Recently Completed Theses
2023-24
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Daly, Alastair |
A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
Doyle, Lisa |
Margins of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
La Penna, Kathryn |
Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour |
PhD |
Hazel Dodge |
Neil, Eleanor |
The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus |
PhD |
Christine Morris |
Prekas, George |
Sic Mundus Creatus Est: Connection, Convergence, Coherence in Manilius’ Astronomica |
PhD |
Monica Gale |
2022-23
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Foley, Elizabeth |
Nesiotai and Poleis Aspects of Agency in the Hellenistic Cyclades |
PhD |
Shane Wallace |
Hill, Andrew |
The Libyan Wars. Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa |
PhD |
Shane Wallace |
McGrath, Sean |
Oppian’s Piscine Dialectic |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
Strigel, William |
The Weight of Aristophanes: Plato and the ‘Other’ Comic Poets |
PhD |
Ashley Clements |
2021-22
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Ashton, Susannah |
Cosmos and Crisis: Re-evaluating Conceptions of Time and Space in Archaic and Classical Greece |
PhD |
Ashley Clements |
Gwozdecky, Graham |
Hero and Exile: Plutarch’s Life of Sertorius |
PhD |
Brian McGing |
Moore, Ralph |
‘Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman Impact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10 BCE |
PhD |
Hazel Dodge |
Ward, Matthew |
Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of The Iliad |
PhD |
Ahuvia Kahane |
2020-21
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Madela, Alexandra |
The Argonautica of Orpheus and the Epic Tradition in Late Antiquity |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
Walker, Guy |
Neoplatonic Thought in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
2019-20
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Corless, Bridget |
Colour Symbolism and the use of Decorative Stones in Rome |
MLitt |
Hazel Dodge |
2018-19
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Almqvist, Olaf |
The Cosmos in the Making: Humans, Gods and Animals in Early Greek Theogonies |
PhD |
Ashley Clements |
Desmond, Margaret |
Fires in Rome: The Ancient City as a Fire Régime |
PhD |
Hazel Dodge |
Zimmermann, Simone |
Midwives of Eileithyia: Tracing a Female Healing Tradition in Prehistoric Crete |
PhD |
Christine Morris |
2017-18
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Felisari, Clara |
Capturing Iambos: Code-Switching in an Ancient Greek Literary Language |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
Gramps, Adrian |
The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers / Monica Gale |
Kerrigan, Charlie |
Geography and Empire in Virgil’s Georgics: A Study of the Poem and its Reception in Britain and the British Empire, c. 1820-1930 |
PhD |
Monica Gale |
2016-17
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Akcay, Nilufer |
Porphyry’s Cave of the Nymphs in Its Intellectual Context |
PhD |
Martine Cuypers |
Alexandrou, Constantina |
Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus |
PhD |
Christine Morris |
Breeckner, David |
The Design and Use of Provincial Ceramics in Middle Minoan East Crete, as Observed at Priniatikos Pyrgos |
PhD |
Christine Morris |
Flanders, Bethany |
Medeae Medea forem: Rediscovering Ovid’s Medea |
PhD |
Monica Gale |
O'Halloran, Barry |
The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Maritime Perspective |
PhD |
Brian McGing |
Sanborn, Katherine |
Ille regit animos dictis: Models of Authority in Vergil's Aeneid |
PhD |
Monica Gale |
2015-16
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Faropoulou, Kalypso |
The Social Meaning of Early Bronze Age Architecture in the Eastern Aegean and Western Anatolia |
MLitt |
Christine Morris |
Lynam, Frank |
Linking Archaeology: Considering the Epistemological and Sociological Implications of a Linked Open Data Archaeology |
PhD |
Christine Morris |
Zinn, Pamela |
‘Sic hominum genus est’: Animals and the Continuum of Life in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius |
PhD |
Monica Gale |
2014-15
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Bourke, Elizabeth |
