Dissertations / Theses: 'Greek and Roman Music'

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Lynch, Tosca. "'Training the soul in excellence' : musical theory and practice in Plato's dialogues, between ethics and aesthetics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4290.

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This thesis offers a technically informed examination of Plato's pervasive, though not innocent, use of musical theory, practice and musical concepts more generally within the ambitious ethical project outlined in many of his dialogues: fostering the ‘excellence' of the soul. Starting from Republic 3, Chapter 1 will focus specifically on music stricto sensu in order to assess Plato's interpretation of the basic ‘building blocks' of musical performances, creating a core repertoire of musical concepts that will prepare the way to analyse Plato's use of musical terms or categories in areas that, at first sight, do not appear to be immediately connected to this art, such as politics, ethics and psychology. Chapter 2 examines a selection of passages from Laws 2 concerning the concept of musical beauty and its role in ethical education, demonstrating how Plato's definition is far from being moralistic and, instead, pays close attention to the technical performative aspects of dramatic musical representations. Chapter 3 looks first at the harmonic characterisation of the two central virtues of the ideal city, sophrosyne and dikaiosyne, showing how their musical depictions are not purely metaphoric: on the contrary, Plato exploited their cultural implications to emphasise the characteristics and the functions of these virtues in the ideal constitution. The second half of Chapter 3 analyses the Platonic portrayal of musical παρανομία, studying both its educational and psychological repercussions in the dialogue and in relations to contemporary Athenian musical practices. Chapter 4 looks at how different types of music may be used to create an inner harmonic order of passions in the soul in different contexts: the musical-mimetic education outlined in the Republic, the musical enhancement of the psychological energies in the members of the Chorus of Dionysus in the Laws, and finally the role of the aulos in the Symposium.

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Thomas, Maureen E. "The Divine Communion of Soul and Song: A Musical Analysis of Dante's Commedia." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1450117394.

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Eilers, Claude. "Roman patrons of Greek cities /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003276954-d.html.

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Burrell, Barbara. "Neokoroi : Greek cities and Roman emperors /." Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39078101m.

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Pollard, Alison. "Carmen heroum : Greek epic in Roman friezes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1bd394a8-200e-48c7-b7b4-e1e7cabd39e0.

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Roman wallpainting has been the subject of innumerable studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, but the epic-themed friezes of Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy have been comparatively neglected throughout this history of scholarship. This thesis therefore seeks to examine the three painted and stucco Iliad friezes from Pompeii, all found on the Via dell'Abbondanza, and the Odyssey frescoes from a house on the Esquiline in Rome, as four examples of a type which had a long history in the Graeco-Roman world, even if their survival in the archaeological record is scant. The primary aim of the study is to understand each frieze in the knowledge of how they might have been regarded in antiquity, as elucidated in Pausanias' commentaries on Polygnotus' Iliupersis and Nekyia frescoes in Delphi, and to understand their extra-textual insertions and spelling discrepancies not as artistic errors but as reflections of the geographical and chronological contexts in which the friezes were displayed. Through detailed study of their iconography and epigraphy, alongside contemporary writers' discussion of the epic genre and its specific concerns for a Roman audience, this study aims to show that the most fruitful course of enquiry pertaining to the friezes lies not in an argument about whether they are entirely faithful to the Homeric epics or depart from them in puzzling ways, but in the observation that reliance on the text and free play on it go hand in hand as part of the epic reception-culture within which these paintings belong.

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Feltovich, Anne C. "Women's Social Bonds in Greek and Roman Comedy." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311691038.

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Pinckernelle, Kathia. "The iconography of Ancient Greek and Roman jewellery." Connect to e-thesis. Edited version, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/318/.

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Thesis (MPhil(R)) - University of Glasgow, 2008.
MPhil(R) thesis submitted to the Department of History of Art, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Vaahtera, Jaana Johanna. "Derivation : Greek and Roman views on word formation /." Turku : Turun Yliopisto, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39233991x.

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Carter, Michael J. D. "The presentation of gladiatorial spectacles in the Greek East : Roman culture and Greek identity /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0032/NQ66197.pdf.

