University College London (UCL) • Classical Civilisation

The genres at play within the Aeneid are often intrinsically linked to one another, appearing together within many of the books. Throughout the entity of this work a select range from the many genres that appear within the Aeneid shall be explored with reference to the primary text to support the hypothesis that the epic poem is certainly hospitable to an eclectic range of genres.

Despite flagrant differences between the two plays in regards to the respective presence and absence of the divine physically, both plays mutually highlight the prominence and multiple purposes of the divine within Greek Tragedy. Throughout the body of this work, these manifold purposes shall be discussed whilst simultaneously exhibiting the ubiquitous role of the divine forces within Greek Tragedy.

Homer’s depiction of his epic women, with their various physiognomies, actions and motives, certainly shines light on the widely marginalised sphere of the female domain. Throughout the body of this essay, the many roles and depictions of both the mortal and immortal women within the Iliad are discussed in order to gain an extensive and richer insight into the world of the Iliadic woman.

Throughout the body of this essay, a number of elegies composed by the Augustan elegist Propertius are discussed in order to exhibit the large extent to which elegists collectively alienated themselves from the behavioural norms of contemporary society, as the unconventional themes prevalent within the Propertian elegies are glaringly patent within the works of many Roman elegists.