Classics: Recent submissions
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Decolonising Minoan Archaeology: Museum Perspectives Past and Present
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2025)Archaeological assemblages from Minoan Crete (c. 3100-1100 BCE) have been studied and displayed in museums for over one hundred years. During that time, Minoan archaeology has flourished as a discipline, but no in-depth, ... -
Attitudes to rhetoric in the Old and New Academy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)The current work is an attempt to reconstruct the history of rhetoric in the Academy formed by Plato in the centuries following his death, up to and including the years of Cameades and his successors. The main texts under ... -
Ille regit dictis animos : models of authority in Vergil's Aeneid
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)In this dissertation, I have aimed to develop a better understanding of authority itself and establish a framework for reading authority in Roman literature based on this understanding. I then applied this framework to the ... -
The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2017)This dissertation endeavours to provide an analysis of the political economy of classical Athens from the perspective of the development of its navy. Traditionally, scholarship has viewed the economy of Athens as primitive, ... -
Medeae Medea forem' : rehabilitating Ovid's Medea
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)This project concerns itself with the characterisation of Ovid's Medea, as she appears in the twin letters Heroides 6 and 12, and in Book 7 of the Metamorphoses. The thesis argues first that the Ovidian Medea can be read ... -
The role of ceramics in Protopalatial East Crete, as observed at Priniatikos Pyrgos : a study in socio-economic interaction through design and exchange
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2017)This thesis is a critical assessment of the regional role of Priniatikos Pyrgos (PP) in Mirabello Bay and Central-East Crete during the Protopalatial period of the Minoan Bronze Age. The chronological range of this study ... -
Margins of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Scholia on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica constitute a substantial and varied corpus but have been overlooked by modern scholarship. This thesis seeks to fill that gap by providing a critical evaluation of the Argonautica ... -
Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis explores the active role that animals played in influencing the design of hunting spectacles (venationes) that were staged in Rome and throughout the Empire from the end of the 1st century BCE to the early 6th ... -
A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis offers a new reading of Apollonius’ Argonautica which pays special attention to the role of humour and the influence of comic literature. To demonstrate the importance of these two elements, I make three main ... -
Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. A poststructuralist approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2011)The goal of this study is a better understanding of the practice of 'sacrifice' in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. This includes animal and human sacrifice, but not inanimate offerings. This has been done through ... -
The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The most widely used definition of community archaeology is archaeology that is with, for, and/or by the community. The breadth of that description and all that it encompasses means there are as many ways to engage and ... -
The Weight of Aristophanes - Plato and the `Other' Comic Poets: An Intertextual Analysis of Plato's Protagoras and Eupolis' Kolakes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis has two aims. The first is to reorient the scholarly norm when thinking about Plato in relation to the genre of Greek Comedy. Since modern scholarship started taking Plato’s relationship to comedy seriously as ... -
Throwing Jason off the Scent: ἀμαλδύνω and the Lemnian Odour in Apollonius' Argonautica
(2023)This article argues that Apollonius was aware of the foul smell of the Lemnian women and its mythological variants. While Apollonius does not mention the δυσοσμία, he builds a complex allusion to it and its omission around ... -
Sic Mundus Creatus Est: Connection, Convergence, Coherence in Manilius' Astronomica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The thesis examines the notion of interconnectedness in the Astronomica and its significance for the poem. Particularly, it argues that the concept of an interlinked universe pervades Manilius' text and brings together ... -
Nesiotai and Poleis Aspects of Agency in the Hellenistic Cyclades
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)This thesis examines the interactions of the poleis of the Cycladic Islands with hegemonic powers in the Hellenistic period on two levels: 1) the level of the Nesiotic League and 2) the level of the individual island poleis. ... -
Oppian's Piscine Dialectic
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The central premise of this study is that Oppian?s Halieutica is a poem that poses questions and offers a variety of perspectives on issues such as the place of humans in the natural world, the cognitive abilities of ... -
The Libyan Wars: Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)Africa is mother to some of humanity's oldest civilisations, among them the maritime state of Carthage (ca. 814-146 BC). At its height, Carthage was one of the largest cities on earth and was the first truly urban centre ... -
Contesting Chronos: An Exploration of Competing Ontologies of Time in Early Greek Thought
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis explores the diverse ontologies of time that are evidenced in the early Greek cosmologies of Hesiod, Pherecydes of Syros, and Empedocles. Through three case studies, I argue that in order to understand the ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)Ships are the most prominent material objects in the world of epic and the lemma ship (νηῦς) is the one of the most common substantives in the Iliad. Despite this, there has never been a sustained account of what ships do ...
