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