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The Fragments of Heraclitus: Living Philosophy of an Ancient Age
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1988)I hope the commentary on these fragments and the ensuing interpretations will display two things. First, the complexity of Heraclitus' ideas should be obvious. Although these fragments appear deceivingly straightforward ... -
Mud, or, Archaeology and History of Roman Winchester at the Brooks Dig
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1988)The author presents her experience with the Brooks Dig in downtown Winchester where a layer of Roman era artifacts was found at the site of a parking lot. -
Northumbrian Whithorn and the Irish Sea Culture Province
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1991)What I intend to do is to examine the role of the outermost reaches of the ebbing Northumbrian kingdom and the kingdom's efforts to bolster its crumbling walls and maintain power during one of Britain's most tumultuous periods. -
Possessed of Seven Devils: Images of the Magdalene in the New Testament, The Apocrypha, and Gnosticism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1991)We have now seen how a minor biblical figure, that of Mary Magdalene, has been vastly reinterpreted by no less than four major religious traditions, all associated with the Western Church. There is the popular Mary Magdalene, ... -
An Exploration of the Nature and Significance of Socratic and Kierkegaardian Irony
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1995)This essay shall examine these philosophers's use of irony in some detail. In each case, it shall explore: (1) what each philosopher took the essential relationship between humanity and existence to be, and (2) why their ... -
Late Antique Coptic Textiles, Secular and Sacred: Textiles from Karanis, Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Descriptions of Clothing in Coptic Monastic Texts
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)This Senior Individualized Project consists of two parts: a museum internship completed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the summer of 1998,.and a research project begun at the University ... -
Black-Figure Pottery Throughout the Ages as Demonstrated by Four Vases from the Detroit Institute of Arts
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)In this paper, I will discuss Ancient Greek black-figure pottery throughout its stages by looking at examples from the Detroit Institute of Arts. I interned at the DIA this summer and looked at the vases carefully; this ... -
Suicide in Antiquity: A Study of the Attitudes towards Suicide from the 5th Century BCE to the 5th Century CE
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1999)The act of suicide has rarely been viewed by society as a wholly good thing. There are always certain groups who refuse to allow others that last bit of control over their own destiny, just as there are always those who ... -
The Justification for the Social and Religious Oppression of Women by the Roman Catholic Church
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1999)Women have been limited in their ecclesiastical positions over the past few centuries, and have, at times, been regarded as inferior to men in their physicality, as well as their intellectual capabilities. The conditions ... -
A Sphinx Statuette at Berenike, Egypt: The Evolution of a Type and the Significance of its Continuity into the Roman Period
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)Ancient Berenike lies on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and was the southernmost outpost of the Roman Empire. Since 1994, the University of Delaware and Leiden University have conducted excavations at the site of this town ... -
Rome at End of the Republic: A Course Supplement to Cicero's Speeches Detailing the City of Rome and the Education of a Young Roman Man
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)The author offers many details about the City of Rome at the end of the Republic, its political structures, and the education of a Roman man. -
Orpheus et Eurydice: Commentary on Two Versions of the Myth Published by the Poets Ovid and Vergil in Augustan Rome
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)Ovid and Vergil tell the same story, but with a different esthetic. In both cases the wife dies, the husband has a chance to regain her, and then he loses her second time by his own failure to follow the condition. However, ... -
Twenty-four Days at a Bar in Pompeii
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A Palaeographical Study of Michigan Manuscript 147 ff. 1r-5r and Its Place in the Transmission of Juvenal
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2002)How the modem world has come to possess the writings of antiquity is an interesting inquiry. The printing press was not invented until the middle of the fifteenth century, and before that, literature and knowledge was ... -
Pelagonius' Ars Veterinaria: A Translation with Notes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2002)This project originally began as a research paper on Roman veterinary medicine. In pursuing that research however, I soon discovered that, while there is a growing interest in ancient veterinary medicine, of the five ... -
From Mystery to Understanding: Applying the Principles of Social Psychology to the Fayum Portraits of Roman Egypt
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2002)This study attempts to establish a method of interpreting the Fayum portraits that is based in scientific research. In general, the lack of an established methodology has hindered attempts to explain the strong emotional ... -
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If Looks Could Kill: Modern Gaze Theory and the House of the Vettii at Pompeii
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)In the following comments I will interpret the images of violence in the House of the Vettii by applying to Roman domestic decoration one of the approaches used in Frederick's collection, the feminist film theory of Laura ... -
The Terracotta Figurines from Berenike, Egypt: A Typological, Contextual, and Functional Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)The questions that this particular corpus poses are numerous and difficult to answer. First of all, no evidence of ceramic production has been unearthed at Berenike, although there is archaeological evidence indicating ... -
Jason: The Feminine Hero
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)In recent years, the Hellenistic Age (323-31 BC) has become a topic of intense interest among classicists. This age, which greatly enriched the corpus of Greek literature, has as one of its most seminal works the Argonautica ...
