Degree with Honors

Students who wish to be considered for the degree with honors will normally write a thesis (one semester and WSP) or sometimes pursue appropriate independent study. An honors project gives students an opportunity to work in depth on a topic of their own devising and to develop the techniques and critical methods with which they have become acquainted during their regular course work.

To be eligible for pursuing honors, students will normally have a minimum GPA of 3.3 in the Classics major and must have demonstrated original or superior ability in their Classics courses. Further, upon graduation they must have completed a minimum of ten semester courses in Classics, not including the thesis or independent study. Students who think they may be interested in pursuing honors should begin consulting with the department’s chair or other faculty no later than Winter Study of their junior year. A formal thesis proposal must be submitted to the chair no later than April 15.

Recent theses have included:

• Felicitas & Fortuna: Or, The Rise of Tyranny in Late Republican Rome, by Andrew Rondeau, 2017. Amanda Wilcox, advisor.

• Non, Si Me Satis Audias, Speres Perpetuum: Time, the Self, and the Reception of Erotic Lyric in Horace’s Carmina, by Katherine Dennis, 2015. Edan Dekel, advisor.

• Encountering Ekphrasis : Cultural Subordination and the Female Gaze in Moschus’ Europa, by Lauren Miller, 2015. Benjamin Rubin, advisor.

• The Egyptian Gender : a Queen, a Goddess, and a Roman Ethnic Stereotype, by Ian McLean, 2013. Amanda Wilcox, advisor

• Odysseus’ Murderous Project, by David Kealhofer, 2013. Edan Dekel, advisor.

• A Place for the Respublica in Cicero’s Theory of Natural Law, by Jacob Gelman, 2013. Amanda Wilcox, advisor.