Woven Together: Women Creating Stories Through Textiles, 2023 Skidmore College
Woven Together: Women Creating Stories Through Textiles, Jamie Eason
Self-Determined Majors Final Projects
A series of textile art pieces exploring the relationship between women, textiles, and storytelling.
Sing Of Arms And Disobedience: Reading Vergil's Aeneid In Milton's Paradise Lost, 2023 William & Mary
Sing Of Arms And Disobedience: Reading Vergil's Aeneid In Milton's Paradise Lost, Brooke Braden
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis examines the extent to which Vergil’s Aeneid influences the characters, themes, and epic style of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Focusing primarily on the Carthage episode of the Aeneid in which Aeneas meets and falls in love with queen Dido, this thesis explores how the figures of Aeneas, Creusa, Dido, and Sychaeus parallel those of Milton’s Satan, Sin, Eve, and Adam, respectively. This thesis also shows how the appearance of epic themes such as fate in both texts affects characters’ personal motivations in similar ways, such as Dido’s suicide and Eve’s consumption of the infamous apple. Through an exploration of …
Heroic (Im)Maturity: Domestic Rupture And The Myth Of Telemachus' Coming Of Age, 2023 College of the Holy Cross
Heroic (Im)Maturity: Domestic Rupture And The Myth Of Telemachus' Coming Of Age, Mary Whitney
College Honors Program
As one of the most enduring narratives discussed in the field of Classics, extensive research has been written about Homer’s Odyssey. The universal and flexible maxims of the desire for homecoming (νόστος) make the events of this epic so compelling. One central aspect of Odysseus’ νόστος is the return of his son Telemachus to a specific role as the obedient prince. This implies that before the resolution of Odysseus’ νόστος, there exists the rupture of the domestic sphere that allows for freedom and chaos, both of which are removed and checked when Odysseus returns to Ithaca. For as long …
Man, Myth And Medicine: The Exchange Of Healing Deities In The Bronze Age Mediterranean, 2023 William & Mary
Man, Myth And Medicine: The Exchange Of Healing Deities In The Bronze Age Mediterranean, Ryan Vincent
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper is an in depth analysis of the Bronze Age interactions between Egypt and Greece and the legacy of physicians and physician gods in the region through an exploration of religion, medicine and linguistic exchange. The Egyptian physician Imhotep bears a striking resemblance to the Greek god Asklepios. It seems this similarity may be a result of Asklepios and his predecessor Paieon actually being based on the story of Imhotep, brought to the Mycenaeans during the Bronze Age.
‘Where Now Bucephalus And The Proud Eormanric?' The Interplay Of Gothic And Classical References As A Tacit Background Behind The Wanderer, Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Source, Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Journal of Tolkien Research
The famous lines "Where now the horse and the rider?" from The Two Towers, spoken by Théoden in Peter Jackson's film, but recited by Aragorn in Tolkien's original text, find an unquestionable source in the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, and as such received detailed comment by the Professor as a scholar, stating that it is not very important to identify who the rider being cited might be, as long as we admit he is a "type". In order to understand the type of this rider, then, we only have to look for similar occurrences of the evergreen "ubi …
Review Essay: Lewis’S Lost Aeneid: Arms And The Exile, 2023 George Fox University
Review Essay: Lewis’S Lost Aeneid: Arms And The Exile, Nikolay Epplée, B. N. Wolfe, Louis Markos
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
An extended review of C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile, ed. by A. T. Reyes (New Haven, 2011). xxiii + 184 pages. $27.50. ISBN:: 9780300167177
Review Of The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek And Roman Mythology Through Christian Eyes, 2023 Alderson-Broaddus University
Review Of The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek And Roman Mythology Through Christian Eyes, Charlie W. Starr
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Charlie W. Starr: Review of Louis Markos, The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology Through Christian Eyes (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania: Classical Academic Press, 2020). 448 pages. $27.99. ISBN 9781600513954.
What C.S. Lewis Really Did To "Cupid And Psyche", 2023 Northwestern University
What C.S. Lewis Really Did To "Cupid And Psyche", Charles Huttar
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
The story of Lewis's engagement, starting at age 18, with Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche.
