Senior Theses and Essays, 1994-2007

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