• Metadrama in the chorus : the first choral ode of Seneca's Oedipus / 

    Sarais, Maria Silvia, 1980- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The main topic of this dissertation is the first choral ode of Seneca's Oedipus. Seneca's handling of the choral parts has often suffered from negative ...
  • 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 ...