School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Current and Recent Postgraduate Study in Classics

PhD

Andrew Wong
Antisthenes' Ajax and Odysseus: The Intellectual Hero in 4th and 5th Century Prose Text (in progress)

Sonia-Ingrid Marshall
Romanization, Christianization and Patronage in the Paleochristian Art of North Africa (in progress)

Roslynne Bell
Pietas and Power: Imperial Patronage of the Cult of the Magna Mater (2007) (placed on Dean's List)

Linda Whybrew
The Relationship between Horace's 'Sermones' and 'Epistulae', Bk. 1: are the Letters of Horace Satires? (2006)

Sean Rainey
The Nature of Carthaginian Imperial Activity: Trade, Settlement, Conquest, and Rule (2006)

Gary Morrison
Second Maccabees and Jewish Society: Representations of Jewishness, Hellenism and the Interaction between the Greeks and the Jews (2005)

 

MA

Hannah Frude
Use and Perceptions of the Night in Suetonius' de Vita Caesarum (in progress)

Danielle Steyn
Passing the Message Along: Using Coinage to Document the Spread of Solar Worship in the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century AD. (in progress)

Elizabeth Lochhead
Translation Practices in Ennius' poetry (2011)

Jeremy Purton
'Imagery and Description in the Erotic Elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid' (2011)

Tony Dijkstra
Attitudes to the Gracchi in our sources for the late 2nd and early 1st centuries B.C. (2010)

Anne Milne
The Translation and Transformation of Frederich II in late Medieval Universal Chronicles (2009)

Ruth Nielson
Bronze Age Connections: An investigation regarding the archaeological and textual evidence for contact between the Mycenaean Greeks and the Hittites (2009)

Amanda Wise
Ritual and Reason: the Sacrificial Motif in Sophoclean Tragedy (2009)

 

Honours Research Essays

Melanie Bolton
Title forthcoming (2011)

Christopher Boyce
Title forthcoming (2011)

Alexandra Callaghan
Title forthcoming (2011)

Samuel Lindsay
Title forthcoming (2011)

Alison McKay
Title forthcoming (2011)

Chelsea Mitchell
Title forthcoming (2011

Constanzia Palmer
Is Cleanliness Next to Godliness? Baths, Healing and Religious Devotion in Ancient Italy (2011)

Bridget Rae
Title forthcoming (2011)

John Richardson
Title forthcoming (2011)

Emmy Saxton
Title forthcoming (2011)

Beverly Weaver
Title forthcoming (2011)

Kelly Belcher
Title forthcoming (2010)

Marg Campbell
Greek and Roman Oil Lamps in the Canterbury Museum (2010)

Sophie Hawke
The vulnerable hero: Aspects of Herakles and Ajax in ancient Greek and modern NZ art (2010)

Damien Provis
The Fate of Turnus (2010)

Amy White
The Roman Attitude toward 'the other': Representations within Literature and Architectural Relief in the 1st Century AD (2010)

Stephen Wright
Livy's Depiction of the Samnites in Bk VII to X (2010)

Sam Bonifacio
Mycenaean Religion (2009)

Hannah Frude
Trimalchio and his Slaves: A Study on Attitudes (2009)

Anna Gibbs
Jews in Hellenistic Alexandria (2009)

Sarah Hobson
Plato, Pandora and Painting: The Deeper Effect of the Arts (2009)

Jane Leighs
Gender Roles, Food and Status in Roman Society (2009)

Ryan Manton
Humane conventions in Greek warfare in the Archaic and early Classical Period (2009)

Andrew Moore
Treason Trials under Tiberius (2009)

Jeremy Purton
Mythic Narrative in Catullus 64 and Ovid Metamorphoses (2009)

Danielle Steyn
Iconography and Meaning in the Cult of Jupiter Sabazius (2009)

Rose Whitau
Ethics and Etiquette: Religious Sculpure as Plunder (2009)

Andrew Wong
A study of Homer's Aias (2009)

Lindsay Breach
Representations of King Theodoric and his Social Polocy as presented in the Variae of Cassiodorus (2008)

Claire Brocklehurst
Nil medium est: Social Issues in Horace and Cicero (2008)

Jessica Hallowes
Death and Disease in Cicero's Letters (2008)

Claire Levy
The Seamanship of Odysseus (2008)

Elizabeth Lochhead
Strategies of Address: Political Allegiances in Horace's Epodes (2008)

Sam Mowat
The Persian Navy's Strenght during the Persian Wars (2008)

Charlotte Rae
The Health and Wellbeing of Roman Children (2008)


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