Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies

Senior Theses A-Z

* indicates primary advisor

  • Baker, Catherine K. (2006) Pompeian Mythological Wall Paintings: Myth, Multiformity, and Roman Virtue (Koloski-Ostrow*, Muellner, Walker)

  • Beatty, Mark. (1990) The Purpose and Method of the Subjugation of Britain, AD 43-AD 96

  • Bell-Schlatter, Emrys. (2009) The Imagery of Vision in Aeschylus' Oresteia (Muellner*, Visvardi)

  • Brinbaum, Laurence Aimee. (2010) Parallels and Paradigms in Book IV of Vergil's Aeneid. (Muellner, Walker)

  • Bouchard, Jack B. (2010) A Social History of Rural Attika, 479-395 BCE (Sreenivasan, Kapelle, Walker)

  • Brochu, Lorraine. (1985) Prehellenistic Fountain-Houses

  • Brown, Matthew A. (2008) The Ideal Roman Statesman as Exhibited in the Letters of Cicero, Seneca and Pliny (Johnston*, Fischer, Walker)

  • Bryan, Erin I. (2004) The Importance of Athenian Women in the Polis (Muellner*, Koloski-Ostrow, Walker)

  • Callahan, Jane A. (2004) Moschus's Europa: An Intertextual Study (Johnston*, Muellner, Koloski-Ostrow)

  • Callahan, Joan. (1976) The Clever Slave in the Comedies of Plautus

  • Cohen, Ada. (1984) The Influence of the Near East on Greek Art in the Iron Age, with Special Reference to Bronzes

  • Costrell, Sarah A. (2010) Euclid and the Method of Exhaustion (Fishman, Muellner)

  • Covitz, Philip. (1990) Catullus and Lesbia: A Biographical Approach to the Poems

  • Dichter, Caitlin D. (2009) The Artistic Effect of Pompeii on French Neoclassical Decorative Arts (Koloski-Ostrow*, Colaizzi, Dowden)

  • Farrell, Christopher A. (2007) A Knight at Athens: Revisiting Scholarly Perceptions of Xenophon (Walker*, Muellner, Yack)

  • Feferman, Irina. (2001) Laws of Rape and Adultery in 5th and 4th century Athens

  • Gerolami, Timothy A. (1999) Clodius, Princeps Tribunorum Plebis: How Clodius Lerned to Love the Mob

  • Glick, Daniel. (2001) Alcman Fragment I: A Pedagogical Process of Initiation

  • Golden, Jonathan M. (1990) The Foreign Relations of Egypt with Canaan and Mesopotamia during the Protodynamic Period

  • Green-Sisson. (2010) The Aesthetics of Ancient Greek Music (Muellner, Keiler)

  • Greenberg, Jessica R. (2005) Veterinary Medicine, the Lifeblood of the Classical Period: Development and Retention of Veterinary Techniques (Walker*, Kaplan, Koloski-Ostrow)

  • Grossman, Harold E. (2007) The Historians of the Gothic War (AD 535-552) (Walker*, Kapelle, Sreenivasan)

  • Heyman, Joel. (1987) The Idealistic View of Country Life vs. the Harsh Realities of City Life as Seen through the Eyes of the Roman Satirist Juvenal

  • Horowitz, Wayne. (1979) Dh'l Qarneyn, The Land of the Sunrise and Sunset, and Beyond: A Case Study in Tradition Building

  • de Jong, Sondra. (1994) Greed, Gluttony, and Lust: Perceptions of Tradition and Power in Ancient Roman Social Legislation

  • Kahn Troster, Sara S. (2001) Wicked Whores and Wandering Widows: Women on Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the 11th and 12th Centuries

  • Kasan, Blake. (2011) Gynecology and Obstetrics in 2nd Century CE Rome

  • Kharfen, Stephen. (1985) The Cinematic Quality of Ovid's Narrative Technique in the Myrrha Episode

  • Kulkin, Todd P. (2007) Cultural Justice: A Study of Athenian Nomoi and Modern American Law (Muellner*, Koloski-Ostrow, Walker)

  • Kutz, John R. (1999) Between Mathematics and Mythology: The Heroic Figure of Pythagoras

  • Lankin, Andrea. (2002) Galfridian Nationalism: Ideas of Briton Nationhood in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie

  • Lapidus, Rachel C. (1990) The Stealing of Classical Art Objects: Legal and Ethical Implications, 1800-1990

  • Larson, Eric A. (1984) Plutarch's Synthesis of the Moral/Ethical Elements of the Moralia into the Moral Exemplum Embodied din the Alexander

  • Levine, Ely. (1999) The Occidentalizing Trend in Greek Archaeology: Greek Cultural Impact upon the Cultures of the Levant

  • Lindbeck, Kris. (1985) Subordination and Partnership: The Position of Married Women in Late Antiquity

  • Long, Leah Emilia. (2001) Cultural Continuities: The Persistence of Native Religion in Roman North Africa

  • Lukban, Michele Chivian. (1985) No Stock Disdained: Citizenship and Discrimination in the Early Roman Empire

