Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien,
2015
University of California, Davis
Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien, Jane Beal Phd
Journal of Tolkien Research
In “Orphic Powers in Tolkien’s Legend of Beren and Lúthien,” I consider three interrelated strands that influenced the development of Tolkien’s most precious story: Tolkien’s own life experience, sources from classical mythology and medieval literature, and the hope inherent to the Christian faith, especially for resurrection and eternal life, as symbolized in the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. This study suggests that Tolkien’s relationship to his wife, Edith, inspires the legend and renders it a psychological allegory. Three Ovidian tales from classical mythology that were later re-told in medieval literature also influence it: the rape of Philomela, the …
Tale Of The Whale,
2015
Liberty University
Tale Of The Whale, Joel Schlaudt
Aidenn: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal of American Literature
In his critique of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, A.N. Deacon accurately captures one of the main tenets if not the central theme of the book; however, he also makes several claims about the novel that do not seem to fit with the evidence seen in the actual story. For example, Deacon holds that Melville is attempting to show that the power and attributes of Moby Dick are the source, symbolically, of truth and meaning. However, this is not the impression we get when we look closely at the work itself and note Melville’s treatment of the subject. Furthermore, Deacon …
Accounting For Sick Days: A Scalar Approach To Health And Disease At Deir El-Medina,
2015
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Accounting For Sick Days: A Scalar Approach To Health And Disease At Deir El-Medina, Anne Austin
History Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Reading The Civic Landscape Of Augustan Rome: Aeneid 1.421-429 And The Building Program Of Augustus,
2015
Connecticut College
Reading The Civic Landscape Of Augustan Rome: Aeneid 1.421-429 And The Building Program Of Augustus, Darryl Phillips
Classics Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Failure At Fidenae: Visualization And Analysis Of The Largest Structural Disaster In The Roman World,
2015
Connecticut College
Failure At Fidenae: Visualization And Analysis Of The Largest Structural Disaster In The Roman World, Rebecca Napolitano
Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics Honors Papers
A digital reconstruction of the amphitheater at Fidenae, which collapsed in 27 A.D., was produced as a result of textual, architectural, archaeological, and engineering analysis. Primary literary sources, such as Tacitus and Suetonius, examined in conjunction with proximal archaeological evidence, allowed for the most probable seating capacity and the scale of the amphitheater to be determined. Architectural evidence of other wooden structures found on Trajan’s Column allowed for a most probable projection of a three dimensional model to be created using AutoCAD. With this most probable model determined, engineering analysis was utilized in order to understand the failure at Fidenae …
Three Late Medieval Kilns From The Athenian Agora,
2015
Bryn Mawr College
Three Late Medieval Kilns From The Athenian Agora, Camilla Mackay
Library Staff Research and Scholarship
This article presents pottery from three late medieval kilns excavated in the Athenian Agora in the 1930s. Wasters from the kilns provide important proof of the local production of lead-glazed wares that come into use in the early Ottoman period and are found in surveys and excavations throughout Attica and Boeotia. Some of this pottery has been identified as maiolica, but portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analysis has not indicated the presence of tin in the glaze. While distinctive in appearance, the pottery from these kilns seems to continue the ceramic tradition of earlier medieval Athens.
