Browsing 1910-1919 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Classical languages and archaeology (MU)"
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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 ... -
Alliteration in the hexameter books of Lucilius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)It is very evident (1) that Lucilius used the device of alliteration, (2) that he used it very freely, and (3) that he must have used it purposely. In general, his alliteration means nothing, though occasionally it does ... -
A comparison of Cicero's style in his early and late orations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)Cicero's oratorical activity extends over a period of thirty-eight years. His first oration pro P. Quinctio belongs to the year 81 B.C., his last ones in M. Antonium orationes Phillippicae I-XIV to the years 44 and 43 B.C. ... -
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 ... -
Horace and his Greek originals in book I of the Odes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)it is the purpose of this thesis to give specific examples of Horace's indebtedness to Greek originals in the first book of Odes. The term Greek originals, as used here, includes those parts of ante-Horatian literature, ... -
Horace as a nature poet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)In order to be called a true poet of nature, one must possess a deep appreciation and love for the natural world, and the ability to express this feeling in beautiful and appropriate verse. The men who have attained fame ... -
Horace's attitude toward the orientalization of Rome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)It has ever been the history of empire-development that nations face the West. Babylon, snugly esconced in the fertile Tigro-Euphrates valley, subdued its eastern neighbor, the Elamites, rose to power in wealth and court ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Pure place constructions in Vergil's Aeneid, books I-VI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)The Place Constructions together with their nearest related forms constitute an exceedingly large and important part of the division known as adverbial constructions. How numerous they are may be partly realized from the ... -
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 ... -
Senex in Plautus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)Among the principal characters that crowd the busy stage of Plautus, none are more vital to the action than the old gentlemen. But while the women of Plautus have received lengthy treatment at the hands of Le Benoist in ... -
Some examples of repetition in Terence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)The cumulation of synonyms, that is, the use within a sentence of words similar in meaning but different in form, and the securing of various sound effects by the collocation of words different in meaning but similar in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Woman in the epic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)Within the pale of that civilization which has grown up under the combined influence of the Christian religion as paramount and what may be called the Teutonic manners as secondary, we find the idea of Woman and her social ...