<p>commentary on Medea with an introductory chapter<br />discussing authorship, date, dramatic technique,<br />style and philosophical elements.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

This textual and linguistic commentary, which is the first of any kind in English on the Historiae of Quintus Curtius, discusses the uncertainties presented by the text as transmitted, evaluates the solutions offered by previous scholars and suggests some new emendations. Curtius' grammar, syntax and linguistic usage are examined in comparison with the standards accepted before the time of Livy and the developments thereafter. His expression and style are compared with those of other authors, with special reference to Livy and Curtius' near-contemporary, Seneca the Younger. Literary analogies with other authors in all periods are given and similarities in thought and style are also noticed. Curtius' treatment of his subject-matter is considered in the light of the parallel accounts of Arrian, Diodorus Siculus, and in some places Plutarch and Justin, and questions of historical fact are discussed where they arise from the text of Curtius himself. Two appendices are included, of which the first deal with the dispute over the date of composition of the work, and Curtius' identity. It presents the case for identifying the Princeps referred to at X 9.1-6 with Claudius and suggests that Curtius composed the Historiae during the early years of that emperor's reign. The second appendix deals with our author's vocabulary and his use of participles and infinitives, and demonstrates some aspects of his contribution to, and place within, the evolution of the Latin language since the time of Livy. The apparatus criticus is derivative; the commentary, except insofar as every such work must take account of previous scholarship, is entirely original.

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This dissertation examines the poetic construction of geography in Statius' Silvae. As poems composed by Statius to praise his patrons, the Silvae are shaped by the social relationships of first-century Rome and reflect in many ways the worldview of contemporary Roman elites. In the Flavian era, political, military, technological, and commercial developments contributed to an increasingly important ideology of spatial control; the Empire was seen as encompassing the inhabited world, which was subject to Roman dominion and knowledge. Statius' treatment of geography in the Silvae, often dismissed as rhetorical embellishment, in fact presents a vision of the Empire and the world related to but distinct from this "official" geographical ideology. I develop this argument in a series of thematically organized chapters, in which I read the Silvae both collectively, to elucidate the worldview of the corpus as a whole, and individually, to demonstrate the ways in which Statius uses geography for particular poetic and social purposes. I first examine Statius’ general presentation of the Empire, which combines traditional imperialistic methods of viewing global space with contemporary political and military developments. In Silvae 3.2, an example of Statian travel narrative, the connection between military conquest and geographical knowledge is most extensively elaborated across Italy, the Empire, and the extra-imperial world. A discussion of the geographical significance of imported household luxuries shows how the poet establishes a correspondence between domestic and imperial spaces. Finally, I examine the association between geography and ethnicity in Silvae 4.5, in which Statius uses the ethnographical and poetic traditions to blur the distinction between native and assimilated identities. Statius regularly draws on the traditions of poetic and scientific geography, but he also updates his “map” to reflect the changing world of the Flavian era. But while Statius’ geography generally expresses the imperial vision of his patrons, it is not monolithic; he also constructs more private geographies, which complement this political and Rome-centered worldview. The geography of the Silvae thus also serves to enhance the poet’s personal friendship with his patrons, his praise of his various addressees, and his self-presentation as a learned poet. / The Classics

The present research was conducted. with the aim of better understanding of Linear B texts through the help of the Near Eastern parallels. The method chosen was the comparison between individual texts and groups of texts and not between the 'models' reconstructed for this or that society. Several restrictions for such a comparison were set up. The comparison itself was limited to the problems of manpower (lists of personnel, ration lists, land-surveys). The best parallels for Mycenaean records of work-teams (male and female) were found among the Sumerian documents from the period of the Third Dynasty of Ur, for the quotas of conscripts from specific villages - in Ugarit, and for the texts dealing with the land tenure and the organisation of the cultic personnel - among the Hittite cuneiform texts and Luwian hieroglyphic Kululu lead strips. The attempt was made to reconstruct the structure of the productive population in Mycenaean Greece and to find its place among other societies of the Ancient World.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Classical Studies, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4170. Adviser: Timothy Long.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 17, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4532. Adviser: Edith Sarra.