The Psychopathology Of Everyday Athens: Euripides On The Freudian Couch, 2013 Xavier University - Cincinnati
The Psychopathology Of Everyday Athens: Euripides On The Freudian Couch, Brendan C. Chisholm
Honors Bachelor of Arts
Freud’s theories suggest that authors often describe aspects of their own self-image, or their interpretation of the people around them, in individual characters or themes. Using this idea, I will perform a psychological study of characters and themes in four of Euripides’ plays, the Medea, Bacchae, Hecuba, and Trojan Women, then apply Freud’s Dream Work theory to conclusions about the plays in an effort to open a window into the psychology of Euripides himself.
The Application Of Second Language Acquisition Theory To New Testament Greek Pedagogy, 2013 Liberty University
The Application Of Second Language Acquisition Theory To New Testament Greek Pedagogy, Josiah P. Wegner
Senior Honors Theses
The effect of outdated NT Greek pedagogy has left many seminary students ill-equipped to properly exegete using the NT Greek language. Many seminary students graduate with a firm knowledge of syntactic rules, but they are still unable to read the NT text without having to constantly consult a Greek grammar and dictionary. Even though the current style of teaching has been used for many years, research in second language acquisition has exposed that the traditional translation method has many flaws. One of these researchers, Stephen Krashen, has identified that the key to language competence is not learning vocabulary and grammar …
The Sacred Command Of The Lord My Brother The Emperor Should Have Come As Something Not To Neglect, 2013 Loyola University Chicago
The Sacred Command Of The Lord My Brother The Emperor Should Have Come As Something Not To Neglect, Jacqueline Long
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Late Roman stereotypes assigned women certain powers.1 Thus for example, when the elder but not senior emperor Theodosius faced a choice between defending the interests of Valentinian II, his ineffective colleague from the previous dynasty, or acceding to the aggression of Magnus Maximus, his countryman, an unimpeachably orthodox Catholic, a proven effective general, and as an emperor one whose imperium Theodosius had recognized,2 Valentinian’s Arian mother Justina could be understood to have swayed Theodosius decisively by offering him her daughter Galla in marriage.3 This scenario enabled hostile interpreters to trivialize Theodosius’s decision as irresponsible appetite and to belittle its execution …
Nietzsche’S Zarathustra And Parodic Style: On Lucian’S Hyperanthropos And Nietzsche’S Übermensch, 2013 Fordham University
Nietzsche’S Zarathustra And Parodic Style: On Lucian’S Hyperanthropos And Nietzsche’S Übermensch, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire of the “overman” who is imagined to be superior to others of “lesser” station in this-worldly life and the same tyrant after his (comically unwilling) …
In Death, Immortality, 2013 Trinity College
In Death, Immortality, Irenae A. Aigbedion
Senior Theses and Projects
“We are like an admirable, wandering Numancia, who prefers to die gradually than to admit defeat” (translated from Alfonso Guerra’s documentary, Exilio). Uttered during the fall of the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Spanish author Luis Araquistáin’s ominous phrase not only speaks to the slow death of Republican hopes while in exile, but also hearkens back to a small town in the north of Spain that existed in the second century AD. Famed for its resistance to the advancing Roman armies, Numantia fell in 133 BC to Scipio Aemilianus who led the forces of the Roman …
Ideal And Ordinary Language In Plato's Cratylus, 2013 Marquette University
Ideal And Ordinary Language In Plato's Cratylus, Franco Trivigno
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Interpreters of Plato’s Cratylus are faced with a puzzle. If Socrates’ etymologies (397a-421c) are intended to be parodies, as many have thought,[1] what is the status of the imitation theory of letters (421c-427d), which provides the theoretical foundation for etymology and, as some have thought, indicates Plato’s ambition to construct an ideal language?[2] In this paper, I focus on three questions: [1] whether Plato thought that imitation provided a suitable basis for an ideal language; [2] whether Plato thought that the development of an ideal language would be philosophical possible or desirable; [3] whether he thought that ordinary …
Lift, Eat, Compete: Athletics In Ancient Greece And Modern America, 2013 Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Lift, Eat, Compete: Athletics In Ancient Greece And Modern America, Jensen Grey Kolaczko
Honors Bachelor of Arts
No abstract provided.