Psychosexualism In Victorian Literature: A Psychoanalysis Of Jane Eyre And Dracula,
2015
Marshall University
Psychosexualism In Victorian Literature: A Psychoanalysis Of Jane Eyre And Dracula, Heather Marie Ward
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
My thesis consists of historical facts and literary analysis and is made up of three chapters. In the first chapter, I look at two varying elements of psychosexualism, the emotional and the physical, and discuss how each can be applied to Jane Eyre and Dracula. The chapter also contains an explanation for the term psychosexualism and provides a brief history of: the Victorian notion of hysteria and spermatorrhea, the twentieth-century classifications of love and sex addiction, as well as the twenty-first-century to Histrionic Personality Disorder and Sexual Sadism Disorder. The second chapter provides an analysis of Jane Eyre, specifically looking …
Citation Methodologies In Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica And Other Ancient Historiography,
2015
University of Denver
Citation Methodologies In Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica And Other Ancient Historiography, Justin Otto Barber
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines ancient historiographic citation methodologies in light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s dichotomy between polyphony and monologization. In particular, this dissertation argues that Eusebius of Caesarea’s Historia ecclesiastica (HE) abandons the monologic citation methodology typical of previous Greek and Hellenistic historiography and introduces a polyphonic citation methodology that influences subsequent late-ancient Christian historiography to varying degrees. Whereas Pre-Eusebian Greek and Hellenistic historiographers typically use citations to support the single authorial consciousness of the historiographer, Eusebius uses citations to counterbalance his own shortcomings as a witness to past events. Eusebius allows his citations to retain their own voice, even when they …
Nietzsche's Antichrist: The Birth Of Modern Science Out Of The Spirit Of Religion,
2015
Fordham University
Nietzsche's Antichrist: The Birth Of Modern Science Out Of The Spirit Of Religion, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
Nietzsche argued that the Greeks were in possessions of every theoretical, mathematical, logical, and technological antecedent for the development of what could be modern science. But if they had all these necessary prerequisites what else could they have needed? Not only had the ancient Greeks no religious world-view antagonistic to scientific inquiry, they also lacked the Judeo-Christian promissory ideal of salvation in a future life (after death). Subsequently, when Greek culture had been irretrievably lost, what Nietzsche regarded as the "decadent" Socratic ideal of reason ultimately and in connection with the preludes of religion and alchemy developed into modern science …
Rape Culture In Ancient Rome,
2015
Connecticut College
Rape Culture In Ancient Rome, Molly Ashmore
Classics Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Aristocratic Material Culture Described In The Old English Epic Beowulf,
2015
Bemidji State University
An Analysis Of The Aristocratic Material Culture Described In The Old English Epic Beowulf, Rachel Munson
Honors Capstones
Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.
"Fighting Over A Shadow?": Hellenistic Greek Cities And Greco-Roman Cities As Fora And Media For Multi-Level Social Signaling,
2015
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Fighting Over A Shadow?": Hellenistic Greek Cities And Greco-Roman Cities As Fora And Media For Multi-Level Social Signaling, Luann Wandsnider
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
The cities of Hellenistic western Anatolia and Roman Asia Minor served as fora for complex social, economic, and political transactions. This chapter introduces social signaling theory in which these transactions are considered as social signals emitted by individuals (i.e., citizens) and groups (i.e., cities) and emphasizes the different qualities of these signals, especially their materiality and differential costliness. Social signals convey information about the otherwise difficult-to-assess capabilities of individual and groups; only some have the talents or resources to emit a high-quality signal. At the individual level, the nature, location, and possibly size of a civic benefaction signal’s an individual’s …
Payment Order For Cavalry Fodder: Sb Xiv 12116,
2015
Loyola University Chicago
Payment Order For Cavalry Fodder: Sb Xiv 12116, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Catholic University of America papyrus (Hyvernat inv. 372 = ICOR 75.73) was first edited by Leslie S. B. MacCoull as “An Account of Fodder for Pack-Horses”, ZPE 25 (1977) 155–158 with Tafel IV. It was subsequently reprinted as SB XIV 12116. At the end of the ed.pr., one of the ZPE editors, D(ieter) H(agedorn), proposed a different reading for the former lines 16–17 (now 17–18; see below, line 1 note). This has been accepted as correct and incorporated in the Duke Databank version of the text. Nevertheless, re-examination of the original publication has suggested that other improvements can be …
In Memoriam Leslie S. B. Maccoull,
2015
Loyola University Chicago
In Memoriam Leslie S. B. Maccoull, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Dr. Leslie S.B. MacCoull, papyrologist, Byzantinist, and historian, died at her home in Tempe, Arizona, on August 26 at age 70. MacCoull was born in New London, Connecticut, on August 7, 1945, attended St. Mary’s School in Peekskill, New York, and received her A.B. in Classics from Vassar College in 1965, summa cum laude, as class salutatorian; she had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She received an M.A. in Classics in 1966 from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Semitics in 1973 with a dissertation on Coptic papyri in …
P.Lund 4.13.1-2,
2015
Loyola University Chicago
P.Lund 4.13.1-2, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Attention was redirected to the first two lines of this piece by Klaas Worp’s note in BASP 51 (2014) 198. For easy access to the image I recommend proceeding through APIS into the Lund collection and entering the number 27. As confirmed by my attempt on 13 May 2015, this will bring up a link to Pap. Choix 25 (with image), one of the Lund papyrus’s subsequent editions; the other is SB 6.9349.
