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Recent Graduates in Classics

2009

Jeffrey Hunt
Dissertation: Fiction and Mimesis in the Idylls of Theocritus

Keeley Schell
Dissertation: Vergil's Self-Referential Simile: Thematic Construction Through Internal Allusion in the Aeneid

William Appleton, M.A.

Sarah Dawson, M.A.

Cynthia Swanson, M.A.

2007

Kevin Patterson
Dissertation: A Christian Virgil: The Function of Virgilian References in the Writings of Aldhelm

Jennifer Thomas
Dissertation: Staging Empire: The Manipulation of Place and Time in Lucan's Bellum Civile

Christopher Trinacty
Dissertation: Character is Destiny: Senecan Tragedy and Ovid

Adam Bravo, M.A.

Ed Wong, M.A.

2006

Bret Mulligan
Dissertation: Carmina Sola Loquor: The Poetics of
Claudians' "Carmina Minors"

Eva Cieloszyk, M.A.

2005

Alon Navot
Dissertation: Similes of the Real in Virgil's Aeneid

Sarah Nix
Dissertation: The Characterization of Caesar I Lucan's Bellum Civile

2004

Max Leo Goldman
Dissertation: Problems of Voice in Petronius

Carol Jane King
Dissertation: Alexander and Divination: Dreams, Omens, and Aristander of Telmessus in the Alexander Historians

Joseph Gerard Leichter
Dissertation: The Zij as-Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades: Text, Translation, and Greek-to-Arabic Glossary

Heather L. Vincent
Dissertation: Ieiunum Odium: A Theory of Humor in Juvenal

Joshua Slocum, M.A.

Sarah Smart, M.A.

2003

Suzanne Abrams
Dissertation: Speaking of Salvation: Gregory of Nazianzus as Poet and Priest in his Autobiographical Poems           

John Dayton  
Dissertation: The Athletes of War: An Evaluation of the Agonistic Elements in Greek Warfare

Preston Edwards   
Dissertation: On the Christian Alexandrianism of Gregory of Nazianzus

Michael Fontaine 
Dissertation: The Sophisticated Para Prosdokian in Plautus

2002

Malcolm Hyman, Obiit          
Dissertation: Barbarism and Solecism in Ancient Grammatical Thought

2001

Antonios Augoustakis            
Dissertation: Facta virum sileo: Re-Constructing Female Action in Silius Italicus' Punica

Edward L. deBoo
Dissertation: Puns on Plato's Name in The Republic

2000

Ruth Rothaus Caston
Dissertation: Elegiac Passion: A Study of Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy

Heath Martin           
Dissertation: Spontaneous Generation and Aristotle's Hierarchy of Animal Life

Mark J. Sundahl 
Dissertation: The Use of Statutes in the Seven Extant graphe paranomon and graphe nomon me epitedeion theinai Speeches

1999

R. Anthony Kugler              
Dissertation: Representations of Self and Audience in the Phrygian And Cicilian Orations of Dio Chrysostom

Raymond Marks   
Dissertation: Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus

Matthew Munich        
Dissertation: Past Perfect: Images of the Past in Cicero, Lucretius and Catullus

Philip Thibodeau   
Dissertation: Wonders  of a World.  Essays on Vergil's Fourth Georgic

1998

Anthony Hollingsworth       
Dissertation: Recitation and the Stage: The Performance of Senecan Tragedy
                                   
Vassiliki Panoussi             
Dissertation: Epic Transfigured: Tragic Allusiveness in Vergil's Aeneid

Shilpa Raval, Obiit             
Dissertation: Pudibunda Ora: Gender, Sexuality and Language in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Nicholas Sterling          
Dissertation: Laconic Persuasion:  Rhetorical Arrangment of Events in Xenophon's Hellenika

1997

Gregory Bucher         
Dissertation: Prolegomena to a Commentary on Appian's Bellum Civile, Book 2

Carolin Hahnemann        
Dissertation: Incarnating Democracy: The Role of Theseus in the Tragedies of Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripedes

Ben J. Hennelly 
Dissertation: Transcendence and Implication:  The Two Visions of Virgil's Georgics

Joseph S. Houser      
Dissertation: The Philosophy of Musonius Rufus:  A Study of Applied Ethics in the Late Stoa

Marc Mastrangelo
Dissertation: The Psychomachia of Prudentius:  A Reappraisal of the Greek Sources and Origins of Allegory

1996

Margaret Graver  
Dissertation: Therapeutic Reading and Seneca's Moral Epistles

Steven Rutledge 
Dissertation: The Literary, Cultural, and Historical Background of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus

1995

Faith Sandstrom      
Dissertation: The Silver Soteira Coinage of Cyzicus in the Fourth Century B.C.

Catherine M. Torigian          
Dissertation: Poetic Allegory and Roman Reality in Three Carmina

1994

Geoffrey Bakewell  
Dissertation: Producing the Polis:  Political and Legal Terminology in Aeschylus

James J. Kennelly    
Dissertation: Thucydides' Knowledge of Herodotus

Jacob Rabinowitz     
Dissertation: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity: Demonization of The Fertility Goddess