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A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis offers a new reading of Apollonius’ Argonautica which pays special attention to the role of humour and the influence of comic literature. To demonstrate the importance of these two elements, I make three main ... -
Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. A poststructuralist approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2011)The goal of this study is a better understanding of the practice of 'sacrifice' in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. This includes animal and human sacrifice, but not inanimate offerings. This has been done through ... -
The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The most widely used definition of community archaeology is archaeology that is with, for, and/or by the community. The breadth of that description and all that it encompasses means there are as many ways to engage and ... -
The Weight of Aristophanes - Plato and the `Other' Comic Poets: An Intertextual Analysis of Plato's Protagoras and Eupolis' Kolakes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis has two aims. The first is to reorient the scholarly norm when thinking about Plato in relation to the genre of Greek Comedy. Since modern scholarship started taking Plato’s relationship to comedy seriously as ... -
Throwing Jason off the Scent: ἀμαλδύνω and the Lemnian Odour in Apollonius' Argonautica
(2023)This article argues that Apollonius was aware of the foul smell of the Lemnian women and its mythological variants. While Apollonius does not mention the δυσοσμία, he builds a complex allusion to it and its omission around ...