Honors Theses

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This is a collection of undergraduate honors theses completed by UT Austin students. There is not a requirement for students to submit their thesis to Texas ScholarWorks, so the collection only includes those students who have opted in. If you are interested in submitting your honors thesis to this collection, please complete this form and send it along with the file for your thesis to tsw@utlists.utexas.edu. Please make sure to remove any signatures from your document before sending it.

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Browsing Honors Theses by Department "Classics"

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    Ox and Laborer: Implications of “For the Scripture Says” in 1 Timothy 5:18
    (2023) Creel, Alexander; Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet
    This thesis project argues that, in quoting both the Torah and a Gospel account together in 1 Timothy 5:18, the apostle Paul places them in equal textual and religious authority for his readers, during a time before the entire biblical / New Testament canon was officially established. The main methods used to show this will include research into history, religion, textual criticism, and literary practices of that era; and this via scholarly writings in Classics and Religious studies and biblical commentaries. We examine various ancient texts of the epistle to evaluate potential discrepancies (scribal errors, etc.) and to compare the exact wording of the primary sources (manuscripts of the Gospels, of Paul’s epistle, and of Torah in LXX). We also confer and reference various scholarly texts which analyze what meaning can be derived solely from the text. After compiling and evaluating these primarily literary sources, we also refer to potential historical/cultural factors which impact the meaning and intent of the writings (though this not to say that cultural phenomena and the grammar of language can be fundamentally separated in the first place). And of course, before all of this, it must be shown reasonable that the epistle was written by Paul in the first place. The final product is a mixture of all these types of valuation, organized around different areas of concern for the subject being discussed. The text in question is specifically the verse 1 Timothy 5:18, but more broadly, the goal is to examine the ways in which quotations were used by religiously- and historically-educated figures such as the apostle Paul in order to instruct and write to recipients (here, his apprentice Timothy), and to support specific arguments (here, that those with greater authority who serve responsibly in a religious organization should be recognized for it). This culminates in all the potential implications for his use of these quotations, such as a description of Paul’s overall view of “Scripture” (in the biblical sense); 1 Timothy’s date of composition; and Paul’s understanding of biblical composition in the New Testament era.
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    The Production and Perception of Bronze in Mycenaean Greece
    (2020-05-20) Winkley, Cassandra; Palaima, Thomas G.
    The Aegean Bronze Age, the period in Greek prehistory between 3000 BCE and 1100 BCE, is best characterized by the introduction and utilization of bronze metal. In particular, the alloy tin-bronze is associated with the later part of this period, and especially with the mainland culture of the Mycenaeans. The matter of tin-bronze production in Mycenaean Greece is problematic, primarily due to the fact that there is a lack of evidence that such an industry was even practiced by the Mycenaeans at the time. Thus, it is the goal of this paper to evaluate the evidence for metal trade and metallurgy provided by the archaeological record and in the corpus of Linear B tablets to determine the likelihood that the Mycenaeans actively produced tin-bronze. In doing so, certain aspects of Mycenaean society are revealed or further elaborated, namely the state of the mainland during the socio-economic collapse of the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.
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    Victoria and Victory in the First Punic War
    (2021-05) Luo, Xinyao; Taylor, Rabun