Gender, Democracy, And The Justice Of Athena’S Vote To Acquit Orestes,
2015
Loyola University Chicago
Gender, Democracy, And The Justice Of Athena’S Vote To Acquit Orestes, Jacqueline Long
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay examines closely how Athena by chartering the Areopagus court resolves the succession of violence on which Aeschylus centered his Oresteia. Neither historical nor dramatic and poetic conventions determine whether Athena calls an odd or even number of human jurors, and does or does not vote with them to create their quitting tie. The interaction of :Orestes', the Erinyes', and Apollo's arguments," together with Athena's reactions, demonstrates that an even-numbered human jury splits equally over whether a human child owes duty more to father or mother. Athena's birth bars her from testing this question on her own sensibility and …
Comedy, Violence, And Undergraduates,
2015
Butler University
Comedy, Violence, And Undergraduates, Christopher Bungard
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Christopher Bumgard's contribution to the CAMWS Annual Meeting: Boulder, Colorado, 2015.
The Practice And Benefit Of Applying Digital Markup In Preserving Texts And Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis Of A Blank-Verse Translation Of Virgil's Aeneid,
2015
University of Central Florida
The Practice And Benefit Of Applying Digital Markup In Preserving Texts And Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis Of A Blank-Verse Translation Of Virgil's Aeneid, William Dorner
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Numerous examples of the "digital scholarly edition" exist online, and the genre is thriving in terms of interdisciplinary interest as well as support granted by funding agencies. Some editions are dedicated to the collection and representation of the life's work of a single author, others to mass digitization and preservation of centuries' worth of texts. Very few of these examples, however, approach the task of in-text interpretation through visualization. This project describes an approach to digital representation and investigates its potential benefit to scholars of various disciplines. It presents both a digital edition as well as a framework of justification …
Natural Upheavals In Thucydides (And Herodotus),
2015
Swarthmore College
Natural Upheavals In Thucydides (And Herodotus), Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Classics Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Recenti Scavi A Morgantina: Il Progetto Contrada Agnese (2013-2014),
2015
Old Dominion University
Recenti Scavi A Morgantina: Il Progetto Contrada Agnese (2013-2014), J. Benton, R. Gorham, J. F. Huemoeller, L. A. Lieberman, D. Massey, A. Smalling, R. Souza, A. Truetzel, D. A. Walthall
Art Faculty Publications
Il gruppo Progetto Contrada Agnese (CAP) di American Excavations at Morgantina (AEM) ha iniziato nel 2013 un progetto di ricerca e scavo pluriennale, che si concentra su un'area probabilmente residenziale ubicata nella parte Ovest di Morgantina. Basandosi parzialmente sui risultati di una ricognizione geofisica effettuata nel 2012, lo scavo sta gia facendo venire alla luce i contorni e i partico-lari di un isolato situato lontano dal lusso e dalla grandezza dell'agorà. In questa nota si presentano le scoperte chiave delle stagioni 2013 e 2104 del progetto, con un'interpretazione preliminare dei dati di scavo e, in aggiunta, un resoconto dei progressi …
