M.A. Theses and Graduates in the Department of Classics 2015 Jill K. Simmons, The πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης Formula in Early Greek Poetry 2014 Richard S. Baroody, M.A., Latin, non-thesis David K. Blosser, M.A., Latin, non-thesis Jaclyn R. Friend, In corpus corpore toto: Merging Bodies in Ovid, Lucretius, and Plato, literature Kristen M. Fulton, Herakles and Helen Defined By Their Paternity, Liminality and Relationship to Hera Laura K. Hatmaker, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Julia C. Hernandez, The Lindos Anagraphe: "Forging" a Heroic Past in Hellenistic Rhodes? Andrew L. Hicks, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Matthew (Br. Dunstan) Holms, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Aaron T. Lipka, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Casey R. Neill, Eros and the Eros-Afflicted: Ancient Greek Erotic Anxiety Through the Myths of Helen and Medea, literature/gender studies Benjamin E. Nikota, Tacitus' Jewish Excursus: Internal Inconsistencies in Mythic History, Geography, and Ethnic Identity, history/cultural studies/religion Andrew S. Olimpi, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Merrill G. Robinson, M.A., Latin, non-thesis Kevin J. Scahill, The Role of Diomedes in the Aeneid and Metamorphoses, literature Allene M. Seet, Fifth Century B.C.E. War Memorials in Pausanias' Periegesis, cultural studies/history Carson J. Shaw, Socrates, Democracy, and Relativism, philosophy/government Jonathan H. Warner, Vegetius' Epitoma rei militaris?: Institutions, Rules, and Reception, cultural studies/history 2013 Benjamin S. Alexander, M.A., Latin, non-thesis Jordan D. Amy, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Caitlin C. Clerkin, The Mini-Columbarium in Carthage’s Yasmina Cemetery, cultural studies/archaeology Sarah K. Ellery, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Rachel A. Freeman, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Sara E. Hobe, The Aged Body in 4th- and 5th-century Literature, literature/cultural studies Daniel E. Klein, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Charlaine D. Lunsford, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Joshua B. McCall, Plot and Power in the Iliad, literature/history Lauren S. Rogers, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Charles H. Russell-Schlesinger, The Vera Historia Behind Lucian's Relationship with Homer: Homeric Intertext in Lucian's Science Fiction Novel, literature/history Clayton A. Schroer, The Poetics of Kinship: Narrative and Poetic Technique in Vergil, Ovid, and Statius, literature Amy Skillicorn, The Body After Death: The Beliefs of Paul and Tertullan, religion/ cultural studies Jennifer A. Stanull, Gender in the Oresteia: Imagery and the Establishment of Male Power, gender studies/literature Alexandros Tasioulis, Two Case Studies on Ethnography in Novels, literature/cultural studies Brian M. Urrutia, Tell Me What You See: Aesthetic Responses in Hellenistic Poetry, literature/cultural studies Matthew C. Wineski, M.A. Latin, non-thesis 2012 Lindsey K. Campbell, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Ludenna F. Chow, The Poetics of Hierarchy: Defining the Semantic Scope of Indo-European *demH2- in Homeric Greek, linguistics Natalie A. Fort, Literary Immortality in Pliny the Younger’s Letters I-IX, literature, cultural studies Cindy R. Guanci, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Mark J. Hamilton, M.A. Latin, non-thesis William S. Hughes, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Kyle M. Khellaf, Circumnavigating Tacitus’ Agricola: Mise en Abyme and the Mutiny of the Usipi, history/cultural studies Ryan G. Sellers, M.A. Latin, non-thesis 2011 Mark J. Crowley, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Adara J. Hinton, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Seth L. Knowles, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Kyle H. McGimsey, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Maria C. Roberts, The