Senior Theses and Essays, 1994-2020

2020

• Claire Fowler, "Mastering Moldmade Bowls: A Study of the Economic And Political Connections in the Hellenistic Mediterranean."
  
• Ana Rodríguez Santory, "Come, Medea, to be, to pass, to matter: Euripides and Agostinho Olavo."
• Maggie Rothberg, "Recasting Assembly: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae and the Politics of Play." 

2019

• Catherine Kiall, "'Uprooting the Unquestioned Acceptance of Tradition': Latin in U.S. Secondary Schools in the 20th Century."
• Emma Graham, "Work at the Ancient Roman Villa: Representations of the Self, the Patron, and Productivity Outside of the City."
• Benjamin Sarraille, "A Song of Ilium."

2018

• Katharine Barnes, "The Not so Wild Country East of Dikte: A Multivariate Analysis of Late Bronze Age East Cretan Tomb Assemblages."
• Jackson Barnett, "From Democracy in Name to Democracy in Practice? Contextualizing the Transition to Oligarchy of 411 BCE in Athens."
• Brendan McGlone, "Meetings with a Remarkable Manuscript: A Study of a Late Medieval Collection of Latin Sermons."

2017

• Edward Archibald, "Two Suns: My Encounter with the Text, Translation, and Production of Euripides' Bakkhai."

2016

• Elizabeth (Beth) Alexion, "'The Judge Will be Your Neighbor': Transitional Justice in Ancient Athens and Post-Genocide Rwanda."
• Holt-Akers Campbell, "Farm Like a Roman: Livestock in Ancient Italy."
• Sarah Harper, "Under No Enchantment: Magical Realism in Apuleus's Metamorphoses."
• Sarah McCully, "Sacred Shields: The Material, Religious and Cultural Significance of Persian Ashkelon's Egyptianizing Amulets."
• Jonathan (Jack) Spira, "Homer, or Another Poet of the Same Name:  Four Translations of the Iliad."
• Sarah Hoynes (essay), "Collecting at Wesleyan."

2015

• Hannah Bernard (essay), "Connecting the Threads of Emotion, Action, and Responsibility in Aeschylus' Libation Bearers."
• Rosie Kelly (essay), "Conspiracy and Paranoia in the Roman Empire."

2014

• Oliva Alperstein, "Politics of Memory and Erasure During and After the Reign of Domitian."
• Katherine Cohen (essay), "In the Name of the Divine Homer: Media and Mythmaking in the Work of Heinrich Schliemann."
• Alec Jolicoeur (essay), "Cannibalism on Knossos: A Response to Minoan Crisis."
• Jasper Kubasek (essay), "The Roman peculium: an Institutional Reaction to Restrictive Paternal Power."
• Alexandra Ozols, "Roman Culinary Poetry: Representations of Food and Dinign in the Late Republic and Early Empire."

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."

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."

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."

2010

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

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"

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."

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

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."

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."

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."

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."

1999

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

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."