Dissertations

Emily Brown
“Martial’s Monumental Epigrams: The Semiotics of Martial’s Poetry on the Urban Landscape of Flavian Rome.” (2021)

Steven Gonzalez
“Columella and the Cultivation of Empire” (2021)

Hannah Mason
“Individual and State in Lucretius’ de Rerum Natura” (2020)

Jennifer Devereaux
“Intercorporeality: Toward a New History of Roman Emotion” (2019)

Christian Lehmann
“The End of Augustan Literature: Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto IV” (2018)

Paul Salay
“The More Things Change: Economic Institutions and Maritime Trade in the Archaic Western Mediterranean” (2018)

Thomas Sapsford
“The life of the kinaidoi” (2017)

Hannah Čulík-Baird
“Cicero and the early Latin poets” (2017)

Matthew Chaldekas
“Vision in Theocritus: perception, performance, poetics” (2017)

Afroditi Angelopoulou
“Emotionality and the Embodiment of Morality in Aeschylean Tragedy” (2017)

Robert Matera
“The Vulnerable Corpus of Propertius” (2017)

Scott Lepisto
“Scripted voices: persona and speech in Senecan philosohy” (2016)

Devon Harlow
“From Demeter to Dionysos: Laughter as a Vehicle for Transformation in Archaic Cult Ritual and Attic Old Comedy” (2016)

Dina Boero
“Symeon and the Making of the Stylite: The Construction of Sanctity in Late Antique Syria” (2015)

Joseph O’Neill
“Ideology and Practice in the Claudian Annals” (2015)

Hamish Cameron
“Constructing a Borderland: Roman Imperial Geographic Writers on Mesopotamia from the 1st to 4th Centuries” (2014)

Nicole Giannella
“The Mind of the Slave: the Limits of Knowledge and Power in Roman Law and Society” (2014)

Orazio Cappello
“Cicero’s Academica and the Foundation of a Roman Academy” (2014)

Jason Harris
“The Tyrant and the Migrant: the Bonds Between Syracusan Hegemony and Mobility from Dionysius I to Agathocles” (2013)

Thomas Cirillo
“Categorizing Difference: Classification, Biology, and Politics in Aristotelian Philosophy” (2012)

Richard Ellis
“Heraclitus’ Children: Bodies, Minds and Culture at Play” (2011)

Joanna Valentine
“The Archaeology of Parmenides: Philosophy, Poetry and Ritual in Fifth-Century Campania” (2011)

Lisl Walsh
“Seneca’s Medea and the Tragic Self” (2011)

Kristina Meinking
“Anger Matters: Politics and Theology in the Fourth Century CE” (2010)

Eleanor Rust
“Ex Angulis Secretisque Librorum: Reading, Writing, and Using Miscellaneous Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae” (2009)

Sarah Blake
“Writing Materials: Things in the Literature of Flavian Rome” (2008)

Phillip Sidney Horky
“Plato’s Magnesia and Philosophical Polities in Magna Graecia” (2007)

Chiara Sulprizio
“Gender, Space and Warfare in the Early Plays of Aristophanes” (2007)

E. Del Chrol

“Countercultural Responses to the Crisis of Masculinity in Late Republican Rome” (2006)

Catherine Feeley
“Reflexive Politics: Cicero’s Relationship with the Roman Voters” (2006)

Daniella Widdows
“Removing the Body: Representations of Animal Skins of Ancient Greek Vases” (2006)

Siobhan McElduff
“Translation and Cultural Authority in Rome” (2004)

Philip Purchase
“Narcissism and the Dying Subject in Ancient Pastoral and Elegy” (2003)

Mark Masterson
“Roman Manhood at the End of the Ancient World” (2001)

Rosa Cornford Parent
“Mapping Identity Politics in Lucian” (2001)

Peter O’Neill
“Non-elite Speech in Ancient Rome” (2001)

Alex Watts-Tobin
“Generals and Particulars in Thucydides” (2000)

Rhiannon Evans
“Forma Orbis: Geography, Ethnography and Shaping the Roman Empire” (1999)

Trevor Fear
“Love’s Economy: Poets, Pimps, and Prostitution in Roman Elegy” (1999)

Sandra Blakely
“Daimones, Metallurgy, and Cult” (1998)

Joseph Smith
“The Translation of Tragedy into Imperial Rome: A Study of Seneca’s Hercules and Oedipus” (1998)

Diane Pintabone
“Women and the Unspeakable: Rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” (1998) 

Hannah Fearnley
“Reading Martial’s Rome” (1998)

Jessica Dietrich
“Thebais Rescriptrix: Rewriting and Closure in Statius’ Thebaid 12” (1997)

Therese De Vet
“Oral Poets, Written Texts: The Influence of Performance Traditions on the Homeric Epics” (1997)