Face of the Caesars: Physiognomy in Suetonius’ De Vita Casearum, cultural studies/literature Julie E. Smith, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Stewart C. Tarvin, Legite Me Mortuum: Reading the Cena Trimalchionisas a Roman Funeral, cultural studies / literature Kathleen M. Walton, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Anthony D. Yates, Homeric BH D'IMENAI: A Diachronic Approach, linguistics 2010 David F. Driscoll, Gentle Reproach: Hektor’s Hortatory and Goading Rebukes in The Iliad, literature Scott A. Holcomb, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Hermanus R. Lemmer, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Lauren F. McGowan, The Development of the Preface in Roman Historiography, literature/history Ashley Newman, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Brendan E. Rabon, Matters Of Reception In Pastoral Amaebaean Contests, cultural studies Kevin R. Roth, One, Two, Many Latins: an Investigation into the Relationship between the Pronunciation of the Latin Language and Latin-Roman Diglossia / Bilingualism, linguistics Jesse J. Sawyer, A Commentary on the Verse Inscription on the Tomb of the Flavii at Cillium, archaeology/history Katrina V. Vaananen, Warrior and Pastoral Duels: The Genealogy of Vergil's Pastoral, literature/cultural studies Rebecca C. Westgate, M.A., Latin, non-thesis 2009 R. Shaughn Casey, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Elizabeth Gephardt, The Role of Evacatio in Macrobius’ Saturnalia 3, literature Allen, M. Hoffman, Augustine’s Letter 20*: Coloni in Fussala, history/religion/cultural studies Kevin C. Kless, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Mark Michalak, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Jane I. Rayburn, The Narrative Function of Apparitions in Post-Augustan Epic, literature/cultural studies Mary E. Williamson, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Patrick R. Yaggy, Augustus and Domitian: Political Allusions in Statius' Thebaid, literature/politics 2008 Karl W. Ayers, Livy, Veii, and Rome: Ab Urbe Condita, Book V, archaeology/history Jessica H. Fisher, Ovid and the Eclogues: Verbal Echoes in the Apollo and Daphne Episode, literature Gregory T. Johnston, Moses in Historiography from Hellenistic Alexandria to Josephus, literature/religion/cultural studies Alisha McCloud, M.A. Latin, non-thesis Zachary M. McGar, Viewers and Viewed in Metamorphoses, literature/religion/cultural studies Eric C. Verhine, The Victorious Wisdom of Simonides: Cicero's Justification of Academic Skepticism in De Natura Deorum and De Divinatione, philosophy/religion/history Ashlee B. Warren, The Prophetic Legacy: Studies in Aeneas' Reactions to Prophecies, literature/rhetoric Deana P. Zeigler, Clytemnestra, Electra, and the Failure of Mothering on the Attic Stage, gender studies/literature 2007 Douglas Anderson, Vocalic Phonology in New Testament Manuscripts, linguistics/religion Christopher Cotten, Ambrose and Stilicho: Politics in the Post-Theodosian World, biography/hagiography/politics John Lanier, Moving West: Phoenician and Greek Settlement Models in the 8th Century B.C.E., archaeology/history John Andrew Lasater, Image is Everything: Satiric Elements in Horace's Lyric Persona, literature Virginia Lewis, The Healing Effect of Song in the Poetry of Pindar and Theocritus, literature/cultural studies Carrie Matthews, Barbarians and Language in Aristophanes, linguistics/literature Sean Signore, Achilles and Andromache: Gender Ambiguity in Motif, Narrative, and Formula, gender studies/literature Steven R. Turner, Jr., Tela Moumentalia: Ovid, Augustus, and the Roman Cityscape in Ars Amatoria I.67-176, literature/monuments/ topography 2006 J. Marilyn Evans, The Tertullus Monument: A Funerary Monument from Roman Carthage, archaeology/cultural studies Andrew Lemons, Cetera Quis Nescit?: Textual Intercourse in Ovid's Love Elegies, literature Kevin McDaniel, The Enigma of Turnus: Contradictory Characterizations in Vergil's "Aeneid", literature/cultural