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Fires in Rome: The ancient city as a fire regime
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)This thesis has undertaken two main complementary lines of research: firstly, it has looked afresh at the evidence for urban fires in Rome as presented by the written sources and, secondly, it has reimagined the city as ... -
Expressions of victory, Hellenism and power : the development of Campus Martius from the foundation of Rome to the end of the Republic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The Campus Martius, Rome, was a flood plain to the north of the city of ancient Rome that was characterised by its extra-pomerial location and its overtly level, spacious, nature. The way in which the Campus Martius ... -
Pictures from the sea : the role of marine imagery and artefacts in the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The Minoan civilisation which flourished on Crete in the Bronze Age delighted in depicting sea creatures in art. The marine world featured in every artistic medium and had great longevity within the Minoan artistic repertoire. ... -
Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
(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
(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 ...
