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Building a God: The Cult of Antinous and Identity in the Eastern Roman Empire

Jamshidi, Niayesh (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

This thesis attempts to understand the distribution of Antinous worship in the Roman Empire and why he was worshipped. By examining the written sources and material culture available on Antinous, primary sources both pagan ...
Ethnography and the Colonial World in Theocritus and Lucian

Parmenter, Christopher (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists ...
The Rhetoricity of Ovid’s Construction of Exile and the Poeta Structus Exsulis (With a Special Addendum Concerning Alexander Pushkin)

Toman, Samantha (University of Oregon, 2012-10-25)

In Ovid’s Tristia and Epistulae Ex Ponto, the Latin poet constructs an elaborate poetic persona endowed with its own agency, which evokes the sympathy of the reader through engaging in various modes of discourse. This ...