Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Faulkner, Andrew"
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Gender Interplay in Nonnos' Dionysiaka: The Cases of Deriades and Aura
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)This thesis presents the relation between the gendered language of Nonnos and the ironic undertones he employs to describe two main plot points in the Dionysiaka. I focus on Dionysos’ battle with Deriades, the Indian king, ... -
The Intertextual Dynamics of Colluthus' Abduction of Helen
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)This thesis is devoted to an intertextual study of Colluthus’ late antique epyllion, the Abduction of Helen. Colluthus is a poet whose reputation has long suffered, but is currently under rehabilitation, and the aim of ... -
Xenophon's Hiero
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)This study will be a close textual analysis of Xenophon’s Hiero, contextualized and informed by the author’s other writings and the relevant secondary philological and historical scholarship. In addition to critiquing the ...