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  • Snake oil salesmen : snake imagery and the sophistic movement in Sophocles' Trachiniae 

    Brakebill, Samuel Jacob (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    "In the Trachiniae, Sophocles plays on the audience's expectations of a murderous Deianeira to demonstrate the dangers of misinformation. He subverts the traditional role of the centaur Cheiron as a healer and teacher in ...
  • Stoic rationalism 

    Dyson, Henry, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    The prevailing scholarly opinion is that the Stoics are empiricists rather than rationalists. Empiricism is a branch of epistemology that gives priority to sense-perception whereas rationalism gives priority to reason's ...
  • Virtus et disciplina : an interdisciplinary study of the roman martial values of courage and discipline 

    James, Justin Ryan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    This thesis discusses Roman martial values, principally virtus and disciplina, and their literary characterization. This is an interdisciplinary study that employs data and methodologies from anthropology, evolutionary ...
  • When to say when : wine and drunkenness in Roman society 

    Martin, Damien, 1982- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Not surprisingly, different people offered different opinions on the use of alcohol and the acceptability of drunkenness in Roman society. What certain people said on the subject - and the context they said it in - reveals ...