The Marshall Reading Room (1502 CL) is home to the department's collection of doctoral dissertations in Classics. This collection, which celebrated its centennary in 2019, is a unique record of the imaginative and diligent young scholars who have passed through our programs, and a reminder of the department's enduring commitment to graduate education.
Year | Name | Title | In Classics Library (Yes/No) |
---|---|---|---|
2019 |
Brooke McLane-Higginson |
Myth and Argument in Plato's Phaedo |
Yes |
2014 |
John J. Scanlon |
Generic Enrichment, Reader Expectation, and Metapoetic Trees in Horace’s Odes |
Yes |
2014 |
Andrew J. Korneziewski |
Killing Turnus: A Reading of Aeneas, Man of Action |
Yes |
2013 |
W. Gerald Heverly |
Neglected Warnings in the Iliad: A Study in Characterization |
Yes |
2013 |
Joseph A. Tipton |
An Aristocracy of Virtue: The Protagorean Background to the Periclean Funeral Speech in Thucydides |
Yes |
2013 |
Nicholas R. Thorne |
The Unity of the Gorgias |
Yes |
2012 |
Christopher J. Kurfess |
Restoring Parmenides’ Poem: Essays Toward a New Arrangement of the Fragments Based on a Reassessment of the Original Sources |
Yes |
2011 |
Erin Elizabeth O’Bryan |
From Ignobile Vulgus to Rerum Dominos: The Emergence of the Roman Crowd in Vergil’s Aeneid |
Yes |
2009 |
Lihua Zhang |
Medea and its Chinese Audience |
Yes |
2007 |
Benjamin Stephen Haller |
Landscape Description in Homer’s Odyssey |
Yes |
2005 |
Tiberiu M. Popa |
Aristotle on Material Dispositions in Meteorology IV |
Yes |
2003 |
Jana Adamitis |
Accommodation and Self-Representation in Horace’s Parade Odes |
Yes |
2003 |
Karen Rosenbecker |
Repast and Representation: The Trope of the Culinary in the Comedies of Aristophane’s |
Yes |
2002 |
Heike Sefrin-Weis |
Homogeneity in Aristotle’s Metaphysics |
Yes |
2002 |
Geoffrey David Steadman |
Liturgy Avoidance and the Unity of Plato’s Euthyphro |
Yes |
2002 |
John F. Newell |
Parmenidean Irony |
Yes |
1996 |
Constance M. Carroll |
The Use and Function of Rhetoric in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound |
Yes |
1995 |
David Nelson |
The Indo-European Origins of Minerva |
Yes |
1992 |
Helen Theodoratou |
Convention and Contricance: Transition to and from the Narrative in Pindar's Odes |
Yes |
1991 |
David B. Seward |
Divine disguise in Homer’s Iliad |
Yes |
1990 |
Ann T. Wilkins |
Sallust’s Portrayal of Catiline |
Yes |
1984 |
James S. Murray |
The True Rhetoric: an Analysis of Plato’s Conception of Persuasion |
Yes |
1982 |
Daniel Frank |
The Arguments ‘From the Sciences’ in Aristotle’s Peri Ideon |
Yes |
1979 |
Philip D. Long |
Principles of Ancient Near Eastern Parallelismus Membrorum Applied to the Interpretation of the Proem and Some Related Passages of Hesiod’s Theogony |
Yes |
1977 |
William J. Switala |
The Incidence and Use of Alliteration in the Elegies of Propertius |
Yes |
1974 |
Frank A. Ameruoso |
Latin in the American Public High School -- A Struggle for Survival in the Twentith Century |
Yes |
1974 |
June W. Allison |
Preparation (Paraskeue) in Thucydides |
Yes |
1971 |
Joseph J. Prentiss |
Linnaeus’s Senium Salomoneum: Text, Translation, and Commentary |
Yes |
1965 |
Margaret Held |
The Influence of Menander on Roman Palliata; The Anticipations of New Comedy in Euripidean Tragedy |
Yes |
1965 |
Laszlo A. Borsay |
Lydia, its Land and History |
No |
1962 |
Jerry Clack |
