Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Classics"
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Ancient Greek lexical semantics: Word meanings as a function of context
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-22)In 1989, Johannes Louw highlighted several problems in the study of Ancient Greek Lexical Semantics; 3 many remain unresolved. Louw’s rst diculty was that the etymology of a word is seldom a reliable indicator of ... -
Deconstructing the man, constructing the saint: the literary sanctification of Germanus of Auxerre in the "Vita Germani Auctore Constantio" by Constantius of Lyon
(2013-09-27)The narrative structure of the Vita Germani Auctore Constantio is based on its protagonist's spiritual development from man to saint. In the early chapters, Germanus' character is defined by human actions and attitudes, ... -
Describing the indescribable: Lexical obscurity and biblical exegesis in early medieval Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-27)In the seventh century, medieval Irish scholars, who had received and internalised an educational system that placed the Bible at its very centre, began to produce texts that were marked by innovation in artistic style and ... -
An examination of diathesis and its didactic practices in Latin grammars from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages
(2016-12-21)This thesis traces the origin and development of the category of diathesis (or voice) in Antiquity. According to modern linguistic theory, diathesis is a verbal category which describes the relationship between the action ... -
Images and representations of the sea in early medieval Hiberno-Latin and vernacular literature: studies in intertextuality and innovation
(2017-02-23)This research takes the sea and its creatures as the common focus for an investigation of a series of thematically linked early medieval texts’ interactions with each other and with texts ranging from contemporaneous Insular ... -
Man the Tamer: case studies in masculine ideology, power and the domestication of the wild in Ancient Greek social thought
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-04)Drawing on the strong tradition of structuralism in the Classics, this thesis argues that the binary opposition between wild and tame was fundamental to the Ancient Greek man's understanding of social power relations. It ... -
Master of two nations: Examining Hellenistic Judean identity in the Exagoge of Ezekiel
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-18)During the Hellenistic period, Ptolemaic Alexandria was a thriving intellectual centre, marked by multicultural exchanges. Within this diverse and highly erudite community, Judeans began to avail of an education in ... -
Music and the early Irish Church
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-16)The project’s aim is to reconstruct the conceptualization of music in the context of early medieval Irish ecclesiastical education through a systematic analysis of the influence of the Church Fathers on Hiberno-Latin ... -
The poetics of science: intertextual and metatextual themes in Ovid's depiction of cosmic and human origins
(2016-09-09)This work explores ancient views of cosmogony and the material structure of the universe in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In particular it focuses on the way in which Ovid problematizes how we define myth and poetry versus science ... -
Reading between the 'likes': Intertextuality and meaning in neo-Assyrian expressions of similarity, metaphorical identity, and analogy
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)Figurative language is, in essence, the act of synthesising disparate concepts into one communicative image. Rather than merely a poetic technique, this process is fundamental in general understanding and expression ... -
Remember me when I am gone away: An Examination of the Representation of Gender in the Material Culture of Archaic Etruria
(2012-12-22)The study of the lives of men and women in ancient Greece and Rome has long attracted scholarly attention and much good work has been done on these topics. However, there has been a comparative neglect of the study of ... -
Studies in the Latin Christian reception of early Greek materialism
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-16)This work explores the reception of the physical teachings of the Presocratic philosophers, as transmitted by the doxographical tradition, during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In particular it examines the ways ... -
A Trojan cycle for late antiquity: Intertextuality in late epic and its digital representation
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-19)This work focuses on three late Greek epic poems: the Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna, The Sack of Troy by Triphiodorus and the Abduction of Helen by Colluthus (ca. 3rd-5th centuries CE). These are reworkings of the ...