Browsing by Subject "Classics, Ph.D."
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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 ... -
An exploration of the social roles of plants in the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)This thesis explores the role of flowers in the Aegean world during the Bronze Age. The focus is on Minoan Crete in particular, but evidence from contemporary societies in the Cyclades, the Near East and Egypt is also utilised. -
Archaeology and the State: an examination of archaeological practice and official interpretation of archaeological remains in Israel and the Republic of Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)This thesis examines the factors determining archaeological practice and management in the Republic of Cyprus and Israel. It thus looks at the historical background to heritage management and the specific infrastructural ... -
Barbarian among barbarians : a study of Euripides' Iphigenia in Taurus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis is a new reading of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, and argues that, contrary to common scholarly opinion, Iphigenia in Tauris is a serious tragedy which engages with serious issues, and is as finely constructed ... -
Ceramics, clays, and the technological landscape of urban Sikyon : (2nd century BC-7th century AD)
(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 ... -
Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos : social power and the archaeology of religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)Note: Published Monograph also available: Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus : From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos. Publisher: Brill, 2012. ISBN: 9789004224353 ; e-ISBN 9789004233805; Series: ... -
Cyrus the Great, religion, and the conquest of ancient Anatolia
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Generic fluctuations : metapoetic water in propertius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of metapoetic water symbolism in Propertius. The pervasiveness of water imagery in all four books of the corpus, and the poet’s artistic ... -
'Goddesses with Upraised Arms' in Crete and Cyprus : a comparative study
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Images of power in Bronze Age Crete
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2003)This thesis is concerned with the use of imagery by the elite of Neopalatial Crete to preserve and maintain their position in society. In the introduction a short history of previous scholarship is outlined. The tendency ... -
Imago Hortorum : the cultural significance of gardens in Roman Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)This thesis is concerned with the cultural significance of gardens in Roman society: how they were used and how they were perceived. It takes as its source of inspiration Pliny the Elder’s statement that the urban poor of ... -
Letum non omnia finit : reading Vergilian intertextuality in Propertius 4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The objective of this thesis is to assess the extent and nature of Propertius' reception of Vergil in Book 4 of his elegies. Vergil's death preceded the publication of Propertius 4 by at least three years, thereby enabling ... -
Lucian's self-conscious fiction : theory in practice
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Out of the cave : comparative studies on the themes of unconcealment and transcendence in Plato from a Heideggerian perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2002)In this dissertation I set out to establish a series of closely connected theses which will support the broad thesis of this work that Heidegger’s thinking - especially in the period around Being and Time occupies a proximity ... -
Petrarch's Aeneid : critical assessments of Virgil in the Africa
(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 ... -
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. ... -
Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its intellectual context
(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 ...