Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
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Bound copies of all honors theses may be found and read in Murphey 218.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH BY DECADE:

1990 | 2000

Student Name Title Year Defended Committee
Balot, Ryan K. Epicurean Friendship: Theory and Practice 1990  
Avery, Jonathan Xerxes' Decision to Invade Greece: An Examination of Herodotos' Histories, Book7, Chapters 1-18 1990  
Wilson, Van J. Breeding and amor, Pasturage and morbus: Vergil's use of Varro's Rerum rusticarum libri tres in his third Georgic 1992  
de Grummond, Elizabeth Chambless Romanization and Urbanization of Lugdunum: The Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum Through the Julio-Claudian Period 1993  
Walker, Tawana A. Strong Women of the Silver Age: Assets or Liabilities? 1993  
Burns, Bryan E. The Martial Use of the Early Mycenaean Chariot and Its Associated Weaponry 1993  
Berner, August J. Vesical calculus: Aulus Cornelius Celsus's Operation for Bladder Stone 1995  
Black, Sarah John Dryden's Translations of Horace's Odes 1.9 and 3.29 1996  
Yavenditti, James A. Monumenta Hadriana: An Examination of the Hadrianic Building Projects in Athens 1997  
Benefiel, Rebecca Ruth J. Municipium Saepinatium: A Study in Small Town Life of the Roman Empire 1997  
Greenspan, Geri Apsidal Buildings in Early Iron Age Greece 1997  
Gelb, Susan Dana Archaic Doric Temples in South Italy 1997  
Spradley, Kelly Guarding the Frontier: The Original Garrisons of Hadrian's Wall Forts 1997  
Leftt, Jeremy Interconnections: the Epithet in the Iliad and the Physical Tag in War and Peace 1998  
Rogers, Sarah Alison Rape and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 2000 Mack, Eric Downing, Reckford
Butler, Margaret Erwin Approaches to Geometric Decoration in 8th c. Phrygia 2000 Sams, Sturgeon, Haggis
Thomas, Jennifer Elizabeth The Language of Friendship: Obligation and Emotion in Horace's Epistles I 2001 Reckford, Mack, James
Dickson, Katherine Anne Thucydides and his Cold War Interpreters 2001 Stadter, Race, Smith
Carella, John Francis Divine Causes in Herodotus and Thucydides 2001 Race, Stadter, Smith
Urquhart, Lela Manning The Reuse and Continuity of Punic Sanctuaries in Sicily 2002 Terrenato, Haggis, Smith
Raines, Meganne Marie Sculptural Decoration at the Church of Hagios Polyeuktos in Constantinople 2002 Connor, Sturgeon, Sams
Locklear, Cole Garrett Construction of Character in Cicero's Pro Ligario 2002 Wooten, Race, West
Pilkington, Nathan Laughlin The Gask Ridge and Stanegate Frontiers: a new history and analysis of Roman and native interaction in Britain 2003 Talbert, Terrenato, Houston
Levin-Richardson, Sarah Adina The Representation of Women in the Mosaics of Saint Demetrios in Thessaloniki 2003 Connor, James, Sams, Dorothy Verkerk
Kirklin, Julia Anne Sheep and Shepherd Imagery in Literature: Homer Through the Early Christian Period 2003 Race, Reckford, Lafferty
Carreker, Justin Michael What's Truly Good and What is Good in Show: Juvenal's Orator and Johnson's Scholar 2003 Reckford, Lafferty, Thomas Stumpf
Opitz, Rachel Shira Modeling Donoratico: GIS and Digital Modeling in Classical Archaeology 2003 Terrenato, Haggis, Vincas Steponaitis
Ratliff, Melissa Leigh A Rare Find at Donoratico: A Mortar Mixer Dating to the Fourth or Fifth century A.D. A review of the Comparanda and implications of this find for Donoratico 2004 Terrenato, Houston, Lafferty
DeWeese, David Matthew Time in the Gospel of John: An Exploration 2004 Race, Lafferty, Smith
Huntley, Katherine V. Hilltop Settlement Patterns in Northern Tuscany during Antiquity and the Middle Ages 2005 Terrenato, Haggis, Dorothy Verkerk
Austin, Margaret R. Plutarch on the Isolated Tyrant 2006 Stadter, Wooten, Riess
Smith, Joshua Hospitium an Pathos in Vergil's Aeneid 2007 O'Hara, James, Smith
Walker, Austin Prophecy's Complex Relationship with the Mortal and Divine Realms: A Tracing of the Prophetic Language within the Oedipus Tyrannus 2007 Race, Smith, Holmes
Barber, Cary The Roman Renegade: Determining Morality through its Antithesis 2007 Talbert, Wooten, Naiden