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Kelly, Michael. "Jealousy in love relations in Greek and Roman literature /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18555.pdf.

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Arnold, Paul J. "The pornoboskos and leno in Greek and Roman comedy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310312.

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Habetzeder, Julia. "Evading Greek models : Three studies on Roman visual culture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-79421.

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For a long time, Roman ideal sculptures have primarily been studied within the tradition of Kopienkritik. Owing to some of the theoretical assumptions tied to this practice, several important aspects of Roman visual culture have been neglected as the overall aim of such research has been to gain new knowledge regarding assumed Classical and Hellenistic models. This thesis is a collection of three studies on Roman ideal sculpture. The articles share three general aims: 1. To show that the practice of Kopienkritik has, so far, not produced convincing interpretations of the sculpture types and motifs discussed. 2. To show that aspects of the methodology tied to the practice of Kopienkritik (thorough examination and comparison of physical forms in sculptures) can, and should, be used to gain insights other than those concerning hypothetical Classical and Hellenistic model images. 3. To present new interpretations of the sculpture types and motifs studied, interpretations which emphasize their role and importance within Roman visual culture. The first article shows that reputed, post-Antique restorations may have an unexpected—and unwanted—impact on the study of ancient sculptures. This is examined by tracing the impact that a restored motif ("Satyrs with cymbals") has had on the study of an ancient sculpture type: the satyr ascribed to the two-figure group "The invitation to the dance". The second article presents and interprets a sculpture type which had previously gone unnoticed—The satyrs of "The Palazzo Massimo-type". The type is interpreted as a variant of "The Marsyas in the forum", a motif that was well known within the Roman cultural context. The third article examines how, and why, two motifs known from Classical models were changed in an eclectic fashion once they had been incorporated into Roman visual culture. The motifs concerned are kalathiskos dancers, which were transformed into Victoriae, and pyrrhic dancers, which were also reinterpreted as mythological figures—the curetes.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Accepted. Paper 3: Accepted.

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Paganini, Mario Carlo Donato. "Gymnasia and Greek identity in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ee393367-d1ca-427c-b8c2-dcf0998415bc.

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My work is a socio-historical study of the institution of the gymnasium in Egypt, of its evolution and role in the assertion of certain aspects of ‘Greek identity’ in Ptolemaic and early Roman times. It is divided into four sections. (1) Attention is devoted to the study of the gymnasium itself, as institution, analysing its diffusion, foundation, internal organisation and the role played by associations which were hosted therein. The constitution and the characteristics of the governing body (with special attention to the role of the gymnasiarchs) and the financial matters relevant to the gymnasium allow one to draw conclusions on its legal status and social role: it is shown how the gymnasium of Egypt operated in a completely different way from the traditional one which is normally assumed for the Greek poleis, especially of mainland Greece and above all Athens. A possible model of influence is suggested. (2) Starting from the rules of admission into the gymnasium and from the treatment of the outsiders, the social status and social composition of the members of the gymnasium are object of enquiry, focusing on the links with the army and the public administration. It is argued that the gymnasial community should be considered as a complex reality, formed by different components belonging to various levels of the social strata. (3) Educational, religious and recreational activities carried out in the premises of the gymnasium or strictly connected to it are taken into account to give an idea of the ‘daily life’ of the institution and of the ‘behaviour’ of its people, which was likely to be the result of a feeling of ‘shared identity’. (4) The concluding section draws the attention to the issue of identity of the people of the gymnasium more clearly: relation with the ‘others’ and idea of Greekness the people of the gymnasium had about themselves (influenced by the rulers’ policies), access to gymnasia, onomastics, elite classes, mixed marriages, reception of Egyptian burial methods and cults, advantage of ‘going Greek’. It is argued that, although having in the gymnasium the key-element for the assertion of their identity and status of Hellenes, the ‘Greeks’ of Egypt displayed complex patterns of mixed identities and were thoroughly embedded in the social, cultural, religious, and administrative environment of Egypt.

