Senior Independent Study Theses from 2024
Divine Interventions and Human Competition: Horses, Prizes, and the Gods in Homer’s Narrative of the Funeral Games for Patroclus, Helen Dobransky
Department: Classical Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Addressing the Terminology: Scholarship on Gender Non-Conformity in Ancient Rome, Max Forhan
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Posidaeja, Kaylee Hickman
Department: Classical Studies
Bickering and Banter: Im/Politeness Theory in Aristophanic and Terentian Comedies, Katherine Shambaugh
Department: Classical Studies
Spartan and Elean Relations during the 5th Century BCE: How Elis Challenged Spartan Hegemony in the Peloponnese, Casey Steffen
Department: Classical Studies
Mycenaean Trade in The Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, Ryan Tompkins
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
The Persistent Illusion of the Medici Reality, Isabelle C. Hoover
Department: Classical Studies; Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
Golden Girdle, Silver Tongue: The Linguistic Strategy Of Homer's Hera, Amina Clare Watts Hull
Department: Classical Studies
Let Sleeping Queen's Rise: A Study Of The Life, Memory, And Memorials Of Empress Matilda, Jordan E. Wilson
Department: Classical Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
The Female Perspective: An Investigation Into How the Reconstruction and Efficacy of a Gynecological Fertility Recipe Unveils Female Voice in the Hippocratic Corpus, Randa Elie Abboud
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Classical Studies; History
Boudica and Agrippina: An Analysis of Representation of Female Power in Tacitus and Dio, Morgan Barnett
Department: Classical Studies
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Vergil and Ovid's Clashing Portrayals of Individual and Group Identity, Dante G. King
Department: Classical Studies
Helen of Troy? A Reexamination of Helen's Speech in the Iliad, Erin A. Robichaud
Department: Classical Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
Born to Fight: The Virtues of Pankratiasts within Pindar's Nemean Odes, Elijah Culley
Department: Classical Studies
Power in the hands of Queens: An analysis of Egyptian queenship through museum representation, Caitlin Kerzan
Department: Classical Studies
An Overview of the Playing Sappho Project, Conclusions and Findings, Mary G. McLoughlin
Department: Classical Studies; History
Lost in Excavation: A Study of Ancient Greek Burial Artefacts and How They Are Displayed in Museums in the Context of Their History, Nina Ruth Hooper Rusmore
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Infection Control! Synergism in Hippocratic Wound Infection Theory and the Antimicrobial Efficacy of the Barbarum Plaster against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Araam Abboud
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Classical Studies
The Ghosts of Terentia: The History and Historiographical Representations of the Woman who Married Cicero, Mary McKinley
Department: Classical Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
The Enigma of the Twelve Handmaidens: an Analysis of Book 22 of Homer’s Odyssey, Theodora Evinger
Department: Classical Studies
Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus, Alina M. Karapandzich
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Parallel Space: The Aeneid as Colonial Discourse, Daria L. Oberholzer
Department: Classical Studies
οἴμοι! οἱ οἶμοι!: A Close Reading and Reconstruction of the Arms of Agamemnon in Homer’s Iliad, Michael D. Saridakis
Department: Classical Studies
Trade Winds: A Study of Roman Ceramic Trade in the Balearic Islands, Abigail Varlan
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Good Grief: An Examination in Grief through the Works of Seneca the Younger and Edgar Allen Poe, Bruce Lutz
Department: Classical Studies; Comparative Literature
Priestess of Potnia: A Story of Women, Cult Practices, and Mycenaean Society in the Bronze Age Aegean, Bethany K. Smith
Department: Classical Studies; History
Firing the Classics Canon: Combining Latin Language Learning and Social Studies Pedagogy in a First-Year Latin Classroom, Alexis Spencer
Department: History; Classical Studies
Negroid Hermaphrodite to Seated Man: An In-Depth Analysis of Modern and Ancient Ideas of Race and Ethnicity in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Emily Walker
Department: Classical Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Can Martyrdom Transcend the Ancient and Modern World? History and Archaeology at the Roman Fort of Halmyris, Colin P. Omilanowski
Department: Classical Studies; History
From the Muses to the Museum: Presenting The Iliad Through Public History to Facilitate Historical Perspective, Emily K. Pudnos
Department: Classical Studies; History
Veni Vidi Didici: A Game for Learning Latin, William Frederick Rial
