Department of History
Best undergraduate dissertations 2022.
Since 2009 the Department of History at the University of Bristol has published the best of the annual dissertations produced by our final-year undergraduates. We do so in recognition of the excellent research undertaken by our students, which is a cornerstone of our degree programme . As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical knowledge and to research of the highest order. Our undergraduates are part of that endeavour.
Listed below are the the best of this year’s undergraduate history dissertations, with links to the dissertations themselves where these are available. Please note that these dissertations are published in the state they were submitted for examination. Thus the authors have not been able to correct errors and/or departures from departmental guidelines for the presentation of dissertations (eg in the formatting of footnotes and bibliographies). In each case, copyright resides with the author and all rights are reserved.
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A freak in the sheet, a story in the gutter: narrative, comics theory, and ovid's amores.
Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Athena’s Trees: Olives, the environment, and the Athenian polis: an investigation into the position of the environment within a New Institutional Economic framework and the development of Athenian institutions
Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Conceptions of the Future in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Dance and poetry: from movement to word, exploring sub-ethnic identity in greek historiography, fiction and the historical frame, fluid bodies: queering gender in ancient greece, greek myth and america: the hero and family dynamics in 'percy jackson and the olympians' by rick riordan, hatred in hesiod, human and divine agency with respect to time in the poetry of horace and prudentius, human dignity from social attribute to universal potentiality: the latin reception of origen's thought in the 4th century, illness and classical frameworks in virginia woolf, images of gender in roman iberia, in defence of freedom of choice: origen's interpretation of romans 9 and its latin reception in the 4th/5th centuries, john buller’s bakxai, iannis xenakis’ bacchantes d'euripide, and eve beglarian’s beijing bacchae: three case studies of contemporary musical response to euripides., literary portraits and landscapes: duplicity and alterity in james joyce and ovid, médée, clytemnestre and phèdre: female heroism revisited in seventeenth-century french tragedy, myths and histories of the spartan scytale: a comprehensive review and reassessment of the extant sources describing the cryptographic spartan device known as the scytale to challenge the view promoted by modern historians of cryptography that denies the scytale its deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world, re-visions : disordering perspectives of ovid's metamorphoses., the bacchants are silent: a cognitive approach to interpreting ancient greek maenadic ritual experience, the image of priapus: ambiguity and masculinity in roman visual culture, the problem with antigone: martyrdom, resistance and revolution in slavoj žižek’s antigone, the representation of athens and sparta in charles rollin’s ancient history of the egyptians, carthaginians, assyrians, babylonians, medes and persians, macedonians and grecians, the storyworld of the augustan marriage legislation: a narratological study of the leges iuliae, the struggle of the soul and the return to goodness: a new proposal for freudian psychoanalysis based on kantian theory, the survival and use of cicero in roman education from the fifth to the sixth centuries a.d., the telephus myth in ancient greek literature and art, 'the water and the swimmer': fluidity, feminine affinity, and the figure of orpheus, time in pindar, to explore strange new worlds: examining star trek: the original series ' relationship with the greco-roman world, verse hagiography between epic and panegyric: venantius fortunatus’s life of st martin, virtual ruins, real insights: establishing a framework for three-dimensional modelling in archaeology, welcoming gods and heroes: the dioskouroi cult of athens and attica, what came first, the phoenician or the egg: examining the geographic distribution and artistic evolution of decorated ostrich eggs in the mediterranean 1st millennium bce., ‘the gender of female suicide in greek myth: divine, amēchanon, monstrous.’, “we are all greeks”: : assessing the appropriation of ancient greece in modern olympic revivals.
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