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Balkum, Katelyn Colleen. "Disabled Heroes: Disabilities in Rick Riordan's Greek and Roman Retellings." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1588335037313493.

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Russell, Norman. "The concept of deification in the early Greek fathers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253819.

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Duff, Timothy Elliott. "Signs of the soul : moralising in the parallel lives of Plutarch." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321169.

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Girardon, Sheila Patricia. "Italic votive terracotta heads from the British Museum : a stylistic appraisal in their religious and historical settings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349436/.

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The thesis aims to examine a collection of Italic votive terracotta heads, dated between the early 4th and the late 2nd centuries B.C., in the British Museum. The study proposes a stylistic appraisal of the terracotta heads in their religious and historical settings divided into three parts. The first part includes the introduction and five chapters. In the first chapter is discussed the religious background: Greek healing gods) Italic and Roman healing cults and Aesculapios. The second chapter is concerned with the religiousness of the Italic peoples: their devoutness; the cults; the practice of the caput velatum. Chapter three deals with the notion of votive offering in the ancient world: the origin; in the Greek religious sphere; the votive offerings as an exchange, as substitution, as gifts; their place in the sanctuary; in the Italic religious sphere and their distribution on the Italian territory; the specialisation of sanctuaries; the anatomical ex-votos; miniaturisation of votives as substitution; fertility, puberty and well-being. Chapter four deals with ancient medicine and the anatomical votives: the dawn of medical science; the evidence of the anatomical votives; medical interpretation of the votives; representation of diseased organs. In chapter five are considered the sanctuary and the worshippers: the types of sanctuaries; the identification and location of sanctuaries; the evidence for healing cults; the votive deposits; the appearance and disappearance of anatomical votive terracottas; the historical background. The second part includes three chapters. Chapters ix considers the various stylistic influences: in pre-Roman Etruria; in central and southern Italy; the Roman influence; copies of famous sculptures and their relationship with votive terracottas. Chapter seven is a survey of the jewellery displayed on the female heads: crowns; diadems; earrings; necklaces. Chapter eight is a survey of the hairstyles displayed on both female and male heads. Chapter nine examines the technique of manufacture of the votive heads: the problems of mass-production; the workshops and the artisans; the specific, heads in the British Museum. The third part of this study includes an extensive catalogue of the female and male heads divided into groups according to their stylistic affinities. The catalogue is introduced by a section on the classification and terminology. The thesis is concluded by a synopsis of the focal points of part one and two integrated by the observations on the groups of heads in the catalogue.

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Kakoulli, Ioanna. "Late Classical and Hellenistic monumental paintings : techniques, materials and analysis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313475.

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Constantinides, Soteroulla. "Lakonian cults : the main sanctuaries of Sparta : (800 B.C. - to the Roman period)." Thesis, University of London, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270911.

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Foxall, Lin. "Olive cultivation within Greek and Roman agriculture : the ancient economy revisited." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236522.

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Merry, David. "Ancient Greek and Roman Methods of Inquiry into the (Human) Good." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21535.

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In dieser Dissertation schlage ich eine neue Erklärung dafür vor, warum es in der antiken Philosophie eine tiefe Meinungsverschiedenheit in Bezug auf das menschliche Gute gab. Die Erklärung lautet, dass verschiedene Autoren verschiedene Auffassungen über die Kontexte und die Ziele von Argumenten über das menschliche Gute vertraten. Daraus ergab sich, dass sie nicht dieselben Argumente als gültig anerkannten und daher verschiedene Theorien über das Gute als plausibel erachteten. Die Texte, mit denen sich in erster Reihe beschäftigt wird, sind: Platons Gorgias und Philebos; Aristoteles’ Topik und Nikomachische Ethik, Senecas Epistulae Morales 82, 83, 87 und 120; Epikurs Brief an Menoikeus, Lukrez’ De Rerum Natura, Sextus’ Grundzüge der pyrrhonischen Skepsis.
In this dissertation, I suggest a new explanation for disagreement about the human good (I.e what makes a human life good) in ancient philosophy: namely, that differing understandings of argumentation contexts and goals shaped selection of argument schemes, which in turn influenced which theories of the good seemed plausible. The texts I primarily deal with are connections between Plato’s Gorgias and the Philebus, Aristotle’s Topics and the Nicomachean Ethics, Seneca’s EM 82, 83, 87 and 120, Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, and Sextus’ Outlines of Skepticism.