Department: Classical Studies; Computer Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Mycenae and Cultural Memory: 150 to 2015 CE, Elora A. Agsten
Department: Art and Art History; Classical Studies
Plato and Aristotle on the Ancient Quarrel: A Search for Poetic Meaning in Vergil’s Aeneid, Danielle A. Aviles
Department: Classical Studies; Philosophy
Escaping Definitions: A Queer Reader on Love for Students of Ancient Greek, Anna-Maria H.C. Cornel
Department: Classical Studies
A Modern Approach: Teaching Rape in Roman New Comedy, Samantha A. Rowe
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
“Have you Heard about the Word 'Word'”: A Philosophical and Classical-Historical Analysis of Logos in The Gospel of John, Sarah E. Buntin
Department: Classical Studies; Philosophy
Almost Roman: An Examination of the Wealthy Freedman in Early Imperial Rome, Thomas R. Pike
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Comedy Tomorrow, Tragedy Tonight: Euripides' Choral Innovations in Greek Tragedy, David Chu
Department: Classical Studies
The Lost Letters of Calpurnia: An Epistolary Novella Based on the Life of Pliny the Younger's Wife, Lisa Marie Favicchia
Department: Classical Studies; English
Effective Pain Management in the Reduction of Addictive Behaviors: A Review of Greek Theories with Modern Implication, Grace Hamilton
Department: Classical Studies; Psychology
Class Humor in Menander's Dyskolos, Jessica Jordan
Department: Classical Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Myth, Ritual, and Symbol and the Theory of "Invented Tradition" As Applied to the Worship of Dionysos/Dionysus Across Space and Time, Justin Kalinay
Department: Classical Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Domitian's Rome: the Urban Image Built and Written, Daniel P. Axmacher
Department: Classical Studies
Let's Talk About Me: a Habermasian Investigation of Discourse in Aristophanes' "Birds" and "Ecclesiazusae", Sidney H. Helfer
Department: Classical Studies; Political Science
Tunics and Tights: An Analysis of Ancient Greek Heroes in Modern Comics, Emma Zieske
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Past Phantoms and Pollutions: Evolution of the Ghost Story From Ancient Greece to Modern America, Joshua Binus
Department: Classical Studies
Medea Through the Eyes of Her Audience: Judgments on the Child-Killer From Antiquity Through Modernity, Emma DeLooze
Department: Classical Studies
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Alice Dudley
Department: Classical Studies
They Did What to Their Junk: Roman Views of Greek Athletic Nudity, Kaylin Gaal
Department: Classical Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Rome Inside the Arena: the Social Functionality of Gladiatorial Combat in the Later Republic and Early Imperial Periods, Joseph M. Stryffeler
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Plato Gone Wilde: An Analysis of Same-Sex, Mentor-Pupil Relations in Plato's Symposium, Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray, and Alan Bennett's the History Boys, Megan Grundtisch
Department: Classical Studies; English
Aeneas and the Quest for a New City: A Study of Beginning Latin Textbook Methodologies, Erica Wicks
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
"This Game of Death Is Bitter, and Sweet": a Study of Revenge in the Greek Tragedies, Jessica Anne Hahs
Department: Classical Studies
Tradition of Latin Pedagogy at the College of Wooster, Judith Mae Holden
Department: Classical Studies
Herodotus the Impartial Observer: a Look at Herodotus' Treatment of Greeks and Persians in the Histories, Nicholas J. Monin
Department: Classical Studies
"Jerome Has Legs": Classical Philology and Sacred Text in the Works of Saint Jerome, Desiderius Erasmus, and Martin Luther, Megan Grace Prichard
Department: Classical Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Strangest Man That Has Ever Been: Socrates' Influence on Julian and Kierkegaard, Margaret Heller
Department: Classical Studies
And They Turned Her Into a Tree! Metamorphosis in Ovid and Once on This Island, Yi-Ning Lin
Department: Classical Studies; Theatre and Dance
Two Regimes and the Principles of Enlightenment Thought: Religion and the State in Augustan Rome and Modern America, Samuel Courter Morris Shimeall
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Turning the Now Into Always: a Look at Persuasion, Group Identity, Ritual, and the Evolution of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Funeral Orations of Pericles, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, Amanda Lynn Rollins
Department: Classical Studies; Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Vigor Mortis: the Metamorphoses of Classical Studies at the College of Wooster 1870-2004, Geoffrey T. Allerton
Department: Classical Studies
Hesiod's ΟI΅ΚOΣ: a Realistic Farm Compared, Daniel Bandstra
Department: Classical Studies
Lest Her Name Should Cease From the Mouths' of Men: Helen As Ovid's Fantasy Woman in Heroides 16 and 17, Pamela J. Miller
