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Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite
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The use and symbolism of coloured marble in the Forum of Augustus and the Forum of Trajan
(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 ... -
Achilles at Rome : studies in the Achilleid of Statius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2000)This thesis is a literary study of the Achilleid of P. Papinius Statius, an unfinished hexameter epic on the life of Achilles. It is, so far as I know, the first full-length monograph on the poem in any language. For the ... -
Midwives of Eileithyia Tracing a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)The health issues associated with birthing notoriously large and helpless infants have sweeping but barely acknowledged implications in the shaping of early medical systems. Treading uncharted territory, this thesis theorizes ... -
Hyperboreans : Myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2001)In the course of Greek literary history, six authors wrote texts which identify the Hyperboreans, a totally m ythical people who worshipped Apollo, with Celts, a real northern neighbour of the Greeks, or the Hyperboreans ...