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Dionyssiou, Zoe. "Use and function of traditional Greek music in music schools of Greece." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020407/.

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The introduction of folk music in Greek state education during the late 1980s reflects the interest modern Greek society has for traditional arts, and creates new research areas for music education. This thesis examines the use and function of Greek traditional music in the Music Schools of Greece. Traditional music in education is analysed with reference to its place in Greek society, taking into account the following trends of the 20th century: modernisation, urbanisation and globalisation. The project examines the ways traditional music is taught, its effect on music education, and the views of teachers and students on the subject. Literature in ethnomusicology, sociology of music, and music education suggests a broad analytical theoretical framework. This consists of a three-strand set of dynamic tensions: a) local and global musical domains, b) preservation and innovation, and c) formal and informal educational processes and structures. This framework illuminates the use and function of traditional music in Greek society and raises theoretical and practical issues concerning the place of traditional music in music education. The particular focus is on Greek Demotiki and Byzantine music. A systematic study of these was first introduced in the Greek Music Schools, when they were founded in 1988. The existing twenty-six schools were the object of my investigation. The methodology consisted of a questionnaire answered by 313 music teachers; 11 semistructured interviews with teachers, 7 semi-structured interviews with heads of the schools, 3 semi-structured interviews with members of the Arts Committee for the schools, 17 group interviews with students, and a convenience sample of 13 classroom observations. The data show that traditional music undergoes change when introduced in formal education. A standard repertory is acquired, aural learning is significantly reduced in favour of notation-based learning, the music becomes less exploratory, and becomes a personal rather than communal experience. The changes vary depending on particular teachers' musical background and specialisation. Even so, folk traditions remain lively in the school, and students become enthusiastic, even though music functions in a different way in their lives from the way it functioned in traditional communities. The investigation revealed that traditional music in Greek education effectively offers opportunities for young people to study and appreciate their culture. The introduction of traditional music promotes music both as social reproduction and symbolic representation, and supports their mutual importance in the educational process.

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Wilson, Paul. "A corpus of ephebic inscriptions from roman Athens 31 B.C. - 267 A.D. /." Online version, 1992. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/32881.

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Polychronakis, Ioannis. "Song odyssey : negotiating identities in Greek popular music." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669839.

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Frost, Kathryn Jane. "Plautus' Amphitruo : a commentary on lines 551-860." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303528.

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Tsagkarakis, Ioannis. "The politics of culture : historical moments in Greek musical modernism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/275daedd-e867-48d5-8981-ff49b1da4d5c/1/.

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This thesis spotlights eleven formative moments or ‘events' in the history of twentieth-century art music in Greece. They date from 1908 to 1979 and are ordered by two master narratives, the ‘Great Idea' and the ‘European Idea', concepts with multifarious implications for the making of contemporary Greece. The nature of the musical works presented during these events, the particular kind of reception they received, the debates they generated, and the role their composers hoped they would play in the construction of a contemporary Greek musical identity are some of the indicative issues that will be discussed, and always in relation to the prevailing political and social context. More specifically, I will try to show by way of these events how politics and culture were inextricably tied together. In some cases the events directly mirrored the political divisions and social tensions of their time, while in others they formed an easy (‘innocent') prey to political agendas – indigenous and foreign – that were at some remove from matters aesthetic. The discussion of these historical moments in the concert life of Greece is partly based on secondary sources, but it is also supported by extensive archival research. It is hoped that both the general approach and the new findings will enrich and update the existing literature in English, and that they may even serve to stimulate further research in the music history of other countries located in the so-called margins of Europe.

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Eilers, Claude Francis. "Roman patrons of Greek cities in the late Republic and early Empire." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357361.

