Academic Program: Senior Experience & Thesis
The senior experience in the Department of Classics builds towards your production of an article-length work of original research (i.e. 30-to-40-pages) under the mentorship of two faculty members.
The thesis is grounded in current knowledge about antiquity and engages the methods and standards of the discipline of Classics.
Senior Seminar, a collaboratively-taught, weekly course conducted during the Fall Semester, provides a forum in which to develop your ability to read and critique scholarship, as well as an opportunity to craft an interesting and appropriate question that you will explore in the thesis you write during the Spring Semester.
Requirements for Honors
Students demonstrating superior performance in course work in the major and on the senior thesis will be eligible for Departmental Honors. To qualify for Honors, students must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.7 in their major courses (3.85 for High Honors) and earn a grade of at least 3.7 on the senior thesis (3.85 for High Honors).
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Glick, Frances R. |
Reconciling Fratricide: The Narration of Violence in the Roman Foundation Myth |
2011 |
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Keogh, Abby |
Imagining an Italian Stallion: Natural Imagery and Ethnic Identity in the Aeneid |
2011 |
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Lopatin, Alexander J. |
The Pivotal Theios Aner: (Re)invented Conservatism in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana |
2011 |
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Reisman, Asher Jacob |
Divine Embodiment and Cosmic Tragedy in Prometheus Desmotes |
2011 |
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Williams, Nicole |
Beware of Gods Bearing Gifts: Gift Exchange, the Greeks, and Their Gods |
2010 |
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Buckingham, Emma |
The Development and Socioeconomic Contexts of Special Techniques in Athenian Vase-Painting: A Case Study in Six’s Technique, Coral-Red and White- Ground |
2010 |
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Zakheim, Adam |
Hoplite Centrism and Aristocratic Idealism in Thucydides’ History |
2010 |
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LeFrancois , Meghan |
Love as Recollection in Plato’s Symposium |
2010 |
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Cavanagh, Mark |
The Anatomy of Rationalization: A Reprieve for Heroic Mythological Exegesis in Philostratus’ Heroicus |
2010 |
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Sergeon, Vanessa |
Homeric Story-Telling in Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story |
2010 |
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Miller, Mara |
The Language of Built Form as a Blueprint for Comedy in Plautus’ Mostellaria and Miles Gloriosus |
2010 |
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Keogh, Aileen |
Married Mortals in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
2010 |
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Carroll, Thomas |
Aeneas in the New World: Reshaping the Interpretive Motif in Barlow’s Columbiad |
2010 |
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Pollack, Lara |
Amazons in the Amphora: Traces of the Defeated Other in Wonder Woman Comics |
2010 |
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Gafford, Cassandra |
Comprehending Catastrophe: A Study in Earthquakes in Literature of the Second Century CE |
2009 |
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Subashi, Alexander Thoma |
Notions of Literary Materiality in Pindar's Epinikia and Statius' Silvae |
2009 |
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Derbew, Sarah |
Educatio et alimenta puellis: Munificence or Political Tricks of Emperors? |
2009 |
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Iodice, Julia |
Helen of Troy in Contemporary Greek Lyric Poetry |
2008 |
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Potestio, Greg |
The Ancient Obsession: Europe's Reception of the Classical Greek Legacy in the Time Period of the Greek War of Independence |
2008 |
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Lebowitz, Willy |
Complex Unity: "Self" and Deliberation in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad |
2008 |
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Rodriguez, Evan |
Making Sense of Socrates in a Dialogue of Contradictions: Studies in Plato's Protagoras |
2008 |
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Baratz, Katharine |
Bene dicendi scientia: “The power of speech/To stir men’s blood”? Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar |
2007 |
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Higgins-Biddle, Molly |
Defending the Lysis: Reciprocity in Friendship and Desire |
2007 |
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Yarbrough, Colin |
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2007 |
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Shahla, Alex |
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2007 |
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Klos, Alison |
Ostensible Agency: The Rape of the Sabine Women from a Feminist Perspective |
2007 |
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Rubinstein, Eric |
Envisioning the Narrative Voice as Parasitis |
2004 |
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Badtke-Berkow, Joseph |
Ending Oedipus |
2002 |
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Walsh, Christine |
Tales of Terror and Fear in the Liminal Creature: A Look at Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis, Apuleius' Metamorphoses, and Pliny's Letter 7.27 |
2002 |
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Dwyer, Jason |
An Examination of Catullus' Use of Sappho in the Lesbia Series |
2001 |
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Walsh, Catherine |
Women in the Life of Titus Pomponius Atticus |
2000 |
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Zito, Nicole |
Ovid's Women of Stone |
1999 |
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Durham, Alexandra |
Capies, Tu Modo Tende Plagas: Repetition and Inversion of the Hunting Metaphor in Roman Love Elegy |
1999 |
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Vaccaro, Jacob |
Mythical, Historical and Allegorical Narratives in Till We Have Faces |
1998 |
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Hoguet, Laura |
From Troy to Rome: History and Mythology in Virgil's Aeneid |
1998 |
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Gardiner, Anna S. |
Clodia/Claudia: Reconsidering Images from Cicero's Letters and Pro Caelio |
1996 |
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Wolpert, Aaron |
Material Evidence for the Compositional Phases of Homeric Epic |
1995 |
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Christy, Elizabeth |
Narratological Metamorphoses: A Study of the Narrator Stance in Apuleius' Metamorphoses |
1993 |
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Cohen, Elizabeth S. |
Goddess, Wife, and Whore: The Role of the Cult of Isis in Roman Society and How It Is Reflected in the Elegists: Ovid, Tibullus and Propertius |
1992 |
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DiLorenzo, Kate |
Relationships to the Muses' Gift in the Epic Poets and Sappho |
