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The Green Poem: An Original Play In Two Acts, Emily Arancio
The Green Poem: An Original Play In Two Acts, Emily Arancio
College Honors Program
An original play in poetic dialogue based on the philosophy of Lucretius.
Ariadne’S Transformation: Presenting Femininity From Roman Poetry To Modern Opera, Xinyi Wang
Ariadne’S Transformation: Presenting Femininity From Roman Poetry To Modern Opera, Xinyi Wang
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Ariadne's story is dominated by her relationships with men: Minos, Theseus, and Bacchus. But who is she? Can her personality be examined independently from men? If yes, does she have her own voice in expressing herself? Do we hear her voice? If no, then, how does her personality help construct her story? My analysis will focus on how the Roman poets Catullus and Ovid, the Baroque composer Monteverdi, and the twentieth-century composer Strauss present Ariadne, and how their Ariadnes’ voices are heard. Perhaps she will always be eternal and undying as long as she remains a figure around which discussions …
Aletheia: The Orphic Ouroboros, Glen Mcknight
Aletheia: The Orphic Ouroboros, Glen Mcknight
Theses : Honours
This thesis shows how The Orphic Hymns function as a katábasis, a descent to the underworld, representing a process of becoming and psychological rebirth. I begin with the Greek concept of sparagmόs, a dismemberment or deconstruction, as a necessary precursor in that it emphasises at once both primordial unity and yet also the incipient tensions within the Orphic initiates on this path to katabasis. The argument herein extends beyond literary explication to consider how the Orphics sought to enact this process in Greek society itself.
The thesis then establishes the connections between the Hymns and the thinking of …