An Investigation Of Roman Silver Plate In The San Antonio Museum Of Art,
2010
Trinity University
An Investigation Of Roman Silver Plate In The San Antonio Museum Of Art, Allyson Walsh
Classical Studies Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Sexual Healing: Gender, Sexuality, And The Balance Of The Masculine And Feminine Creative Principles In The Healing Cult Of Asclepius,
2010
Illinois Wesleyan University
Sexual Healing: Gender, Sexuality, And The Balance Of The Masculine And Feminine Creative Principles In The Healing Cult Of Asclepius, Aislinn Lowry, Nancy Sultan, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Writing And Empire In Tacitus [Review],
2010
Trinity University
Writing And Empire In Tacitus [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Classical Studies Faculty Research
Over the past decade, scholars such as Ash, O’Gorman, and Haynes have taken up a cause long championed by Woodman, insisting that we must treat Tacitus’ works as literary productions before we can use them as historical documents. By remaining attentive to issues of voice, allusion, and narrative presentation, these scholars have shown how Tacitus is worthy of the kinds of intense readings we might perform on any ancient author writing in poetry or prose; in many ways they do for Tacitus what Miles, Jaeger, and Feldherr did for Livy in the 1990s. Dylan Sailor’s Writing and Empire in Tacitus …
Review Of Handbuch Der Illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben 1502-1840: Geschichte, Typologie, Zyklen Und Kommentierter Katalog Der Holzschnitte Und Kupferstiche Zur Aeneis In Alten Drucken, By W. Suerbaum,
2010
Bryn Mawr College
Review Of Handbuch Der Illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben 1502-1840: Geschichte, Typologie, Zyklen Und Kommentierter Katalog Der Holzschnitte Und Kupferstiche Zur Aeneis In Alten Drucken, By W. Suerbaum, Julia H. Gaisser
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Review Of "Masks Of Authority: Fiction And Pragmatics In Ancient Greek Poetics" By C. Calame, Translated By P.M. Burk,
2010
Swarthmore College
Review Of "Masks Of Authority: Fiction And Pragmatics In Ancient Greek Poetics" By C. Calame, Translated By P.M. Burk, Grace M. Ledbetter
Classics Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Intelligible Matter In Aristotle,
2010
Western University
Intelligible Matter In Aristotle, John Thorp
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The oxymoronic phrase ‘intelligible matter’ occurs three times in Aristotle. In two passages it has the same meaning; in the third the meaning seems radically different. This gives the impression that the Aristotelian language of metaphysics is distressingly slack. This paper argues, against the nearly unanimous voice of two millennia of commentaries, that ‘intelligible matter’ has the same meaning in all three loci. In doing so it develops a capital distinction that tightens up the apparatus of Aristotelian metaphysics.
Causation, Agency, And Law In Antiphon: On Some Subtleties In The Second Tetralogy,
2010
St. Norbert College
Causation, Agency, And Law In Antiphon: On Some Subtleties In The Second Tetralogy, Joel Mann
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
That no one can or should be convicted in a law court on pollution charges is, I suggest, the implicit message of Antiphon’s second Tetralogy. More than a mere rhetorical exercise, Antiphon offers us a rational and compelling critique of religious law and of legal responsibility generally. In so doing, he anticipates modern puzzles in the philosophy of law as well as some of their more sophisticated solutions. A work not only of ingenious skepticism but also of considerable subtlety, the second Tetralogy should be considered the product of a philosopher who made perhaps the most substantial extant contribution to …
Aristotle On Learning In De Anima Ii.5,
2010
University of California, Santa Cruz
Aristotle On Learning In De Anima Ii.5, John F. Bowin
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Just as the coming to be of a substance may be described as either an extended process or the completion of an extended process depending on whether it is described as the coming to be of the composite or of the individual form, so the process of learning may be described as either an extended process or the completion of an extended process depending on whether it is described as the oscillation between states of truth and error or as the ‘settling down’ or cessation of this oscillation at the stage where knowledge has become a stable disposition (hexis). And …
“Death, Goodness, And The Lost Daughter: The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And Carol Shields' Unless”,
2010
The University of Western Ontario
“Death, Goodness, And The Lost Daughter: The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And Carol Shields' Unless”, Aara Suksi
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)
This research examines how a reading of Unless, conditioned by a familiarity with the traditional Greek myth, creates new meaning from the old story pattern.
