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Graduate Program in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
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Penn Dissertations in Classical Studies
2020–present
- Scheherazade Khan, "Actualized Mimesis and the Processual Animation of Greco-Roman Objects," 2024
- Zachary Elliott, "Lucian’s Mythological Playground: Time, Space, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata," 2024
- Maria Kovalchuk, "Irony and the Interpretation of Theocritus’ Idylls 24, 18, and 26," 2024
- Nathaniel Fleury Solley, "Horatian Ecopoetics," 2024
- Adrienne Atkins, “Greek Epic Parody and the Classical Life of Heroic Poetry,” 2022
- Amelia Bensch-Schaus, “Iliadic and Odyssean Receptions in Tragedy and the Argonautica,” 2022
- Nikola Golubovic, “The Minor Declamations and Roman Rhetorical Education,” 2022
- Johanna Kaiser, “Martial’s Materials: Materiality in the Literary Epigram,” 2022
- Julia Simons, “Tuberculosis in the Greco-Roman World,” 2022
- Wesley Hanson, “Suetonius’ Organizational Craft,” 2021
- Isabella Reinhardt, “Language and Reality in Early Greek Thought,” 2021
- Amy Lewis, "Aristophanes and the Poetics of Low Comedy," 2020
2010–2019
- Alice Hu, "Vive, superstes: survivors and problems of survival in Statius’ Thebaid,” 2019
- Marcie Persyn, "Code-switching and Bilingualism in Saturis Lucilii," 2019
- William Beck, "The Narrative of the Iliad: Time, Space, and Plot," 2019
- Elizabeth G. Palazzolo, "The Roman cultural memory of the conquest of Latium," 2016
- Jeffrey Peter Ulrich, "Platonic reflections in Apuleius," 2016
- Heather Elomaa, "The poetics of the Carmina Priapea," 2015
- Anna Louise Goddard, "Ovid's satirical successors in the early imperial period," 2015
- Joseph Michael Lucci, "Hidden in plain sight: Martial and the Greek epigrammatic tradition," 2015
- Lydia M. Spielberg, "The rhetoric of documentary quotation in Roman historiography," 2015
- Kathryn Dorothy Wilson, "Signs in the song: scientific poetry in the Hellenistic period," 2015
- Samuel D. Beckelhymer, "The way that our Catullus walked: grammar and poetry in the late Republic," 2014
- Joanna Kenty, "Forense Regnum: oratory from republic to principate," 2014
- Virginia M. Closs, “While Rome burned: fire, leadership, and urban disaster in the Roman cultural imagination,” 2013
- Matthew C. Farmer, “Tragedy at the comic competition,” 2013
- Charles T. Ham, “Empedoclean elegy: love, strife, and the four elements in Ovid’s Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti,” 2013
- Marian Makins, “Monumental losses: confronting the aftermath of battle in Roman literature,” 2013
- Caitlin C. Gillespie, “Goddesses on Earth? Tacitus on exemplarity and excess in the domus Augusta,” 2012
- Jennifer Gerrish, “Sallust’s Histories and triumviral historiography,” 2012
- Carrie Mowbray, “The vates in Senecan drama: prophecy, poetry, problems, and possibilites,” 2012
- Jason S. Nethercut, “Provisional poetics in Lucretius’ De rerum natura,” 2012
- Sarah E. Scullin, "Hippocratic pain,” 2012
- Emlen Smith, “Names and naming in Ovid's exile poetry,” 2012
- Caroline B. Bishop, "Greek scholarship and interpretation in the works of Cicero," 2011
- Alison C. Traweek, “Conceptions of the poetic in classical Greek prose,” 2011
- David C. Urban, “The use of exempla from Cicero to Pliny the younger,” 2011
- John Paul Christy, "Writing to power: tyrant and sage in ancient Greek epistolography," 2010
- Paolo Di Leo, "Augustine reader of Genesis," 2010
- Michael Klaasen, "Cassiodorus' Chronica: Text, Chronography and Sources," 2010
2000–2009
- Roshan J. Abraham, "Magic and religious authority in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana," 2009
- Jacques A. Bromberg, "Tragic persuasion and early Greek rhetoric," 2009
- Jeremy B. Lefkowitz, "Aesop's pen: adaptation, authorship, and satire in the Aesopic tradition," 2009
- Sarah Walhberg, "Ovid's Fasti and the tradition of Callimachus' Aetia in Rome," 2008
- Daniel E. Harris-McCoy, "Varieties of encyclopedism in the early Roman Empire: Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder, Artemidorus," 2008
- William Josiah Edwards Davis, "Latin texts and Latin culture at Praeneste: 700 BC - 14 AD," 2007
- Erin Kristine Moodie, "Metatheater, pretense disruption, and social class in Greek and Roman comedy," 2007
- Kevin Tracy, "The development of dialectic from Aristotle to Chrysippus," 2006
- Bryce England Walker, "Moralizing discourse in Juvenal's later books," 2006
- Meggan Jennell Arp, "Pre-socratic thought in Sophoclean tragedy," 2006
- Mary McMenomy, "Roles of Hermes in Athenian drama," 2006
- Carl A. Shaw III, "Greek comedy and the evolution of satyr drama," 2005
