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Recent MA theses

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)