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Classical Literature and Philology

Senior Projects Spring 2020

2020

Sophocles

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Death Of A Hero: A Translation Of Sophocles' Ajax, Gabriel Martin Doyle Jan 2020

Death Of A Hero: A Translation Of Sophocles' Ajax, Gabriel Martin Doyle

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This project consists of a translation of the first half of Sophocles' tragic play Ajax from Ancient Greek into English. Additionally, the project includes a brief introduction and Bibliography


Oaths, Phantoms, Contagion, Truth: The Crisis Of Logos In Fifth-Century Athenian Culture, Kaitlin Elizabeth Karmen Jan 2020

Oaths, Phantoms, Contagion, Truth: The Crisis Of Logos In Fifth-Century Athenian Culture, Kaitlin Elizabeth Karmen

Senior Projects Spring 2020

The political and military collapse of Athens during Peloponnesian War (431 – 404 BCE) was paralleled by a collapse in the norms—social, familial, religious, and moral—that informed traditional civilized behavior. This disintegration was reflected in a number of contemporary texts that wrestled with the implications of this cultural collapse—particularly with respect to its implications for logos (language, reason, narrative), which intellectuals at the time understood to be a cultural construct belonging to the realm of nomoi (laws, customs). In this thesis, I look at a range of texts from Thucydides’ History, to tragedies by Euripides and Sophocles, to a …