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Ua68/7/2/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Modern Languages Student Organizations Fcg Classical Club, Wku Archives Dec 2015

Ua68/7/2/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Modern Languages Student Organizations Fcg Classical Club, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the FCG Classical Club.


Due Process In Higher Education: A Study Of Due Process In Relation To Greek Life Affairs, Brooklyn M. Hollis Dec 2015

Due Process In Higher Education: A Study Of Due Process In Relation To Greek Life Affairs, Brooklyn M. Hollis

University Honors Program

No abstract provided.


‘Surprise, Surprise:’ The Tactical Response Of Alexander To Guerilla Warfare And Fighting In Difficult Terrain, Graham Wrightson Dec 2015

‘Surprise, Surprise:’ The Tactical Response Of Alexander To Guerilla Warfare And Fighting In Difficult Terrain, Graham Wrightson

School of American and Global Studies Faculty Publications with a Focus on History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion

Alexander the Great is most famous as the undefeated general who conquered the Persian Empire only to die suddenly in his mid-thirties. Most works on his leadership focus on his strategic brilliance or on his pitched battles and sieges. But perhaps the most striking part of Alexander’s generalship was his effective responses to irregular warfare throughout his campaigns. Alexander had to overcome numerous guerilla forces and battles in difficult terrain during his campaigns.1 Of most interest to military historians today is his solution to dealing with the problems of invading the Hindu Kush and the regions around what is now …


Sagp Newsletter 2015/16.1 East Scs, Anthony Preus Dec 2015

Sagp Newsletter 2015/16.1 East Scs, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Atalanta: The Exception To Social Normality Presented In The Ancient World, Sean C. Brink Nov 2015

Atalanta: The Exception To Social Normality Presented In The Ancient World, Sean C. Brink

University Honors Program

No abstract provided.


God, Space, & City In The Roman Imagination [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan Nov 2015

God, Space, & City In The Roman Imagination [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan

Classical Studies Faculty Research

This ambitious book aims to convey what ancient Romans saw, thought, and felt as they experienced their city. Jenkyns focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on literary sources in his attempt to reconstruct how the Roman worldview of the late Republic and early Principate was shaped by the city of Rome itself, and vice versa. The built environment and public space are the principal points of emphasis, but the volume ranges widely over many other topics as well, including religious devotion, attitudes to the countryside, and Roman tourism.


The Unspoken Bond: The Complex Relationship Between Etruria And Greece, Christopher S. Saladin Oct 2015

The Unspoken Bond: The Complex Relationship Between Etruria And Greece, Christopher S. Saladin

Classics: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods clearly knew about and interacted with the Etruscan people, who contemporaneously dominated the Italic peninsula. Yet, despite the evidence of heavy interaction between the two civilizations, there is little mention of the Etruscans in our Greek sources. In this essay, I examine surviving Greek sources to determine the extent of Greco-Etruscan relations and how the Greeks perceived identity. Through my research, I found that the Greek and Etruscan societies were quite interconnected and had a tremendous impact upon each other, yet their interaction with each other remains strangely undocumented and mysterious.


Sagp Ssips 2015 Program, Anthony Preus Oct 2015

Sagp Ssips 2015 Program, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Sagp Ssips Abstracts 2015, Anthony Preus Oct 2015

Sagp Ssips Abstracts 2015, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.


A Computational Study Of The Evolution Of Cretan And Related Scripts, Peter Revesz Oct 2015

A Computational Study Of The Evolution Of Cretan And Related Scripts, Peter Revesz

CSE Conference and Workshop Papers

Crete was the birthplace of several ancient writings, including the Cretan Hieroglyphs, the Linear A and the Linear B scripts. Out of these three only Linear B is deciphered. The sound values of the Cretan Hieroglyph and the Linear A symbols are unknown and attempts to reconstruct them based on Linear B have not been fruitful. In this paper, we compare the ancient Cretan scripts with four other Mediterranean and Black Sea scripts, namely Phoenician, South Arabic, Greek and Old Hungarian. We provide a computational study of the evolution of the three Cretan and four other scripts. This study encompasses …


The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove Oct 2015

The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove

Student Research

No abstract provided.


Our Liberation And The Liberation Of Our Images: Friedrich Schiller And The Politics Of The Image, Peter W. Rosenberger Oct 2015

Our Liberation And The Liberation Of Our Images: Friedrich Schiller And The Politics Of The Image, Peter W. Rosenberger

Student Publications

In this paper, I will compare the aesthetic philosophies put forward in Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man and Plato's Republic. Using Schiller's more robust aesthetic philosophy and its political import, I will argue that the government of Plato's Republic would not create freedom for its citizens. Then, I will carry Schiller's aesthetics and politics forward to argue, using Freud and a number of thinkers who champion Freud’s work, that economic interests can also limit the freedoms of a nation's citizens. Finally, I will argue that Schiller's aesthetic philosophy can deliver a political freedom free from the state …


Defacement Of Life, Ryan Hester Aug 2015

Defacement Of Life, Ryan Hester

Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers

No abstract provided.


Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez Aug 2015

Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez

Works of the FIU Libraries

This poster will attempt to apply the techniques used in Queer Theory to explore library and information science’s use and misuse of library classification systems; and to examine how “queering” these philosophical categories can not only improve libraries, but also help change social constructs.

For millennia, philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, have used and expounded upon categories and systems of classification. Their purpose is to make research and the retrieval of information easier. Unfortunately, the rules used to categorize and catalog make information retrieval more challenging for some, due to social constructs such as heteronormality.

The importance of this …


Review Of M. Lee, Body, Dress, And Identity In Ancient Greece, Laura Gawlinski Jul 2015

Review Of M. Lee, Body, Dress, And Identity In Ancient Greece, Laura Gawlinski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The increased scholarly attention to clothing, textiles, and accessories is visible in a number of collected volumes, a research center in Copenhagen, and several dissertations in progress, but more than a century has passed since the publication of a monograph devoted specifically to Greek dress. Mireille Lee fills this lacuna with an inclusive study that explores Greek garments by contextualizing them in relationship to the bodies that wore them and the situations when they were worn. This approach places Greek dress into a contemporary theoretical framework, in dialogue with the wider field of dress scholarship across disciplines.


Review Of Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma, Hellenistic Tragedy, Paul Ojennus Jul 2015

Review Of Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma, Hellenistic Tragedy, Paul Ojennus

Library Faculty Scholarship

Review of Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma, Hellenistic Tragedy: Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey. Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xvi, 322. ISBN 9781472524218. $120.00. Kotlińska-Toma collects and translates the fragments of Greek tragedy of the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC); the study delivers a careful collection of the relevant texts, a descriptive overview of the nature of Hellenistic tragedy, and a summary of the stage conventions of the Hellenistic period, especially their differences from the Classical period.


Investigating Rigvedic Word Order In Metrically Neutral Contexts, Dieter Gunkel, Kevin Ryan Jun 2015

Investigating Rigvedic Word Order In Metrically Neutral Contexts, Dieter Gunkel, Kevin Ryan

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

1. Swappable bigrams 1.1 We extract all swappable bigrams from the RV

• Both orders are metrically equivalent e.g. dháne hité (7x) ~ hité dháne (2x) "when the stake is set" • Regardless of whether both orders are attested e.g. śárma yaccha (8x) ~ yaccha śárma (0x) "extend shelter"


The Reconciliation Of Fatness And Beauty In Art: An Activist Manifesto, Jamie Zeffery Jun 2015

The Reconciliation Of Fatness And Beauty In Art: An Activist Manifesto, Jamie Zeffery

Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers

No abstract provided.


Human Interaction, Timothy Hicks May 2015

Human Interaction, Timothy Hicks

Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Blinds: On Power And Subversion, April N. Baca May 2015

Beyond The Blinds: On Power And Subversion, April N. Baca

Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers

No abstract provided.


Embodying God's Final Word: Understanding The Dynamics Of Prophecy In The The Ancient Near East And Early Monotheistic Tradition, Naila Z. Razzaq May 2015

Embodying God's Final Word: Understanding The Dynamics Of Prophecy In The The Ancient Near East And Early Monotheistic Tradition, Naila Z. Razzaq

University Scholar Projects

This thesis studies the various forms of oral and literary prophecy in the Ancient the Ancient Near East and Second Temple Judaism. After an introductory background section on the dynamics of prophecy in Ancient Assyria and Mesopotamia, I problematize the nineteenth century concept of the “cessation of prophecy” after Malachi, the last prophet in the Tanakh.

Too often prophecy is seen as a punctiliar process with a determined beginning and end. I complicate this simplified view by discussing the following questions while analyzing several key primary sources from the Second Temple period: In what forms does prophecy continue even after …


An Attempt At Clarity: Understanding The Lives Of Livia, Tanaquil, And Alexandra, Rachel A. H. Wilson Apr 2015

An Attempt At Clarity: Understanding The Lives Of Livia, Tanaquil, And Alexandra, Rachel A. H. Wilson

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

This project looks at the lives of three women from antiquity, Livia, Tanaquil, and Alexandra, and determines what can and cannot be known about them. Livia, Tanaquil, and Alexandra were all powerful women during their time, but today, the stories of their lives are confusing and contradictory. Through the medium of fiction, this project brings Livia, Tanaquil, and Alexandra to life as characters in a story in order to highlight the problems that arise when studying these women. There are three essays that accompany the story, one for each of the women, which discuss the difficulties in interpreting the available …


The Art Of The Stage Machinist: A Dramatic Reconstruction Of Aeschylus’ Linear Tragedy, Prometheus Bound, Alexander J. Spindler Apr 2015

The Art Of The Stage Machinist: A Dramatic Reconstruction Of Aeschylus’ Linear Tragedy, Prometheus Bound, Alexander J. Spindler

Honors Bachelor of Arts

Tragedy purposefully engages an audience and does not merely entertain. Its six inherent components include: character, diction, thought, spectacle and song. Aristotle’s position is that the text in and of itself should be strong, complete and able to stand on its own. According to Aristotle, the inferior additions of stagecraft and spectacle do not greatly add to the dramatic potential already evident in the poetry.

