The Intersection Of Prose And Poetics In Apollonius’ Argonautica,
2022
CUNY Graduate Center
The Intersection Of Prose And Poetics In Apollonius’ Argonautica, Stephen B. Ogumah
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Detecting allusions in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes is not quite new except for the fact that it has been carried out for long mostly within the poetic tradition. Looking at the proem of the epic, where there is mixing of genres, this mixture suggests that scholars may need to look beyond the Homeric epics and the poetic tradition for better appreciation of the Alexandrian epic. This dissertation explores the relationship between certain features and episodes of Apollonius’ Argonautica and the prose tradition, and seeks to show that the prose tradition, particularly Herodotus’ Histories, is germane to the …
Eating People Is Might: Power And The Representation Of Anthropophagy In Antiquity,
2022
CUNY Graduate Center
Eating People Is Might: Power And The Representation Of Anthropophagy In Antiquity, Christopher Weimer
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
For several decades, scholars have read cannibalism in ancient texts as an ethnographic and rhetorical strategy to marginalize, minimize, demonize, or otherwise denigrate ‘the Other.’ It is seen as a characteristic of the wild, the savage, the uncivilized, and the bestial, something one attributes only to other people. This project challenges that assertion. In situating the many varied references to eating people in ancient Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman literature within their historical and generic contexts, I provide an alternative reading of the purpose of these accusations and stories. I argue that consumption of another is a statement of power, …
May The Word 'Shout' Be No More! Silence And The Hellenistic Voice,
2022
CUNY Graduate Center
May The Word 'Shout' Be No More! Silence And The Hellenistic Voice, Noah Davies-Mason
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
No abstract provided.
Assembling Enslaved Lives: Labor, Consumption, And Landscapes In The Northern Shenandoah Valley,
2022
Syracuse University
Assembling Enslaved Lives: Labor, Consumption, And Landscapes In The Northern Shenandoah Valley, Matthew Clark Greer
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation is a study of the lives of some of the people enslaved on rural plantations and farmsteads in the northern Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. Scholars did not widely acknowledge the presence of slavery in the Valley before the 1990s, and this is the first work to provide an in-depth view of the lives of enslaved Shenandoahans before 1860. Specifically, this project answers two questions: what was life like for enslaved people in the Shenandoah Valley, and how did they shape the region's political economies. Data for this project comes from archaeological excavations at the main enslaved quartering …
Freyre’S Plantation Playground: The Changing Landscape Of The Sugar Plantation Monjope,
2022
Syracuse University
Freyre’S Plantation Playground: The Changing Landscape Of The Sugar Plantation Monjope, Catherine Elizabeth Lavoy
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation investigates the changing landscape of the sugar plantation Monjope in Pernambuco, Brazil from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the twentieth century. I examine this plantation’s changing landscape as part of a number of larger social, economic and environmental forces; in particular the development of racially based labor. Established in the sixteenth century, Monjope was one of the many Brazilian sugar plantations that relied on African slavery for labor until the end of the nineteenth century. I argue the plantation’s built environment in conjunction with the larger plantation landscape was part of a global trend of controlling labor …
Entangled Lives In A Southern Metropolis: An Archaeology Of Legacies At 87 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina (1734-1771),
2022
Syracuse University
Entangled Lives In A Southern Metropolis: An Archaeology Of Legacies At 87 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina (1734-1771), Sarah Platt
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation examines life at 87 Church Street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina prior to the construction of the standing Heyward-Washington House compound in 1772. The primary data for this study consisted of “legacy” collections, or previously excavated collections that for whatever reason the primary investigator is no longer present. Thus, the primary field site for this project was a museum storeroom and the archive. By revisiting these collections, significant narrative gaps emerged in terms of Black and Indigenous presence on site. As much as the research focus dwelled in the eighteenth century, the “fieldwork” drifted into examining the much …
Introducing A Bit Of Active Latin Into Your Current Advanced Latin Classroom: Usus Loquendi Et Audiendi De Terentio Catulloque,
2022
Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Introducing A Bit Of Active Latin Into Your Current Advanced Latin Classroom: Usus Loquendi Et Audiendi De Terentio Catulloque, Ronnie Ancona
New England Classical Journal
The purpose of this paper is to show how easily and profitably one can introduce a small portion of active Latin into an upper-level Latin classroom through select questioning and response that draws directly from and reinforces grammatical structures and forms, as well as key vocabulary, from the students’ advanced Latin texts under study. Use of active Latin supports SLA (Second Language Acquistion) research about the value of spending time “in the language” in the classroom. The current Standards for Classical Language Learning recognizes this value as well.
