Past Dissertations

Year
Name
Dissertation
2023 Alex Karsten The Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading
2023 Sinja Küppers Marginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
2023 Erickson Bridges Rereading Lucretius: The Plague of Athens and Epicurean Attachment in De Rerum Natura
2023 Michael Freeman The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
2022 Tori Lee Violent by Nature: Danger and Darkness in the Pastoral World
2021 Clinton Kinkade Sophocles' Ancient Readers: The Role of Ancient Scholarship in the Reception of Greek Tragedy
2020 Adrian Linden-High Enslaved and Freed Persons in Roman Military Communities Under the Principate (27 BCE–284 CE)
2020 Courtney Monahan

Matrona Visa: Women's Public Visibility and Civic Identity in Hispania Tarraconensis

2020 Nick Winters

Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice

2019 Tom Cole

Beyond Republicanism: Political Thought in Tacitus’ Minor Works

2019 Melissa Huber

Monumentalizing Infrastructure: Claudius and the City and People of Rome

2019 David Stifler

Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates

2018 John Aldrup-MacDonald

Athenian Democracy on Paper

2017 Kathryn Langenfeld

Forging a History: the Inventions and Intellectual Community of the Historia August

2016 Theodore Graham

The Tyrant, the City, and the Stage: The Shifting Depiction of Tyranny in Athenian Tragedy

2016 Robert Dudley

Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato

2015 Carl "Tripp" Young

Plato's Cretan Colony: Theology and Religion in the Political Philosophy of the Laws

2015 Mackenzie Zalin

Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus​

2014

Clifford Robinson

Self-Consolation and Politics in Latin Philosophical Literature

2013

Joseph G. Miller

Democritus and the Critical Tradition

2012

Alexander Meyer

The Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Roman Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula

2012

Chad Austino

Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws

2011

Laury Ward

Philosophical allurements: Education and argument in ancient philosophy

2010

Alexander Loney

Narrative revenge and the poetics of justice in the "Odyssey": a study on "tisis"

2010

Akira Yatsuhashi

In the bird cage of the muses: Archiving, erudition, and empire in Ptolemaic Egypt

2010

Curt Jacob Butera

"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens

2009

Bart Huelsenbeck

Figures in the shadows: Identities in artistic prose from the anthology of the elder Seneca

2008

Charles Muntz

Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome

2008

Molly Pryzwansky

Feminine imperial ideals in the "Caesares" of Suetonius

2008

Rachel Stroumsa

People and identities in Nessana

2006

Ephraim Lytle

Marine fisheries and the ancient Greek economy

2006

Rachel Meyers

Visual representations of the Antonine empresses

2006

Sara Saba

The Astynomoi Law: Urban Maintenance in Ancient Pergamon

2005

Eric Adler

The "enemy" speaks: Oratory and criticism of empire in Roman historiography

2005

John Bauschatz

Policing the Chora: Law enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt

2004

Mike Lippman

Women obscene, not heard: Women's comic ritual and women in Aristophanic comedy

2004

Barbara Olsen

Women in the Linear B Tablets of Pylos and Knossos: Gender Construction and Cultural Difference at Two Late Bronze Palatial Centers

2003

Megan Ottone Drinkwater

Epic and elegy in Ovid's "Heroides": Paris, Helen, and Homeric intertext

2003

Gil Renberg

"Commanded by the gods": An epigraphical study of dreams and visions in Greek and Roman religious Life

2002

Meredith D. Prince

Magic, love, and the limits of power: the figure of Medea in Latin love elegy

2002

Jill Ann Chmielewski

Portrayals of Daily Life on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul and Germany

2002

Samuel J. Findley

Studies in loss: Theognis, Tibullus, and textual tradition

2002

Roscoe Davis

The ethics of probable reasoning in the Greek enlightenment: A preliminary study based on Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides

2001

Patricia M. Fitzgibbon-Marvin

Literary portraits and caricatures of second century Epicureans

2001

Kimberly Peterson

Living on the edge: The travel narratives of Euhemeros, Iamboulos, and Lucian

2000

Tebb C. Kusserow

Superlatives and pathos in Thucydidean narrative

2000

Neil W. Bernstein

Stimulant manes: The ghost in Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus

2000

Joshua D. Sosin

Perpetual endowments in the Hellenistic World: A case-study in economic rationalism

1999

Joseph M. Romero

The ethics of genre: Towards a rhetoric of apology in Vergilian bucolic discourse

1998

Andrea L. Purvis

Founders and innovators of private cults in Classical Greece

1998

David S. Banta

Literary apology and literary genre in Martial

1998

Jeannine D. Uzzi

The representation of children in the official art of the Roman Empire, from Augustus to Constantine

1998

Laura D. Hostetler

Telemachus and the absent father: problems of memory and maturity in the son of Odysseus

1996

Christopher C. Spelman

Acting naturally: identity, performativity and lyric personae in Catullus and Horace

