Representing a year or more of research and writing, finishing a thesis is a significant moment in the life of our MA graduate students. We are proud to showcase the achievements of our students with this list of completed theses.
2024
- H. Tompkins Tripp IV, “‘Another Day, Another Denarius’: Roman Stipendium and Inflation” (supervised by Dr. Martin Beckmann)
- Marshall Zuckerman, “In Sede Manium, Opes: Tracing the Funerary Use of Coinage in the Southern Italian Greek States Until the Pyrrhic War’s End” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
2023
- Daniel Beauchamp, “Tragic Male Suicide in Fifth-century Athens” (supervised by Dr. Kathryn Mattison)
- Tyler Leblanc, “Antony’s Letter to Hyrcanus and the Battle of Philippi” (supervised by Dr. Claude Eilers)
2022
- Melissa Choloniuk, “A Reconstruction of The Lost Temple Of Janus: Neronian Sestertii, 64/65 CE” (supervised by Dr. Martin Beckmann)
- Cassius Di Maria, “The Circulation of Greek Federal Coinage” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
- Maia Fiorelli, “A Diachronic Study of Clytemnestra’s Characterization in the Agamemnon” (supervised by Dr. Kathryn Mattison)
2021
- Robyn Bachmeier, “Coins in the Archaeological Context: The Villa of Titus Case Study” (supervised by Dr. Martin Beckmann)
- James Bader, “ὉI ΠΟΛΎΤΡΟΠΟΙ ἭΡΩΕΣ: A STUDY OF HOMERIC HEROISM” (supervised by Kathryn Mattison)
- Jocelyn Cross, “The Cult of Aphrodite Under the Ptolemies: The Consolidation and Legitimization of a Dynasty” (supervised by Dr. Sean Corner)
- Piero D’Alonzo, “Patronage of Collectives: The Relations Between Patrons and Local Communities in Northern Italy” (supervised by Dr. Claude Eilers)
- Jonah Halili, “A Study of Hunting Scenes and Virtus in Roman Art, Third to Sixth Centuries A.D.” (supervised by Dr. Michele George)
- Mackenzie Hilton, “Cosmic Proportion: The Shared Conceptual Framework of Greek Medicine, Ethics, and Politics” (supervised by Dr. Sean Corner)
- Heva Olfman, “The Depiction of Abandoned and Lamenting Women in Catullus, Vergil and Ovid” (supervised by Dr. Mariapia Pietropaolo)
2020
- Eric Del Fabbro, “A cup above: Production and distribution of Ionian cups in the chora of Metaponto” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
- Xi He, “The bull as a numismatic type in Magna Graecia, from Archaic to Late Classical Period” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
2018
- Jayden Lloyd, “Political Organization of the Sikels to the end of the 5th c. BCE” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
- Nicholas MacKenzie, “Unstable Statuses in Euripides’ Andromache” (supervised by Dr. Kathryn Mattison)
- Sean Williams, “Epistemic Certainty and Uncertainty in Sophocles’ Ajax” (supervised by Dr. Kathryn Mattison)
2016
- Michael Ostroff, “The Roman Republican Imperatorial Salutation” (supervised by Dr. Claude Eilers)
- Caitlin Ryan, “Venus in Roman Art” (supervisor Dr. Martin Beckmann)
- Emily Sumpter, “Humour in the Underworld of Ovid’s Metamorphoses” (supervised by Dr. Paul Murgatroyd)
- Cassandra Tran, “Portrayals of the Virgo in Plautine Comedy” (supervised by Dr. Kathryn Mattison)
2015
- Fae Amiro, “A Study of the Post-Mortem Sanctions Against the Last Flavian Emperor” (supervised by Dr. Martin Beckmann)
- Stan Barber, “Humour and Wit in the Paraclausithyra of Horace and Propertius” (supervised by Dr. Paul Murgatroyd)
- Andrew Gyorkos, “The Rape of Hylas in Theocritus Idyll 13 and Propertius 1.20” (supervised by Dr. Paul Murgatroyd)
- Owen Hurst, “Representations and Receptions of the Tyrant in Archaic and Classical Greece” (supervised by Dr. Sean Corner)
- Emily Lamond, “Roman Daughters in Death” (supervised by Dr. Michele George)
- N. Neufeld, “The Arrival of Apollo in Etruria: Evidence from Cerveteri” (supervised by Dr. Spencer Pope)
- Owen Phillips, “Proportion and Apportionment: A Study in Homeric Values” (supervised by Dr. Sean Corner)