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Gagos, Traianos. "An edition of fourteen unpublished Greek documents from Roman and Byzantine Egypt." Thesis, Durham University, 1987. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1102/.

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Alcock, Susan Ellen. "Greek society and the transition to Roman rule : archaeological and historical approaches." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283664.

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Howgego, Christopher J. "Greek imperial countermarks : studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman empire /." London : Spink, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411200931.

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Howgego, Christopher J. "Greek imperial countermarks : studies in the provincial coinage of the Roman empire /." London : Royal numismatic society, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41437910d.

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Ball, J. E. "Collecting the field : a methodological reassessment of Greek and Roman battlefield archaeology." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3000526/.

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Schneider, Alexandra. "Viewing Greek and Roman Elements in Augustus’ Actium Monument at Nicopolis, Greece." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23721.

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This thesis investigates the hybrid nature of Augustus’ Actium Monument at Nicopolis, Greece, completed c. 29-27 B.C.E. A commemoration of Augustus’ naval victory over the forces of Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII, the monument was designed as a dual-terraced, open-air construction, with a visual program that employed both Greek and Roman elements. While the Actium Monument has gained recent attention in archaeological scholarship and scholars have noted its Greek and Roman hybrid nature, a thorough investigation of the implications of its hybridity has yet to be completed. Therefore, in this thesis I examine the Greek elements of the Actium Monument and their meaning, the Roman elements of the Actium Monument and their meaning, the way in which both Greek and Roman viewers in the region of Nicopolis would have viewed the monument, and what purpose the monument served in the provincial context of Greece.
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Franklin, John Curtis. "Terpander : the invention of music in the orientalizing period." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317674/.

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The legend that Terpander rejected "four-voiced song" (τετράγηρυν ἀοιδάν) in favor of new songs on the seven-stringed lyre (ἐπτατονος φὸρμιγξ) epitomizes the Greek exposure, at the height of Assyrian power (c. 750-650 B.C.), to the Mesopotamian tradition of classical music. Terpander's `invention' answers clearly to the heptatony which was widely practiced in the ancient Near East, as known from the diatonic tuning system documented in the cuneiform musical tablets. "Four-voiced song" describes the traditional melodic practice of the Greek epic singer, and must be understood in terms of its inheritance from the Indo-European poetic art. The syncretism of these two music-streams may be deduced from the evidence of the later Greek theorists and musicographers. Though diatonic scales were also known in Greece, even the late theorists remembered that pride of place had been given in the Classical period to other forms of heptatony-the chromatic and enharmonic genera, tone-structures which cannot be established solely through the resonant intervals of the diatonic method. Nevertheless, these tunings were consistently seen as modifications of the diatonic-which Aristoxenus believed to be the `oldest and most natural' of the genera-and were required to conform to minimum conditions of diatony. Thus the Greek structures represent the overlay of native musical inflections on a borrowed diatonic substrate, and the creation of a distinctly Hellenized form of heptatonic music. More specific points of contact are found in the string nomenclatures, which in both traditions were arranged to emphasize a central string. There is extensive Greek evidence relating this `epicentric' structure to musical function, with the middle string acting as a type of tonal center of constant pitch, while the other strings could change from tuning to tuning. So too in the Mesopotamian system the central string remained constant throughout the diatonic tuning cycle. Hence the melic revolution of the Archaic period represents the fruit of an Assyrianizing, diatonicizing musical movement.

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Ioannidou, Andrea. "Greek Cypriot wedding music and customs : revival and identity." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16811/.