1995

Craig A. Gibson

Didymos Chalkenteros and the ancient scholarship on Demosthenes

1995

Darryl A. Phillips

Elections in the principate of Augustus

1995

Denise E. McCoskey

Gender differentiation and narrative construction in Propertius

1995

Deborah MacInnes

Prophecy and persuasion: Tiresias in Greek tragedy

1995

Christopher W. Blackwell

A questionable hegemony: Harpalus and the failure of Macedonian authority

1994

Heidi B. Vierow

Narrative voices in the Aeneid

1994

Kimberly B. Flint-Hamilton

Palaeoethnobotany of the Zas Cave on Naxos

1992

John A. Stevens

The chorus in Senecan tragedy: the uninformed informer

1992

Steven M. Cerutti

Cicero's accretive style: rhetorical strategies in the exordia of select judicial speeches

1992

John W. Geyssen

Statius and the tradition of imperial panegyric: a literary commentary on Silvae 1.1

1992

Brian S. Hook

Tyranny and cannibalism: the Thyestes theme in Greek and Roman literature

1991

James A. Francis

Asceticism and authority in the Roman Empire: society, culture, and deviance in the second century C.E.

1991

Thomas D. McCreight

Rhetorical strategies and word choice in Apuleius' Apology

1989

Ian M. Sutherland

Colonnaded cenacula in Pompeian domestic architecture

1989

Christopher C. Parslow

The Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii

1988

Patricia C. Marshall

Acharnians: Aristophanes' early poetics and the literary utopia

1987

Roberta L. Stewart

Sors et provincia: Praetors and quaestors in Republican Rome

1987

Leo C. Hodlofski

Character and nomos in Thucydides' Mytilene debate and Antiphon's On truth

1986

Diane Corinne Warne Anderson

Lexicon prosodiacum Casinense-Ottobonianum

1985

David Brafman

The Arabic De mundo: an edition with translation and commentary

1984

Andrea W. Deagon

Poetry and poetic inspiration in Hesiod

1983

Robert G. Babcock

Heriger of Lobbes and the Freising florilegium: a study of the influence of classical Latin poetry in the Middle Ages

1983

Elbert W. Wall

New texts in the economy of Tebtunis

1983

Cheryl A. Cox

The social and political ramifications of Athenian marriages ca. 600-400 B.C.

1981

Lucian A. Nerwinski

The foundation date of the panhellenic Ptolemaea and related problems in early Ptolemaic chronology

1980

James K. Finn

A study of the elaboration and function of epinician conventions in selected odes of Bacchylides

1979

James E. Taylor

Seleucid rule in Palestine

1977

Kathleen McNamee

Marginalia and commentaries in Greek literary papyri

1977

Peter D. McDearmon Witt

The judicial function of the strategos in the Roman period

1977

D. Brent Sandy

Oils in Ptolemaic Egypt: the provisions of P.Rev. in the light of the papyri

1977

Janet E. Blow

Capital letters in four Monte Cassino manuscripts of the Desiderian and Oderisian periods (1058-1106)

1977

John E. Sarkissian

A re-examination and interpretation of Catullus 68

1977

Everett L. Wheeler

Flavius Arrianus: a political and military biography

1976

George G. Mason

Parisinus 6842A and the manuscript tradition of Cato's De agri cultura

1975

Royce L. B. Morris

A study in the social and economic history of Oxyrhynchus for the first two centuries of Roman rule

1975

Caroline E. Dexter

The Casa di L. Cecilio Giocondo in Pompeii

1975

James L. Franklin, Jr.

The Chronology and Sequence of Candidacies for the Municipal Magistracies attested in the Pompeian parietal inscriptions A.D. 71-79

1975

Elizabeth D. Carney

Alexander the Great and the Macedonian aristocracy

1974

George A. Sheets

Problems in Greek dialectology: a reinterpretation based on structural theory

1974

Betty Branch

The development of script in the eleventh and twelfth century manuscripts of the Norman Abbey of Fécamp

1974

Ellen D. Foster

The manufacture and trade of Mycenenaean perfumed oil

1974

William N. Hendricks, III

A comparison of Diodorus' and Curtius' accounts of Alexander the Great

1974

Whitney S. Bagnall

The archive of Laches: prosperous farmers of the Fayum in the second century

1973

Lori R. Toepel

Studies in the administrative and economic history of Tebtunis in the first century A.D.

1973

Sally A. (Rackley) Proctor

The amatory poems of Ovid in four manuscripts of the Florilegium gallicum

1973

Richard A. LaFleur

A prosopographical commentary on Juvenal, Book One

1945

Martin L. Stirewalt, Jr.

The letter in Greek literature

1942

Mary Rebecca (White) Singer

Octavia minor, sister of Augustus; an historical and biographical study

1942

Enid R. Parker

The training of heirs in the Julio-Claudian family

1941

Frederic M. Wood, Jr.

Some imperial virtues of Domitian

1938

Jesse L. Rose

The durative and aoristic tenses in Thucydides

1936

James N. Truesdale

A comic prosopographia graeca

1935

Charlton C. Jernigan

Comic Incongruity in the Eleven Plays of Aristophanes

1935

Harold W. Miller

Index Isaicus