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Minotaur Or The King’S Bull. By Jonathon Ward. Urban Youth Theater, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York. 23 July 1999 (Performance Review), Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an opportunity for Latino hip-hop artists to pass down a cultural tradition to the next generation. Latino artists situated hip-hop as a social movement, and the teen performers physically embodied this in the songs and dance. In this way, the Athenian rebellion became the breaking of stereotypes often associated with urban youths. The performers beautifully portrayed this act of resistance when Theseus took Minos’ golden crown, wore it, and passed it down for all the Athenians to wear.

The Socratic Fallacy In The Early Dialogues, Priscilla Sakezles

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In ‘Plato’s Euthyphro: An Analysis and Commentary’ (33), Peter Geach attributes two assumptions to Socrates which he calls the ‘Socratic Fallacy’ since its locus classicus is the early Socratic dialogues:

(A) if you know you are correctly predicating a given term ‘T,’ you must ‘know what it is to be T’ in the sense of being able to give a general criterion for a thing’s being T;

(B) it is no use to try and arrive at the meaning of‘T’ by giving examples of things that are T.

Geach claims that (B) follows from (A) because assuming (A) is true, …

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 110, Israel Antiquities Authority

Hadashot Arkheologiyot–Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Bilingual Series)

Tel Dan – 1998, 48/98, Avraham Biran [1] Ha-Gosherim, 2509, 2717, Nimrod Getzov [2] Tel Ḥaẓor – 1998, 1/98, Amnon Ben-Tor [4] Naḥal Yeḥi‘am, 2671, Nimrod Getzov [6] Kefar Veradim, 2362, Nimrod Getzov [7] Parod, 142/97, Oren Tal, Yigal Tepper, Yotam Tepper and Alexander Fantalkin [7] Hayonim Cave, 46/97, Ofer Bar-Yosef [11] Kafr el-Makr, 55/95, Arthur Segal [11] ‘Akko (Acre), the Eastern Moat, *2421, Eliezer Stern [12] ‘Akko, Derekh Ha-Nof C, 2439, 2734, Howard Smithline and Eliezer Stern [15] Old ‘Akko, the Fortress, 12/97, Eliezer Stern [16] Qiryat Ata …

The ‘Digression’ In Plato’S Theaetetus: A New Interpretation, David Levy

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I argue that the “digression” (Tht. 172D-177C) plays a central role in Plato’s overall critique of Protagoras’s measure doctrine. Properly understood, the digression itself constitutes an argument against accepting a particular interpretation of the measure doctrine. This argument is based upon the unacceptable moral and political consequences that result from an institutional validation of extreme conventionalism. Commentators, such as Robin Waterfield and Gilbert Ryle, who dismiss this passage as pointless, and translators, such as Gwynneth Matthews, who omit the passage entirely, fail to draw the important connections among the measure doctrine, the Athenian legal system …

The Transformation Of The Investigation Of F In Plato's Dramas Of Definition, David Wolfsdorf

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I consider which formal characteristics, if any, occur in the investigations. In addition, I am interested in whether there is a transformation of formal characteristics among the dramas of definition.

Methodologically, the paper focuses on what I call the surface claims and arguments of the text. By that I mean the explicit claims and arguments Socrates and his interlocutors make about the identity of F. This aspect of the texts is distinguished from their literary or dramatic aspects as well as any indirect claims and arguments about F, however these might occur. The neglect of the literary …

Sagp Newsletter 1999-2000.2 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panels with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Boston, December 28, 1999, and with the American Philological Association in Dallas, December 28, 1999.

The Validity Of Selected Draw-A-Person Test Classifying Criteria Among Homosexual And Non Homosexual Males, Joel Von Ornsteiner