studies/monuments John McDonald, Inherited Bovine Aspects in Greek Reflexes of the Indo-European Serpent-Slaying Myth, cultural studies/literature/religion Robert Rutledge, "Pro Milone": the Purposes of Cicero's Published Defense of T. Annius Milo, history/politics 2005 Berkeley Brown, Julio-Claudian Empresses, history Randy Fields, Voices of the Enemy: "Oratio Recta" and "Oratio Obliqua" in Caesar's "De Bello Gallico," history/rhetoric Amy Petersen, Ovid's Wife in the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto": Transforming Erotic Elegy into Conjugal Elegy, biography/history/literature Kelly Ryan, Poeticizing Epicurus In Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura," literature/philosophy Christopher Webb, The Death of Octavia: Tacitus' "Annales 14.60-64" and the "Octavia" Praetexta, literature/history 2004 Neil Beers, Recalling Cupid: Apologia in Ovid's Poetry from Exile, literature/history/rhetoric M. Conway Brackett, The Coffering of Hadrian's Pantheon: Precedent, Interpretation, and Tradition, archaeology/monuments/history Amy Leonard, The Social and Political Context for Obstruction in Roman Love Elegy, literature/history/politics Amanda Mathis, New Women on the Tragic Stage: Sophoclean Innovation on Archaic Themes, literature/cultural studies Sean Mathis, Visions of Grandeur: Hannibal's Gaze and Ekphrasis in the "Punica" of Silius Italicus, literature/history Anne O'Keeffe, Augustus as Paterfamilias, history/biography T. Teresa Royston, Sallust and the Monograph, history/literature B. Todd Thomason, Aeneid III: Aeneas' Voyage Per Imperium, literature/history/topography Sarah Traut, Frogs Around the Pond: Some Images of the Mediterranean Sea in Greek and Roman Culture, literature/history James Yavenditti, Tropaea in Oriente: Roman Victory Monuments Located within the Eastern Mediterranean, archaeology/history/epigraphy 2003 Carolyn Harvey, Lactantius' De Ira Dei: An Explication of the Arguments and Study of Lactantius' Treatment of Greco-Roman Philosophy, literature/philosophy Christopher Semper, Altar, Sacrifice and Prophecy: The Children of Priam in Books 2 and 3 of Vergil's Aeneid, literature 2002 Amy E. Chifici, The Matrona in Plautus, literature C. William Gladhill, Vergil, Callimachus and Imperial Poetics in Book Three Aeneid, literature Kaori Miller, Playing Greek Games: Intertextuality in Aeneid, literature Ryan Seeger, Romans and Barbarians in Tacitus' Battle Narratives, history/literature Joan R. Tucker, From Field to Table: Visual Images of Food in the Western Roman Empire, literature/archaeology James Brandon Wester, The Language of Gods and Men, literature 2001 Jennifer Cunningham, Scylla, Byblis, and Myrrha: Metamorphosis, Narrative, and the Feminine in Ovid, literature Karen Laurence, The Athenian Calendar Frieze: An Agricultural Calendar Dedicated to Demeter and Dionysus During the Time of Demetrios Poliorketes, archaeology Adam Leven, Servius Grammaticus on Vergil's Aeneid, Book VII: A Translation with Commentary, literature Michael McGinn, Alcuin as Pastoral Poet, literature Leslie Rogers, The Economic Development of Roman Dacia, literature 2000 Danetta Genung, Representations of Dogs in Roman Literature and Art, literature Damian Kavanagh, Unreliable Narrators in Ovid's Metamorphoses, literature 1999 Elizabeth Kann, Friendship in the Correspondence of Pliny the Younger: Words and Deeds, literature Karen Morse, The Cavalry of the Roman Republic, military literature/history Julia Nelson, The Aesthetics of Disease on the Athenian Stage, literature/philosophy Robert Sobak, But I Digress: The Function of Geography in the Historical Works of Tacitus, literature/history Daniel Robie, Literature In Limine: An Investigation of the Evolution of the Meaning of Limen in Select Latin Authors, literature Sara Panek, The Literary Contexts of the Polyphemus Myth in Greek and Latin Literature, literature Matthew Payne, History as Epic: Livy's Veii, literature/history Brian Carr, Immanent and Transcendent Time in Tacitus, literature/history 