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Honors Theses

As part of the XU Honors A.B. program all graduating H.A.B. students must write a thesis and successfully defend it before a committee of faculty from various departments of the University.

2004 Honors Theses

Clay Scanlon	Ophthalmos
Bryan Corder	The Impact of Thucydides on Hobbes’s Conception of the State of Nature
Laura Overton	Definition and Standards of Dike in Homer and Hesiod
Stephen Metzger	Themes of the Carmina Burana: Medieval and Modern
Jason Berning	Adapting Antiquity: A Study of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's Electra in the Context of his times

2005 Honors Theses

Jay S. Arns	Returning from “The Undiscovered Country”: Effects of the Trip to the Underworld on Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Odysseus
Robert William Brewer	Tales of Madness, Miracles, Death and Salvation: Analyzing the Corpus of Dionysian Myths from the Perspective of Malinowski’s Charter Theory
Eddie Clark	Capital Punishment in Ancient Rome
Margaret Ferretti	Spontaneous Generation: Investigation of Microbiology and Controlled Experimentation
Tony McCosham	The Not Ready for Dionysia Players: The Aristophanic Tradition of Saturday Night Live
Jennifer M. Ross	God as First Cause in Aristotle and Descartes

2006 Honors Theses

Alexander Hall	Glory, Immortality, and the Power of the Poet
Bonnie Hall	Abstract Contemplation on an Onion: Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Jacob Halusker	Telemachus as a Charter
Christopher McGinness	The Social Status of Physicians in Greece and Rome
Matt Pitlyk	Johannes Kepler’s Influence on the Development of Calculus
Patrick Quinn	Sports: an Indirect Stimulus for Ethics
Becky Tighe	Women Characters in Homer and Greek Tragedy

2007 Honors Theses

Frederick Charles Bowman	Community, Identity, and Parody in the Book of Revelation
John Kaessner	Divine Commerce: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Mythology
Brian Malone	Pater Familias in the Aeneid
Aaron Neumann	Democracy: Ancient and Modern