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the validity of Machover's (1949) interpretation that attention to both the hips and buttocks drawn by male subjects in their first male Draw-A-Person Test (DAP) or the drawing of a female figure first are significant indicators of male homosexuality. The hypothesis was that the frequency of these homosexual indicators among non-instituted homosexuals would be significantly higher (P = < .05) than the male heterosexual group. One hundred homosexual and 100 heterosexual males were selected from groups of volunteers from two universities, one bookstore and a community center in the New York City area. The subjects were administered a DAP test in booklet format and a questionnaire. The drawings were classified for homosexual indicators blindly and independently by three judges who were trained in the use of the Machover interpretation of the DAP. Chi square analyses were calculated for the frequency of hips and buttocks and for the drawing of a female figure first and no significant differences between the self identified homosexual and heterosexual male groups in the expected direction were found. It was concluded that the lack of any significant difference between the scores of the homosexual and heterosexual males in this study casts considerable doubt on the validity of the male homosexual interpretations explored. Speculations were made concerning the widely discrepant results from past studies and this investigation. The majority of the past research had been conducted within institutional settings and there have been cultural changes over the last fifty years in both psychology and society's tolerance for the male homosexual. Unlike any previous DAP study, one-hundred urban homosexual and one-hundred heterosexual males were randomly selected. This researcher cautions that the DAP test should be interpreted with other available information, and results based on its independent use are viewed with much skepticism. Implications for future research were discussed.

Sagp Newsletter 1999-2000.1 July, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the program for the 1999 SAGP/SSIPS conference in Binghamton, October 22, 23, 24, 1999.

[Review Of] Karen R. Dixon And Pat Southern, The Roman Cavalry From The First To The Third Century Ad, London And New York: Routledge, Paperback Edition, 1997. 256 Pp. And Lawrence Keppie, The Making Of The Roman Army From Republic To Empire, London And New York: Routledge, Paperback Edition, 1998. 259 Pp., Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Is There A Focal Meaning Of Being In Aristotle?, Jiyuan Yu

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

At the beginning of Metaphysics Γ Aristotle claims that there is a science which is concerned with being qua being. 'Being’ is said in many senses. Different beings are not said to be purely homonymous, but rather to be “related to one thing (πρόσ ἕν)”(1003a33- 4). G.E.L Owen translates this ττρός ἕν formula as "focal meaning", and in his paraphrase, it means that all the “senses [of ‘being’] have one focus, one common element”, or “a central sense”, so that “all its senses can be explained in terms of substance and of the sense of ‘being’ that is appropriate to …

Animal Perception In Early Stoicism: A Response To Richard Sorabji, Scott Rubarth

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The Stoics cannot deny that animals perceive things in relation to each other things (e.g. the scent coming from that direction). The dog must minimally connect the scent a direct if we are to explain the animal following an animal's trail. And it is also true that if the animal is to act on a stimulus it must connect the stimulus with a desire or experience. The dog must connect the scent with its desire or hunger. However, I do not agree that the animal must believe that the scent is coming from a given direction or even believe that …

On Separating The Intellect From The Body: Aristotle's De Anima Iii.4, 429a10-B5, John E. Sisko

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle is clearly aware that the theory of separable intellect is not without its own difficulties. One difficulty is that of how intellect is to come to possess its objects. These objects first exist (potentially) in material things, but material things (it would seem) share no underlying generic sameness with separable (immaterial) intellect. So, upon consideration of his own account of agency and patiency, which requires that agent and patient hold something in common (see Generation and Corruption 1.7), it becomes unclear to Aristotle how it is that separable intellect, having nothing in common with anything else, is to ever …

1999 Aristotle, Practical Knowledge, And Theoretical Frames, Christina H. Roseman

C. May Marston Lectures

How several ancient philosophers, including Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Aristotle, speculated about the nature of the physical world.

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 109, Israel Antiquities Authority

Hadashot Arkheologiyot–Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Bilingual Series)