A fully-realized, Attic, tragic production will provide valuable insight into the intricacies of stagecraft and spectacle. This insight allows readers to appreciate the meticulous details of constructing a piece of performance art that doesn’t deal …


Review Of Ingo Schaaf, Magie Und Ritual Bei Apollonios Rhodios, Paul Ojennus Apr 2015

Review Of Ingo Schaaf, Magie Und Ritual Bei Apollonios Rhodios, Paul Ojennus

Library Faculty Scholarship

Review of Ingo Schaaf, Magie und Ritual bei Apollonios Rhodios: Studien zu ihrer Form und Funktion in den Argonautika. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Bd. 63. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2014. Pp. viii, 402. ISBN 9783110309485. €119.95. Ingo Schaaf offers an extensive and detailed examination of the treatment of magic and ritual in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes. This study fills an important gap in contemporary research on Apollonius, and it promises to place the scholarship on magic in the Argonautica on the same level that geography now enjoys.


Interview Of George B. Stow, Ph.D., George B. Stow Ph.D., Ashley Maurer Apr 2015

Interview Of George B. Stow, Ph.D., George B. Stow Ph.D., Ashley Maurer

All Oral Histories

Dr. George B. Stow is the initial and continuing Graduate History Program Director at La Salle University since its inception in 2004. Dr. Stow received his B.A. in Classics from Lehigh University, his M.A. in History from The University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois in 1972. Dr. Stow specializes in English medieval history and his doctoral dissertation Historia Vitae et Regni Ricardi Secundi: A Critical Edition is dedicated to King Richard II of England. In recent years, Dr. Stow has presented papers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan …


Effects Of Life: Comparisons Of Theme In “A Devoted Son” And “Malachi’S Cove”, Fatima Barragan-Herrera Apr 2015

Effects Of Life: Comparisons Of Theme In “A Devoted Son” And “Malachi’S Cove”, Fatima Barragan-Herrera

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Anthony Trollope and Anita Desai, come from different cultures which contribute to their individual writing. Anthony Trollope, originally from London uses his daily setting of cliffs and seaside coves in his short story "Malachi's Cove". Anita Desai, originally from British India, uses her common cultured thought of sending their children to the United States for a better life in her story "A Devoted Son"


Catholic-Protestant Relations In 19th Century Cincinnati, Charles Rosebrough Apr 2015

Catholic-Protestant Relations In 19th Century Cincinnati, Charles Rosebrough

Honors Bachelor of Arts

19th century Catholic Protestant relations, as opposed to anti-Catholicism is a new field of study. I argue that the relationship between these two denominations was not unilaterally one of prejudice but was a more complex ebb and flow of tension. This give and take between the religions has caused some scholars to correctly call the most virulent periods of anti-Catholicism “revivals,” but these same scholars do not go so far as to say those periods that intersect the revivals are ecumenical, only less aggressive. This paper intends to show that the polarity ranged from wrathful murder to gracious …


Blueprint For Legal Practice: Establishing Cicero’S Ideal Style, Henry L. Farrington Apr 2015

Blueprint For Legal Practice: Establishing Cicero’S Ideal Style, Henry L. Farrington

Honors Bachelor of Arts

Marcus Tullius Cicero represents the greatest historical expression of the ideal, best orator and lawyer. Cicero is praised for his success in the Roman trial court and skills of legal practice in that arena. Due to the disparity between the Roman world and modern America in the late-20th/21st century and the lack of a comprehensive guideline, American lawyers do not directly emulate the style of Cicero, with the goal of achieving the status of the ideal lawyer. Nevertheless, Cicero has a certain, specific style of legal practice which can be applied to the modern American trial court …


Everything Is Not What It Seems Allegory Analysis, Jamie Bautista Apr 2015

Everything Is Not What It Seems Allegory Analysis, Jamie Bautista

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Have you ever woken up from a nightmare, only to find the heart-pounding terror stayed with you long after the dream was over? This was the case in Young Goodman Brown, where a kind-hearted man is exposed to the evil in people. Allegory is a reference to a certain scenario or theme with a hidden meaning.Throughout this story, a great deal of allegory is used to expose the flaws in mankind.


Our Dystopian World, Kellee Nguyen Apr 2015

Our Dystopian World, Kellee Nguyen

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

If we do not heed the warnings in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel the Handmaid’s Tale, we, similar to handmaids will lose ourselves to society’s conveyor belt: go to school, graduate, attend college, graduate once more, raise a family, and then work away the rest of our lives. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale acts as an in depth metaphoric replication of modern society. The society in which Offred resides in, through historical events, reasoning, and the decrease in birth rates, the government's action is justified as the people's moral values are suppressed and their rights taken away from them. Likewise, in …