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A Selection of Recent and Current Theses in Ancient History

Thesis Title

Supervisor

Greek World:

 

Gifts to the Gods: Aparchai, Dekatia and related offerings in Archaic & Classical Greece

[R. Parker]

Heralds and oral communication in Greece

[R. Parker]

Polybius and Politeia: what kind of state?

[J. Prag]

The Clients of the Oracle of Dodona (literary & archaeological evidence to 4th.c. B.C.)

[R. Parker & M. Melfi]

Exchange, Coin and the Economy of the Greek Sanctuary

[R. Thomas]

Exile and the Political Cultures of the Greek Polis, c.404-146 B.C.

[J. Ma]

Paradigm rulers: Isocratean influence on theories & practice of Kingship in 4th. And 3rd. c. B.C.

[A. Moreno]

Mixobarbaroi: epigraphical Aspects of Religion in Karia (5th.-1st. C. B.C.)

[R. Parker]

‘Source references’ in Greek historiography

[T. Rood ]

Byzantium, the social, political and economic history from the earliest settlement to the foundation of Constantinople

[P. Thonemann]

Lesbos: study of a region

[P. Thonemann]

Proxenoi in the Greek world

[C. Crowther]

Philotimia in Athenian Democracy and oratory

[R. Thomas, T. Rood]

Roman Attica: Landscape and Memory

[A. Moreno]

Tissue of the Mind: the Cult of Asclepius

[R. Parker]

The God of the Netherworld and his realm in Greek Beliefs

[R. Parker]

The Epigraphic Habit in Lycia, 450 B.C.-A.D. 43

[P. Thonemann]

 

Roman World:

 

Human Will and Divine Will in Roman Divination

[Clarke, Bispham]

Crossing the Adriatic: the Italiote foundations of the coming of Rome

[Bispham]

Considering Cultural Exchange: Votives from Southern Italy, 6th.-2nd.c. B.C.

[Bispham]

Money in the Roman Empire, c.117-235 CE

[A. Bowman, A. Burnett]

Cassius Dio, Human Nature and the Late Roman Republic

[K. Clarke]

Senatorial & Equestrian Orders in the Roman Army and Administration, AD 235-337

[A. Bowman]

Desertion in the Roman Army

[K. Clarke]

Contest & Community: Wonder-working in Christian Popular literature 2nd. – 5 thc. A.D.

[T. Morgan]

Lucan in the works of Tacitus

[R. Ash]

Pagan Religious Cult in roman Palestine

[M. Goodman]

The Roman Idea of Fortuna

[T. Morgan]

The Fleet, the Sea and the Coastal Regions: structure of command, power and the conceptualization of Empire in the Roman Republic

[J. Prag]

Elite self-representation on the Roman Provincial Coinage of Asia, 31 B.C.-A.D. 275

[C. Howgego, P. Thonemann]

Senatorial & Equestrian Rank in the cities of Roman Asia Minor, c.30 B.C.-A.D. 212

[A. Bowman]

Constructing the City of God. Jerusalem in the 5th.c.

[N. McLynn]

Pax Parta Terra Marique: Rhetorics of Roman Victory, 49 B.C.- A.D.14

[J. Quinn]

Historia Augusta

[N. McLynn]

Hope and Fear in the Early Empire

[A. Clark, K. Clarke]

Continuity & Change in Asia Minor in 3rd.c. A.D.

[K. Kuhn]

Graeco-Roman notion of friendship and Christian authors

[N. McLynn]

Cult of Dioscuri in Rome and Italy

[E. Bispham]

Roman imperial fleets, cultural, social and economic importance

[N. Purcell]

Italian Peoples and their Land from the Social War to the Catilinarian Conspiracy

[E. Bispham]

 

Hellenistic:

 

Professional and Trade Associations in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

[A. Bowman]

King and Pretender in the Seleucid Empire

[J. Ma]

Crocodiles and crocodile cults in Graeco-Roman Egypt

[A. Bowman]

Gymnasia & Greek Identity in Ptolemaic & Roman Egypt

[A. Bowman]

Roman Interaction with Cults & sanctuaries in the Greek world (3rd.c B.C.)

[B. Dignas]

 

Other:

 

A Decision Support system for the Reading of Ancient Dcuments

[A. Bowman]