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In many cultures, weddings are the most important event in people’s lives. Greek Cypriots use weddings as a means of expressing their identity and linking themselves to their roots, with the conscious aim of preservation of their musical tradition and customs. As a result, weddings are especially important in their musical culture because of the threats to their identity posed by the island’s long history of foreign rule and colonisation. However, an upheaval has occurred in the folk music and customs of Greek Cypriot wedding ceremonies over the last ten years, creating an urgent need for a study of these customs in relation to social, historical and cultural developments in Cyprus. This study has revealed a movement towards music revival that links contemporary practice with the ‘living memory’ of the mid-twentieth century. The thesis is structured in two parts, progressing from the directly observable wedding practices of contemporary Greek Cypriots to the remembered and reconstructed forms of the Greek Cypriot wedding that is now regarded as ‘traditional’. Part One analyses contemporary wedding ceremonies and the choices that newlyweds make in the customs and music of their weddings. Part Two attempts to reconstruct in detail the music and customs of Greek Cypriot wedding ceremonies of the mid-twentieth century from the testimonies of veteran folk musicians and from documentary sources. Besides documenting a tradition that is little known and fast transforming, the study contributes to current discussions in ethnomusicology on themes such as ‘music revivals’ and ‘tradition and identity’.

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Jones, Lewis Molly Ayn. "A Dangerous Art: Greek Physicians and Medical Risk in Imperial Rome." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1242865685.

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König, Jason Peter. "Athletic training and athletic festivals in the Greek literature of the Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621973.

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Erlinger, Christopher Michael. "How the Eunuch Works:Eunuchs as a Narrative Device in Greek and Roman Literature." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1465737368.

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Bertoni, Daniel Robert. "The Cultivation and Conceptualization of Exotic Plants in the Greek and Roman Worlds." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11448.

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This dissertation is an investigation into how plants provide a way to explore cultural interactions between Greece and Rome and the east. I use India, a region that remained consistently exotic to most Greeks and Romans throughout antiquity, as a test case to examine how eastern plants were received and integrated into Greek and Roman culture. Throughout I use my test case as a focus and as an object of comparison: India is a constant reminder of what was conceptualized as exotic. My methodology is primarily "plants in text," an approach that incorporates both the physical reality of plants for sale at the market as well as the imagined flora that grows at the end of the earth. The results of this inquiry show the value of investigating the cultural importance of plants and the mental constructs that surround them in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
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Burks, Andrew Mason. "Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1951.

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Rome's dependence upon slaves has been well established in terms of economics and general society. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate this dependence, during the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, through detailed examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include agriculture, industry, domestic life, the state, entertainment, intellectual life, military, religion, and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. Through this discussion, it becomes apparent that Roman society existed during this time as it did due to slavery. Rome depended upon slavery to function and maintain its political, social, and economic stranglehold on the Mediterranean area and beyond.

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McCallum, Peter. "Oracular prophecy and psychology in Ancient Greek warfare." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2017. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/774/.

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This thesis examines the role of oracular divination in warfare in archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece, and assesses the extent to which it affected the psychology and military decision-making of ancient Greek poleis. By using a wide range of ancient literary, epigraphical, archaeological and iconographical evidence and relevant modern scholarship, this thesis will fully explore the role of the Oracle in warfare especially the influence of the major oracles at Delphi, Dodona,Olympia,Didyma and Ammon on the foreign policies and military strategies of poleis and their psychological preparation for war as well as the effect of oracular prophecies on a commander's decision making and tactics on the battlefield and on the psychology and reactions for soldiers before and during battle. This thesis contends that oracular prophecy played a fundamental and integral part in ancient Greek warfare and that the act of consulting the Oracles and the subsequent prognostications issued by the Oracles had powerful psychological effects on both the polis citizenry and soldiery, which in turn had a major influence and impact upon military strategy and tactics, and ultimately on the outcome of conflicts in the Ancient Greek World.

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Rees, William J. "Cassius Dio, human nature and the late Roman Republic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:75230c97-3ac1-460d-861b-5cb3270e481e.

