Penn Dissertations in Classical Studies | Department of 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