Browsing Classics (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication

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    • 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 ...

    • Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. A poststructuralist approach 

      Recht, Laerke (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 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 ...

    • '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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Cyrus the Great, religion, and the conquest of ancient Anatolia 

      Medenieks, Selga Meta (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)
      With the invasion of Anatolia in the sixth century BC Cyrus the Great began a series of conquests that would form the Persian Empire. For his tolerance and, indeed, support of foreign religions during his rule, Cyrus has ...

    • Ceramics, clays, and the technological landscape of urban Sikyon : (2nd century BC-7th century AD) 

      Trainor, Conor Patrick (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)
      This thesis presents the results of the author's study of the ceramic fabrics of Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Sikyon. The overarching aim of this work is to explore some of the issues that a combined programme ...

    • Sic hominum genus est : animals and the continuum of life in the De rerum natura of Lucretius 

      Zinn, Pamela (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2015)
      The objective of this thesis is to analyze the place of animals in Lucretius' account of Epicurean philosophy of mind. It uses philosophy of mind to investigate his representation of animals in De rerum natura and the ...

    • The cult of Asklepios 420BCE - 200CE : landscape, experience, and religious healing 

      Bourke, Liz (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2015)
      This thesis studies the Greek cult of Asklepios, a healing deity, with particular reference to the experiential aspects of religious healing in the cult between the late Classical period and the entry of the cult to Athens ...

    • 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 ...

    • Untangling the web of data : a critical analysis of the Archaeological Semantic Web 

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

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The use and symbolism of coloured marble in the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan 

      CORLESS, BRIDGET ALICE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)
      This thesis details the use of coloured decorative marble in the ornamental design and the symbolic meaning of the Forum of Augustus (2 BCE) and the Forum of Trajan (112/113 CE). It is a comprehensive study of the levels ...