Past Dissertations

Year
Name
Dissertation
2024Leo Trotz-LiboffEsoteric Philosophy in Rome
2024Melissa BaroffRereading Octavia and Poppaea: Unraveling the Literary Afterlives of Nero's Wives
2024Mason BartoNegotiating Subjectivity: Gender, Communication, and Narrative telos in the Odyssey
2024Antonio LoPianoInventing Public and Private: The Development of Spatial Dynamics and State Organization within Archaic Central Italic Cities
2023Alex KarstenThe Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading
2023Sinja KüppersMarginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
2023Erickson BridgesRereading Lucretius: The Plague of Athens and Epicurean Attachment in De Rerum Natura
2023Michael FreemanThe Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
2022Tori LeeViolent by Nature: Danger and Darkness in the Pastoral World
2021Clinton KinkadeSophocles' Ancient Readers: The Role of Ancient Scholarship in the Reception of Greek Tragedy
2020Adrian Linden-HighEnslaved and Freed Persons in Roman Military Communities Under the Principate (27 BCE–284 CE)
2020Courtney MonahanMatrona Visa: Women's Public Visibility and Civic Identity in Hispania Tarraconensis
2020Nick WintersSchools of Greek Mathematical Practice
2019Tom ColeBeyond Republicanism: Political Thought in Tacitus’ Minor Works
2019Melissa HuberMonumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome
2019David StiflerLucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
2018John Aldrup-MacDonaldAthenian Democracy on Paper
2017Kathryn LangenfeldForging a History: the Inventions and Intellectual Community of the Historia August
2016Theodore GrahamThe Tyrant, the City, and the Stage: The Shifting Depiction of Tyranny in Athenian Tragedy
2016Robert DudleyRhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato
2015Carl "Tripp" YoungPlato's Cretan Colony: Theology and Religion in the Political Philosophy of the Laws
2015Mackenzie ZalinStudies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus​
2014Clifford RobinsonSelf-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature
2013Joseph G. MillerDemocritus and the Critical Tradition
2012Alexander MeyerThe Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Roman Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula
2012Chad AustinoAdaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
2011Laury WardPhilosophical allurements: Education and argument in ancient philosophy
2010Alexander LoneyNarrative revenge and the poetics of justice in the "Odyssey": a study on "tisis"
2010Akira YatsuhashiIn the bird cage of the muses: Archiving, erudition, and empire in Ptolemaic Egypt
2010Curt Jacob Butera"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
2009Bart HuelsenbeckFigures in the shadows: Identities in artistic prose from the anthology of the elder Seneca
2008Charles MuntzDiodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome
2008Molly PryzwanskyFeminine imperial ideals in the "Caesares" of Suetonius
2008Rachel StroumsaPeople and identities in Nessana
2006Ephraim LytleMarine fisheries and the ancient Greek economy
2006Rachel MeyersVisual representations of the Antonine empresses
2006Sara SabaThe Astynomoi Law: Urban Maintenance in Ancient Pergamon
2005Eric AdlerThe "enemy" speaks: Oratory and criticism of empire in Roman historiography
2005John BauschatzPolicing the Chora: Law enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt
2004Mike LippmanWomen obscene, not heard: Women's comic ritual and women in Aristophanic comedy
2004Barbara OlsenWomen in the Linear B Tablets of Pylos and Knossos: Gender Construction and Cultural Difference at Two Late Bronze Palatial Centers
2003Megan Ottone DrinkwaterEpic and elegy in Ovid's "Heroides": Paris, Helen, and Homeric intertext
2003Gil Renberg"Commanded by the gods": An epigraphical study of dreams and visions in Greek and Roman religious Life
2002Meredith D. PrinceMagic, love, and the limits of power: the figure of Medea in Latin love elegy
2002Jill Ann ChmielewskiPortrayals of Daily Life on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul and Germany
2002Samuel J. FindleyStudies in loss: Theognis, Tibullus, and textual tradition
2002Roscoe DavisThe ethics of probable reasoning in the Greek enlightenment: A preliminary study based on Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides
2001Patricia M. Fitzgibbon-MarvinLiterary portraits and caricatures of second century Epicureans
2001Kimberly PetersonLiving on the edge: The travel narratives of Euhemeros, Iamboulos, and Lucian
2000Tebb C. KusserowSuperlatives and pathos in Thucydidean narrative
2000Neil W. BernsteinStimulant manes: The ghost in Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus
2000Joshua D. SosinPerpetual endowments in the Hellenistic World: A case-study in economic rationalism
1999Joseph M. RomeroThe ethics of genre: Towards a rhetoric of apology in Vergilian bucolic discourse
1998Andrea L. PurvisFounders and innovators of private cults in Classical Greece
1998David S. BantaLiterary apology and literary genre in Martial
1998Jeannine D. UzziThe representation of children in the official art of the Roman Empire, from Augustus to Constantine
1998Laura D. HostetlerTelemachus and the absent father: problems of memory and maturity in the son of Odysseus
1996Christopher C. SpelmanActing naturally: identity, performativity and lyric personae in Catullus and Horace
1995Craig A. GibsonDidymos Chalkenteros and the ancient scholarship on Demosthenes
1995Darryl A. PhillipsElections in the principate of Augustus
1995Denise E. McCoskeyGender differentiation and narrative construction in Propertius
1995Deborah MacInnesProphecy and persuasion: Tiresias in Greek tragedy
1995Christopher W. BlackwellA questionable hegemony: Harpalus and the failure of Macedonian authority
1994Heidi B. VierowNarrative voices in the Aeneid
1994Kimberly B. Flint-HamiltonPalaeoethnobotany of the Zas Cave on Naxos
1992John A. StevensThe chorus in Senecan tragedy: the uninformed informer
1992Steven M. CeruttiCicero's accretive style: rhetorical strategies in the exordia of select judicial speeches
1992John W. GeyssenStatius and the tradition of imperial panegyric: a literary commentary on Silvae 1.1
1992Brian S. HookTyranny and cannibalism: the Thyestes theme in Greek and Roman literature
1991James A. FrancisAsceticism and authority in the Roman Empire: society, culture, and deviance in the second century C.E.
