Primary Sources Unfortunately, there are not a lot of helpful commentaries about the Thebaid. Most of the ones that exist are single book commentaries—I’ll add those to this list as I decide which sections I’ll be examining in the thesis. I’m relying on the Loeb texts for the Latin and the translation by Joyce because …
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Hannah K Thesis Portrait
My thesis will investigate descriptions of landscape in Statius’ Thebaid and the ways they portray the human relationship to the environment in that work. I want to know how the characters in the book affect the environment, and how they are affected by it in turn. How do features of the environment react to human …
HK Questions Please
I’m still working to narrow this idea down, but my thesis will engage with the ancient Roman landscape as it was perceived and described by (one of its authors). I will investigate the interaction between the built environment and the natural world according to the framework set out by Yi-Fu Tuan in his 1977 book …
Hannah’s Thesis Idea: Engaging with Landscape in (some work)
Until this week, I was planning to double major in Linguistics and classical languages. I spent last semester in that department’s equivalent of this class researching a topic that would have allowed me to combine theses: the role of particles in structuring discourse. Greek is famous for its heavy use of particles (and they’ve always …
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