1998 Donald Brewster II, The Mutability of Fate and Juno's Triumph in Vergil's Aeneid, literature Robert Epler, An Qui Amant, Ipsi Sibi Somnia Fingunt?: The Conflict Between Real and Ideal in Tibullus Book 1, literature Eric Eben, Hesiod, Chaos, and the Near East, literature Robert Burgess, Critique of Augustus in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book I, literature Lakechia Payne-Davis, Am I my Brother's Keeper? The Romulus and Remus Myth in Roman Literature, literature Karen Johnson, Death and Funerary Ritual in the Cena Trimalchionis, literature Winfred Harris, The Transgression of Boundaries in Apuleius' Apologia and Metamorphoses, literature Elizabeth Solomon, Jason the Great?: Reminiscences of Alexander in Apollonius' Argonautica, literature 1997 Joseph Stanfiel, Ovid's Platonic Tyranny: References to the Republic in the Lycaon and Tereus Episodes of the Metamorphoses, literature/history Andrea Hebert, Transformative Magic, Platonic Rhetoric and Apuleius' Metamorphosis, literature Susan Carl, Bella, Horrida Bella: Massacres, Atrocities, and Genocide in the Roman World, history/archaeology Paul Shorkey, Dante's Georgic Redemption: Vergil's Georgics in La Divina Commedia, literature/history Keith Toda, The Wrath of Juno: The Interplay of Homeric Sources in a Vergilian Goddess, literature Rhonda Kelley, The Politics of Rape: Sexual and Violent Imagery in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, literature Hunter Gardner, Looking Back: Orpheus in Ovid and Vergil, literature William Knox III, The Role of History in Aeneid VI, literature/history Shawn Garner, Vindex Libertatis: Civil Liberties and the Tradition of Libertas in the Late Roman Republic, history Alison Murphy, Exclusus Augustinus: The Pagan Paraclausithyron in a Christian's Confessions, literature Richard Stanley, Nero Reventurus: A Study in Biographical Transformations, history 1996 Sarah Smart, What Rough Beast Is This? Bacchantism and Epicureanism in Vergil's Aeneid, literature/philosophy Kevin Davis, Chomping Calliope: The Moral Implications of Dining Imagery and Epic Parody in Roman Satire, literature Amy Martin, From the Toilet to the Tiber: A Theoretical Approach to the Roman Sewer System, archaeology/literature Stephen Parham, Hybris in Aristophanic Comedy, literature Hilary Sikes, Disciplina and Temeritas in Livy, literature/history Robert Fisher II, Martial's Reuse of Catullan Food Terminology, literature 1995 Marshall Lloyd, The Political Context of Cicero's Poetry, literature/history/politics William Bugg III, The Structure of Ammianus' Res Gestae, literature Kevin Nyberg, The Romanization of the Mycenaean Saga in Senca's Agamemnon and Thyestes, literature 1994 Derek Counts, The Social Implications of Embalming Ritual in the Roman Empire, archaeology/literature/cultural studies Catherine Bilow, Hadrian's Wall, AD 122-211: Settlement Patterns and Romano-Native Economic Exchange, archaeology/history/economics Muriel Garcia, Ovid as Cinematographer in Selected Scenes from the Metamorphoses, literature Kathryn Roth, Kitchens in Pompeii and Herculaneum: An Architectural, Archaeological, and Socio-economic Study, archaeology/architecture Patricia Fitzgibbon, De Rerum Natura: Politics and Roman Epicureanism in the Late Republic, literature/philosophy/politics Susan Rankin, Fear and Loathing in Christendom: Invective of the Fathers, literature/religion Gail Polk, The Diana Simile in Aeneid I.498-502, literature 1993 Sean Kelly, The Hermaneutic Paradigm: Aspects of the Poet's Voice in Four Pindaric Odes, literature Kathryn Schafer, The Roman Attitude Toward the Loss of a Child: A Literary and Epigraphical Study, literature/epigraphy Erika Thorgerson, Sortis Ultimae Homo: Roman Praecones and the Dissemination of Information in the Republic and Empire, history/politics 1992 Christine Albright, Eros in Thucydides, literature/history 1991 Scott Rogers, Hesiod, to kairon, and the Purpose of the Works and Days, literature Lisa Pintozzi, Testing the Metal of the Gods: A Study of