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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Roman aqueducts and bathhouses of Crete
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis addresses the dynamics behind the introduction, diffusion and demise of Roman aqueducts and bathhouses in Crete. The study is essentially an archaeological and architectural exploration of these monument types ... -
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 ... -
Lucian's self-conscious fiction : theory in practice
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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 ... -
The collected fragments of Syrianus the Platonist on Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus
(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 ... -
The poetics of Claudian : panegyric in the ancient epic tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Claudian’s political work as epic poetry, written by a poet who specifically associates himself with Homer, Ennius and Vergil, and whose work alludes to the epics of Ovid, Lucan, ... -
Secondary gods and divine mediators : studies in the development of the demiurge in the platonic, gnostic and hermetic traditions
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The play of intellect : an assessment of the aesthetics of Platonic dialectic through Gadamerian hermeneutics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)This thesis argues for an inherently aesthetic structure to the Platonic method of dialectic. This is carried out using a two-tiered incorporation of the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. In the first instance ... -
Intellect and the One in Porphyry's Sententiae
(Elsevier, 2010)This article seeks to provide some support for the troublesome report of Damascius in the De Principiis that, for Porphyry, the first principle is the Father of the Noetic Triad?and thus more closely implicated with the ...
