Search for dissertations about: "CLASSICS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word CLASSICS.

  2. 1. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis

    Author : Aske Damtoft Poulsen; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philology; Classics; Roman Literature; Classical Historiography; Tacitus; Intertextuality;

    Abstract : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). READ MORE

  4. 2. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture

    Author : Johan Vekselius; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Antikens Rom; Romersk historia; Romerska riket; Kejsare; Tårar; Sorg; Gråt; känslohistoria; känslostudier; känslodisciplinering; Känslor; Latinsk litteratur; Grekisk litteratur; Antiken; Dygder och Laster; Dygder; Retorik; Historieskrivning; Talekonst; CIcero; Seneca; Tacitus; Livius; Antikens Grekland; Klassisk grekiska; Den romerska republiken; Kejsartid; Latinsk historieskrivning; Grekisk historieskrivning; Antikens historia; Antikens kultur och samhällsiv; Begravningar; Rome; Ancient Rome; Late Republican Rome; late Republic; Historiography; history of emotions; Tears; Weeping; Mourning; Virtues; Virtus; Pity; Clementia; Pietas; Oratory; Rhetoric; Cicero; Tacitus; Livy; The Roman Empire; The Roman Emperor; Latin historiography; Greek historiography; Grief; Ancient History; Classics; Ancient Greece; Funerals;

    Abstract : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. READ MORE

  5. 3. Pindaric Scholarship between Aristarchus and Didymus : An Edition of the Fragments with Explanatory Notes and a Discussion of Early Pindaric Scholarship

    Author : Pontus Österdahl; Denis Searby; Mark De Kreij; Pär Ola Sandin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pindar; Hellenistic literature; scholia; fragment; commentary; textual criticism; klassiska språk med inriktning mot antik grekiska; Classics with Specialisation in Ancient Greek;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore Hellenistic scholarship on Pindar in the period between Aristarchus and Didymus. Although no ancient scholarly work on Pindar survives in its entirety, the Pindar scholia and other indirect sources show that about a dozen scholars known by name worked on Pindar in the period studied. READ MORE

  6. 4. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    Author : Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Text of 2 Chronicles 1-16 : A Critical Edition with Textual Commentary

    Author : Kjell Hognesius; Emanuel Tov; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Old Testament exegesis; Bible; Old Testament; 2 Chronicles; critical edition; eclectic text; Chronicler; parallel sections; synoptic text; 1 Kings; Vorlage; emendation; conjecture; original text; Masoretic text; Hebrew manuscripts; versions; Septuagint; retroversion; commentary; Gamla testamentets exegetik; Old Testament exegesis; Gamla testamentets exegetik; Gamla testamentets exegetik; Old Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : Textual criticism has for a long time been a somewhat neglected field of research within the discipline of Old Testament studies, at least as compared with New Testament studies and the field of Classics. With the exception of scholarly editions of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, what have been analysed are individual passages rather than whole books. READ MORE