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Antigone The Bride Of Death, Bailey Gomes
Death Of A Hero: A Translation Of Sophocles' Ajax, Gabriel Martin Doyle
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
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 …