Penn Dissertations in Classical Studies

2020–present

• Emma Dyson, "Philosophical Biography in the Greek World," 2025
• Massimo De Sanctis Mangelli, "The Other Side of Democracy? The Ambiguity of Tyrants in Athenian Tragedy," 2025
• 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