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This study examines the connection between architecture and economy in Mycenaean Greece; it is a deep investigation of economic theory and models of the Mycenaean economy, existing methods for the study of prehistoric architecture, and...
This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia...
The Windover archaeological site (8BR246) is one of the few mass pre-historic burial sites in North America. The 168 skeletonized men, women, and children were interned in a peat bog accompanied by cultural materials such as bone and...
Diodorus Siculus composed a universal history, the Bibliotheke, covering the origins of humanity down to the events of the year 60/59 B.C. sometime before the fateful battle of Actium (31 B.C.). Although fifteen of his forty original...
This dissertation explores the different ways in which early Jews understood demonic entities in their ancient and antique historical contexts. Unlike traditional scholarly studies which have often approached the topic primarily from the...
Patron-Clientism as an anthropological model for understanding Israelite social and economic dynamics in the early Settlement Period
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Judges 5 contains the Song of Deborah, a hymn celebrating the Israelite victory over Canaanite Hazor. Of the ten tribes called, only five responded. Why did five tribes "remain in the hills"? This thesis proposes Patron-Clientism as a...
Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14, 550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to...
This thesis presents a transcription and preliminary analysis of the Latin text of book 6 of Josephus' Jewish War found in the 9th century St. Gallen Codex 627. This is the first transcription of any book of the fifth- or sixth-century...
This dissertation explores Cicero's reception of Cato the Elder, particularly in respect to his fragmentary history of Rome and Italy, the Origines. I revisit commonly held conceptions about Cato's style, aims, and influences which I...
This thesis deals with the artistic style of verism during the later Roman Empire. This work examines the constructions which define verism and questions whether those attributes seen in the Roman Republican period translate into...
Etruscan temples: A study of the structural remains, origins and development
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In this dissertation the complex problems surrounding the origins and subsequent development of the Etruscan temple are investigated. Emphasis is placed on the temples located in the area of Etruria proper (i.e., the land bounded by the... The first three chapters form a survey of the twelve Etruscan temples that are well enough preserved to be analyzed and theoretically reconstructed. In order to more easily understand the development of this building type, the temples in... Chapter Four deals with the origins of the Etruscan temple. In this section it is demonstrated that, rather than the Etruscan temple appearing as the result of a slow evolution based on Etruscan domestic architecture (as has been... Chapter Five concerns the development of the Etruscan temple. Although the primary evidence of the actual structural remains is mainly used to trace this development, secondary evidence, such as ancient literary sources, votive models...
Jerome's "Chronicon": A translation and commentary
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This dissertation, a translation and commentary on Jerome's continuation of Eusebius' Chronicon, makes this work available in English for the first time (in Chapter 2). The Introduction (Chapter 1) and Commentary (Chapter 3) will provide... Jerome's Chronicon is important in several ways. It is the earliest preserved Christian history in Latin; it is an aid for the establishment of the chronology of the fourth century A.D.; it provides some data found in no other extant... The bibliography is divided into "Ancient Works" and "Modern Works." Appendix A reproduces R. Helm's text for the "continuation" portion of Jerome's work. Appendix B lists the subjects treated in the work with the pertinent notices and...
Eastern Mediterranean Economic Exchange during the Iron Age: Portable X-Ray Fluorescence and Neutron Activation Analysis of Cypriot-Style Pottery in the Amuq Valley, Turkey.
Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to...
Tyrants play a major role in Greek literature and political philosophy, and occupy a certain prominence on the tragic stage. Many city-states, from Athens to Syracuse to Heraclea on the Black Sea, experienced periods in which tyrants...
This dissertation examines Roman history during the first centuries BCE and CE through the lens of food. Starting at the end with an exegesis of Juvenal’s Satires, I focus on his main gastronomic stereotypes, foods that distinguish...
The Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction eradicated 76% of species on Earth. It was caused by the impact of an asteroid on the Yucatán carbonate platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, forming the Chicxulub impact...
This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part is a compiled Syriac text and English translation of a fourth-century document from Edessa known as the History of John, which appears in the appendix of this project. This original...
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