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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 ... -
Queering the Conception : an Intersectional Analysis of Charikleia’s Conception in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)The Oxford English Dictionary defines intersectionality as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination ... -
Reading In-Between the Lines of the Hippocratic Corpus' Nature of Child and Nature of Women
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Resurrecting Sophronia: Eusebius' Christianization of the Livian Marker Rape
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)The paper and the journal are a culmination of my Kalamazoo College experience-this SIP, in fact, is a transitional piece in its own right. Before I went to Rome, my near and extended futures were both cloudy. Now, as ... -
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. -
The Secret of Suggrundaria : 2013 Stobi Excavations and Late Antique Roman In-House Infant Burials
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)This Senior Individualized Project is made up of three distinct parts: a personal reflection of the author’s journey to becoming a Classics major and experiences in the 2013 Excavations in Stobi, Macedonia, a stratigraphic ... -
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 ... -
Stargate: SG-1: Ancient Egyptian Deities to the Modern Eye
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)This paper seeks to understand the appropriation of ancient Egyptian deities into Stargate: SG-1. It seeks to understand why those particular deities were chosen, how they were manipulated and for what reasons the deities ... -
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 Sword and the Cross : Examining the Transference Between Mithraism and Christianity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)The author describes the history and practices of the cult of Mithras and the evolution of the Christian Church to show that Jesus and Mithras share many striking similarities. Although the gods are different they are ... -
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 ... -
The Thirty Tyrants : A New Translation and Reading Commentary
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-01-01)The Tyranni Triginta, contained within the Historia Augusta, is, on the surface, a factual account of the pretenders to Gallienus’ throne. However, it is much more than a history; it is a work of literature chronicling the ...