1992 |
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De Jong, Sarah |
The Literature of the Early Reign of Nero as it Reflects the Ideology of the Imperial Cult at Rome |
1990 |
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Burnett, Lee |
Pope and Horace Sermones II.i: A Study in Imitation |
1990 |
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Null, Amy |
Anaphoric and Proximate Reference: Reflexive Forms in Classical |
1988 |
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Goldman, Arthur Steven |
Integration and Coherence in Philo of Alexandria's On the Account of the World's Creation as Given by Moses |
1986 |
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Everett, Andrea |
Women Together: The Dialectic of Empathy and Hostility in Greek Tragedy |
1985 |
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La Spada, Salvatore |
Cornelii Taciti Historiae: A Close Character Study |
1982 |
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Author (name from title page) |
Title |
Year |
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John Howard Redfield, Jr. |
The Life and Teachings of Socrates |
1899 |
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Heber Sensenig |
The Olympian and Pythian Games |
1900 |
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Joseph John Barclay |
Codification of Roman Law by Emperor Justinian |
1902 |
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John Sharpless Fox |
The Rise of the Papacy |
1902 |
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Richard Mott Gummere |
The Roman Religion in its Essential Features, Nature, Deities, and Decline |
1902 |
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Charles Harper Smith |
Influence of the Sea upon Euripides |
1902 |
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J.E. Hollingsworth |
The Ethics of Homer as found in the Iliad and the Odyssey |
1903 |
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John Charles |
The Production of a Greek Play |
1904 |
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Philip Donald Folwell |
The Scholar of the Middle Ages |
1904 |
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John Roberts Thomas |
A History of Isthmian Canal Failures |
1904 |
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Andrew, Adelbert Owen |
Arianism |
1905 |
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Bales, Thomas Menroy |
What we Owe to Greece |
1905 |
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Ohl, Frederick William |
1905 |
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Smith, Manning James |
Aeilus Sejanus |
1905 |
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Spaeth, Sigmund Gottfried |
The Development of Instrumental Music |
1905 |
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White, Lyndon Lea |
Montanism |
1905 |
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Thomas Kite Brown, Jr. |
The Legend of Oedipus Tyrannus |
1906 |
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Gordon Harwood Graves |
John Milton's Silvarum Liber done into English Verse |
1906 |
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Elliott Bartram Richards |
The Literary Art of Oedipus Tyrannus |
1906 |
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Joseph Cooper Birdsall |
Horace: A Study of the Roman Satire and its Development |
1907 |
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Howard Mitchell, Jr. |
The Development of the Christian Ministry during the First Three Centuries |
1907 |
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Sargent, Winthrop Jr. |
On Musaeus: The Tale of Hero and Leander |
1908 |
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Killen, Clarence Creadick |
Chaucer's Use of Classic Materials |
1909 |
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Kitchen, Paul Cliff |
Some Facts and Conclusions about the Earlier Middle Ages |
1909 |
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Sandt, Walter Correll |
A Study of the Life and Works of Marcus Aurelius |
1909 |
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Shoemaker, Edwin |
The Development of the Papacy to a Position of Supremacy in the Church, 100 to 867 |
1909 |
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Watson, Matthew Herbert |
The Religiousness of the Greeks |
1909 |
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Williams, William Loyd Garrison |
The Life and Works of Sidonius Apollinaris and Their Significance |
1910 |
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Mc Kay, Howard F. |
Gnosticism |
1911 |
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Post, L. Arnold |
Greek and English Epic |
1911 |
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Shero, Lucius R. |
ΑΛΚIΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ Translated (in part) with Introduction by L.R. Shero |
1911 |
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Wadsworth, Charles 3rd |
St. Augustine: A short treatise on his life, his thought, his work and his theology. |
1911 |
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Froelicher, Hans Jr. |
Socrates: the Significance of his Life in the History of Greek Thought |
1912 |
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Lowry, Herbert Mendenhall |
Theodoric: His Influence on the History of Italy |
1912 |
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Marshburn, Albert Lawrence |
The Fatum of Lucretius and Vergil |
1912 |
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Maule, Edmund Richardson |
The History of the Ancient Church |
1913 |
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Offermann, Harry |
The idea of Φιλανθρωπία Among the Greeks |
1913 |
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Winslow, George Leiper |
St. Paul and the Council of Jerusalem |
1913 |
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Garrigues, John Kittera |
A Parallel Study of Greek and Roman Religious Education |
1914 |
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Gummere, John Westcott |
Drama and the Ancient Greek Drama |
1915 |
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McNeill, Joseph |
Pagan Rivals to Christ |
1915 |
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Whipple, Paul Kimball |
The Legal Status of the Roman Freewoman |
1915 |
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Dunlap, George Arthur |
1916 |
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Kuhns, John |
Mithraism |
1916 |
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Stone, Albert Hendrix |
The Development of Classicism in the Poetry of John Keats |
1916 |
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Wendell, Douglas Cary |
The Development of Classicism in John Keats as shown by his Letters |
1916 |
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Barker, Albert Winslow |
The Subjective Factor in Greek Architectural Design |
1917 |
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Spaeth, John William, Jr. |
Alexandrinism in the Poetry of Catullus |
1917 |
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Long, Charles-Francis |
Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Medicus |
1918 |
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Townsend, Alfred J. |
Roman Private Games and Sports |
1918 |