Evolving Identity: Hellenistic Greece Vs. Arthurian Legend, 2023 City University of New York (CUNY)
Evolving Identity: Hellenistic Greece Vs. Arthurian Legend, Irene A. Bougatsos
Publications and Research
This paper for a capstone class delves into two iconic figures from contrasting time periods. While Sir Gawain and Alexander the Great are two literary figures separated by several centuries, the theme of identity is present in the stories of The Greek Alexander Romance and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. How identity fluctuates is what this paper strives to answer.
Justice For All: Moira, Tyche And Nemesis In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, 2023 University of South Carolina
Justice For All: Moira, Tyche And Nemesis In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jason Osborne
Journal of Religion & Film
This article explores the ways in which the ancient concepts of moira, tyche, and nemesis permeate the films and series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Born From Myth, Built Anew: Seneca’S Medea As A Stoic Cautionary Tale, 2023 University of Kentucky
Born From Myth, Built Anew: Seneca’S Medea As A Stoic Cautionary Tale, Rebekah Dyche
Lewis Honors College Thesis Collection
In Seneca’s Medea, there are two distinct “Medeas” to be examined – Medea the character, who has been built up out of mythical and literary tradition, and Medea as a human individual. By dividing her in this way Seneca opens the door to reimagine an already extant figure through a Stoic lens. He exaggerates the negative portrayal of Medea in her traditional role to draw in the audience and to emphasize the disastrous outcome of the individual Medea’s failure to moderate her human passions – in so doing, he first engages the audience with a familiar character and then challenges …
Ovid's Caeneus As A Queer Hero: Understanding Gender And Gender Variance In The Ancient Mediterranean., 2023 University of Kentucky
Ovid's Caeneus As A Queer Hero: Understanding Gender And Gender Variance In The Ancient Mediterranean., Rj Palmer
Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures
Caeneus, as written in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is a notable blend of ancient and Hellenistic versions of the myth. Ovid’s Caeneus can be understood as a transgender man, since he was assigned female at birth, but asks for his gender to be changed by the god Neptune, and goes on to live the rest of his life with the body, appearance, and social roles of a man. Ovid incorporates Caeneus’ trans identity with his use of grammatical gender endings for Caeneus, using masculine gender for Caeneus except when discussing his pre-transition childhood, or when the centaurs address him mockingly while fighting. …
Orphan Hermeneutics: Refashioning Archetypes In 19th-Century Epic Prose Fiction, 2023 Northern Illinois University
Orphan Hermeneutics: Refashioning Archetypes In 19th-Century Epic Prose Fiction, John David Sieker
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Celebrated authors of the 19th century, Herman Melville and Charles Dickens are frequently critiqued within specifically national parameters, regarded as authors whose literary concerns reflect their respective countries and cultures. From that premise, there seems little if any connective thread to link Bleak House, the quintessential "stay-at-home" novel, and Moby-Dick, the epic, sea-faring adventure spanning nearly the entire globe. However, certain parallels between these novels in both form and content prove quite striking and reveal a transatlantic connection worthy of sustained critical attention. Both Melville and Dickens gesture to biblical and Classical antiquity in order to weave their respective narratives. …
Sleep, Bread, And Death: Evolving Conceptions Of Mortality From The Epic Of Gilgamesh And Homer To Genesis, John, And Paul, 2023 Bard College
Sleep, Bread, And Death: Evolving Conceptions Of Mortality From The Epic Of Gilgamesh And Homer To Genesis, John, And Paul, Joshua Daniel Desetta
Senior Projects Spring 2023
In this project, I explore the symbolic web that connects eating, sleeping, reproduction, and mortality—a nexus of associations that runs through the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Genesis, and the writings of John and Paul. First, I aim to demonstrate that these texts use a shared symbolic language of bread and sleep, eating and sleeping, in their discussions of mortality and to reveal the texts’ implicit definitions of mortality and godhood. Second, I aim to demonstrate the tension between the Mesopotamian and Greek texts’ conclusions that man cannot achieve immortality and the notion presented in the biblical texts, particularly the …
