Classics (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Geography and Empire in Virgil's Georgics. A study of the poem and its reception in Britain and the British Empire, c.1820-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis is a history of Virgil?s Georgics, one which combines a reading of the text (Chapter 1) with investigation of its reception in Britain and the British empire (Chapters 2 and 3). It argues that an aesthetic trend ... -
The fiction of occasion in Hellenistic and Roman poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or accessibility to the ... -
Iambos Polytropos: A comparison of the language of Callimachus' Iambi, Archilocus, and Hipponax
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2017)My work analyses the language of Callimachus? Iambi in relation to the languages of the iambographers who precede him, notably Archilochus, and Hipponax. These three iambographers allow significant scope for intertextual ... -
'Goddesses with Upraised Arms' in Crete and Cyprus : a comparative study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)The primary purpose of this study is to establish whether Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Cretan and Cypriot ‘Goddesses with Upraised Arms’ figures and figurines form one group or two separate assemblages. Of special ... -
Simplicitas and the Hymni Ambrosiani
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)The overall aim of this thesis is to address the notion that the earliest and most influential of Christian poems, the Hymni Ambrosiani, were formally and linguistically simple. The general position that these highly ... -
Pregnant words : a study of the trial scene of Aischylos's Eumenides
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)This dissertation examines Apollo’s λóγoς against maternity in the Eumenides of Aischylos (657-666). The central scene of the Eumenides, the final play of the trilogy Oresteia (staged in 458 BC and also comprising the ... -
Petrarch's Aeneid : critical assessments of Virgil in the Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)Petrarch’s Africa is often read as an attempt to recreate the style and manner of Virgil’s Aeneid. Because of Petrarch’s frequent expressions of praise for Virgil, his epic is considered as a kind of homage to an admired ... -
The architectural and cultural reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its frieze from 1811 to 2009
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2010)This thesis is an analysis of the architectural and cultural reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its frieze from 1811 to 2009. The reception of this globally important UNESCO listed monument is an area of ... -
Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)The only extant work of Colluthus, an Egyptian epic poet from the late fifth century AD, is an epyllion in 394 hexameters entitled The Abduction of Helen. His poem has been interpreted as a product of late antique rhetorical ... -
The discourse of political freedom in ancient Greek historiograpy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2012)This thesis examines the discourse of political freedom in ancient Greek historical texts. In Chapter One, I examine evidence for 'freedom' from the Near East and Greece before the outbreak of the Persian Wars. Although ... -
The play of intellect : an assessment of the aesthetics of Platonic dialectic through Gadamerian hermeneutics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)This thesis argues for an inherently aesthetic structure to the Platonic method of dialectic. This is carried out using a two-tiered incorporation of the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In the first instance ... -
The ghost of Brennus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2011)In this dissertation, I trace the origin and the evolution of the use of terms like "Kελτοι" and "Γαλαται" in Greek ethnographic and/or historical texts from the works of Herodotus and Hecataeus into the Roman period. More ... -
Generic fluctuations : metapoetic water in propertius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of metapoetic water symbolism in Propertius. The pervasiveness of water imagery in all four books of the corpus, and the poet’s artistic ... -
Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos : social power and the archaeology of religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)Note: Published Monograph also available: Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus : From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos. Publisher: Brill, 2012. ISBN: 9789004224353 ; e-ISBN 9789004233805; Series: ... -
The poetics of Claudian : panegyric in the ancient epic tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Claudian’s political work as epic poetry, written by a poet who specifically associates himself with Homer, Ennius and Vergil, and whose work alludes to the epics of Ovid, Lucan, ... -
Imago Hortorum : the cultural significance of gardens in Roman Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)This thesis is concerned with the cultural significance of gardens in Roman society: how they were used and how they were perceived. It takes as its source of inspiration Pliny the Elder’s statement that the urban poor of ... -
Barbarian among barbarians : a study of Euripides' Iphigenia in Taurus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis is a new reading of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, and argues that, contrary to common scholarly opinion, Iphigenia in Tauris is a serious tragedy which engages with serious issues, and is as finely constructed ... -
Archaeology and the State: an examination of archaeological practice and official interpretation of archaeological remains in Israel and the Republic of Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)This thesis examines the factors determining archaeological practice and management in the Republic of Cyprus and Israel. It thus looks at the historical background to heritage management and the specific infrastructural ... -
Letum non omnia finit : reading Vergilian intertextuality in Propertius 4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The objective of this thesis is to assess the extent and nature of Propertius' reception of Vergil in Book 4 of his elegies. Vergil's death preceded the publication of Propertius 4 by at least three years, thereby enabling ... -
Out of the cave : comparative studies on the themes of unconcealment and transcendence in Plato from a Heideggerian perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2002)In this dissertation I set out to establish a series of closely connected theses which will support the broad thesis of this work that Heidegger’s thinking - especially in the period around Being and Time occupies a proximity ...
