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    Jewels or Dreams? The Jewellery of the Fayum Portraits. 

    Dearden, Petra
    The Fayum Portraits are a collection of bust-style painted images from Roman Egypt dated to the first centuries of the first millennium AD. This thesis first considered the history and necessity of encaustic portraiture. ...
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    The Figure of the Poor Poet in Classical Poetry 

    Reymond, Nicholas
    The figure of the poor poet represents a persistent and conventional topos in Greek and Roman literature. Yet this tradition, although widely acknowledged, has not been examined in a comprehensive manner from its inception ...
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    Reconstructing Eratosthenes' Map of the World: A Study in Source Analysis 

    McPhail, Cameron Kenrick
    This thesis aims to reconstruct a map of the world drawn by Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 285 – 205 BC), a Greek polymath of the third century BC. It was during his time as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria in ...
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    Medeia: Maiden, Mother, Monster: a Biopoetic Analysis 

    Mackay, Maria Anne
    The analysis of literature using evolutionary literary theory now has a scholarly record of two decades. While several archaic and classical Greek works have been interpreted with insightful and productive results using a ...
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    Aspects of the Moon in Ancient Egypt, the Near East and Greece 

    Bray, Chloe Francesca Delia
    This study discusses the various perceptions of the Moon in pre-Hellenistic Egypt, the Bronze Age Near East, and Archaic and Classical Greece. It covers diverse aspects of these cultures including mythology, cult practice, ...
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    Persuasive ethics: The direct discourse of women in Plutarch’s Roman Lives 

    Macauley, Amanda Jane
    This thesis examines the ways in which the speech of women and their interaction with men contribute to the ethical framework of Plutarch’s Roman Lives. In particular, it explores the significant features shared by the ...
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    The Roles of Geographical Concepts in the Construction of Ancient Greek Ethno-cultural Identities, from Homer to Herodotus: An Analysis of the Continents and the Mediterranean Sea 

    McPhail, Cameron Kenrick
    The main objective of the thesis is to investigate and explain the roles that concepts of geographical space played in the construction of ancient Greek ethno-cultural identities, from Homer to Herodotus. I focus specifically ...
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    Representations and Receptions of Scipio Africanus from the Second Century BCE to the Present 

    Pelechek, Susan Michelle
    This dissertation catalogues the numerous representations of the elder Scipio Africanus from Roman times to the present day. Chapter one provides a brief analysis of the ancient sources relevant to his life. The biography ...
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    Fides Romana: Aspects of fides in Roman diplomatic relations during the conquest of Iberia 

    Perley, Sara Margaret
    This thesis examines the ideology and reality of fides in Roman international relations, using the conquest of Iberia as a case study. It seeks to show that despite the ideology, the self-belief in Rome’s cultural superiority ...
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    The 'Tragic' Father of Gods and Men: A Study and Comparison of Euripides' Zeus and Seneca's Jupiter 

    Sleeth, Constance Lorraine
    This dissertation is a study and comparison of the gods Zeus and Jupiter within various tragedies of Euripides and Seneca. It is concerned above all with the tragic representation of the two gods and the various levels of ...
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