- Aislinn Aja Melchior, "Compositions with blood: violence in late Republican prose," 2004
- Andrew A. Fenton, "Cultural and poetic response in Vergil's Eclogues," 2004
- Amanda Ruth Wilcox, "The epistolary habit: representation, participation, and exchange among the Roman elite," 2002
- Daniel R. McLean, "Refiguring Socrates: comedy and corporeality in the Socratic tradition," 2002
- Alex Claire Purves, "Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon," 2002
- Benjamin Todd Lee, "A commentary on Apuleius' Florida: Carthaginian orations with text, translation, and notes," 2001
- Alexa Jervis, "Gallia scripta: images of Gauls and Romans in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum," 2001
- Kathryn M. DiLorenzo, "Looking both ways: Janus, doubling, and intertextuality in Ovid," 2001
- Jennifer Valerie Ebbeler, "Pedants in the apparel of heroes? Cultures of Latin letter-writing from Cicero to Ennodius," 2001
- Kristin Elizabeth Holland, "Resisted transition in Euripidean tragedy," 2001
- Anne Elizabeth Duncan, "The hypocritical self: actors, acting, and identity in Greek and Roman culture," 2000
1990–1999
- Catherine Clare Keane, "Model behavior: generic construction in Roman satire," 1999
- Rebecca Lynn Frost, "The rhetoric of authority in the Propertian Monobiblos," 1998
- Richard Gilder III, "Goddesses unbound: furies and furial imagery in the works of Seneca, Lucan, and Statius," 1997
- Samuel Alexander Hughes, "Salamis on the Tiber: readings of the Mars Ultor Temple's dedicatory games," 1997
- Joy Connolly, "Vile eloquence: performance and identity in Greco-Roman rhetoric," 1997
- Eric Scott Casey, "Identity, meaning, and accountability: names and naming in Greek culture," 1996
- Robert Joseph Gorman, "Cicero and the Socratic method," 1995
- Jacqueline N. Sadashige, "Roman things: matters of gender, nation, and culture in Plautus," 1995
- Eric Kyllo, "Heliconiadum comites: the De rerum natura and epic tradition," 1994
- Nigel Nicholson, "Mixed praise: sexual imagery, truth and discord in Pindar's Odes," 1994
- Karl Maurer, "Evidence of interpolation in the text of Thucydides," 1993
- Vanessa Barrett Gorman, "A history of Miletos from 500 to 432 BC," 1993
- John M. McMahon, "Representing impotence: systems of belief in ancient popular culture," 1993
- Maria Suzanne Marsilio, "Dependence and self-sufficiency in Hesiod's Works and days," 1992
- R. Alden Smith, "Allusions of grandeur: studies in the intertextuality of the Metamorphoses and the Aeneid" 1990
1980–1989
- Elinor S. Wright, "The format of laments in Greek tragedy," 1986
- Rebecca R. Harrison, "Jerome's revision of the gospels," 1986
- Charles W. Hedrick, "The Attic phratry," 1984
- Jody Rubin, "Biographical fiction in the lives of Hippocrates," 1983
- Rosaria Vignolo Munson, "Transitions in Herodotus: an analysis based principally on the first book," 1983
- Bonnie Arden Catto, "The concept of natura in the De rerum natura of Lucretius and the Georgics of Vergil: its characteristics, powers, and effects upon the earth, man and man's labor," 1981
- Sally MacEwen, "Theme and structure in three plays of Euripides," 1981
1970–1979
- Alice Jean Patteson, "Commentary on (Demosthenes) LIX: Against Neaera," 1978
- Joseph Michael Patwell, "Grammar, discourse, and style in Thucydides' book 8," 1978
- William Sadler Bonds, "Joy and desire in the Aeneid: Stoicism in Vergil's treatment of emotion," 1978
- Florence Benkert Daly, "The evidence of Greek stichic poetry for the identification of dependent words," 1977
- Eliot Wirshbo, "Attitudes toward the past in Homer and Hesiod," 1976
- Georgia Ann Machemar Minyard, "An inquiry into the lexical meaning and cultural significance of the word komos/komazein in Greece during the classical period," 1976
- Eva Maria Thury, "Nature species ratioque: poetic image and philosophical perspective in the De rerum natura of Lucretius," 1976
- Ellen O'Donnell, "The transferred use of theater terms as a feature of Plutarch's style," 1975
- Anne Orentzel, "Pliny and the Orators," 1974
- Gregory Bernard Elftmann, "Nobility of birth in Sophoclean drama," 1973
- Timothy Douglas Smith, "Studies in the pseudo-Dionysian techne rhetorike," 1973
- Dee Ann Lesser Clayman, "Interpretations of Callimachus' iambi," 1972
- Anthony Lewis Spatola, "Dignitas senatoria: A study of grants of senatorial rank through ornamenta," 1971
- Charles Park Sigel, "Divine epithet and character in the tragedies of Aeschylus: A study of the poet's usage in relation to the traditional and tragic language," 1971
- Ann Ellis Hanson, "Studies in the textual tradition and the transmission of the gynecological treaties of the Hippocratic Corpus," 1971