Banias - 1996 Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli Tel Dan Avraham Biran Qiryat Shemona, Giv'at Shehumit Idan Shaked Mezad 'Ateret Ronnie Ellenblum and Adrian Boas Horbat Qazion Rachel Hachlili and Ann E. Killebrew Gush Halav Mordechai Aviam Khirbet el־Quseir Mordechai Aviam Karmi'el Zvi Gal and Dina Shalem Kafr Yasif Mordechai Aviam 'Akko, the Old City Eliezer Stern Bene Yehuda Erez Kalmachter Land of Geshur - 1997 Moshe Kochavi Tiberias, Khirbet Nasr ed-Din Haya Ben Nahum Zippori -1997 Ze'ev Weiss I'billin Abdallah Muqari Tel Regev Doron Lipkunsky and Zakh Horowitz Haifa, Kh. Tinani Zvi Yavor Horbat Castra -1993-1997 Ze'ev Yeivin …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 19, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Tel Hazor, the Eastern Spur, 2345-A, Karen Covello-Paran [1], Tel Hazor , 1996, 51/96-G, Amnon Ben-Tor [2], Me‘ona, 2496-A, Eliot Braun [6], Akhziv , Wine Press Complex, 2121-A, Danny Syon [7], Nahariyya, 2405-A *, Leea Porat and Zvi Gal [8], Hayonim Cave , 1995-1996, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Bernard Vandermeersch and Baruch A [10], ‘Akko, Ha-Gedud Ha-‘Ivri Steet, 2324-A *, Edna J. Stern and Manael shalvi-Abbas [12], ‘Akko, the Courthouse Parking Lot, 2254-A *, Dina Avshalom-Gorni [17], Tel Kinrot , 1996, 4/96-G, Volkmar Fritz and Dieter Viweger [21], ‘Araba …

An Atypical Affair? Alexander The Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros And The Nature Of Their Relationship, Jeanne Reames

History Faculty Publications

Most recent Alexander historians - especially those writing after Stonewall - assume that the friendship of Alexander the Great and Hephaistion Amyntoros was not purely platonic.² Despite this, the names of Alexander and Hephaistion rarely find their way into modem lists of ancient lovers, nor are they much mentioned in studies of Greek homoeroticism³ - perhaps because they fail to fit the model first detailed by K.J. Dover in 1978. This dichotomy is a curiosity of recent specialization in classics. Alexander historians assume the affair while historians of Greek sexuality ignore it. In any case, the matter of …

Book Review. Roman Law After The Fall Of Rome, David V. Snyder

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Review of: Stein, Peter, Roman Law in European History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

We focus upon the difficulties involved in Wiggin's interpretation of deliberation, since these form the basis for his later analyses. Wiggins grounds his thesis that ends are subject to deliberation upon the view that the various virtues are constituents of happiness. As constituents of the ultimate end itself, they would not be ordered to any higher end. Consequently, the virtues would be incommensurable with one another, since conflicts between virtues would not be resolvable in terms of any common end. It is perfectly understandable that under this view the sole arbiter of such conflicts would be “situational appreciation,” as Wiggins …

Are Ends Subject To Deliberation In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? A Reply To David Wiggins, Anthony Crifasi

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Conflicts between virtues would not result in the radical incommensurability described by Wiggins (having no common end at all). Such a highest end would by no means be a “universal rule” in the sense criticized by Wiggins in his reply to Allan, since particular circumstances could, as always, affect or prevent altogether the manner and means by which the end would be actualized. The “situational appreciation” of practical wisdom would therefore still play a vital role in the practical actualization of any virtue. Since the benefits of this interpretation include the elimination of radical incommensurability without appeal to universal Kantian …

Aristotle On Existential Import And Nonreferring Subjects, Scott Carson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Much contemporary philosophy o f language has shown considerable interest in the relation between our linguistic practice and our metaphysical commitments, and this interest has begun to influence work in the history of philosophy as well. In his Categories and De interpretatione, Aristotle presents an analysis of language that can be read as intended to illustrate an isomorphism between the ontology of the real world and how we talk about that world. Our understanding of language is at least in part dependent upon our understanding of the relationships that exist among the enduring πράγματα that we come across in our …

Epicurus, Sententia Vaticana Xxiii, Eric A. Brown

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Sententia Vaticana 23, as usually emended, says that every friendship is choiceworthy for its own sake. I argue that this sentence should not be attributed to Epicurus. No other evidence supports the attribution of this view to Epicurus, and much other evidence counts strongly against it. It would be better to reject the emendation, so that the sentence says, in somewhat awkward but not entirely unprecedented Greek, that every friendship is by itself a virtue, or to attribute the emended sentence not to Epicurus but to the later, more timid Epicureans who, according to Cicero, conceded more value to friendship …

Sagp Newsletter 1998-99.3 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panels with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Washington DC December 28 and with the American Philological Association, also in DC, December 30.