The Cult of Asklepios in Greece 420 BC-200 CE: Healing, Landscape and Experience |
Ph.D. |
Christine Morris |
2013-14
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Cadau, Cosetta |
Studies in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen |
Ph.D. |
Martine Cuypers |
2012-13
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Kevin McGee |
Petrarch's Aeneid: Critical Assessments of Virgil in the Africa |
Ph.D. |
ACh |
Mairéad McGrath |
Pregnant Words: A Study of Eumenides 657-666 |
Ph.D. |
MC |
Selga Medenieks |
Cyrus the Great, Religion, and the Conquest of Ancient Anatolia |
Ph.D. |
BMcG |
Emmett Tracy |
Versiculi Simplices? The Issue of Simplicity & the Hymni Ambrosian |
Ph.D. |
ACh |
Conor Trainor |
The Ceramics Industry of Ancient Sikyon |
Ph.D. |
CM |
Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska |
Goddesses with Upraised Arms in Crete and Cyprus. A Comparative Study |
Ph.D. |
CM |
2011-12
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Jessica Evans |
The discourse of political freedom in ancient Greek historiography |
Ph.D. |
BMcG |
2010-11
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diskin, Matthew | The Ghost of Brennus. Gaulish Themes in Classical Literature and Roman Policy in the West | Ph.D | BMcG |
| Recht, Laerke | Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: a Postructuralist Approach | Ph.D | CM |
2009-10
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Connolly | Greek, Roman and Jewish Sacrificial Temple Practices in Asia Minor, The Levant and Egypt | MLitt | BMcG |
| James Grant Couper | Self-interest, self-help and the Roman state: policing the north-western provinces of the Empire. | PhD | HD |
| Laura Jansen | Textual Desire in Ovid's Amores | PhD | MG |
| Suzanne O'Neill | The Architectural and Cultural Reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its Frieze | PhD | CM |
| Selena Martin | The Foreign Origins of The Kadmeans and Tantalids | MLitt | MC |
2008-09
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deirdre Craig | Water Imagery in Propertius | PhD | MG |
| Barry Dixon | A Theory of the Aesthetics of Platonic Dialectic through Gadamerian Hermeneutics | PhD | JD |
| Aoife Fitzgerald | Urbanisation in the Ancient Near East | MLitt | HD |
| Siobhan Hargis | The Development of the Campus Martius, Rome | PhD | HD |
| Diego Honorato | 'Myth' and 'Reason': a dichotomy revisited from the perspective of the philosopher Xavier Zubiri | PhD | JD |
| Geoffrey McEvoy | Reactions to the Great Library of Alexandria | MLitt | BMcG |
2007-08
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angharad Dowling | Hellenistic Death and Burial in the Near East. | MLitt | HD |
| Donncha O'Rourke | "Letum non omnia finit": Reading Virgilian Allusion in Propertius 4' | PhD | MG |
| Giorgios Papantoniou | Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos: Social Power and the Archaeology of Religion | PhD | CM |
| Emma Saunders | Pictures from the Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean | PhD | CM |
| Nina Shiel | "The Venus Syndrome": Inanna, Hathor and the "Queen of Heaven" stereotype in Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies | MLitt | CM |
2006-07
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Burke | The Number Three in Greek Religion | MLitt | JD |
| Jo Day | An Exploration of the social roles of plants in the Bronze Age Aegean | PhD | CM |
| Anthony Forde | Lindow Man: Murder or Suicide? | MLitt | HD |
| Eleni Kaklamanou | Attitudes to Rhetoric in the Old and New Academy | PhD | JD |
| Carl O'Brien | Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators: Studies in the Development of the Demiurge in the Platonic, Gnostic Hermetic and Christian Traditions. | PhD | JD |
| Deirdre Stritch | Archaeology and the State - An Uneasy Alliance? | PhD | CM |
2005-06
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ioanna Papaioannou | Family-Woman and Herodotean Narrative | MLitt | BMcG |
| Takashi Shoji | The Religious Policy of Diocletian and the Tetrarchs | MLitt | BMcG |
| Emily Lefebvre | The Jobs and Epitaphs of the Imperial Household Slaves and Freedmen | MLitt | BMcG |
| Catherine Ware | The Politics of Claudian. Panegyric in the Ancient Epic Tradition | PhD | DN |