Browsing by Thesis Department "Classical studies (MU)"
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Snake oil salesmen : snake imagery and the sophistic movement in Sophocles' Trachiniae
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...