Department: Classical Studies
Masculine Image of Cleopatra VII: A Connotative Symbasis in Literature and the Visual Arts, Andrew C. Spencer
Department: Classical Studies
Beehive: A Comparative Study of Xenophon's Oeconomicus and Its Influences on Modern Household and Family Economics, Curtis D. Wolfe
Department: Classical Studies; Economics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics: Instructions in Life, Thomas Fowkes
Department: Classical Studies; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
Aniconic Images in Ancient Aegean Cultures, Michael Ludwig
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Roman Legion at the Transition From Republic to Empire, Sara N. Streeter
Department: Classical Studies
Britons, Wholly Sundered From All the World: Diet and Identity on the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain, 43-400 C.E., Michael A. Vidmar
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Implications of Ptolemaic Rule on Traditional Egyptian Culture, Matthew J. Breznai
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Translating Theran Wall Paintings, Sarah E. Nichols
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
It's Not the Size of the Road; It's What You Do With It: A Study on the Effects of Transportation Routes and Trade on the Romanization of Gaul, Michael P. Krackenberger
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Capricious By Nature: The Mutable Role of Pan in a Selection of Classical, Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth Century Texts, Megan W. Whinery
Department: Classical Studies; English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Color at the Final Curtain: The Creation of Mood Through Color in Europides Medea and Dassin's Dream of Passion and How the Ancient and Modern Audiences Responded, Danielle M. Coppola
Department: Classical Studies; English
Implications of St. Augustine's Use of Virtus in Book XIX of the City of God, Sean P. Malone
Department: Classical Studies
Corinth and Saint Paul: a Study of Cultural and Economic Influences, Heather A. Turnbull
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice, Sarah Harris
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Manipulation of Greek and Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries From 1050 to 450 B.C.E., John Oswald
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997
Evaluation of the World Wide Web As a Research and Bibliographic Tool For Classics, Trevor Horsfall
Department: Classical Studies
Lysias: in the Past and in the Present, Emily K. Reseigh
Department: Classical Studies
Influence of the Classics on Henry David Thoreau, Aaron V. Skrypski
Department: English; Classical Studies
Feminist Speculative Fiction: Reshaping the Archetypal Patterns of Motherhood Rooted in Myth, Margaret A. Toth
Department: Classical Studies; English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
Isis Under the Romans, Mark Webb
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988
Cult Religions of Pompeii, Daniel A. Sponseller
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987
Plautine Humor: An Examination of the Models of Erich Segal and David Konstan, Robert J. Affeldt
Department: Classical Studies
Cicero and Political Amicitia in the Late Republic, Thomas R. Jones
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986
Athens at War: a Comic Perspective, Nora Jean Land
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1985
Byzantine Piety in the Age Before Iconoclasm, Melissa A. Ehlert
Department: Classical Studies
Explorations in Mycenaean Cult Worship, Alexander M. Landefeld
Department: Classical Studies
End of the Bronze Age in Relation to the Mycenaeans, Deborah L. Suciu
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1984
Did Paul Expect Veiled Women at Worship?, Diane T. Dannels
Department: Classical Studies
Power and Influence of Six Women in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome, Elizabeth M. C. Koreman
Department: Classical Studies
Old Age in the Dramas of Euripides, Ann Zobrosky
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1983
Melian Dialogue: a Structural Analysis, Margaret S. Mook
Department: Classical Studies
Translation of Two Chapters of John Schaffer's De Militia Navali Veterum (Ancient Naval Warfare), Ann H. West
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981
Dream, Vision, and Prophecy in the Aeneid: a Study in Vergilian Originality, Elizabeth R. Rea
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980
Matrona and Meretrix: the Roman Women of Plautus, Martha A. Kallstrom
Department: Classical Studies
Suetonius' Life of Claudius: A Study in Ancient Biography, Lynn McGrew
Department: Classical Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1978
Archaeological Problems: Past and Present, a Survey, Philip Lincoln
Department: Classical Studies
Linear B and Mycenaean Religion, Diane Snider
Department: Classical Studies