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  Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad 

  Ward, Matthew George (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)

  Ships are the most prominent material objects in the world of epic and the lemma ship (νηῦς) is the one of the most common substantives in the Iliad. Despite this, there has never been a sustained account of what ships do ...
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  Discipline(d) and Punish(ed): The Museum as a 'Prison' of Culture 

  Mcgurk, Sophie (Trinity College Dublin, 2021)

  This thesis examines museum possession of objects against a framework of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, specifically his application of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model. It applies the theory ...
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  Orpheus the Epic Poet: Reading the Argonautika by Orpheus in the tradition of Homer and Apollonios Rhodios 

  Madela, Alexandra Maria (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)

  The Argonautika by Orpheus , a late antique epic poem by an anonymous author, has until now received little scholarly attention. This investigation studies the work as an epic poem, with particular attention to the anonymous ...
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  Neoplatonism in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: Aesthetics, Allegory, and Inspiration 

  Walker, Guy Samuel (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)

  My PhD thesis offers a sustained analysis of Nonnus of Panopolis Dionysiaca and its Neoplatonic influences. The 5th century epic-encomium was produced in the predominantly Christian literary environment of Alexandria or ...
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  Exile in Plutarch's Parallel Lives 

  Gwozdecky, Graham Scott (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)

  Throughout Plutarch s Parallel Lives, many of his subjects go into exile willingly or by force. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether Plutarch found exile to be an exceptional theme, whether the work On Exile can ...

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