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The Roman Calendar as an Expression of Augustan Culture: An Examination of the Fasti Praenestini
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsAround the year 6 AD, the Roman grammarian Marcus Verrius Flaccus erected a calendar in the forum of his hometown of Praeneste. -
Rome Becoming Athens, Athens Becoming Rome: Building Cultural Reciprocity in the Augustan Period
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsThrough an examination of new buildings and reconstructions in Athens during the Augustan period (31 BC – AD 14) I will demonstrate the influence of Rome on the provincial urban landscape. -
The Domus Augusti and Imperial Art
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsNot only was Augustus able to maintain peace within the Empire for over forty-five years, his impact on the visual arts has endured for centuries. -
A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsBut were the mysteries largely concerned with the mundane cares of this life rather than the more horrendous possibilities of the next? -
Around the Roman world in 180 days
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No CommentsThe dissertation is intended to show whether it is possible for a Roman traveller to make a journey around the Roman world in the year C.E. 210, within 180 days, in a manner similar to that of Phileas Fogg, a character in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1874). -
Dementia in the Greco-Roman world
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No CommentsSeveral classical sources – some of them medical– offer intriguing descriptions of many cognitive and behavioral symptoms in dementia, which are currently used for diagnostic purposes. -
Sex and Lots of Erotic Art to Prove It: The Erotic art of Pompeii
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe ancient Roman City of Pompeii is a spectacle of some of the worlds most beautiful and risqué forms of artwork ever found from ancient ruins. -
“Manufacturing Religion” in the Hellenistic Age: The Case of Isis-Demeter Cult
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe Hellenistic era is a period of transition, constant transformation, increasing knowledge of the natural environment and cosmological redefinition. -
The environment, Christianity, and the Roman Empire: an ecological interpretation
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsChristianity responded to the Roman Empire's oppression and domination through political mobilization, social transformation, and ecological restoration. -
A comparison of the roles of the hero and the seductress in the Tain bo cuailgne and the Iliad: an honors thesis
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper attempts to redefine the role of the 'hero' in ancient Western epic poetry, focusing specifically on the Iliad of Homer and the Irish epic the Tain Bo Cuailgne, by focusing on the maintenance of a hierarchy of loyalties.