Department of Classics Graduate Projects
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The Case for Archaeogaming and Affectiveness: Olympia as a Case Study in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
(2022-10)This research utilizes a twofold approach: the general framework of archaeogaming; and the theoretical position of affective history. Using the video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as a case study, this research paper ... -
Conflict Archaeology and Classics: Reconstructing the Roman Sieges of La Cloche, Monte Bernorio, and Gamla
(2022-10)Conflict archaeology is a new and emerging subdiscipline of archaeology concerned with the study of battlefields, sieges, as well as other conflict-related phenomena. Despite its relative youth, this discipline has already ... -
Applying Spatial Reference to the Late Antique Settlement at Stobi, Republic of North Macedonia
(2022-09)The archaeological site of Stobi is located in the Vardar Valley (Повадарие) region in the vicinity of the village Gradsko, Republic of North Macedonia. It is located on the confluence of Vardar River (Axios) and Crna River ... -
Shedding Light on Caere’s Ceramic Oil Lamps: Typological Analysis and Discussion
(2022-08)Throughout Queen’s University’s 2013-2015 excavations at the Etruscan and Roman city of Caere, numerous Roman ceramic oil lamps were found in the Vigna Marini-Vitalini, the modern name for one area located within the city’s ... -
Duplicating Drapery: Examining Painted Imitations of Hanging Textiles in Roman Italic Contexts
(2022-07)Within Pompeian-influenced Roman mural decoration, the motif of the hanging textile was consistently popular from the Second Style through to the Fourth Style. The following work is the result of the analysis of a catalogue ... -
A Cistern System at Caere
(2021-08)Over the course of the 2013-15 Queen’s University excavations at the Etruscan city Caere, a complex water storage system was uncovered in the Vigna Marini Vitalini, within the central urban area. Connecting to two cisterns ... -
Idealizing the Nude Venus: An Exploration of the Classical Tradition in the Italian Renaissance Art
(2021)The figure of nude Venus that was a popular theme in the ancient Greco-Roman art also had its continuous presence in the European art during the Renaissance. While the iconography of the Venus portrayals produced during ... -
Contextualizing 3D Printing: Historical Antecedents and Ethical Concerns for the Future
(2019-10-16)The present mania for 3D printing within the domain of cultural heritage presents this technology, along with 3D scanning, as a fundamentally new mode of production and replication. Its exponents would claim that it is so ... -
The Museum that Queen's Gave Away: Rediscovering the Queen’s Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology
(Unpublished, 2020-08-31)On October 26th, 1954, a Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology opened in the Old Arts Building (modern Theological Hall), the home of Queen’s Theological College. The Museum had been conceived of and executed by Dr. A. Douglas ... -
A Guide to the University of Toronto’s Classics Department Papyrus Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
(2015-09-24)The Classics Department Papyrus Collection at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library was formed by Alan E. Samuel when he arrived at the University of Toronto in 1966. The collection consists of three ... -
Gravitas in the Desert: An Analysis of Selected Letters of Isidore of Pelusium and his Influence on the Secular and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Fifth Century CE.
(2014-09-13)With the 2,000 letters that have come down to us under his name, Isidore of Pelusium has long been considered an important Church father not only for the quality of his doctrinal exegesis, but also for the meticulous ...
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