Browsing Classics Senior Individualized Projects by Title
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Ideality in Myth and Reality: A Study of the Roles, Rights, and Powers of Women in Ancient Rome
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics that were traditionally considered to be ideal for the Roman matron and then to characteristically look at how particular women were able to act in an untraditional ... -
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 ... -
Imperial Women in Roman Politics: Messalina and Agrippina the Younger
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In Medio Aedium: An Archaeological Analysis of the Great Room of Insula VIII.7.9-11 in Pompeii
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)My study of the great room of Insula VIII.7.9-11 and its women's adornment assemblage has provided plausible evidence for the presence of women throughout the multifunctional rooms of a prosperous early imperial apartment. ... -
The Influence of Egyptian Funerary Practices on Greek Orphism : A Comparison of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Orphic Gold Tablets
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Orphism is a historically controversial title due to the lack of a collective ancient group who called themselves "Orphic." On a basic level, Orphism is a branch of Dionysiac, or Bacchic, worship. The title of Orphism stems ... -
International Diplomat of Mystery : A Study of Hannibal Barca’s Foreign Relations During the Second Punic War
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-01-01)Hannibal Barca (247-183 BCE) is regarded as one of the outstanding generals of antiquity, and rightly so. He took command of his army at a young age, then quickly grew its members to create what was one of the greatest ... -
Interpreting "Uncontrolled Emotions" : Achilles in the Art and Literature of Antiquity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)This paper is uses Angelos Chaniotis's work on uncontrolled emotions in combination with the rise of Emotionology from the late twentieth century and its role in classical archeology to understand how the hero Achilles and ... -
The Investigation of Standing Stones Excavated During the 2004 Dig Season in East Nu 15 at the Ancient City of Idalion, Cyprus
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)During the summer of 2003, I was fortunate enough to attend an archaeological field school at the ancient site of Idalion, Cyprus under the direction of Dr. Pamela Gaber with Lycoming College. I spent two and a half ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Lego Pharos : Reconstructing the Lighthouse of Alexandria
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)For centuries, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was the second-tallest man-made structure in the world. Now, its structure is lost to history and only survived by scattered references across a handful of classical sources. A ... -
Licinia: Vestal Virgins and Sociopolitical Mobility Through Property Rights and Acts of Independence in the 1st Century BCE
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Throughout history, women have held fewer rights than their contemporary male counterparts. Our understandings of the classical and modern worlds are so ingrained around this concept that there is seldom a debate on the ... -
Martians in the Margins : Rubric Marginalia in MS 170
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Martians in the Margins is a study of rubric annotations located in manuscript MS170 housed at the Rare Book Room at Western Michigan University, an early twelfth-century copy of Paschasius Radbertus’s ninth-century tract ... -
Maxentius and His Appian Villa: An Experiental SIP Documentary
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)This SIP documents my experiences at the Villa of Maxentius fieldschool in the summer of 2006. This SIP contains multiple sections that each reflect upon a different aspect of how this experience drew together all aspects ... -
Menander and Plautus : A Comparison
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)The stock characters that appear in Menander's work influenced Plautus, who took the characters and formed them into something original and Roman. In the following paper The author discusses the stock characters that ... -
Menander and Plautus: a Comparison
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)The similarity in Plautus's plays and the work of Menander were already known by the time Menander's work was rediscovered in the Cairo codex. Yet, although it was known that the Roman works were adaptations of the Greek ... -
Messalina: A Play in Two Acts
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)When the Vestal Virgins idea fell through, I decided I still wanted to keep my focus on Roman women. I thought about researching Lucretia or Livia, but I wanted something more original. I was looking for something that ... -
The Modern Politics of Ancient History : 2013 Archaeological Excavations at Santa Maria de Zamartze & Ancient Vasco-Roman Interactions and the Dialectic with Modern Nationalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)This paper is inspired by, and based on, my experience working at a Roman archaeological site at the church of Santa Marfa de Zamartze (Zamartze) in Navarra, located in the Basque Country of Northern Spain. The paper is ... -
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.