Odysseus In Democratic Athens,
2010
The University of Western Ontario
Odysseus In Democratic Athens, Aara Suksi
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)
This project explores the varied forms in which the early Homeric epic hero Odysseus re-appears in the culture of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Ghouls, Hell And Transcendence: The Zombie In Popular Culture From "Night Of The Living Dead" To "Shaun Of The Dead",
2010
Brigham Young University - Provo
Ghouls, Hell And Transcendence: The Zombie In Popular Culture From "Night Of The Living Dead" To "Shaun Of The Dead", Jasie Stokes
Theses and Dissertations
Considering the amount of media created around the zombie and the sustained interest in its role in our society, we can clearly see that a cultural phenomenon is underway, and it is important for us to question this phenomenon in order to gain some understanding of how and why its appeal has stretched so far. The zombie is somehow enthralling, and it is my opinion that this is in part because the zombie is a study of what it means to be human in the postmodern world. My main purpose here is not to ask why zombies are popular or …
How Greek Tragedy Inspired Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy From "The Birth Of Tragedy" To "Ecce Homo",
2010
Bemidji State University
How Greek Tragedy Inspired Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy From "The Birth Of Tragedy" To "Ecce Homo", Marc Le Voir
Honors Capstones
Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.
Sagp Newsletter 2009/10.4 Pac,
2010
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2009/10.4 Pac, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
What Aristotle Should Have Said About Megalopsychia,
2010
College of the Holy Cross
What Aristotle Should Have Said About Megalopsychia, May Sim
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Megalopsychia (the greatness of soul) also translated as pride, or magnanimity, is a virtue Aristotle attributes to the good person regarding his claim to be worthy of great things, namely, honor. Despite this definition, commentators like C. Rowe, H. Curzer, R. Polansky and J. Stover, all chose to de-emphasize the centrality of honor in Aristotle’s definition of megalopsychia. Aristotle’s assertion that honor is the greatest external good also seems to be in tension with megalopsychia as a virtue that is to be pursued for its own sake, not to mention its tension with his remark that friendship is the greatest …
Against Hedonist Interpretations Of Plato's Protagoras,
2010
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Against Hedonist Interpretations Of Plato's Protagoras, J. Clerk Shaw
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In this paper, I adapt one of the pro-hedonist strategies to anti-hedonist ends. Just as some prohedonists insist that Plato’s arguments against hedonism elsewhere do not touch the actual theory found in the Protagoras (again, PH), I argue that the most natural reading of PH is inconsistent with views found in purportedly earlier dialogues (especially the Apology and Crito) as well as in purportedly later dialogues (such as the Gorgias, Phaedo, and Republic). In section 1, I argue that PH focuses entirely on bodily goods and bads.11 Then, in section 2, I argue that this makes the relationship between virtue …
Sagp Newsletter 2009/10.3 (Central Division),
2010
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2009/10.3 (Central Division), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Empirical And Dialogical Proofs Of God's Existence In Laws 10,
2010
Binghamton University--SUNY
Empirical And Dialogical Proofs Of God's Existence In Laws 10, Lewis Trelawny-Cassity
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Book 10 of the Laws is intended to prove that the gods exist, care for us, and are not persuaded by bribes (885b7-9). The arguments put forward concerning the gods in Book 10 are described as “our noblest and best prelude (kalliston te kai ariston prooimion) on behalf of the laws” (887c1). In this paper I want to investigate how Plato establishes the fact that nous, “god, in the correct sense, for the gods” (897b2), exists. Some scholars have noted the “empirical” character of Plato’s arguments for the existence of god in Laws 10. While empirical facts do provide an …
Τρυφη And Υβρισ In The Περι Βιων Of Clearchus,
2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Τρυφη And Υβρισ In The Περι Βιων Of Clearchus, Vanessa B. Gorman, Robert J. Gorman
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Recent discussions of the fragments of the Περι Βίων have seen the concept of pernicious luxury as a key to understanding aspects of this work of Clearchus. In particular, it is thought that Clearchus reflects a moralizing historiographical schema according to which wealth leads to an effeminate luxury (τρυφή), eventually producing satiety (κόρος), which in turn provokes the afflicted to violence (υβρις), ultimately bringing the subject’s destruction. We maintain, in contrast, that it is anachronistic to attribute this pattern of thought to Clearchus, and further, that the state of the evidence does not permit …
In Praise Of The Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography Into The British Literature Survey,
2010
Bridgewater State University
In Praise Of The Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography Into The British Literature Survey, John P. Sexton
English Faculty Publications
Despite increased interest in hagiographic writing among scholars of early literature in the last few decades, serious study of saints’ lives in the undergraduate classroom remains rare. To some degree, this is a result of poor representation in the leading anthologies,[1]but another contributing factor has been the perception of a distinction between hagiographic and other medieval writing it terms of genre or of literary value. Such distinctions, however, are modern inventions, and do not accurately reflect the medieval reader or writer’s view. Nor is the inclusion of the literature alongside the expected “great works” difficult or jarring; a …
Blaming The Witch: Some Reflections Upon Unexpected Death,
2010
Bryn Mawr College
Blaming The Witch: Some Reflections Upon Unexpected Death, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
