ...The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
(2023)This dissertation answers the question, “How were scribes in the ancient world trained?” The following social history elevates the marginalized voices of ancient scribes, emphasizing their personhood and their agency as ...The Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Roman Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula
(2012)This dissertation is an epigraphic study of the Roman auxiliary units raised on the Iberian Peninsula based on a corpus of over 750 inscriptions. It presents the literary and epigraphic evidence for late Republican allied ...Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
(2016)This dissertation interrogates existing scholarly paradigms regarding aetiology in the Histories of Herodotus in order to open up new avenues to approach a complex and varied topic. Since aetiology has mostly been treated ...Sophocles’ Ancient Readers: The Role of Scholarship on the Reception of Greek Tragedy
(2021)There is a modern scholarly consensus that Sophocles’ popularity was so great in antiquity that criticism surrounding him was overwhelmingly positive but vague and without depth; he was, in their view, almost “beyond criticism” ...Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
(2020)This dissertation revolves around a central observation that, although the methodological differences among Greek mathematical writings are striking, these differences do not lie primarily along lines of subject matter or ...Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato
(2016)This dissertation seeks to identify what makes Cicero’s approach to politics unique. The author's methodology is to turn to Cicero’s unique interpretation of Plato as the crux of what made his thinking neither Stoic nor ...Rereading Lucretius: The Plague of Athens and Epicurean Attachment in De Rerum Natura
(2023)This dissertation addresses the problem of the concluding passage of Lucretius’ didactic poem De Rerum Natura, which famously consists of a vivid and evocative account of the Plague of Athens of 430 BCE that ends abruptly ...Playing the Tyrant: The Representation of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy
(2016)In my dissertation, I trace the depiction of the tyrant-figure in fifth-century Athenian tragedy, and how this figure reflects Athenian changing self-identity over the course of the fifth century. Given the crucial function of ...Plato's Cretan Colony: Theology and Religion in the Political Philosophy of the Laws
(2016)The Laws is generally regarded as Plato’s attempt to engage with the practical realities of political life, as opposed to the more idealistic, or utopian, vision of the Republic. Yet modern scholars have often felt disquieted ...Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient Philosophy
(2011)This dissertation investigates how recognition of Plato's <italic>Republic</italic> as a pedagogical text and of the milieu of competing disciplines in which it composed suggests new readings of its philosophical content. ...People and Identities in Nessana
(2008-04-22)Abstract In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial ...Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the "Odyssey": A Study on "Tisis"
(2010)This dissertation examines the interplay of ethics and poetic craft in the <italic>Odyssey</italic> through the lens of the theme of <italic>tisis</italic>, "retribution." In this poem <italic>tisis</italic> serves two main ...Monumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome
(2019)“Monumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome” is a comprehensive study of public infrastructure in Rome under the emperor Claudius (41-54 CE). Recent scholarship has targeted Claudius’ reign ...Matrona Visa: Women's Public Visibility and Civic Identity in Hispania Tarraconensis
(2020)This dissertation examines evidence for the public visibility of elite women in Roman cities in the province of Hispania Tarraconenesis from the first through the third centuries C. E. By focusing on the epigraphic evidence ...Marginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
(2023)This study analyzes marginalized voices and nontraditional pathways of higher education in the late Roman Empire and diversifies our notion of who was part of “the” educated elite in ancient higher education. I focus on ...Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
(2019)This dissertation investigates ancient language ideologies constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses ...
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