2022-2023
As might be evident from my Categorized Bibliography, I decided this week that I would switch my thesis topic because I was having a hard time writing even short amounts about Patrick, so trying to write something much longer seemed […]
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 […]
In my initial Research Questions post (found here: https://farmer.sites.haverford.edu/seniorsem22/assignments/questionsplease/georges-research-questions/) it is clear that I wanted to focus more on the general Roman ideas about passivity in homosexual sexual relationships. The questions I asked were based around researching homosexual sexual relationships […]
Since first posting my Research questions, I have been able to greatly narrow down the focus of my Thesis research. I will continue to explore the gender-hierarchy in Ancient Greek society, as well as the challenges that women faced within […]
My thesis will be concerned with the role of dogs in Homer and Hesiod. I aim to demonstrate that a canine-based analytical approach to these texts is not only fruitful for understanding dog-specific scenes, but is in fact an effective […]
This is the general argument that my thesis will make: An analysis of these womb amulets shows that wombs were imagined to have agencies of movement, consumption/desire, and smell. At the same time, the users sought to exercise proactive and […]
My thesis has been generally in flux through the semester, but I am finally starting to settle on a central question/argument and method of supporting it. My work will be centered on the Orphic Hymns, and specifically how they invoke […]
My research questions posted here gave a brief overview of the sorts of questions and an implied methodology that I intend to use for my thesis. For my third research question on methodology, I found Shelley Haley’s “Be Not Afraid […]
For my thesis, I’m thinking that I will argue that the creators of the musical Hadestown are creating a new chapter of the myth of Hades and Persephone in order to parallel their relationship with that of Orpheus and Eurydice. […]
At this point in my research for my thesis, I’m planning to center my work around this argument: The feminized grieving and mourning rituals seen in Aeschylus’ Persians by non-Greek men (i.e., Xerxes and the elderly chorus) represent 5th century Athenian collective […]
