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    • Midwives of Eileithyia Tracing a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete 

      ZIMMERMANN KUONI, BARBARA SIMONE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)
      The health issues associated with birthing notoriously large and helpless infants have sweeping but barely acknowledged implications in the shaping of early medical systems. Treading uncharted territory, this thesis theorizes ...

    • Teaching the nation's past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-1969 

      MAC GEARAILT, COLM (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      This thesis considers the teaching of Irish history in Irish secondary schools post-Independence. It analyses the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and ...

    • Hyperboreans : Myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts 

      Bridgman, Timothy P. (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 ...

    • The merchant community of Dublin in the early seventeenth century : a social, economic and political study 

      Stapleton, Patricia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)
      This thesis investigates Dublin merchants in the early seventeenth century within the framework of economic, social and political changes that characterised the period. Although sources were hard to come by in some areas ...

    • The collected fragments of Syrianus the Platonist on Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus 

      Wear, Sarah Kiltenic (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)
      This work is a collection of the fragments of Syrianus the Platonist, head of the Athenian school of Platonism from 432-437, on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides. It includes a collection, translation, and commentary of a ...

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