Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Classical studies (MU)"

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  • Boundary violations: a reflection of pessimism in Lucan's Bellum civile 

    Davis, Erin Paige (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    The desecration of boundaries abounds in Lucan's epic poem, Bellum Civile. The abundance of boundary violations serves as a literary tool through which Lucan conveys his attitude towards civil war. Lucan's boundary violations ...

  • Nam mihi carmen erit Christi vitalia gesta : book one of the Evangeliorum libri iv of Juvencus and the evolution of Latin epic in late antiquity 

    Collier, David Andrew (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    This thesis presents the text of Book One of the Evangeliorum libri IV of Juvencus with a facing English translation. This fourth-century poem of 3,200 hexameters and four books is one of the least studied Latin epics and ...

  • Sancti et linguae : the classical world in the eyes of Hibernia 

    Mahoney, Maria C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    This thesis will examine Irish views of the classical world primarily through texts written in Ireland and on the continent by Irishmen up to the beginning of the Carolingian period (with brief glances to the period ahead), ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...