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Senior Theses and Essays, 1994-2013

1994

• Halina Anne Bennet - "Women in Etruscan Aristocratic Society"
• Angus E. Goldberg - "Uncertain Ideals:  Cognitive Dissonance in Athenian History"
• Sean P. Mazer - "Homeric and Historical Communities"

1995

• Matt Edes-Pierotti - "A Few Good Men: Military Elites in Ancient Greece"
• Lisa Hastings - "The Rape of Lucretia:  Evolution of a Legend Through Literature"
• Curtis Nelson - "Inspiration, Identity, and the Idea of Order:  The Homeric Poems as a Cultural System"
• Molly Swetnam-Burland - "Personal, Factional, and State Propaganda on Roman Coinage:  The Republic to Augustus"

1996

• Lindsay Nichols - "Women in the Comic World of Menander and in Ancient Athens"
• Charles Vance - "Cavere, Agere, Respondere:  The Role of the Roman Jurists in the Development of Law from Q. Mucius Scaevola to Hadrian"

1997

• Joshua Arthurs - "Civis Romanus Sum:  Italian Fascism and Roman Antiquity"
• Joshua Borenstein - "Living on the Boundaries:  Hybrid Creatures in Greek Myth and Art"
• Bret Mulligan - "Roma Aeterna/Roma Christiana:  The Transformation of Ideological Rome in Late Antiquity"
• Brendan O'Toole - "Tellos:  A Year in Athens"

1998

• Kristopher Fletcher - "Diomedes, Son of Tydeus:  In the Shadow of Achilles"
• Nancy Shane - "Carmina Comica"
• Mary Elizabeth Williamson - "Strategies of Consolation:  An Interpretation of the Correspondence of Heloise and Abelard"

1999

• Claudia Makadon - "Feminae Libidinosae et Castae:  Representations of Women in Ancient Rome"

2000

• Christopher Churchill  -  "The Vocabulary of Revolution: Rebellion, Accession and the Coins of 68-69 AD"
• Jesse Kercheval - "A Multimedia Review of Vergil's First Eclogue"
• Joseph Meyer - "Mithraism, Religious Prominence and Structural Differentiation in the Roman World"
• Sarah Rosenberg - "The Choicest Gift of the Gods:  Pantomime and the Early Roman Empire"
• Joanna Smith - "The Archaeology of Herodotus"
• Steven Staats - "Nature and Anxiety: Epicurean Ethics in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura"
• Sarah Wilkes - "Common Ideological Tendencies in General-Audience Greek Historiography"

2001

• Mercedes Barletta -- "The Rising Son: Neoptolemus, Telemachus and Orestes in Ancient Greek Literature and Art"
• Laura Elliott -- "Corpora Feminarum: Monstruosa at Miracula"
• Sara J. Hise -- "Humanitas: Foundations of Humanity in the Stoic Writings of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius"

2002

• Nate Andrade -- "The Devil is a Gentleman: Clerics and Ascetics in Late Antiquity"
• Jessica Clark -- "The Gallo-Roman Sanctuary Site of Champlieu (Oise) and the 'Romanization' of Gallia Belgica"
• Andrew Goldstein -- "The Foliate Lyre: The Use of the Countryside in Horace's Odes"
• Anthony Pacchia -- "A Reconsideration of Libertine Gnosticism"

2003

• Adriel Gerard -- "The History and Culture of The Scythians"
• Molly Greenwood -- "Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves: Perceptions of the Sibyl's Voice from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance"
• Caroline Richardson -- "Poor Man's Crystal: Utilitarian Glass of the Common Roman, ca. 50 B.C.-A.D. 450"
• Laurie Shaner -- "Making Sense of Madness: An Analysis of Madness in Fifth-Century B.C. History, Myth, and Religion"

2004

• Dina Guth -- Lyric and the Lyre" Ancient Greek Rhythmic Theory from Antiquity to Byzantium"

2005

• Elizabeth Burnside--"The Myth of Theseus: The Creation of a Hero"
• Leland Smith--"Homeric Intertextuality in Ovid's Heroides"

2006

• Burke Giordano--"Ovidian Irony and Augustan Propaganda"
• Dan Matzkin--"Sight and Foresight: Blindness in Classical Antiquity"

2007

• Tess Amodeo Vickery--"When in Rome"
• Deborah Schwartz--"'If You Are a Man': Gender Rhetoric in Roman Historiography

2008

• Frances Jones--"Tirocinium Imperii: Public School Education in the Victorian Era," the Classical Curriculum, and the British Imperial Ethos.
• Joanna Kenty--"Tyrants and Tyranny in the Late Roman Republic"
• Sara Maeder--"The Purest and the Loveliest of Mirrors," the Translation of Greek Myth to Film.
• Heather Teixeira--"Poetry, Politics, Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Demosthenes and George W. Bush"
• Jordana Wolfe--"Seeds of Knowledge: Palaeoethnobotany in the Classical World"
• Sabrina Parez (Essay)--"Issues in Latin Pedagogy"
• Cory Savereid (Essay)--"Under the Influence: How Republican Rome Viewed the Greeks"

2009

• Trevor Adams (essay), "The Heroic Theme: Ancient Values in Relation to Modern Society"
• Candace Buckner, "Fashioning the Desert"
• Thea DeArmond, "The Menelaion"
• Stephanie Leung (essay), "Camilla and Dido: Roman Identity and Female Sexuality"
• Thomas Van DenBurgh, Pressule: The Egyptian Ass; or the Incest Motif in Apuleius' The Golden Ass"
• Frederick Zenker, "The Rural Basis of the Ancient Greek City"

2010

• Madeline Caldwell (essay), "Percy Jackson and the Olympians."
• Christi Richardson (essay), "The Role of Prognosis in the Hippocratic Struggle for Reputation and Legitimacy."

2011

• Christina Burkot, "The Role of Ritual in Aristophanic Comedy."
• Allison House, "Dismemberment, Distraction and Disjointedness: The Metamorphoses as Anti-Epic."
• Chris Kaltsas, "Spartacus Mythistoricus: Winning Spartacus Into the Mythical."
• Kevin McKeown, "Dreams, Prophecies and Cures."
• Amanda Sweeny, "Staging Christianity: How Religion Theatricizes the Divine."

2012

• Ellie Damaskos (essay), "Eros, virtue and the male homoerotic:  An approach to the speeches of Phaedrus, Pausanias and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium"
• Nathaniel Durant, "The Importance of Wind and Air in Book 6 of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura"
• Nora Hoover, "Translating a Saint:  The Life of Saint Ita and the Early Irish Christianity."
• Linda Kung, "Girl, Your Wounds Are Beautiful: Beauty, Suffering, and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel"
• Julia Mintz (essay), "Catullus' Vocabulary of Evaluation:  Precise Meaning Through Poetic Context"
• Adam Peck, "The Archaeology of Pan-Hellenic Politics:  Monumental Dedications at Delphi an Cycladic Political Identity"
• Cheryl Walker, "When I was a Noun." The Modern Carribean Epic.  (University Sudies)

2013

• Alex Ray, "Declamation and Storytelling:  First Person Speech in Apuleius' Metamorphoses"
• Andrea Ruiz-Lopez: "Hellenistic or Roman? A Case Study of a Mosaic in Tel Dor, Israel, in Its Regional Context"

 

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