Classics (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Orpheus the Epic Poet: Reading the Argonautika by Orpheus in the tradition of Homer and Apollonios Rhodios
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)The Argonautika by Orpheus , a late antique epic poem by an anonymous author, has until now received little scholarly attention. This investigation studies the work as an epic poem, with particular attention to the anonymous ... -
Neoplatonism in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: Aesthetics, Allegory, and Inspiration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)My PhD thesis offers a sustained analysis of Nonnus of Panopolis Dionysiaca and its Neoplatonic influences. The 5th century epic-encomium was produced in the predominantly Christian literary environment of Alexandria or ... -
Exile in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)Throughout Plutarch s Parallel Lives, many of his subjects go into exile willingly or by force. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether Plutarch found exile to be an exceptional theme, whether the work On Exile can ... -
Tomb Readers: Anthropological Approaches to the Funerary Archaeology of Prepalatial Crete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2020)This thesis investigates the use of anthropological approaches in the interpretation of the funerary archaeology of Prepalatial Crete (c.3200-1900 B.C.). It examines the ongoing discourse between sociocultural anthropology ... -
Sic hominum genus est : animals and the continuum of life in the De rerum natura of Lucretius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2015)The objective of this thesis is to analyze the place of animals in Lucretius' account of Epicurean philosophy of mind. It uses philosophy of mind to investigate his representation of animals in De rerum natura and the ... -
Ceramics, clays, and the technological landscape of urban Sikyon : (2nd century BC-7th century AD)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)This thesis presents the results of the author's study of the ceramic fabrics of Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Sikyon. The overarching aim of this work is to explore some of the issues that a combined programme ... -
Cyrus the Great, religion, and the conquest of ancient Anatolia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)With the invasion of Anatolia in the sixth century BC Cyrus the Great began a series of conquests that would form the Persian Empire. For his tolerance and, indeed, support of foreign religions during his rule, Cyrus has ... -
The cult of Asklepios 420BCE - 200CE : landscape, experience, and religious healing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2015)This thesis studies the Greek cult of Asklepios, a healing deity, with particular reference to the experiential aspects of religious healing in the cult between the late Classical period and the entry of the cult to Athens ... -
The use and symbolism of coloured marble in the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)This thesis details the use of coloured decorative marble in the ornamental design and the symbolic meaning of the Forum of Augustus (2 BCE) and the Forum of Trajan (112/113 CE). It is a comprehensive study of the levels ... -
Achilles at Rome : studies in the Achilleid of Statius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2000)This thesis is a literary study of the Achilleid of P. Papinius Statius, an unfinished hexameter epic on the life of Achilles. It is, so far as I know, the first full-length monograph on the poem in any language. For the ... -
Midwives of Eileithyia Tracing a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)The health issues associated with birthing notoriously large and helpless infants have sweeping but barely acknowledged implications in the shaping of early medical systems. Treading uncharted territory, this thesis theorizes ... -
Hyperboreans : Myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2001)In the course of Greek literary history, six authors wrote texts which identify the Hyperboreans, a totally m ythical people who worshipped Apollo, with Celts, a real northern neighbour of the Greeks, or the Hyperboreans ... -
The collected fragments of Syrianus the Platonist on Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)This work is a collection of the fragments of Syrianus the Platonist, head of the Athenian school of Platonism from 432-437, on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides. It includes a collection, translation, and commentary of a ... -
Fires in Rome: The ancient city as a fire regime
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)This thesis has undertaken two main complementary lines of research: firstly, it has looked afresh at the evidence for urban fires in Rome as presented by the written sources and, secondly, it has reimagined the city as ... -
Expressions of victory, Hellenism and power : the development of Campus Martius from the foundation of Rome to the end of the Republic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The Campus Martius, Rome, was a flood plain to the north of the city of ancient Rome that was characterised by its extra-pomerial location and its overtly level, spacious, nature. The way in which the Campus Martius ... -
Pictures from the sea : the role of marine imagery and artefacts in the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The Minoan civilisation which flourished on Crete in the Bronze Age delighted in depicting sea creatures in art. The marine world featured in every artistic medium and had great longevity within the Minoan artistic repertoire. ... -
Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)This research investigates the Late Cypriot II–IIIA or Base-Ring female terracotta figurines from the moment they were just a lump of clay until their death/discard aiming to get fresh insights on their use, role, character ... -
The Cosmos in the Making: Humans, Gods and Animals in Early Greek Theogonies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis focuses on three early Greek cosmological poems, Hesiod's Theogony, the Orphic Derveni Theogony, and Protagoras' myth from Plato's homonymous dialogue. All three are variations on the same mythical material and ... -
Untangling the web of data : a critical analysis of the Archaeological Semantic Web
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Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its intellectual context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)The primary aim of my research project is to analyse and evaluate the symbols and images found in the treatise, On the Cave of Nymphs, in the Odyssey by the Neoplatonic philosopher, Porphyry of Tyre (234–c305 C.E.) and to ...
