Open Access Classics Dissertations at Duke University

• Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws

  Austino, Chad Erik(2012)

  <p>This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities ...
• A Commentary on Ovid's Ceyx and Alcyone Narrative (Met. XI.410-748)

  Kim, Young Eun(2015)

  <p>This thesis seeks to analyze the longest story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, tale of Alcyone and Ceyx. Despite its length, its placement within the entire work, and the presence of the work's eponymous hero, Morpheus, the ...
• The Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Roman Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula

  Meyer, Alexander Wellesley(2012)

  <p>This dissertation is an epigraphic study of the Roman auxiliary units raised on the Iberian Peninsula based on a corpus of over 750 inscriptions. It presents the literary and epigraphic evidence for late Republican ...
• Democritus and the Critical Tradition

  Miller, Joseph Gresham(2013)

  <p>Modern scholars cannot agree how extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty ...
• Feminine Imperial Ideals in the Caesares of Suetonius

  Pryzwansky, Molly Magnolia(2008-04-23)

  The dissertation examines Suetonius' ideals of feminine conduct by exploring the behaviors he lauds or censures in imperial women. The approach comes from scholarship on the biographer's practice of evaluating of his male ...
• Figures in the Shadows: Identities in Artistic Prose from the Anthology of the Elder Seneca

  Huelsenbeck, Bart(2009)

  <p>The anthology of the elder Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 39 AD) contains quotations from approximately 120 speakers who flourished during the early Empire. The predominant tendency in modern scholarship has been to marginalize ...
• In the Bird Cage of the Muses: Archiving, Erudition, and Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt

  Yatsuhashi, Akira V.(2010)

  <p><p>This dissertation investigates the prominent role of the Mouseion-Library of Alexandria in the construction of a new community of archivist-poets during the third century BCE in the wake of Alexander the Great's ...
• "The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens

  Butera, Curt Jacob(2010)

  <p>This dissertation focuses on the artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the ...
• The Longest Transference: Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature

  Robinson, Clifford Allen(2014)

  <p>This dissertation identifies Cicero's <italic>Consolatio</italic>, Seneca's <italic>Ad Polybium de consolatione</italic>, and Boethius'<italic>De consolatione Philosophiae</italic> as self-consolations, in which these ...
• Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the "Odyssey": A Study on "Tisis"

  Loney, Alexander(2010)

  <p>This dissertation examines the interplay of ethics and poetic craft in the <italic>Odyssey</italic> through the lens of the theme of <italic>tisis</italic>, "retribution." In this poem <italic>tisis</italic> serves two ...
• People and Identities in Nessana

  Stroumsa, Rachel(2008-04-22)

  Abstract In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial ...
• Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient Philosophy

  Ward, Laura Aline(2011)

  <p>This dissertation investigates how recognition of Plato's <italic>Republic</italic> as a pedagogical text and of the milieu of competing disciplines in which it composed suggests new readings of its philosophical content. ...