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Albania in Antiquity and Modernity: A Pattern of Evoking the Remote Past to Influence the Present
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Amphorarum Epigraphia Baeticarum : The Contextualization of the Olive Oil Trade Between Rome and Spain
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)The author discusses the archaeological site of Monte Testaccio, an ancient pottery dump that was active between the first and third centuries CE; located in the southern part of modem-day Rome right next to the Tiber ... -
Ancient Medicine: A Comparison of Ancient Medical Practices Relating to Conception, Pregnancy, and Labor and Delivery in Antiquity and the Present
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)The art and practice of medicine has survived for as long as humans themselves. Experimentation and the discoveries of previous practitioners have provided the means necessary to reach the heights of medical knowledge ... -
The Antonine Amphitheater : 2018/2019 Genzano di Roma, Italy Excavations and a Reflection
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)For the summers of 2018 and 2019, I excavated an ancient Roman villa in Italy; the Villa degli Antonini in Genzano di Roma. During the first summer, I participated as a student in an archaeological field school, then I was ... -
Based·on a True Story?: A Historiophotical Analysis of Hollywood and Documentary Films
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)When I first began this project, I was interested in how history is portrayed through film and the impact it has on the average person's perception of historical events. How much of the public's understanding of the past ... -
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 ... -
Butrint: The Past, Present, and Future of an Albanian Archaeological Site
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011)This Senior Individualized Project is based on my experience excavating in Butrint, Albania in the summer of 2010, under field supervisor Valbona Hysa. I excavated at this site as a student enrolled in the Butrint Field ... -
Castitas Feminarum: Sexual Politics for Women in the Late Republic and Early Roman Empire
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)In modern society, we tend to view women's sexual behaviors and norms as ever-changing and evolving. This is true especially in the United States. The feminist movement has been essential in advocating women's rights, and ... -
The Childhood of the Life of Theodore of Sykeon: A Historical Analysis and Translation
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)This SIP represents a translation with historical commentary of the childhood portion of the Life of Theodore of Sykeon. While the historical background and commentary come first in this publication, it is the translation ... -
Courting Christianity for Political Gain? Religoius Politics and the Villa of Maxentius on the Via Appia
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)Maxentius' villa is located on Rome's Via Appia Antica, a short distance outside the city wall. It sits in an area of Rome where one might not necessarily expect to find a monumental palatial complex. The area was primarily ... -
The Crossroads of Classics and Classism within Food Markets : A Comparison Between Ancient Rome and Modem America
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)This paper focuses on the intersections between seemingly unconnected disciplines: food markets, business and marketing, classical civilization, and classism. These intersections are explored through comparisons between ... -
Dead in Lead: Lead Coffins and Cultural Exchange in the Roman Empire
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)As the Roman Empire expanded,Roman customs were exported to the provinces and combined with a variety of different native cultures from the Levant to Britain. There are many ways in which cultural exchange manifests ... -
Democracy and Political Stability in the United States and the Ancient Roman Republic
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)This paper was intended to examine that connection between democracy and political stability, mainly through the comparison of histories and political institutions. The final and full realization of Tocqueville's fears ... -
Emergence of a Naval Superpower: The Development of Roman Naval Warfare From 509BCE to 14CE
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)The Roman navy is all too often neglected in scholarly discussion of Roman military history. The goal of this paper is to bring to attention the history of the Roman navy, its development, evolution and importance, from ... -
The Epigraphic Experience: Contextual Analysis of Three Dedicatory Inscriptions from the Archaic Athenian Acropolis
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Examining the Life, Motivations, and Perception of the Auctorati ; Rome’s Volunteer Gladiators
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-01-01)The Roman gladiator is one of the most iconic and analyzed subsections of people of the ancient Mediterranean world. They have been extensively researched and studied, and still occupy spaces of our contemporary culture ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Freedom Reigns: A Brief History of Roman Values, Women's Rights, and the Cento in Ancient rome
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)In the early years of Christianity a new form of literary composition appeared. This genre is known as a cento, which according to M.D. Usher comprises "poems made up entirely of verses lifted verbatim with only ... -
From Ancient Authors to a Modern Interpretation: An Analysis of the Wretched King Oedipus
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)learned about the most famous author to pen the legend, Sophocles, and about his three Theban plays that outline his detailed version of the tale. Yet his was not the first version of the myth to appear; Homer appears ...