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This thesis builds on recent scholarship on Dio’s φύσις model to argue that Dio’s view of the fall of the Republic can be explained in terms of his interest in the relationship between human nature and political constitution. Chapter One examines Dio’s thinking on Classical debates surrounding the issue of φύσις and is dedicated to a detailed discussion of the terms that are important to Dio’s understanding of Republican political life. The second chapter examines the relationship between φύσις and Roman theories of moral decline in the late Republic. Chapter Three examines the influence of Thucydides on Dio. Chapter Four examines Dio’s reliance on Classical theories of democracy and monarchy. These four chapters, grouped into two sections, show how he explains the downfall of the Republic in the face of human ambition. Section Three will be the first of two case studies, exploring the life of Cicero, one of the main protagonists in Dio’s history of the late Republic. In Chapter Five, I examine Dio’s account of Cicero’s career up to the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. Chapter Six explores Cicero’s role in politics in the immediate aftermath of Caesar’s death, first examining the amnesty speech and then the debate between Cicero and Calenus. Chapter Seven examines the dialogue between Cicero and Philiscus, found in Book 38. In Section Four is my other case study, Caesar. Chapter Eight discusses Caesar as a Republican politician. In Chapter Nine, I examine Dio’s version of the mutiny at Vesontio and Caesar’s speech. Chapter Ten examines Dio’s portrayal of Caesar after he becomes dictator and the speech he delivers to the senate. The Epilogue ties together the main conclusions of the thesis and examines how the ideas explored by Dio in his explanation of the fall of the Republic are resolved in his portrait of the reign of Augustus.

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Hardiman, Craig I. "The nature of Hellenistic domestic sculpture in its cultural and spatial contexts." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117560146.

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Chung, Hee Won. "A conductor's guide to the Roman liturgy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11307.

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Mallan, Christopher Thomas. "A historical and historiographical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History book 57.1-17.8." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6ed64b29-f881-4de2-a647-6212cf0dc7c0.

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This thesis is a historical and historiographical commentary on Book 57 (Chs. 1-17.8) of Cassius Dio's Roman History. It comprises two sections, an Introduction followed by the Commentary itself. The introduction is sub-divided into three chapters. The first of these introductory chapters (The Roman Historian at Work) presents a discussion of the historical material available for Dio's Tiberian narrative, and a discussion of the factors which were instrumental in Dio's writing and shaping his narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The second chapter (Dio on Tiberius) is an analysis of Dio's portrayal of Tiberius and of the historian’s understanding of Tiberius in the historical context of the early Principate. These chapters are followed by some brief Notes on the Text of Book 57, which considers the manuscript tradition of Book 57, and comments on portrayal of the reign of Tiberius in the Dionian tradition, and in particular the Excerpta Constantiniana, Xiphilinus, and Zonaras. The second part of the thesis, the commentary, presents an analysis of Dio's narrative from both historical and historiographical perspectives.

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Voigt, Astrid. "Female lament in Greek and Roman epic poetry : its cultural discourses and narrative presentation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403991.

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Cazemier, Annelies. "Roman interaction with cults and sanctuaries in the Greek world (3rd-1st centuries BC)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539948.

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Talboy, Thomas H. J. U. "Phaidra and Hippolytos in Greek and Roman literature, with special emphasis on Sophocles, Phaidra." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403701.

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Garcia, Ehrenfeld Claudio. "Lucian's Hermotimus. : essays about philosophy and satire in Greek literature of the Roman Empire." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/lucians-hermotimus(508a8ae4-45a7-4230-b365-dd65ecf82a59).html.

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This dissertation considers the interaction between philosophy and satire in Greek literature of the Roman Empire through a detailed study of Lucian's Hermotimus. The argument is divided into three parts. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 show that recent studies of the dialogue value it according to two distinct ethic and aesthetic scholarly traditions (developmentalist and unitarian) which find themselves in opposition when defining the value of scepticism in Lucianic literature. Chapters 4 and 5 address the form of the Hermotimus, and argue that despite its aporetic tendencies its main character, Lycinus, gives a moral message. Chapters 6 and 7 examine the ways in which the Hermotimus is a parody of protreptic literature and invites its readers not to live in any particular way, but to think about the rhetoric of other protrepic and aporetic philosophical texts of the second century AD. In the dissertation’s conclusion some guidelines to reading the Hermotimus as a destabilizing aischrologic text are presented.

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Fowler, Michael Anthony. "Unsavory Sights: Cannibalism in Greek Art." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8911.

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