The Chrysis of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini |
No |
1962 |
Evelyn G. Guss |
A Study of the Vocabulary of Aristophanes’ Plutus |
No |
1962 |
Paul F. Kirby |
Classical References in the Letters (pre-1455 A.D.) of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) |
No |
1961 |
Erving R. Mix |
Marcus Atilius Regulus: Exemplum Historicum |
No |
1954 |
Nathan F. Harter |
A Literary History of the Legend of the Argonautic Expedition through the Middle Ages |
Yes |
1951 |
James McCulloch |
A Lexicographical Study of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche. |
Yes |
1946 |
Robert H. Clark |
The suppression of Intellectual Opinion in Classical Greece |
Yes |
1945 |
Anna W. Gerwig |
Scholarship on Caesar in the Twentieth Century |
Yes |
1944 |
Wray Miller |
An Analysis of the New Testament Vocabulary |
Yes |
1944 |
Lillian G. Surbled |
The Figures of Speech in the Works of Horace |
Yes |
1942 |
Clifford Bennett |
The Latin of the Roman Breviary Hymns |
Yes |
1942 |
William C. Panetta |
The Androgynous Heracles and Transvestism |
No |
1940 |
John J. Sullivan |
Deification in Cicero |
Yes |
1939 |
John J. Dillon Jr. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Trial Lawyer |
Yes |
1939 |
William C. Salyer |
Marica, goddess of the Auruncians |
Yes |
1938 |
Charles Z. Keim |
Lambinus and the Greek in the text of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus |
Yes |
1938 |
Elizabeth A. Atwater |
A history of classical scholarship in America |
Yes |
1938 |
Joseph Foster |
The Cena trimalchionis of Petronius in the Codex Traguriensis |
Yes |
1937 |
John A. Johnston |
First-century Homer: a study of Homer and the Homeric epics in Greek and Latin literature of the first century A.D. |
Yes |
1937 |
Charles M. Lee |
Varro’s Menippean satires |
No |
1936 |
Dorothy J. Fulmer |
The Tornaesius Edition of Petronius |
Yes |
1936 |
Nyswaner, Roy |
The Use of the Praecidanea of Dousa in the Seventeenth Century Commentaries of Petronius |
Yes |
1936 |
Edmund O’Connell |
The Quinctian Gens |
Yes |
1935 |
George C. Edson |
Columella: an Ancient Viticulturist |
Yes |
1934 |
Sister Mary deChantal Leis |
The Utilization of Pagan Educational Facilities by the Early Christians from the Third to the Sixth Century |
Yes |
1934 |
Dorothy Torreyson |
Woman in the Spanish comedy of the Golden Age |
Yes |
1934 |
Fred A. Sochatoff |
The Commentaries in the Manuscripts of d, k, m of Petronius |
Yes |
1933 |
Helen R. Milar |
The Interrelations of MSS. A E F U of Petronius |
Yes |
1933 |
Nancy Miller |
The Interrelations of MSS. C D G J K Q of Petronius |
Yes |
1933 |
Lillian S. White |
The Early Editions of the Satyricon of Petronius |
Yes |
1932 |
Eugene W. Miller |
Index Verborum of Pliny the Younger |
Yes |
1931 |
Kevin J. Guinagh |
An Unpublished Manuscript of Reogerius Anglicus |
Yes |
1931 |
Mildred Daschbach |
Sambucus and the Text of Petronius |
No |
1930 |
Elizabeth Snowden McCague |
Clausuale in Petronius |
Yes |
1930 |
Laura M. McCurdy |
The Frambotto Edition and the Codex Taguriensis of Petronius |
Yes |
1929 |
James Stinchcomb |
Quintus Tullius Cicero |
Yes |
1927 |
Adelaide R. Jones |
The Relation of the MSS BPR of Petronius |
Yes |
1926 |
Adolphus L. Alexander |
Did Cicero Conform to the Rules of Oratory in the AD Herennium? |
Yes |
1919 |
Mary Gerard Dougherty |
The Relation of the Florilegia to the Manuscript Tradition of Petronius |
Yes |