Penn Dissertations in Classical Studies

pre-1945 • 1945 - 1954 • 1955 - 1964 • 1965 - 1974 • 1975 - 1984 • 1985 - 1994 • 1995 - 2004 • 2005 -

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 developoment 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

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

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

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 k™mos/k™mazein 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

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

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

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

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