Ovid's Insight Into The Minds Of Abandoned Women, 2013 Xavier University - Cincinnati
Ovid's Insight Into The Minds Of Abandoned Women, Rachel A. Bier
Honors Bachelor of Arts
Mythical heroines, such as Penelope of the Odyssey, often took minor roles in literature, ones in which their characters' complexities were not addressed. Ovid revived the heroines of tradition and gave them voices which expressed realistic feelings and thoughts in his Heriodes. In these fictional letters to absent lovers, Ovid creates realistic characters, each of whom reacts to her abandonment with an insightful feminine voice. By examining the heriones' voice and the ways in which the Heriodes differs from the literary tradition, and by considering the effects of the epistolary genre on the characters' voices, I argue that Ovid …
Well That Escalated Quickly: Infanticide And Duality In Euripides’ Medea As An Expression Of Athenian Anxieties In 431 Bc, 2013 University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School of Arts and Sciences (Classical Studies Department)
Well That Escalated Quickly: Infanticide And Duality In Euripides’ Medea As An Expression Of Athenian Anxieties In 431 Bc, Molly B. Hutt
Molly B Hutt
Euripides wrote his Medea at a time when normative and transgressive behaviors were confounded. After fighting one war against the barbarian Persians and in between two wars with the other Greeks from the Peloponnese, the Athenians could not be sure what to think about barbarians, other Greeks, and even themselves. It is against this background that I have read the Medea and closely examined it for the purposes of this paper. Euripides’ version of this myth emerged at a time when the lines between man and woman, Athenian and barbarian, and normative and transgressive were being blurred in Athens, and …
Augustine And John Paul Ii On The Goods Of Marriage: Proles, Fides, Et Sacramentum, 2013 Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Augustine And John Paul Ii On The Goods Of Marriage: Proles, Fides, Et Sacramentum, Thomas Richard Finke
Honors Bachelor of Arts
As an example of the way in which the Church consistently presents her teachings on marriage, I intend to demonstrate the consistency between the writings of St. Augustine and John Paul II. Though they write in very different times socially and philosophically, their presentations on the good of marriage remain consistent in their conclusions. The framework for this presentation will be the three goods of marriage as defined by Augustine: procreation, fidelity, and the sacrament. Augustine defined these goods in his De bono coniugali, and John Paul II contains them in his writings: Familiaris Consortio, Mulieris Dignitatem, …
Sagp Newsletter 2012/13.3 Pac, 2013 Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2012/13.3 Pac, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
We Should Always Call The Receptacle The Same Thing: Timaeus 50b6-51b6, 2013 UC Davis
We Should Always Call The Receptacle The Same Thing: Timaeus 50b6-51b6, Christopher Buckels
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Plato’s Timaeus is a challenge to understand and to interpret, but its central ontological innovation, a third kind in addition to the standard Platonic categories of Being and Becoming, is, even according to Timaeus himself, a murky and difficult topic. I endeavor to shed a meager light on this shadowy entity, the Receptacle of all Becoming, by examining an argument Timaeus gives for the claim that “we should always call it the same thing” (50b6-7).[1] This claim comes immediately after the famous gold analogy, about which I will say only a few words, and so it also closely follows …
Sagp Newsletter 2012/13.2 Central, 2013 Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2012/13.2 Central, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Democracy In Transition: Political Participation In The European Union, 2013 University of Cyprus
Democracy In Transition: Political Participation In The European Union, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
The essays in this collection, written by a cross-regional group of experts, provide illuminating insights into the causes of declining levels of citizen participation and other distinct forms of civic activism in Europe and explore a range of factors contributing to apathy and eventually disengagement from vital political processes and institutions. At the same time, this volume examines informal or unconventional types of civic engagement and political participation corresponding to the rapid advances in culture, technology and social networking. The contents of this volume are divided into three essentially interrelated parts. Part I consists of critical essays in the form …
Aristotle On The Truth Of Things, 2013 The University of Western Ontario
Aristotle On The Truth Of Things, John Thorp
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle on the truth of things
Abstract
Most of Aristotle's texts dealing with truth are unexceptionable: truth belongs only to sentences or beliefs, and it does so in virtue of a correspondence between those sentences or beliefs and the things in the world that they are about. Single words cannot be true, and the things in the world, whether single or compound, cannot be true either. There is however one text, Chapter 10 of Book Theta of the Metaphysics, that breaks with these familiar and comfortable views; it allows that single words or thoughts can be true, and also …
Review Of D. Ogden, Drakōn: Dragon Myth And Serpent Cult In The Greek And Roman Worlds, 2013 Loyola University Chicago
Review Of D. Ogden, Drakōn: Dragon Myth And Serpent Cult In The Greek And Roman Worlds, Laura Gawlinski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Silent And Boisterous Slaves: Considerations In Staging Pseudolus 133-234, 2013 Butler University
Silent And Boisterous Slaves: Considerations In Staging Pseudolus 133-234, Christopher Bungard, Daniel Walin
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Christopher Bumgard's contribution to the CAMWS Annual Meeting: Iowa City, Iowa. 2013.
Investigating The Effectiveness Of Problem-Based Learning In 3d Virtual Worlds. A Preliminary Report On The Hadrian’S Villa Project, 2013 Butler University
Investigating The Effectiveness Of Problem-Based Learning In 3d Virtual Worlds. A Preliminary Report On The Hadrian’S Villa Project, Lee Taylor-Helms, Lynne. Kvapil, John Fillwalk, Bernard Frischer
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This paper discusses a recent study to test the effectiveness of combining 3D virtual worlds (VWs) with Problem Based Learning (PBL) in archaeological education of undergraduate college students at two American universities. The testbed used was a virtual world of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli (Italy), a World Heritage Site dating to the reign of Hadrian (117-138 CE). At both universities courses were offered on the villa using a PBL approach in such a way that the relative strengths and weaknesses of learning based on face-to-face, 2D, and VW presentations could be assessed. The study helped to clarify ways in which …
Agamemnon’S Human Resources: An Examination Of Mycenae’S Palatial Workforce, 2013 Butler University
Agamemnon’S Human Resources: An Examination Of Mycenae’S Palatial Workforce, Lynne. Kvapil
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Abstract of paper presentation from: Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Iowa City, IA, April 2013.
Geographers As Mythographers: The Case Of Strabo, 2013 Eastern Illinois University
Geographers As Mythographers: The Case Of Strabo, Lee E. Patterson
Lee E. Patterson
No abstract provided.