M.A. Classicshttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/29312024-03-19T23:17:37Z2024-03-19T23:17:37ZComitum princeps tu mihi eris: Rape and the Distribution of Auctoritas in Ovid's FastiJohnston, Jessehttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/59162022-10-06T15:13:40Z2014-12-08T00:00:00ZComitum princeps tu mihi eris: Rape and the Distribution of Auctoritas in Ovid's Fasti
Johnston, Jesse
In Ovid’s Fasti, the rape narratives of Callisto, Lara, Flora, and Carna contain the common themes of the distribution of auctoritas and/or the subversion of auctoritas. While all four characters are victims of rape, Callisto loses auctoritas as a result of her rape by Jupiter, whereas Flora and Carna gain auctoritas from their rapes by Zephyrus and Janus respectively. Since Ovid associated Augustus with Jupiter on more than one occasion in the poem, it appears that readers were meant to see a parallel between Jupiter’s dealings with auctoritas in these narratives and Augustus’ exercise of his auctoritas over Rome. Zephyrus’ and Janus’ bestowal of auctoritas upon their victims was intended to be a foil for Jupiter’s denial of auctoritas to Callisto and strict regulation of his own auctoritas, which Lara’s narrative exemplifies, in order for Ovid to criticize the overwhelming nature of Augustus’ auctoritas, as well as specific Augustan policies.
2014-12-08T00:00:00ZGender and Healing in the Hippocratic CorpusInnes, Alisonhttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/41312022-10-06T15:13:38Z2012-10-19T00:00:00ZGender and Healing in the Hippocratic Corpus
Innes, Alison
Hippocratic physicians sought to establish themselves as medical authorities in ancient Greece. An examination of the deontological texts of the Hippocratic corpus reveals that the Hippocratics created a medical authority based on elite male characteristics. The key quality of the Hippocratic physician was sōphrosunē, a quality closely associated with men and used in the differentiation of genders in the Greek world. Women were not believed to innately possess this quality and so their healing activities were restricted within the Hippocratic framework. Women’s healing activities are only mentioned in the corpus when women are involved in the treatment of other women or self-treatment. The Hippocratic construction of medicine as a male domain fit within a Classical cultural framework, as the cultural anxiety concerning women healers and women’s use of pharmaka are evident in both Greek myth and literature.
2012-10-19T00:00:00ZBeyond child's play : wealth, status, and the death of children in the MH-LH I periods of the Argolid, GreeceSchleifer, Katherinehttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/30832022-10-06T15:13:52Z2010-10-27T00:00:00ZBeyond child's play : wealth, status, and the death of children in the MH-LH I periods of the Argolid, Greece
Schleifer, Katherine
This study explores the mortuary remains of children from the MH-LH I periods
of the Argolid, Greece. This examination concentrates on how the child in death acted as
a tool for wealth and status display. Here, children are understood to have perpetuated,
maintained, and reinforced status distinctions between families in their community. The
analysis of one hundred child burials that date to these periods illustrates how the burials
of children were important opportunities used by the families of children to display
wealth and status. Thus, children can be viewed as important factors in the reorganization
of social structure in the transition from the Middle to Late Helladic.
2010-10-27T00:00:00ZThe Princeps Optimus : towards a new reading of Velleius Paterculus' historyDawson, Christopher.http://hdl.handle.net/10464/29232022-10-06T15:13:48Z2009-02-16T15:46:02ZThe Princeps Optimus : towards a new reading of Velleius Paterculus' history
Dawson, Christopher.
Abstract
This thesis works towards a new reading ofVelleius Paterculus' survey of Roman
history, published in AD 29 or 30. Modem scholarship has tended to condemn Velleius as
historian and stylist. Though opinions have started to change in the last few decades, even
the most recent works generally treat him as a passive and perhaps unconscious conveyor
of Roman cultural ideals and Augustan ideology. This thesis argues that the historian is,
in fact, manipulating these themes to make definite political points. It focuses on the
negativity of the history's conclusion as it stands in stark contrast to the preceding
narrative celebrating the principates of Augustus and Tiberius. The thesis tentatively
concludes that Velleius was trying to express concern over Rome's future, and
specifically to influence Tiberius to return to Rome from his retreat on the island of Capri
and curb the power of his "assistant," Sejanus.
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