Browsing Classics Senior Individualized Projects by Title
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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 ... -
From Girl to Woman: the Role of the Parthenos in Ancient Attic Religious Ritual
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)The purpose of what follows is to explore the contradictions of femininity in ancient Attica by specifically focusing in on some religious and ritual functions of parthenoi (peri- and post-pubescent unmarried citizen ... -
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 ... -
Funerary Architecture at Archaic Gabii: A Morrisean Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)For centuries, inhabitants of central Italy practiced the deposition of grave goods in the tombs of their wealthy deceased. However, in the early sixth century BCE, this tradition vanishes in Latium, while persisting in ... -
Gendering Ambiguities in the Art of the Amarna Period
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The Gracchi: 146-121 BCE
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Helen in Egypt, a Hidden Hathor? An Intercultural Study of Ancient Female Agency
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)This Senior Individualized Project utilizes feminist agency theory to explore intercultural connections between the Egyptian goddess Hathor and the semi-divine Greek heroine Helen of Troy. While Helen has received considerable ... -
The Heroon of Mitrou
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)The Mitrou Archaeological Project (MAP) is an excavation and fieldschool run by the University of Tennessee and the Greek Archaeological Service and is co-directed by Professor Aleydis Van de Moortel of the Classics ...