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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 ... -
Bucolic Irony: A Close Reading of Theocritus Idyll One
Irony, like many abstract Greek nouns, is difficult to pin down to a single definition. Through his sonorous hexameters, Theocritus immediately recalls the Greek oral poetic tradition. In addition to archaic epic traditions, ... -
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 ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR ROMAN BRITAIN AND ITS CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION WITHIN BRITISH SOCIETY
This project will analyze nineteenth-century archaeological records for Roman-British sites and policies involving artefacts and museums. I will use findings to form connections between archaeological activity during the ... -
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 ... -
Searching for a ‘Working-Class Hero’ in Greek Old Comedy
The attitudes towards work and labour in antiquity vary based on lens and scholar, ancient or modern. This project aims to make new connections between the realms of Labour Studies and Classics through the examination ... -
A Comparison of Ancient Roman Justice Systems and Canadian Indigenous Justice Systems: Approaches to Crime and Punishment
Canadian law is legally pluralistic and combines common law, civil law, and Indigenous legal traditions. Roman law has contributed largely to both the Canadian common law and civil law traditions while Indigenous law has ... -
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 ... -
Art for God's Sake: An Augustinian Defense of Theatre
In City of God Augustine refers to the theatre as a “pestilence” on the morals of the Roman people. Further, he devotes a large portion of the third book of the Confessions to outlining his own sinful experiences with the ... -
Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
The funerary practices on Crete during the Bronze Age are very diverse in nature. Tomb architecture in the Early Minoan period is characterized by regional variations. In the Middle Minoan and Late Minoan periods the ... -
Why does Aristotle think bees are divine? Proportion, triplicity and order in the natural world
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-04-30)Concluding his discussion of bee reproduction in Book 3 of Generation of Animals, Aristotle makes a famous methodological pronouncement about the relationship between sense perception and theory in natural history. In the ... -
Natural and Supernatural in Ancient Science
(Oxford, 2019-01-17)This chapter challenges the widespread claim that science in antiquity is, at least in part, characterized by a move to naturalistic explanations from mythological or supernatural ones. By looking closely at both the ... -
Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle’s Biology
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-05-26)This essay looks at the ways in which Aristotle signals his confidence in observation claims in his biological works. Widely seen as an astute observer of the natural world, Aristotle in fact makes surprisingly few explicit ... -
Let Us Make the Effort: Science into Latin in Antiquity
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-05-29)Scientific writing initially came to ancient Latin speakers as a foreign discipline. Greek-language sources, in the form both of written texts and of living speakers, brought a wide range of philosophical, technical, and ... -
Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them: The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient Imagination
(Brill, 2018-07-17)After sitting, cryptically, silently, in the Archaeological Museum in Athens for nearly a century, the Antikythera mechanism only really began to yield up its secrets in the latter part of the twentieth century. To be sure, ...
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