Classics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Images of power in Bronze Age Crete
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2003)This thesis is concerned with the use of imagery by the elite of Neopalatial Crete to preserve and maintain their position in society. In the introduction a short history of previous scholarship is outlined. The tendency ... -
An exploration of the social roles of plants in the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)This thesis explores the role of flowers in the Aegean world during the Bronze Age. The focus is on Minoan Crete in particular, but evidence from contemporary societies in the Cyclades, the Near East and Egypt is also utilised. -
The Roman aqueducts and bathhouses of Crete
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis addresses the dynamics behind the introduction, diffusion and demise of Roman aqueducts and bathhouses in Crete. The study is essentially an archaeological and architectural exploration of these monument types ... -
Lucian's self-conscious fiction : theory in practice
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Secondary gods and divine mediators : studies in the development of the demiurge in the platonic, gnostic and hermetic traditions
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Bodies in Fragments: Anatomical Healing Votives
(2014)Bodies in Fragments: Anatomical Healing Votives is an exhibition of images and artefacts to accompany the IIHSA Day School February 8, 2014 ‘Doctors, Diseases and Divinities: Health and healing in the ancient world’. The ... -
Lucilio: L'invenzione di un'identita
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Intellect and the One in Porphyry's Sententiae
(Elsevier, 2010)This article seeks to provide some support for the troublesome report of Damascius in the De Principiis that, for Porphyry, the first principle is the Father of the Noetic Triad?and thus more closely implicated with the ...