  • Ma, Dianne J. (2009) The Thematic Progression of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Relation to Human Development (Walker*, Koloski-Ostrow, Muellner)

  • Margulies, Zach. (2010) Upon the Shoulders of the Seaward Philistines: Leadership and Governance in Iron Age Philistia (Brettler, Wright)

  • Marmor, Lee A. (2010) The Evolution of the Tribunate in the Roman Republic. (Kapelle, Walker)

  • McElvain, Gayle M. (2006) Acquisition and Generation of a Poetic Lexicon: New Cognitive Models for the Homeric Formula (Muellner*, Koloski-Ostrow, Walker)

  • Mekel, Nitzan. (2000) The Pyramid Texts and the Amalgamation of the Osiris and Horus Myths: Political Legitimation in Late Old Kingdom Egypt

  • Mello, Michael P. (2007) The Influence of Epicurean Philosophy on Augustine's Confessions (Johnston*, Brooten, Walker)

  • Menzin, Lyndsey. (2002) Sapphic Influences in the Poetry of Catullus

  • Mulder, Hotze. (1981) Alkman's KHPYΛOΣ-POEM: An analysis of Alkman fr. 26 P., with Appendix: concordance to the Alkman fragments

  • Neuman, Tamara. (1987) Images of Egypt in Ancient Greek Thought: Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch -- An Interpretive Essay

  • Nudell, Joshua P. (2008) Champions, Friends, Soldiers: The Macedonian Aristocracy, the Officers of Alexander and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingdoms (Kapelle*, Sreenivasan, Walker)

  • Ostrander, Amy E. (2010) ECLAS: A Tool Towards the Decipherment of Minoan Linear A. (Muellner, Urcid)

  • Palmer, Glenn. (1996) Why the Shoulder? A study of the placement of the wound in the Mithraic tauroctony

  • Picker, Anne T. (1982) The Assyrian Pottery Collection from Tel-Kheleifah and How It Aids in Defining Assyrian Influence in the Southern Negev and Transjordan

  • Porter, Abigail R. (2004) Homeric Epic in the Lives of Ancient Greeks (Muellner*, Koloski-Ostrow, Walker)

  • Post, Jennifer A. (1986) Greek Models and Roman Expectations: Arrian's Anabasis and the Second Sophisitic Ralston, Nathaniel L. (2007) Res Novae: Three Revolutions in the Roman Republic (Walker*, Kapelle, Koloski-Ostrow)

  • Radin, Jennifer. (2011) Bored Bacchus and Offended Ariadne: Early Baroque Mythological Paintings by Annibale Carracci and Guido Reni.

  • Rollet, Angela M. (1990) The Evolution of the Hero: Mortality and Socialization in Classical Greek Mythology

  • Ross, William T. (1982) Sparta's Role in Athenian Political Changes from 514 to 502 B.C.

  • Saidel, Benjamin Adam. (1985) Judaea Capta Est: A Numismatic Interpretation of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome

  • Samuels, Deborah. (1987) Mythopoeic Thought as a Viable Modality of Discourse for Feminists

  • Signore, Sean. (2002) The Ritual Laments in our Iliad: A Formulaic and Thematic Analysis

  • Simonini, Phillippe. (1982) The Transition from Infantry to Cavalry Armies, A.D. 69 - A.D. 800

  • Smedile, Valerie J. (2004) Rank and Society: An Interpretation of Funerary Offerings at Monte Alban (Urcid*, Cohen, Koloski-Ostrow)

  • Smith, Alexander J. (2009) Mussolini's Past: The Social and Political Implications of Archaeology in Fascist Italy (Koloski-Ostrow*, Scott, Walker)

  • Smolin, Ada. (1993) Julia Berenice: A Look at a Judaean Queen of the First Century CE

  • Stewart, Charles. (1978) Gli Italo-Greci D'Italia Meridionale

  • Taaffe, Sonya. (2003) Here's the Story: Alkaios 42 and Narrative Context in Greek Lyric and Epic

  • Tibbitts, Theodore. (2009) The Practical Side of Wine: Viticulture and Viniculture in Ancient Rome (Koloski-Ostrow*, Johnston, Walker)

  • Towne, Cynthia. (1982) Roman Women

  • Ware, Elizabeth. (1986) The Evolution of Dionysos and his Cult from his First Appearance in Greece, c.2000, to the Early Fourth Century BC

  • Weiner, Abigail. (1992) The Household Gods of Rome: The Lares, The Di Penates, Vesta, and The Genius

  • Weisfeld, Jacob B. (2009) The People's Conspiracy: Damnatio Memoriae as an Ad Hoc Procedure in Republican and Imperial Rome (Koloski-Ostrow*, Urcid, Walker)

  • Wiesenthal, Alan J. (1973) Richard Bentley's Horace: The commentaries in English on 1.23, 3.4, 4.8, and 4.10 with accompanying essays

  • Woodring, Benjamin. (2006) Tracing Trajectories: Spears, Arrow, and Agency in Ancient Greek Epic Poetry (Muellner*, Koloski-Ostrow, Walker)

  • Wyrick, Jed. (1990) The Implications of Performance: Archilochus, Sappho, and the Song of Songs