Student Research
Below are past honors project titles for the Classics department. A print version of each honors project is deposited in the Bowdoin College Library’s Department of Special Collections & Archives. Online access can sometimes be found through the Digital Commons.
Honors Projects
Socratic swearing: Explaining Informal Oaths in Plato's Dialogues
By: Julianna G. Lewis '18
Julia Domna as Mater Familias : The Power of Portrayal
By: Louisa Moore '18
A Moral Contradiction: Cicero and Seneca on Natural Law and Slavery
By: Taylor K. Haist '17
Political polupragmones: Busybody Athenians, Meddlesome Citizenship, and Epistemic Democracy in Classical Athens
By: Harry D. Rube '16
To Be Good Men under Bad Rulers: Political Dissent under the Early Roman Principate
By: John D. Izzo '15
The Hellenistic Poets and Poetic Community in Virgil's Eclogues
By: Caitlin E.H. Maddox '14
A Modern-Day Akharnians: Adapting Aristophanes to the Twenty-First Century
By: Brittany M. Johnson '12
Playing the Part: Theatricality in the Mosaics of the Hellenistic World
By: Anne T. Streetman '12
From the Rowing Benches to the Assembly: The Fifth-Century Athenian Navy and Democratic Education
By: Elliott J. Munn '12
Tyranny and Paralysis: An Examination of Tiberius and the Senate in Tacitus's Annals
By: Stephen A.D. Shennan '12