Classics: Recent submissions

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    • Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus 

      Alexandrou, Constantina (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 

      ALMQVIST, OLAF HUGO (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 

      Lynam, Frank (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)

    • Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its intellectual context 

      Akcay, Nilufer (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 ...

    • Geography and Empire in Virgil's Georgics. A study of the poem and its reception in Britain and the British Empire, c.1820-1930 

      KERRIGAN, CHARLIE (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 ...

    • Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe 

      Gale, Monica (Classical Press of Wales, 2018)

    • The fiction of occasion in Hellenistic and Roman poetry 

      GRAMPS, ADRIAN (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 

      FELISARI, CLARA (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 

      Zeman-Wiśniewska, Katarzyna (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 

      Tracy, Emmett Patrick (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 

      McGrath, Mairéad (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 

      McGee, Kevin A. (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 

      O'Neill, Suzanne (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 

      Cadau, Cosetta Michela (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 

      Evans, Jessica (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 

      Dixon, Barry (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 

      Diskin, Matthew J. (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 

      Craig, Deirdre J. M. (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 

      Papantoniou, Giorgos (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 

      Ware, Catherine Mary (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, ...