Search
Now showing items 1-20 of 37
Sound effects in Lucretius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
When the Greek philosophers first began to write down the results of their investigations they chose verse as the medium through which to present their ideas to the world. This was very natural for poetry was the medium ...
A criticism of Keller's Homeric society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The sociological study of the Iliad and Odyssey entitled "Homeric Society", and compiled by Albert Galloway Keller, instructor in social science at Yale University, offers much interesting reading, much matter for careful ...
Persius' debt to Horace.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
In the comparison of the Satires of Persius with those of Horace it will be found that there are many similar passages. Some of these passages are alike in thought, while others contain the same group of words, but the ...
Horace's conception of friendship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Friendship is the most elevating of human affections, and yet it is a relation that cannot be explained or defined. It begins and ends in feeling, and feeling is a matter of purely personal organization. It is this subjective ...
Mythology of Propertius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is seldom that the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans is distinguished from their religion. This arises largely from the fact that the same supernatural beings figure in each. But mythology and religion represent ...
The use of simul, simulac (atque) and synonyms, cum primum ut primum and ubi primum from the earliest literature down to the Augustan age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
The Latin language has a large number of equivalent expressions meaning "as soon as". If they are compared with those used for any other single temporal idea, they are found to be far more numerous than those used for other ...
The infinitive as used by Vergil in his Aeneid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
Vergil has made liberal use of his license as a poet, not only in using the infinitive mode in many instances where it would be either unusual in prose, or absolutely non-permissible, but also in his looseness of diction. ...
The attitude of the ancient Greek writers toward oracles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The object of this dissertation is to show to what extent the educated people of ancient Greece believed in the reality, power, and authority of the oracles. There is no doubt that the common people believed implicitly. ...
Influence of Catullus on Latin poetry of the Augustan age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
To what extent Catullus was a factor in the poetry of the Augustan age, or more accurately, what he contributed to it in form and substance is the object of this inquiry. A sympathetic reading of his poems alone assures ...
Alliteration in Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Questions that this paper will attempt to answer are: Does Horace show a preference for alliteration of any particular letter or letters? If so, is this due to the fact that a proportionately large number of the words of ...
The dramatic function of the Aeschylean chorus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The qualities of the Aeschylean chorus are distinct from the ideal Schlegelian chorus as has been shown by many works listed here. With these conclusions as a foundation, the author determines what office is actually filled ...
A critical study of the hexameter of Virgil's Ecologues and Aeneid I-VI, and a Comparison with that of the Culex and Ciris
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
The object of this paper is two-fold: to discuss the structure of Virgil's Hexameter, giving some of the peculiarities and metrical licenses; and to compare it with his doubtful poems, the Culex and Ciris, noticing whether ...
Euripides as a poet of nature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
On the shores of Salamis, Euripides used for his study a cave which overlooked the sea, and in this secluded place wrote most of his tragedies. Thus leading a life of seclusion, Euripides devoted much time to studying ...
Presentation and stage setting of Greek tragedy of the fifth century B.C.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
The purpose of this thesis is to see what facts we may gather concerning the presentation and stage setting of Greek Tragedy of the fifth century B. C. from the study of the extant plays of Aeschylus and several of those ...
The gods of the Aeneid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1903)
This thesis contains descriptions and analysis of several of the gods from Virgil's Aeneid.
Double expressions in the speeches of Sallust
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
There is no doubt that the speeches in Sallust's histories are not quoted exactly but that, in accordance with the custom prevailing in classical times, words are put into the mouth of the speaker which might have been ...
The use of faxo and obsecro in Plautus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
In the reading of Plautus one notices many words used paratactically which in classical Latin subordinate the following clause. Prominent among these words are faxo and obsecro, and it is the purpose of this paper to discuss ...
The use of the fable in Roman satire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is the purpose of this paper to collect, discuss, and as far as possible to trace to their origin the fables which are used in Latin Satire. The term Satire has been used throughout the discussion to designate those ...
Religion of Tibullus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Tibullus is generally considered a poet sincere and devout in his religion; for he is constantly invoking the presence of the divinities, vowing sacrifice to them, and dwelling upon their beneficence to mankind. It is the ...
Some word-grouping in Lucan's Pharsalia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
The first century after Christ, known as the Silver Age of Roman Literature, was marked by a brutal despotism, which stifled all independent intellectual life. Affectation and hypocrisy were the result of the embargo laid ...