1991Thomas D. McCreightRhetorical strategies and word choice in Apuleius' Apology
1989Ian M. SutherlandColonnaded cenacula in Pompeian domestic architecture
1989Christopher C. ParslowThe Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii
1988Patricia C. MarshallAcharnians: Aristophanes' early poetics and the literary utopia
1987Roberta L. StewartSors et provincia: Praetors and quaestors in Republican Rome
1987Leo C. HodlofskiCharacter and nomos in Thucydides' Mytilene debate and Antiphon's On truth
1986Diane Corinne Warne AndersonLexicon prosodiacum Casinense-Ottobonianum
1985David BrafmanThe Arabic De mundo: an edition with translation and commentary
1984Andrea W. DeagonPoetry and poetic inspiration in Hesiod
1983Robert G. BabcockHeriger of Lobbes and the Freising florilegium: a study of the influence of classical Latin poetry in the Middle Ages
1983Elbert W. WallNew texts in the economy of Tebtunis
1983Cheryl A. CoxThe social and political ramifications of Athenian marriages ca. 600-400 B.C.
1981Lucian A. NerwinskiThe foundation date of the panhellenic Ptolemaea and related problems in early Ptolemaic chronology
1980James K. FinnA study of the elaboration and function of epinician conventions in selected odes of Bacchylides
1979James E. TaylorSeleucid rule in Palestine
1977Kathleen McNameeMarginalia and commentaries in Greek literary papyri
1977Peter D. McDearmon WittThe judicial function of the strategos in the Roman period
1977D. Brent SandyOils in Ptolemaic Egypt: the provisions of P.Rev. in the light of the papyri
1977Janet E. BlowCapital letters in four Monte Cassino manuscripts of the Desiderian and Oderisian periods (1058-1106)
1977John E. SarkissianA re-examination and interpretation of Catullus 68
1977Everett L. WheelerFlavius Arrianus: a political and military biography
1976George G. MasonParisinus 6842A and the manuscript tradition of Cato's De agri cultura
1975Royce L. B. MorrisA study in the social and economic history of Oxyrhynchus for the first two centuries of Roman rule
1975Caroline E. DexterThe Casa di L. Cecilio Giocondo in Pompeii
1975James L. Franklin, Jr.The Chronology and Sequence of Candidacies for the Municipal Magistracies attested in the Pompeian parietal inscriptions A.D. 71-79
1975Elizabeth D. CarneyAlexander the Great and the Macedonian aristocracy
1974George A. SheetsProblems in Greek dialectology: a reinterpretation based on structural theory
1974Betty BranchThe development of script in the eleventh and twelfth century manuscripts of the Norman Abbey of Fécamp
1974Ellen D. FosterThe manufacture and trade of Mycenenaean perfumed oil
1974William N. Hendricks, IIIA comparison of Diodorus' and Curtius' accounts of Alexander the Great
1974Whitney S. BagnallThe archive of Laches: prosperous farmers of the Fayum in the second century
1973Lori R. ToepelStudies in the administrative and economic history of Tebtunis in the first century A.D.
1973Sally A. (Rackley) ProctorThe amatory poems of Ovid in four manuscripts of the Florilegium gallicum
1973Richard A. LaFleurA prosopographical commentary on Juvenal, Book One
1945Martin L. Stirewalt, Jr.The letter in Greek literature
1942Mary Rebecca (White) SingerOctavia minor, sister of Augustus; an historical and biographical study
1942Enid R. ParkerThe training of heirs in the Julio-Claudian family
1941Frederic M. Wood, Jr.Some imperial virtues of Domitian
1938Jesse L. RoseThe durative and aoristic tenses in Thucydides
1936James N. TruesdaleA comic prosopographia graeca
1935Charlton C. JerniganComic Incongruity in the Eleven Plays of Aristophanes
1935Harold W. MillerIndex Isaicus