Women's Marital Roles In Classical Athens: Male Understanding And Portrayal In Aeschylus' Agamemnon And Euripides' Medea, 2023 Virginia Community Colleges
Women's Marital Roles In Classical Athens: Male Understanding And Portrayal In Aeschylus' Agamemnon And Euripides' Medea, Elena Graf, Mary Boyes
Undergraduate Research Posters
Abstract
The Classical Period of Athens (500-336 BCE) was an era of sociocultural growth and stability for the ancient Greeks, renowned for its development of tragic theatre. While Classical Athens nurtured the public sociocultural success of male citizens, women adopted a submissive role, confined to their marital responsibilities. Women were forbidden from directly taking part in politics, philosophy, and above all, the theatrical scene of Athens. Due to these societal perceptions of traditional gender roles, the literature of the Classical Period was heavily influenced by a male bias. This study investigates the connections between women’s role in Classical Athenian society …
A Wrath That Remembers: A Feminist Companion To Aeschylus' Agamemnon, 2023 Scripps College
A Wrath That Remembers: A Feminist Companion To Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Mary Iris Allison
Scripps Senior Theses
This project is a feminist translation and companion to Aeschylus' Agamemnon, which includes detailed footnotes and references to secondary authors that provide a feminist reading of the text.
On Forms And Regulations Of Han Poetry, 2022 Chiang Shang Ju Museum of Fine Arts
On Forms And Regulations Of Han Poetry, Shang-Ju Chiang
Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology
Traditional poetics is gradually disappearing under the impact of modernization. Aiming to provide Chinese with specific ways to understand the poetics of Chinese characters, this article articulates and analyzes most of the Han Poetry forms and regulations illustrated with the author-created poems, such as the traditional quatrains and regulated poems and many more. It is the author’s hope that more people will appreciate and inherit classic poetry but also be innovative.
How A Book Changed A Nation [2022], 2022 SUNY College Cortland
How A Book Changed A Nation [2022], Teodora Buzea
Master's Theses
“We don’t believe in vampires.”
I didn’t bother to turn away from the TV to look at my parents. On screen, a crew of young men were interviewing an old woman. She spoke only Romanian, and a too-perfect female voice spoke for her in English. I could see the confident fear in her expression as she exclaimed that vampires were indeed real and that she was always scared of them. She wasn’t alone. All of Transylvania were aware of the existence of vampires. Truly, these young men— ghost hunters and cryptologists—were right to come here to this haunted nation. The …
Non Ennarabile Textum: Allusive Ekphrasis In Francisco Javier Alegre's Alexandrias, 2022 Purdue University
Non Ennarabile Textum: Allusive Ekphrasis In Francisco Javier Alegre's Alexandrias, Shashank Dimri
The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research
Neo-Latin literature in colonial New Spain has a rich history that has only in recent years garnered broader interest from scholars. One of the most unique works produced in New Spain during this time is Jesuit scholar Francisco Javier Alegre’s Alexandrias, an epic that depicts Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Phoenician city of Tyre. As there is scant scholarship analyzing the literary elements of the Alexandrias, this paper focuses only on Alegre’s usage of ekphrasis—a detailed description of an object—in book one of the epic, rather than attempting to explore every allusive aspect in this dense text. …
Concretizing The Fictional Places In Literary Works And Bringing Them To Tourism: Zeyniler Village Calikusu House, 2022 Sakarya University
Concretizing The Fictional Places In Literary Works And Bringing Them To Tourism: Zeyniler Village Calikusu House, Zeynep Yamac Erdogan
University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing
In this study, in line with the relationship between tourism and literature, Zeyniler Village which is included in the novel Çalıkuşu by Turkish Literature writer Reşat Nuri Güntekin, has been examined in terms of literary tourism. In the study, it is aimed to determine the tourism potential of Zeyniler Village with the house in which the fictional main characters live concretized and opened to visitors under the name of Çalıkuşu Evi. Zeyniler Village was examined on-site, at the same time as one of the qualitative research methods, interview technique was used, and content analysis was conducted by compiling the data …