Graduate Students

PhD Students

Dean Alexander Ultimus Romanorum: a Biography of C.Cassius Longinus (Pr.44 BC)

Kyle Gervais A Commentary on Statius, Thebaid 2

Thomas Köntges A Commentary on the "pre-Cena" Section of Petronius' Satyrica

Matthew Matthias A Commentary on Book III of Silius Italicus' Punica 3 (temporarily deferred)

Cameron McPhail Looking East -Beyond Orientalism: the Continent of Asia in Ancient Greek Geographic Discourse

Stefan Pedersen Towards a Better Celestial Physics: Proclus' Challenge to the Ideal of Uniform Celestial Motion

Susan Pelechek Representations and Receptions of Scipio Africanus from the Second Century BC to Present

Jamie Potter The Gods in Aristophanic Comedy

Alessandra Pugliese The Greek-Macedonian World in the Late Hellenistic Age

Constance Sleeth Euripides' Zeus, Seneca's Jupiter: The Tragic 'Father of Gods and Men'

Max Whitaker Jesus the Illusionist: the Metamorphosis and Invisibility of Jesus as Signs of Divinity in the New Testament. (with Theology and Religion

Recently Completed

Gerard Ellis Grammar as Theology: a Linguistic Examination of Philippians 2:6-7a (with Theology and Religion)(2012)

Nick Reymond The Figure of the Poor Poet in Classical Poetry (2011)

John Walsh Demythologising the Lamian War: a Literary and Historical Re-Assessment of the Greek Revolt against Antipater (2010)

Robert Simms Statius' Tragic Thebes: Epic and the Tragic Mode (2009)

Andrew Collins The Transformation of Alexander's Court: the Kingship, Royal Insignia and Eastern Court Personnel of Alexander the Great (2008)

Gail Tatham The Image of Moses in Early Christian Art (2008)

Gordon Turner Image and Imagination: Perspectives on Athenian Naval Influence in the Fifth Century (2007)

Charlotte Francis A Commentary on Book 10 of Martial (2007)

Paul Roche A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili 1 (2006)

MA Students

Karl Hart Rites of Return: The Rituals of Transformation from Combatant to Citizen

Chelsea Johnston Food-Tasters in Ancient Society

John Kaye Philip II of Macedon

Maria Mackay A Moral Medea: A New Interpretatoin of an Unnatural Woman

Nathan Watson Satire in Book II of Aupuleius' Metamorphoses: from Philosophising Ass to Asinine Philosopher

Recently Completed

Charlotte Dunn Political Propaganda in the Age of Alexander the Great's Successors (2012)

Sara Perley Fides Romana: Aspects of fides in Roman Diplomatic Relations during the Conquest of Iberia (2012)

Dean Alexander The Early Career of Marc Antony (Triumvir): a Historical Re-Assessment of the Period 62-44 BC (2011)

Nicholas McKenzie Thucydides' Corinthians: an Examination of Corinth in Thucydides' Account of the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (2011)

Cameron McPhail Reconstructing Eratosthenes' Map of the World: a Study in Source Analysis (2011)

Jamie Potter Delphi and Beyond: and Examination into the Role of Oracular Centres within Mainland Greece (2011)

Matthew Sibley The Verrines: Cicero's Masterful Prosecution, Hortensius' Hypothetical Defence, and the False Conclusions of Grain Production Models (2010)

Elsbeth Hymes Masculine Rhetoric and Aristophanes' Female Characters (2009)

Michelle Harrison-Sim The Varying Roles of Water in Roman Domestic Life (2007)

Shalini Kennedy The Greek Influence on Roman Sculpture (2007)

Karen Pickford Concepts of Cruelty in Ancient Rome (2006)

4th Year Honours and PGDip Students (2012)

Sian Barratt Matrona or Meretrix?

Kara Braithwaite-Westoby The Bellum Neronis: the Revolt of Vindex and the Fall of Nero (AD 68)

Chloe Bray The Origins of Artemis: Her Myth,Cult and Iconography

Ashleigh Parr The Great Altar at Pergamon

Jonathan Rolfe Cicero and the Augurate

Bridget Wilson Aspects of Attic Departure Scenes

Jo Winters Andromache, Helen and the Influence of Aphrodite

Jo Winters Alexander the Great and his Rivals (CLAS 480)