Latin Vocabulary Knowledge And The Readability Of Latin Texts: A Preliminary Study,
2022
Cornell College
Latin Vocabulary Knowledge And The Readability Of Latin Texts: A Preliminary Study, John Gruber-Miller, Bret Mulligan
New England Classical Journal
Studies have found a strong correlation between vocabulary knowledge and L2 reading comprehension. This preliminary study of the readability of Latin texts considers how common measures of lexical complexity (word length, word frequency, lexical sophistication, lexical density, and lexical variation) can inform instructors about what texts have the least (and most) lexical complexity. By defining several key measurements of Latin lexical complexity, we establish a provisional account of the lexical difficulty of some familiar Latin texts that are frequently taught in elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, and propose LexR, a single, informative, integrated score that provides a sense of …
The Utility And Representational Opportunity Of Latin Novellas,
2022
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Utility And Representational Opportunity Of Latin Novellas, Teresa Ramsby
New England Classical Journal
This paper argues for the use of the Latin novella in Latin, educational contexts, particularly within the K-12 classroom. The design of Latin novellas corresponds to features associated with Comprehensible Input: offering a limited and repeated vocabulary, and providing compelling narratives. The many Latin novellas now published broaden the opportunity for narrative selection by Latin students, giving students a choice in what they read. Moreover, many narratives feature central characters that increase the representation of layers of society typically found in Latin textbooks or in the ancient, classical sources. By way of example, Cloelia, by Ellie Arnold, receives focus …
Brian P. Sowers, In Her Own Words: The Life And Poetry Of Aelia Eudocia. Cambridge, Ma.: Center For Hellenic Studies, 2020. Pp. 224. Paper (Isbn 978-0-674-98737-1) $24.95.,
2022
Harvard University
Brian P. Sowers, In Her Own Words: The Life And Poetry Of Aelia Eudocia. Cambridge, Ma.: Center For Hellenic Studies, 2020. Pp. 224. Paper (Isbn 978-0-674-98737-1) $24.95., Hannelore Segers
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
Suburani,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Horace’S Use Of The Myth Of Icarus In The Odes,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Horace’S Use Of The Myth Of Icarus In The Odes, Benjamin Claessens
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
A Perspective On Pandora’S Box,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
A Perspective On Pandora’S Box, Mia Schenenga
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Schola Viuida,
2022
University of Massachusetts Boston
Introduction To Schola Viuida, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
New England Classical Journal
An overview of Professor Jacqueline Carlon’s scholarship and career, in the context of a brief historical overview of the “Communicative” or “Active Latin” movement.
“Adams’ Law” And The Placement Of Esse In Pliny The Younger,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
“Adams’ Law” And The Placement Of Esse In Pliny The Younger, Thomas Keeline
New England Classical Journal
J. N. Adams showed that in Latin of the first century BCE, the verb esse does not necessarily gravitate to “second position” within a phrase; i.e., its placement is not in line with Jacob Wackernagel’s “law of enclitics.” Instead, esse tends to cliticize on—immediately follow—the focus of the phrase. By examining all instances of forms of esse in Plin. Ep. 1 and 10, I show that Adams’ observation still holds true ca. 100 CE. In a pedagogical epilogue, I offer some thoughts on the implications of such subtleties for the teaching and learning of Latin today.
De Sallustio Latine Praelegendo: Causae, Rationes Et Consilia Docendi,
2022
University of Massachusetts, Boston
De Sallustio Latine Praelegendo: Causae, Rationes Et Consilia Docendi, Jorge Tárrega Garrido
New England Classical Journal
Multae sunt viae, multi modi quibus utentes possumus auctores rimari eosque discipulis nostris in scholis monstrare et aperire. Describuntur hac in symbola rationes Sallustii in Vniversitatibus studiorum praelegendi, subsidia didascalica ac exercitia varia, quae omnia sunt usu et tractatione coram discipulis a nobis probata. Praeterea significantur causae cur multum iuvet linguam Latinam per loquelam ipsam Latinam docere, et quae beneficia ex his rationibus capiant discipuli qui sermonis rudimenta iamdudum perdidicerunt atque se auctoribus legendis et excutiendis dederunt. Referuntur postremo et exempla probationum et summa percontationis, ad quam, cursu academico peracto, harum rationum non amplius expertes discipuli responderunt.
Andreas Karkavitsas. 2021. Translated By Johanna Hanink. The Archeologist And Selected Sea Stories. United States: Penguin Random House. Pp 220. Paperback. (Isbn 9780143136248) $17.00.,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Andreas Karkavitsas. 2021. Translated By Johanna Hanink. The Archeologist And Selected Sea Stories. United States: Penguin Random House. Pp 220. Paperback. (Isbn 9780143136248) $17.00., Danielle Freedman
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
Shadi Bartsch, Translator. The Aeneid. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Pp. 464. Hardcover (Isbn 9781984854100) $35.00.,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Shadi Bartsch, Translator. The Aeneid. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Pp. 464. Hardcover (Isbn 9781984854100) $35.00., Neha Rahman
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
Full Issue,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Luis Alfaro. Rosa Andújar, Ed. The Greek Trilogy Of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada. London: Methuen Drama, 2021. Pp. 296. Paper (Isbn 978-1-3501-5540-4) $34.95.,
2022
Princeton University
Luis Alfaro. Rosa Andújar, Ed. The Greek Trilogy Of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada. London: Methuen Drama, 2021. Pp. 296. Paper (Isbn 978-1-3501-5540-4) $34.95., Linda Mcnulty Perez
New England Classical Journal
No abstract provided.
