Classical Studies Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Classical Studies, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Creating Legitimacy: The Dyarchy in Spartan Social Memory, Stephanie J. Dennie
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Shoe Modifications and Foot Health: A Case Study from Roman Britain, Casey Elizabeth Kay Boettinger
Applying 3D Structured Light Scanning to Roman Leather Insoles From Vindolanda: A Novel Approach to Podiatric Data Collection, Maria Lorene Glanfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Evidence of the Erotic in the House of the Vettii, Ashley Franker-Shuh
Who Gets to be a Knower? Epistemic Authority in Classical Studies, Jaymie Orchard
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Peitho, Dolos, and Bia in Three Late Euripidean Tragedies, Christian Bot
Shifting Discourses of Roman Otium in Cicero, Catullus, and Sallust, Keegan Bruce
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Euripides' 'Andromache' and Athenian Hegemonic Ideology, Alexandra H. Dawson
The Gift in the Iliad, Tyler Jordan
A Commentary on the first 118 lines of John of Garland's Integumenta Ovidii, Garett Schoffro
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thucydides' Account of the Plague as Trauma Narrative, Jenna M. Colclough
Ritual Impasse in Tragic Marriage: Sophocles' Deianeira, Euripides' Hermione, Euripides' Electra., Valeria Logacheva
Lictors in the Roman World, Erin Pierik
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Guilt in Vergil’s 'Aeneid' and Lucan’s 'Bellum Civile', Michelle Sugar
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Xenia in Classical Economies: The Function of Ritualized Interpersonal Relationships in Athenian Trade, Morgan C. Kostiew
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Real Housewives of Ancient Rome: Evidence for the Economic Contributions of Women, Sarah M. VanderPloeg
The Acrobatic Body in Ancient Greek Society, Jonathan R. Vickers
Language Contact and Identity in Roman Britain, Robert Jackson Woodcock
Homeric Kinship on the Margins of the Oikos, Tim Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Zeus the Head, Zeus the Middle": Studies in the History and Interpretation of the Orphic Theogonies, Dwayne A. Meisner
Frontiers of Food: Identity and Food Preparation in Roman Britain, Sarah J. Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Modalities of Roman Translation: Source-representative, Allusive, and Independent, James Kruck
Athletes in Song and Stone: Victory and Identity in Epinician and Epigram, Peter Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Experience of Battle in the Sicilian Expedition: From the Great Harbour to the River Assinarus, Frank D. D'Earmo
The Roman Ethnozoological Tradition: Identifying Exotic Animals in Pliny's Natural History, Benjamin Moser
Foreign Women in Latin Literature: The Representation of Boudicca, Kaitlyn Pettigrew
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Moral Revision in Latin Ethnography: A Reassessment of Tacitus’ Germania and Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum, Joseph D. Davis
'Horae' in Roman Funerary Inscriptions, Simeon D. Ehrlich