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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Delivered Divinities: Senatorial Power and Senatorial Peril in the Importation Narratives of Cybele, Asklepios, and Bacchus

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Samolchuk, Joshua
Department or Program
Greek and Roman Studies Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis attempts to analyze the Roman Senate's actions during the importation of three different gods — Cybele, Asklepios, and Bacchus — into Rome during the Middle Republic (400-133 BCE) in order to deduce how the Senate manipulated these religious...

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Individualization and Collectivity in Networks of Discursive Cyberspace: A case study on reddit

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Mark, Raymond
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The diminishing of temporal and spatial boundaries in the contemporary age of connectivity has fully realized Beck, Giddens and Nash's "reflexive" modernity. This reflexive modernity refers to the diminishing control of traditional institutions on individual lives. In the shift towards...

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Shakespeare at Vassar

Publication Date
2016-September
Authors
Ashton, Andrew
Márkus, Zoltán
Patkus, Ronald
Walen, Denise
Nogrady, Elizabeth
Dunn, Leslie
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Shakespeare at Vassar was organized by the Vassar College Special Collections Library, in collaboration with The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, with funds from the Hartman Fund Layout and typography by George Laws, and print production oversight by Daniel Lasecki...

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