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Epicurus held that justice came into being when individuals made compacts with one another to secure the benefit that comes from not harming one another. He also distingu [...]
07 November 2024 |
Classics |
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This dissertation argues that Euripides’ Electra, Iphigenia among the Taurians (IT), Helen, Orestes and Iphigenia in Aulis comprise a fictional multiverse: a corpus of [...]
2024-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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At its height, the Seleukid Empire (311/10-63 BCE) encompassed vast tracts of territory from the western edges of Turkey to the borders of India and from Armenia to Bahra [...]
2024-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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Esta contribución presenta un estudio del contacto lingüístico más temprano entre el griego y el egipcio y los primeros préstamos léxicos que encontramos en la lite [...]
20 December 2023 |
Classics |
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This dissertation argues that Pindar’s epinician odes, composed in the first half of the fifth century BCE, functioned as both ideology and practice in attempting to st [...]
2023-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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Numerous Roman grants to local communities of the right to use local law survive in contemporaneous copies starting in the second century BCE. Contemporaneous with these [...]
26 May 2023 |
Classics |
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This essay introduces new evidence for an eschatological Phoenician motif that alludes to a final sailing and its perils, represented by a monstrous lion attacking or sin [...]
24 May 2023 |
Classics |
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Philosophy begins in wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. So what contribution does wonder make to a philosophical life? As a passion of inquiry, wonder is both a pa [...]
2023-06 |
Classics; Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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The Romans understood that translation entails transformation. The Roman term “translatio” stood not only literally for a carrying-across (as by boat) of material fro [...]
01 April 2016 |
Classics |
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Commercial curses indicating an occupation, business, profit, workshops or shops, or targeting individuals identified by a trade number about sixty; most come from Greece [...]
07 March 2022 |
Classics |
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This article explores the linguistic background of the Septuagint translation into Greek of the Old Testament, produced in Alexandria in the third century BCE, and thus l [...]
28 September 2022 |
Classics |
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This dissertation contributes a new paradigm for understanding the ideology of the border between Egypt and Nubia in the Ptolemaic period through a gendered and human-ec [...]
2022-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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“Adoption and Alterity in Pindar” uses the imagery of adoption in Pindar’s poetry to examine his portrayal of alterity. It argues that narratives around heroic ado [...]
2022-06 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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Attempts to trace the conceptual history of the bios theōrētikos have tended to begin with the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, in which the bios theōrētikos emerges [...]
2022-06 |
Classics; Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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Contemporary critiques and modern criticism of Roman elegiac poetry and its distinctly transgressive lifestyle align in casting its practitioner on the outside of Roman c [...]
2021-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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This study examines Quintilian’s portrayal of the ideal orator in his Institutio Oratoria— “a good man skilled in speaking” (vir bonus dicendi peritus)—as a res [...]
2021-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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This paper is the first comprehensive account of the male mummy portrait (also known as a "Fayum" or "Fayoum" portrait) in the Oriental Institute in C [...]
2021-06 |
Art History; Classics; Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Art History Theses |
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This dissertation is about the early history of the concept of nature (φύσις or φυή/φυά) in Greek poetry and philosophy, and the significance of certain metaph [...]
2021-06 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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The biographical tradition asserts that Euripides had been a painter before he was a tragedian and that his artworks were on view in Megara. While this story is likely fa [...]
2020-08 |
Classics |
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This dissertation studies the circumstances under which explicit norms of evidentiary admissibility were adopted in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Roman-canon procedure. [...]
2020-06 |
Classics; History |
Dissertation |
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What does it mean to be the Roman Homer? The parallel between Homer and Vergil is a commonplace among ancient and modern authors. But the precise terms in which the two a [...]
2019-12 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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Stoic ethics is widely presented by both ancient critics and modern readers as dogmatically intellectualist and antithetical to the emotions in any form. In this disserta [...]
2016-08 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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I argue here for a poetics in prose at work in Heraclitus, one that makes the text
an occasion for an exemplary experience of the kosmos as a form of active and
intelli [...]
2019-03 |
Social Thought; Classics |
Dissertation |
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One can read the Odyssey as the product of a poetic tradition interested in innovating the very process of its own narrative performance. In my thesis I focus on examples [...]
2019-03 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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The expansion of Roman power beyond the Italian peninsula resulted in the appearance of Roman citizens in non-Roman legal-cultural contexts across the Mediterranean. Many [...]
2016-06 |
Classics |
Dissertation |
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