All Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies' students write a thesis during their senior year, meeting individually with a faculty advisor to plan, research, craft and write a piece of independent original research on a topic of the student’s choice. Below is a selection of students and their theses from recent years.

  • Laura Wolff '20: A Killing Doom and Immortal Song: Death and Kleos in Homer’s Iliad 
  • Laure Mounts '20: Moral Injury and Killing Your Children 
  • Emory Brigden '20: Every Season is Party Season: Seasonality in Horace's Carmina 
  • Jed Pageler '20: Anxieties of Teaching Masculinity in Xenophon’s Lakedaimonion Politeia 
  • Fran Smyth '20: Escaping to Home: Female Nostos in Euripidean Tragedy 
  • Kara Ann Lamar '19: Transgressive Toys: A Semantic Analysis of ἄθυρμα in Archaic and Classical Greek
  • Marcelle Rutherfurd '19: The Uses of Military Intelligence In the Persian Wars 
  • Sandra Brandon '19: Rome Reborn: Study of Virtual Modeling in Digital Archaeology 
  • Hannah Cochran '19: Non Sum Ego Qui Fueram: Self-Representation and Eternal Fame in Ovid’s Exile Poetry
  • Kathryn Stutz: '18 The Imprint of Language in Herodotus’ Histories
  • Rachael Schroder '17: Defining the Dictator in Cicero’s Pro Marcello
  • Samuel DeBacker '17: Did You Achieve Virtus Without Military Prowess or are You Just Happy to See Me? Gender Dynamics, Domitian and The Montecitorio Obelisk
  • Madison McDonald '17: Varieties of Judaism in the Egyptian Diaspora: verses 75-92 and 350-380 of the third Sibylline Oracle
  • Marissa Irish '16: Re-Weaving the Story: Ekphrasis, Objectification, and Female Speech in the Rape of Philomela
  • Tammy Hoang '16: Unconventional Clouds: The Clouds That Missed the Mark
  • Steve Moses '14: Receptions of Atlas in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Zach Flathers '13: Bodies on Stage: Senecan Tragedy and Staging Violence in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
  • Ian Wright '13: The Isolation of Achilles: Companions, Fathers, and Wives
  • Sarah Smith '13: Mask and Gesture in Greek Tragic Performance