- John Douglas Minyard, "Metrical regularity of expression in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius," 1970
1960–1969
- Frank Carter Philips, "Compression in the Theogony: A study in the style of Hesiod," 1969
- John William Shumaker, "Homeric transformations in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes," 1969
- Eve Janet Parrish, "Influence of consular senators at senate meetings, 69 through 60 B.C.," 1969
- Sigmund Casey, "Fredericks," 1969
- David Richard Smith, "The functions and origins of hieropoioi," 1968
- Aloysius Paul Kelley, "Historiography in Cicero," 1968
- Jay Michael Freyman, "Kalos in Aristophanes," 1968
- Joseph Charles Douglas Marshall, "Cicero's interest in Eastern affairs," 1967
- Vincent John Cleary, "The function of repetition and foreshadowing in the characterization of Aeneas," 1967
- Joseph Edward Rhen, "A historical commentary on the reign of Tiberius based on the evidence of the Historia naturalis of Pliny the Elder," 1967
- Christopher McQueen Black, "Hyperbaton and meter in Plautus," 1966
- Kenneth Townsend Wright, "Punctuation in the Beneventan script: A linguistic study," 1966
- Philip Thomas Heesen, "Cicero's literary career to 50 B.C. seen through a study of his fragmentary works," 1965
- Apostolos Nikolaou Athanassakis, "Hiatus in Hesiod," 1965
- Edna Sophia De Angeli, "Some aspects of Catullan poetic theory and practice," 1965
- Joseph Roger Dunkle, "Study of the rhetorical tyrant in Rome of the first century B.C.," 1965
- William Wall Fortenbaugh, "Aristotle's concept of deliberate choice," 1964
- John David Bishop, "The choral odes of Seneca: theme and development," 1964
- Robert Joseph Rowland, "Roman grain legislation, 133-50 B.C.," 1964
- Stanley Nodder Jr., "Studies in the political language and ideas of Aeschylus," 1964
- Daniel George Gambet, "Cicero's reputation from 43 B.C. to A.D. 79.," 1963
- Dorothy Marie Koonce, "Formal lament for the dead in Greek tragedy," 1962
- John Joseph Welch, "Latin initial syllables: An historical phonological study," 1962
- John Roland Werner, "Religion in Attic middle comedy," 1962
- Robert George Schettler, "Cicero's oratorical career," 1961
- Anastasius Constantine Bandy, "Early Christian inscriptions of Crete," 1961
- Brother F. Boniface Bender, "Historical commentary on Cassius Dio 54," 1961
- William Harold Mare, "A study of the Greek b™mos in classical Greek literature," 1961
- Mary Ann Theresa Burns, "An historical commentary on the reign of Augustus based on the evidence of Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia," 1960
- Austin Maurice Lashbrook, "Lucius Ampelius: Liber memorialis, translation and commentary," 1960
- Arthur Albert Ruprecht, "A study of slavery in the late Roman Republic from the works of Cicero," 1960
1950–1959
- George Tobey Davis, "A study in Latin prosody: short final vowel before initial consonant groups composed of stop and liquid," 1959
- Grace Freed Muscarella, "A Latin translation of the Pseudo-Aristotle De mundo by Argyropoulos, text and analysis," 1958
- Brother David Hilary Kelly, "The word in ancient Greek: a phonological study," 1958
- John Henry Paul Reumann, "The use of "oikonomia" and related terms in Greek sources to about A.D. 100 as a background for patristic applications," 1957
- Rev. Charles H. Herkert, "Historical commentary drawn from the Natural history of Pliny the Elder for the years 54-76 A.D.," 1956
- Anna Shaw Benjamin, "An historical commentary on the second book of Macrobius' Saturnalia," 1955
- Robert Bauer Palmer, "Walahfrid Strabo, Liber de cultura hortorum: Text, introduction, translation, and commentary," 1951
- John Ignatius McEnerney, "The poetic quotations of Dio Chrysostom," 1950
1940–1949
- John Edward Bresnahan, "Liber II draconti de laudibus dei: translation and text with introduction and commentary," 1949
- Lawrence A. Springer, "Temple treasures: A study based on Livy," 1949
- George Joseph Siefert, "Meter and case in the Latin elegiac pentameter," 1948
- Elizabeth Gould Zenn, "The neuter plural in Latin lyric verse," 1948
- John Raymond Hendrickson, "Old English prepositional compounds in relationship to their Latin originals," 1948
- Joseph Abele Maurer, "A commentary on C. Suetonii Tranquilli vita C. Caligulae Caesaris, chapters 1-21," 1947
- John Raymond Hendrickson, "Old English prepositional compounds in relationship to their Latin originals," 1947
- Gerard James Murphy, "The reign of the emperor L. Septimius Severus," 1945
Before 1940
- Helen Price, "C. Suetonii Tranquilli De vita Caesarum liber VIII, Divus Titus: An edition with parallel passages and notes," 1915
- Mary Bartol, "Traces of epic influence in the tragedies of Sophocles," 1899
- Alice M. Atkinson, "The chronology of Horace's satires and epistles," 1894