Browsing Classics by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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The fiction of occasion in Hellenistic and Roman poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or accessibility to the ... -
Neoplatonism in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: Aesthetics, Allegory, and Inspiration
(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 ... -
Tomb Readers: Anthropological Approaches to the Funerary Archaeology of Prepalatial Crete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2020)This thesis investigates the use of anthropological approaches in the interpretation of the funerary archaeology of Prepalatial Crete (c.3200-1900 B.C.). It examines the ongoing discourse between sociocultural anthropology ...