Defixiones from the University of Georgia Excavations at Carthage, archaeology/literature/archaeological sciences William Johnston Jr., Double Accounts in Livy Books 1-5, literature/history Christopher Gregg, Representations of Circus Personnel from Carthage: Mosaics, Statuary, and Defixionum Tabellae, archaeology/art/literature Grace de Majewski, The Sincerity of Negotiations between Pompey and Caesar in Caesar's Bellum Civile, literature/history/politics Emil Kramer, Sallustian Influence in Tacitus' Agricola, literature/history 1990 Ellen Zahariadis, Aeschylus' Oresteia: A "Modern" Reworking of Hesiod's Notions of Cosmic Dike, literature Thomas Briggs, Men, Women, and Civic Governance in Aristophanic Comedy, literature Karen McQuaid, Martial and the Satiric Tradition, literature 1989 Terrance Depasquale, The 1988 Westminster Latin Institute: An Evaluative Case Study, education Caroline Nelson, Philip II, Alexander III, and their Successors, and their Work in Sanctuaries, history/archaeology/religion Summer Stevens, Charges of Sexual Misconduct in the Speeches of Cicero, oratory/history Mary Hall Newton, Ovid's Medeas: The Development of a Character, literature 1988 Georgia Irby, The Chronology and Topography of Cicero's Pro Milone, rhetoric Jennifer Forbragd, Agricola's Campaigns in Scotland, history 1987 Linda Gooch, The Procuratorial Governors of Dacia, government/history Rex Crews, The Relationship of Anchises and Aeneas in the Aeneid, literature 1986 John Nicholson, The Vita Sancti Basilii of Pseudo-Amphilochius: A Critical Edition with Commentary and English Translation, hagiography Malcolm Pownall, The Classical Topography of the Ager Vaticanus, topography William Tripp, Mimetic Catharsis in Aristotle, literature/philosophy 1985 James McGoldrick, The Influence of Lucretius upon Juvenal, literature Hubert Black, Augustan Propaganda and the Ara Pacis Augustae, politics/architecture Bernard Levens Jr., The Roman Contract: A Study of the Relationship between Aeneid 3.147-71 and Lucan Bellum Civile 1.183-227, literature/history Harriet Deal, Dido, Orator and Magician: A Study of Magic and Rhetoric in the Fourth Book of the Aeneid, literature 1984 Bernard Kavanagh, The Sabines and their Influences on Early Roman History, history Theodora Warner, Hrotsvit and Terence: A Comparative Study, literature 1983 G. David Woerner, Heracles Passages, and the Function of Digression in Homeric Epic, literature 1982 Elena Bianchelli, The Erinyes in Early Greek Literature, literature/religion Julienne Martin, Eileithyia in Greek and Minoan Religion, religion 1981 Mary McDaniel, A Prosopographical Commentary on Persius, literature 1980 John Reynolds, Vergil's Anna: A Study of Character and Motive, literature 1977 John Adams, Tragedy and Humor in the Iliad, literature 1978 Edwin Moore, Catullus, A Study in Subjectivity, literature 1975 Jill McCurley, The Arming of the Hero in Classical Epic, literature Robert Guarnella Jr., The Imagery of Light and Darkness in Propertius, literature James Fulgham, The Role of Fortuna in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, literature 1974 Betsy Leifermann, Ironic Tension in the Language of Aeschylus' Suppliants, literature 1972 Thiela Falkenstrom, The Prometheia of Aeschylus, literature/history Linda Croxson, Catullus' Ariadne and Vergil's Dido, literature 1971 Franklyn Sanders, Man and Nature in Ovid's Metamorphoses, literature 1970 Alan Orme, The Hellenism of Herod the Great, history/biography James Lacy, A Presentation of Three of the Tebtunis Papyri, papyrology 1968 Kathryn Rich, The Obelisks of Rome, archaeology/monuments Ronald Bracewell, Homeric Prophecy, literature 1967 Robert Fitts, Aetiology and Greek Tragedy, literature 1965 James Loyd, Terence and the Scipionic Circle, literature 1959 Jack Horton Jr., An Analysis of the Classical Proper Names Contained in the Poetry Included in Three Georgia State-Adopted Twelfth Grade Literature Books, literature 1930 Eugenia Stone, Stoicism: The School, Its Tenets, Its Influence, philosophy
