• awareness and necessity as a source of tragedy, bachelors thesis

  in this thesis i examine the etymological roots for several words expressing necessity and explore the tension created when awareness confronts necessity in greek tragedy. i examine the myth of prometheus and oedipus as prime examples of this tension and compare my findings with other tragic genres.

• a substantiation of initiation: journeys to the underworld in ancient mystery rituals

  in this paper i describe images and stories of journeys to the underworld in order to illuminate the process of initiation and its relationship with existential meaning

• a theory of justice in the ancient world

  in this paper i discuss the dichotomy of what we may call homeric justice and what we may call platonic justice, the institutionalized justice delineated by plato in the republic.

• "being" in the context of a literary revolution

  in this essay, i analize new usage of the verb "to be" in a newly literate "humanist-rationalist tradition" found with the introduction of literacy in ancient greece.

• variations of xenos in euripides' ion

  in this essay, i describe the relationship between xenoi, travelers or foreigners, and their hosts. i draw on lexical and social distinctions formed in the play "ion".

• identifying antiphon and his theory of knowledge

  in this essay i discuss the problematic scholarship of antiphon's theory of knowledge.

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