[Review Of] Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory And Mythmaking In Israel, Madison: University Of Wisconsin Press, 1995, Xxi + 401 Pp., Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Aristotle On Akratic Action: How Rational Is It?, Patrick Mooney

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My answer to the question asked in the paper’s title is: akratic action-acting contrary to what one believes or knows is the best course of action open to one, or “weakness of will”—is not rational at all, according to Aristotle (here restricting myself to his discussion of akrasia in the Nicomachean Ethics, VII. 1-3). In saying that it is ‘not rational at all,’ I have in mind that there is no “intellectual,” or “cognitive,” faculty at work which so much as helps to bring about the akratic act-there is, in other words, no way in which the akrates “figures out” …

Effect Of Item Clarity And Probability Of Item Endorsement On Response Latencies On Personality Test Items, James R. Kinney

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study, regression analysis was used to examine the affects of item clarity and probability of endorsement on response latencies of 60 undergraduates responding on personality test items from the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 Personality Factor test) (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970, 5th Edition). Response latencies to personality test items, though frequently studied, have yet to be operationally utilized in the interpretation of personality tests. Forty-four items from the 16 Personality Factor test were selected. Each item from the original test was rated for clarity and matched with an emotionally neutral statement with an equivalent number of words. …

Sagp Newsletter 1998-99.5 April, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panel with the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in New Orleans, May 7, 1999.

The Receptivity Of Νοῦς In De Anima Iii.4, Joseph M. Magee

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

• For Aristotle, the faculty of thought is legitimately characterized as being receptive of its objects. To construe Aristotle as holding that it is not renders a significant part of DA 3.4 to be of highly questionable internal coherence, since it makes it seem that he is claiming that something foreign might intrude into a power that has no organ and render that power inoperable. Moreover, failure to acknowledge the intellect's receptivity renders what is clearly supposed to be an explanation (mind is unmixed because it 7 knows all things) otiose and virtually unrelated to the logic of his argument. Finally, …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 108 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קח, Israel Antiquities Authority

חדשות ארכיאולוגיות (סדרה עברית) Hadashot Arkheologiyot (Hebrew Series)

ל דן , 1996, 25/96-G, אברהם בירן [1] תל תורמוס, 2461-A, הווארד סמיטליין, קרן קובלו-פארן ועפר מרדר [4] תל חצור , 1997, 77/97-G, אמנון בן-תור [6] עינות עינן , 1996, 81/96-G, חמודי חלאילה ופרנסואה ר' ואלא [7] צפת , 2488-A, עמנואל דמתי [9] נחל יחיעם, 2335-A *, הנא אבו-עוקסאה [9] חורבת עבש, 2058-A, דינה אבשלום-גורני [11] אכזיב, בית הקברות המזרחי, 2267-A *, הנא אבו-עוקסה [12] נהריה, 2219-A *, מישל יתאח [15] מחסה סלע מגד , 1995-1996, 98/95-G-69/96 ,G, סטיבן קון ואנה בלפר-כהן [16] עכו העתיקה, חניון האבירים, 2244-A, …

1998 The Spoils Of Alaric And Athaulf: Reflections On The Siege Of Roman, Ad 410, Christina H. Roseman

C. May Marston Lectures

A commentary on some key players involved in the "Siege of Rome," detailing the strange ways their lives were interwoven. Included are Theodosius, Stilicho, Arcadius, Honorius, Galla Placidia, Alaric, Athaulf, and Constantius.

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 17, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Bet She’an, Antiquities Authority Expedition, G-30/92, G-5/93, G-12/94, Gaby Maor and Rachel Bar-Nathan [7], Caesarea , March 1992-June 1994, Yosef Porath, Avner Raban and Joseph Patrich [37], Caesarea, Expedition of the Antiquities Authority, G-38/92, G-6/93, Yosef Porath [37], Caesarea, Combined Caesarea Excavations (A), G-47/92, G-48/92, G-43/93, G-50/93, G-8/94, G-10/94, Joseph Patrich [47], Caesarea, Combined Caesarea Excavations (B), G-43/93, G-10/94, Avner Raban [54], Caesarea, Survey of Crusader Structures, G-123/92, Adrian Boas [72], Ramat Bet Shemesh, Paleoecological Survey, G-20/95, Liora Horwitz, Hagit Levy and Ehud Shani [79], Ramat …