Classics: Recent submissions
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Contesting Chronos: An Exploration of Competing Ontologies of Time in Early Greek Thought
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis explores the diverse ontologies of time that are evidenced in the early Greek cosmologies of Hesiod, Pherecydes of Syros, and Empedocles. Through three case studies, I argue that in order to understand the ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad
(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 ... -
Discipline(d) and Punish(ed): The Museum as a 'Prison' of Culture
(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 ... -
Orpheus the Epic Poet: Reading the Argonautika by Orpheus in the tradition of Homer and Apollonios Rhodios
(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 ...
