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“Under The Seams Runs The Pain”: Four Greek Sources And Analogues For The Modern Monster In Anne Carson’S Autobiography Of Red, Joshua M. Carmel '13

Student Publications

This work seeks to explore the monster figure in its evolution from the Classical to the contemporary literary canons. Using Geryon, a three-headed and red-hued monster, as the central figure and Carson’s 1998 verse novel Autobiography of Red, it evaluates the underpinnings of the alienated “other” and attempts to shed light on its role in modern society.

Foreign Women In Latin Literature: The Representation Of Boudicca, Kaitlyn Pettigrew

University of Western Ontario - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The legacy of Boudicca is a compelling one. Since the rediscovery of the Tacitean manuscripts during the Renaissance, authors have grappled with how to reconcile the differences between the ancient accounts of Boudicca’s rebellion. This issue has culminated in the tendency to either combine the sources to provide a coherent narrative or discredit and dismiss them. Either way the result is that the ancient sources do not receive the attention they deserve.

Tacitus’ account of Boudicca’s rebellion in the Annals provides the most sympathetic representation. Relevant Tacitean scholarship should be applied to the narrative to explain the discrepancies ...

Subverting A Mythology: Examining Joseph Campbell's Monomyth In The Fiction Of H. P. Lovecraft, Wesley Vandenbos

Masters Theses

American horror author H. P. Lovecraft's tales of monsters and madness, collectively known as the Cthulhu Mythos, have exploded in popularity in the last few decades and attracted both critical and casual interest. Inspired by his childhood mythological readings, Lovecraft created these chilling stories as a more modern version of ancient myths, drawing upon yet subtly altering the sources that influenced him. The author of this thesis draws attention to the differences between classic myths and the Cthulhu Mythos, using the monomyth of Joseph Campbell as a framework through which to view both ancient mythologies and Lovecraft's tales ...

Review Of The Iliad In A Nutshell: Visualizing Epic On The Tabulae Iliacae, By Michael Squire, Fred W. Jenkins

Faculty Publications

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Session E-1: Hiding In Plain Sight, Micah Fogel

Professional Learning Day

Were the plays of William Shakespeare really written by Francis Bacon, who left a coded signature in plain sight? Can spies send messages without using codes and without getting caught? Steganography is the art of hiding messages in plain sight but in a way so that only those in on the secret can find them. We'll learn a few tricks about how to hide messages in pieces of text or sound and image files on a computer.

On Nietzsche’S Judgment Of Style And Hume’S Quixotic Taste: On The Science Of Aesthetics And ‘Playing’ The Satyr, Babette Babich

Working Papers

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Majority Real: "Realism" In Graeco-Roman Fable As Depicted Through The Crow And Raven, David A. Wallace-Hare

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

The role of realism in the depiction of animals in Greaco-Roman fable is investigated. The crow and the raven have been chosen as the prism through which the investigation is carried out. Fable will be shown to be a genre founded on a contextually realistic depiction of animals, and this may especially be seen in the corvid fables. Realism must, however, be understood contextually, as what constitutes a realistic depiction of crows and ravens in Graeco-Roman times is quite different than what one would encounter at present. As a result of which the crow and raven are marked by attributes ...

A Marginal Hero: The Representations Of Diomedes In The Greek World, Telmo C. Medeiros

Open Access Dissertations and Theses

The epic hero Diomedes is, in my opinion, considered a marginal hero, as he is relegated to a backbench in ancient Greek thought and ideology. I examine why this is the case, considering his role and impact in Homer's Iliad. Greek society valued its epic heroes beyond the words of the poets, yet some heroes received much more attention that others as central characters in tragedy and iconography, consequently regarded as favourites by mass audiences. I believe that examining a marginal hero like Diomedes is important in order to understand why Greek culture generally disregarded some warriors in favour ...

Paradoxes And Puzzles For The Family, Richard A. Westin

Richard Westin

This is a collaborative work with my daughter that recreates many of the dinner table paradoxes and puzzles that fascinated my children at the ages of 8 and 10. As any parent knows, children's minds are clear and adept. These puzzles are often less trouble to them than to adults.

What Does Socrates Know? An Analysis Of Socrates’ Wisdom In Plato’S Apology And Gorgias, Xinru Cheng

Colgate Academic Review

In Plato’s Apology and Gorgias, there is an apparent inconsistency in Socrates’ words regarding wisdom. Socrates encourages practicing excellence to live the best way of life during his discussion with Callicles in Gorgias, implying he knows what excellence is. However, at the trial in Apology, he claims to lack wisdom in what is worthwhile, and comments on the little worth of human wisdom. This paper is an attempt to analyze Socrates’ words, as presented by Plato in these two dialogues, in order to clarify what Socrates’ claims to know and not to know, as well as his attitude on ...

Vergil’S Eclogues And Georgics: Interpreting Vergil’S Didaxis In The Weather Signs Of The First Georgic, Ryan Joyce

Colgate Academic Review

However futile the effort may be, trying to define Vergil’s Georgics with just one word often yields the response didactic, because the poem’s four books do contain a considerable amount of didaxis, despite varying degrees of thoroughness and accuracy on the author’s part. At first glance, one of the purest didactic sections of the poem would be Vergil’s description of weather signs, roughly 110 lines near the end of Georgics 1, modeled closely on the last third of Aratus’ Phaenomena—the Diosemeiae—which deals with weather signs and prognostication.