RSS 1.0Classics (Theses and Dissertations)
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Margins of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Scholia on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica constitute a substantial and varied corpus but have been overlooked by modern scholarship. This thesis seeks to fill that gap by providing a critical evaluation of the Argonautica ... -
Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis explores the active role that animals played in influencing the design of hunting spectacles (venationes) that were staged in Rome and throughout the Empire from the end of the 1st century BCE to the early 6th ... -
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 ... -
Sic Mundus Creatus Est: Connection, Convergence, Coherence in Manilius' Astronomica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The thesis examines the notion of interconnectedness in the Astronomica and its significance for the poem. Particularly, it argues that the concept of an interlinked universe pervades Manilius' text and brings together ... -
Nesiotai and Poleis Aspects of Agency in the Hellenistic Cyclades
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)This thesis examines the interactions of the poleis of the Cycladic Islands with hegemonic powers in the Hellenistic period on two levels: 1) the level of the Nesiotic League and 2) the level of the individual island poleis. ... -
Oppian's Piscine Dialectic
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The central premise of this study is that Oppian?s Halieutica is a poem that poses questions and offers a variety of perspectives on issues such as the place of humans in the natural world, the cognitive abilities of ... -
The Libyan Wars: Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)Africa is mother to some of humanity's oldest civilisations, among them the maritime state of Carthage (ca. 814-146 BC). At its height, Carthage was one of the largest cities on earth and was the first truly urban centre ... -
Contesting Chronos: An Exploration of Competing Ontologies of Time in Early Greek Thought
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis explores the diverse ontologies of time that are evidenced in the early Greek cosmologies of Hesiod, Pherecydes of Syros, and Empedocles. Through three case studies, I argue that in order to understand the ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)Ships are the most prominent material objects in the world of epic and the lemma ship (νηῦς) is the one of the most common substantives in the Iliad. Despite this, there has never been a sustained account of what ships do ... -
Discipline(d) and Punish(ed): The Museum as a 'Prison' of Culture
(Trinity College Dublin, 2021)This thesis examines museum possession of objects against a framework of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, specifically his application of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model. It applies the theory ... -
Orpheus the Epic Poet: Reading the Argonautika by Orpheus in the tradition of Homer and Apollonios Rhodios
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)The Argonautika by Orpheus , a late antique epic poem by an anonymous author, has until now received little scholarly attention. This investigation studies the work as an epic poem, with particular attention to the anonymous ... -
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 ... -
Exile in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)Throughout Plutarch s Parallel Lives, many of his subjects go into exile willingly or by force. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether Plutarch found exile to be an exceptional theme, whether the work On Exile can ... -
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 ... -
Sic hominum genus est : animals and the continuum of life in the De rerum natura of Lucretius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2015)The objective of this thesis is to analyze the place of animals in Lucretius' account of Epicurean philosophy of mind. It uses philosophy of mind to investigate his representation of animals in De rerum natura and the ... -
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 ...
