M.A. Theses 2015-2024
2024
Nathan DeBar, THE CHILDREN AND LEGIONS ARE UNWELL: THE ROMAN PROCESS OF GENOCIDE
Benjamin Elliott, THE DE INCARNATIONE OF JOHN CASSIAN: TEXT AND TRANSLATION
Miller Hagler, SACRAE DIES ROMANAE: ROMAN SACRED DAYS
Samuel Henthorn, Two Conversions: A Comparative Study of St. Augustine's Confessions and Apuleius' Golden Ass
2023
Thomas Broadwater, κὴ γᾶς κὴ ϝυκίας: A Computer Assisted Epigraphic Study of the Isoglosses of Central Greece
Andrew Campman, ATHENA’S EPITHETS IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY: AN ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Capuano, IN PERPETUO: AN EPIGRAPHIC READER FOR INTERMEDIATE LATIN STUDENTS
Aubrey Crum, A Tripartite Sacrifice: Horse, Dog, and Human Sacrifice in the Funeral of Patroclus
Cooper Hemphill, Celebrating and Challenging Mythology through Ovid's Metamorphoses: a Curriculum and Guide
Molly Stevens, Vintage 536: The Effect of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on the Viticulture of Southern Palestine
Jo Spellman, Battle Line: Gender and Violence in Terence's Hecyra
2022
Matthew Mitchell, Docti norunt audire penates: Narrative and Metapoetry in Silvae 1.2
Jennifer Murphy, O Children: Parental Revenge and the Power Dynamics of Rage in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
CW Wilkinson, Uncanny Hannibal: Hannibal as a Roman-like Figure during the Second Punic War
2021
Allisa Diekman, The Social Life of the Theater at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
Rose Milnes, An Ancient Character in a Modern World: Re-representations of Cleopatra in Modern Visual Media
2019
Hana Aghababian, Translating the Gospel of Matthew, with a case study of Latin and Armenian Deixis
Patrick Dix, Mussolini's Imperial Rome: The Dream of an Augustan Italy
Sarah Epplin, Tertullian and the Eucharist
Rebecca Knudson, Judicial Punishment for Marble and Bronze: Damnatio Memoriae, Statue Abuse,
and Humiliation in Antiquity
Jeffrey Nolte, Defining Medicine: A Study of Three Treatises in the Hippocratic Corpus
Brent Peterson, Three Greek Hymns in the Corpus Hermeticum: An Analysis of Marked Language and Function
2018
Austin Becker, Alba Longa: Legacy and Authority
William Evans, Fugitives in Greek Literature and Law
Aaron Ivey, A Sunny (Dis)position: The Sun-god in Vedic and Greco-Roman Mythology
Joshua Renfro, Self-communication in Plato's Phaedrus
Justin Spalding, A Pen Pal to Predict the Future: Prognostication and Prophetic Models in Cicero's Correspondence
2017
Hannah Bochain, The economy of Beekeeping: Examining an Overlooked Industry of the Ancient World
Alex Moskowitz, Colonizing the Histories: Foundation Stories in the Herodotean Narrative
2016
Erin Ferguson, Costume Change in Aristophanic Comedy
Nicholas Gardner, μέμνημαι in the Iliad
Alexander Karsten, Solon Surrounded: Three Images of Self-representation in Solon's Political Poetry
Holly Maggiore, The Creation of New Realities: Theogonies, Cosmographies, and a Redefinition of Customs in Aristophanes' Birds, Clouds, and Peace
Elizabeth Neely, Lucan's Characterization of Caesar through Speech
Alison Newman, Uses of Eo in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Emily Sharp, Colonizing Women: A Case Study on Miscegenation and Syncretism in Archaic Greece
Kathryn Woodruff, War and the Dissolution of Women in Seneca's Troades
2015
Silvio Curtis, The Structure of Hospitality Type-scenes in Homer and Hittite Mythology: Evidence for an Eastern Mediterranean Tradition
Marcus Hines, Political Imitation in Plato's Statesman
Devondra McMillan, Honoring the House: The Role of Atria in Roman Domestic Space
Selected Teaching Projects 2020-2022
2022
Sarah Weiskittel, Selections from Suetonius' Biographies of the Julio-Claudians: Tantum Latine Adaptations & Notes for Intermediate Latin Students
2021
Julie-Anne Buonasora, Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Audrey Gregory, Gardens in Horace
Philip Swanger, A Selection of Texts and Adapted Readings to Supplement Ecce Romani II
Michelle Yancich, Natura Mundi: A STEM-Focused Latin Reader for High School Students
2020
Lucy Romero, The Origin of the Bugonia: Selections from Virgil’s Georgics Book IV