Browsing Classics Senior Individualized Projects by Title
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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. -
The Mysterious Death of Antinous: An Egypto-centric View of Antinous' Life and Death
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The Noble Saint : Spiritual and Secular Balance in the Vita Sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Written by Odo of Cluny, the Vita sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis is a rare example of medieval hagiography with a nobleman saint as the subject. As abbot of Cluny, Odo used the Vita Geraldi to provide a moral example for the ... -
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. -
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, ... -
Ovid for High School Students: A Text and Commentary on Selections from the Metamorphoses
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)It seems to me that one of the most essential things in a high school classroom is being able to keep the students interested and engaged. Each decision in regards to my project was made with that goal in mind. I would ... -
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 ... -
Pankration: An Aberration of the Ancient Sporting World
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)In ancient Greek society, especially after the Archaic age, the institution of sport provided one of the only avenues for a male citizen to achieve individual kleos similar to that of a Homeric hero. It was during this ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Pot of Gold: an Intermediate Teaching Text
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)My main goal for this SIP is to use it in an intermediate-level Latin class, in which students will already know, or at least have heard of, the grammatical terms that I have used in the comments. My hope is that students ...