This thesis examines three legendary Vestal Virgins and analyzes how they functioned as symbols of the inviolability of Rome. It begins with a preliminary chapter which outlines the cult’s regulations and the role of the ...

This thesis analyzes the cosmology of Dante’s Divine Comedy, with particular focus on the ways in which Dante deviated from contemporary paradigms (and even from his own paradigms as expressed in his earlier Convivio) ...

One of the most fascinating and beweildering incidents in history is the Catilinarian Consporiacy, an attempted overthrow of the Roman republic by Lucius Sergius Catilina that was foiled by the decisive action of the consul ...

This thesis examines poem 64, the longest poem written by Catullus, and analyzes its internal structure as well as the allusions made to Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica and Euripides’ Medea. While Catullus is perhaps more ...

The reality of death through disease has influenced the behaviors and actions of humankind since the beginning of history. Although the concept of disease has been present throughout our history, and has evolved with our ...

Hecuba, the ill-fated Queen of Troy, appears in significant literature from Homer’s Iliad to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. While the Hecuba of Euripidean tragedy has warranted much attention, Ovid's rendering of her in epic poetry ...

Euripides’ play Ion, like his other works, has been translated numerous times into English. However, these translations are often completed in poetic verse, and while still readable, can deter or isolate modern audiences ...

Seneca's fame arises from three different personas: he was the advisor to Nero, a brilliant rhetorician, and a Stoic philosopher. Seneca employs all three of these personas in his De Clementia, which is a treatise advising ...

The Hippocratic Oath is widely known today as something that medical students say at their graduation ceremony as they are about to go out into the world and begin their practice of medicine. This long-standing tradition ...

The present study concerns Anna, the sister of Dido in Book Four of Virgil’s foundational, Roman epic poem, the Aeneid. I analyze the intertextual relationship Anna’s character shares with the nurse figure of tragedy, and ...