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Making Latin Concrete: Strategies For Teaching Latin Through Material Culture, Patrick Beasom, Lynne. Kvapil

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

We decided to address the issue of incorporating archaeology and material culture into classes devoted to Latin literature last spring, while Patrick was teaching Latin and Lynne was teaching Roman Civilization. Both of us were confronted with the danger of losing the interest of students who once had a burning desire to learn about the ancient world. Our aim is to offer up some suggestions for ways that, through collaboration between specialists in philology, history, and archaeology, we can keep the Classical world dynamic and relevant.

Review Of The World Of Classical Myth, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This introductory text is lively/chaotic, thought-provoking/riddled with pet theories, awesomely erudite/overstuffed with information, marvelous for those who already know the myths...

Review Of Parasarathy's Translation Of The Cilappatikaram Of Ilanko Atikal, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The recent translation of Ilanko Atikal's ilappatikaram (The Ankle Bracelet), a South Indian epic dating from the second or third century c.e., by R. Parthasarathy is indispensable for anyone who wishes to have an accurate rendering of the text into English.

Whip, Whipped, And Doctors: Homer's Illiad And Camus' The Plague, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Albert Camus in The Plague gives a pressing, pitilessly clear description of plague conditions:' We are all locked in a city. The gates are closed. The plague rages inside. The only question is, who will die first? This is the situation in Camus' town of Oran; it is also the situation of the Trojans in Homer's Illiad. And finally, it is the situation of human life.'

Review Of Philip Arieti's Interpreting Plato, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Paula Saffire's Review of Interpreting Plato: The Dialogues as Drama by James A. Arieti

Review Of Joan De Jean's Fictions Of Sappho, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Paula Saffire's Review of Joan De Jean's Fictions of Sappho

Creative Involvement With The Texts: Bernhard Goetz And The Ancient Historians, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the words of the famous Molly Malone, what any teacher wants is for the classics to be "alive alive-o." The question is: how? I hope Plato and Aeschylus, Catullus and Tacitus, will not be insulted by my posing the question. They are undoubtedly alive to us, who have devoted ourselves to reading the classics in the original. But for students new to the classics, able to approach them only in translation or wrestling with basic problems of language, the question does exist: how to make their experience of the classical texts a living one.

Review Of Mandelbaum's Odyssey Of Homer, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract provided.

Contacts Between Rome And Ancient Ethiopia, John Theodore Swanson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

At the death of Augustus, Rome possessed four principal provinces: in Africa: Numidia, Africa (Tunisia), Cyrenaica, and Egypt. Soon after, Mauretania as:well would become a province, thus creating a sphere of direct Roman control stretching across the top of the African continent. These territories would become Rome's most valuable possessions, economically and culturally; their influence on Roman history, an influence not to be overlooked by historians., would be profound. Yet the narrow strip of land that was Roman Africa represents only a tiny portion of the vast bulk of the African continent, and there were peoples beyond the Roman frontiers …

Apostolos In The New Testament, James Maynard Bragg

Graduate Thesis Collection

In this study we will attempt to discover the background of [apostolos] among its pagan ancestors. In addition to this area, we will also be concerned with the Jewish background which exerted a formative influence on the meaning of the word. Finally, an attempt will be made to see the result of this combination of backgrounds as it came to be reflected in the New Testament.

A Semantic Study Of Ecclesia Before 100 A.D., Harold Edwin Cline

Graduate Thesis Collection

In studying the background and origin of meaning for this word [ecclesia], this paper will seek to investigate the pagan, the Jewish, and the Christian literature in this order. Of couse, as the preliminary discussion has so far indicated, the primary weight and burden of study will be upond the Septugintal influence. The three stages to be developed are reminiscent of the comment of R.C. Trench in his opening comments concerning ecclesia. He named them as heathen, Jewish, and Christian. The development of these stages will be united and brought together to make some pertinent conclusions in the final chapter …

Ephesus, Pagan And Christian 133 B.C. - 262 A.D., Ruth O. Michener

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation is an atrcempt to reconstruct and to recapture a period in the history of this famous city, a center so important in New Testament times and in the first two centuries or the Christian Church, but a metropolis which centuries ago became buried in the silt of a river. The site and a primitive kind of settlement began in pre-historic times. We will briefly trace the story of its ancestory; its youth; its changes; traditions; then its glory between the years 133 B.C. to A.D. 262; its contribution to culture; its spirit; its contact with Christianity; its period …

A Study Of Latin Words In The Greek New Testament, Esther Laverne Benjamin

Graduate Thesis Collection

The primary purpose of this work is to call attention to the existence of Latin words in the Greek New Testament and to present an objective study of them. As a corollary to this study, the impact of Graeco-Roman culture upon Judea in terms of these words, their synonyms, and related words is pointed out. Glimpses of the background of the New Testament figures afforded through this study lend perspective to the New Testament pages.

Evidence Of Religious Practices In The Tragedies Of Eurpides, Jeanette Emmaline Hawk

Graduate Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

A Critical Examination Of The Hebrew Word [Ruach] As It Occurs In The Masorectic Text Of The Old Testament Studied In The Light Of The Septuagint, Donald L. Hoffman

Graduate Thesis Collection

It will be the purpose of this thesis to critically investigate the word [ruach] in its occurences in the Massoretic Text and to attempt to determine in each case the true meaning which the original author wished to convey.

An Investigation Of The Musical Instruments Mentioned In The Massoretic Text, Kenneth A. Stewart

Graduate Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Identification Of Jocelyn, Mary L. Mccormick

Graduate Thesis Collection

Who was Jocelyn? Did Lamartine's hero have a human counterpart? The question has tantalized readers ever since the kindly priest first crept into their hearts. The vivid reality of his life suggests the possibility of having dwelt in a world of actualities as well as in a realm of make-believe.

A Study Of The Influences Of Lucretius And Epicurean Philosophy On Vergil, Paul Fink

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

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Plutarch's Use Of Ancient Literature, Jessie Christian Brown

Manuscript Thesis Collection

Abstract unavailable.

The Alleged Incapacity Of The Romans For Speculative Thought, Retta Valeria Barnhill

Manuscript Thesis Collection

The influence of Greek culture, language and literature on the development of Roman literature.

Syntax, F. D. Hobson

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Thesis: ... To Prove The Assertion That Jurisprudence Was The Only Form Of Intellectual Activity That Rome... Worked Out In A Thoroughly National [Rational?] Manner, John Scot Butler

Manuscript Thesis Collection

The intention of this thesis is to prove the assertion that jurisprudence was the only form of intellectual activity that Rome, from first to last, worked out in a thoroughly national [sic] manner.

Firstly:--It will be shown how completely the literature and arts of the Romans were enveloped in Grecian influence.

Secondly:--The primal laws of the Romans will be taken up, their sources accounted for, and their development followed.

Thirdly:--A summary showing the two developments in comparison, and drawing conclusions.

Latin Laguage In History, Rose Macneal

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Classification Of The Similes And Metaphors In Homer, Edgar T. Forsyth

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Principles In Literary Criticism, Frances M. Perry

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.