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Excavations And Surveys In Israel 18, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Banias, 1995, G-80/95, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [1] Banias, Temple of Pan - 1995, G-110/95 [1] Tel Dan, 1995, G-52/95, Avraham Biran [5] Survey of the Map of Metulla, Prehistoric Site, G-106/90, G-6/91, G-13/93, Idan Shaked and Ofer Marder [7] Central Gloan Heights, Survey, G-107/93, G-14/95, G-19/95, Igal Ben-Efraim [8] Southern Golan Height, Survey – 1993-1994, G-108/93, G-112/94, Erez Kalmachter [10] Tel Nov, A-1988, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah [12] Tel Hazor, 1995, G-44/95, Amnon Ben-Tor [13] Kefar Veradim, A-2160, Howard Smithline and Dina Shalem [15] …

A Project Approach Using Integration And Collaboration To Study Ancient Civilizatons In Sixth Grade, Kim Marie Nadermann Kerian

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this article is to describe a 6th grade project intended to build responsibility in students for their own learning and develop an integration of curriculum areas through the study of Ancient Civilizations. Within this project, 6th grade students were involved in a research project with the final production of an ancient civilizations museum where they shared their knowledge and taught other students about their chosen civilization.

Porphyry And Plotinus On The Reality Of Relations, Dirk Baltzly

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Both Plotinus and Porphyry contribute in their own ways to the tradition of neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories. In 6.1-2, Plotinus argues that Aristotle’s ten categories are not adequate as an account of the genera of Being and that for this purpose they ought to be supplanted by the five greatest kinds from Plato’s Sophist. In 6.3, he acknowledges that it would be desirable to have a system of categories, not genera, for the sensible realm. He proposes several reductions of Aristotle’s ten categories to more compact schemes and finally seems to settle on the number five: composite, relative, quantity, …

Second Cause In Posterior Analytics Ii.11, Evelyn Barker

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I contend that the second cause of Posterior Analytics II.11 expresses Aristotle's doctrine of material cause as hypothetical necessity in Physics II. Aristotle presents two formulations of the second cause in Posterior Analytics II. 11, which he "clearly" means to be equivalent. These two formulations of the second cause, taken literally without reference to the definition of the syllogism, fit Aristotle's description of a material cause being "hypothetical necessity" in Physics II - that is, a necessary means to produce a goal. In Physics II.9 Aristotle's thesis that an elementary mathematical definition is a "hypothetical necessity" for the proof of …

Ousia In Metaphysics Vii And Viii: A Syntactic Study, Christopher Shields

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The submitted paper IS the original abstract.

Energeia And Entelecheia: Their Conception, Development And Relation, Thomas Olshewsky

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Stephen Menn, in his recent article on energeia and dynamis, has stirred the coals of recent controversy about understandings of Aristotle’s terms 'energeia' and ‘entelecheia', controversy about which he himself seemed totally oblivious. While he offered us careful explorations of Aristotle’s texts, he took no note of similar studies from over a quarter century ago by Chen Chuang-Hwan and by George Blair, nor of the more recent works by Blair, Daniel Graham and John Rist. So much the worse for his efforts, since these cover much of the same territory with conclusions rather divergent from his own. He has been …

Sagp-Ssips 1997, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Program of the 1997 SAGP-SSIPS Conference

Vaballathus And Zenobia (270-272 A.D.), Jacqueline Long

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Palmyra was a trading community near the margin of the Roman and Persian empires. In A.D. 270-272, under the leadership of Zenobia, the dowager of its ruling house, and in the name of her young son Vaballathus, Palmyrene forces took control of Roman Egypt, Arabia, and parts of Asia Minor. Although the Palmyrenes' actions were not (we believe) originally seditious in intent, Aurelian regarded the "Palmyrene Revolt" as a serious threat to his sovereignty. He campaigned personally against the Palmyrenes, and he ranked his victory over them along with his recovery of the "Gallic Empire." He reversed the largest extent …

Macdonald On Aristotle On The Good, Jurgis Brakas

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

There is a passage in the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) that holds out the promise of giving us a profound insight into Aristotle’s view of the good. The problem is that the passage, A.6: 1096a23-29, has proved remarkably resistant to satisfactory interpretation, defying the efforts of scholars over the last eight decades. It argues, contra Plato, that the good cannot be one thing and, according to Irwin’s translation, reads as follows:

Further, good is spoken of in as many ways as being is spoken of. For it is spoken of in [the category of] what-it-is, as god and mind; in quality, …

Athetizing The Catharsis Clause In The Poetics, Gregory Scott

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I start with Aristotle’s theory of definition in order to claim that Aristotle could not reasonably have included the catharsis clause in the definition of tragedy on his own strictures. Moreover, in case we could solve this problem, I expose some very serious shortcomings that result in the Poetics itself, which are never or rarely acknowledged, if the catharsis clause is kept. Finally, given statements of Strabo and Plutarch, I suggest that the clause was probably a mistaken interpolation by an editor who repaired a damaged Aristotelian manuscript or who imagined that he was augmenting deficient Aristotelian doctrine. M.D. Petrusevski …

What Does Pyrrhonism Have To Do With Pyrrho?, Richard Bett

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I sketch the views of Pyrrho and Aenesidemus, as I understand them, indicating the differences between them, and between each of them and the view expressed in Outlines of Pyrrhonism. I shall then try to indicate how the transition between one view and the next might nonetheless have naturally taken place.

Aristotle On The Nature Of Logos, John P. Anton

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Attention has been frequently drawn to the problems attending attempts "to trace a long progression of meanings in the history of the word logos" (Kerferd). Especially difficult proved the assigning to Aristotle a place in this long progression. One of the reasons is that we have yet to reconstruct his theory of logos. The difficulty is not so much with the complexity of the uses of the term in his works as it is with the widely recognized fact that he left no special treatise on the subject of a doctrine of logos, not to be confused with the instrumentalities …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 107 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קז, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

תל חצור, השלוחה המזרחית, 2345-A, קרן קובלו-פארן [1] תל חצור, 1996, 51/96-G, אמנון בן-תור [2] מעונה, 2496-A, אליוט בראון [6] אכזיב, בית-גיתות, 2121-A, דני שיאון [7] נהריה, 2405-A *, לאה פורת וצבי גל [8] מערת היונים, 1995-1996, עפר בר-יוסף, ברנרד ונדרמש וברוך ארנסבורג [10] עכו, רחוב הגדוד העברי, 2324-A *, עדנה שטרן ומנאל שלבי-עבאס [12] עכו, חניון בית המשפט, 2254-A *, דינה אבשלום-גורני [17] תל כנרות, 1996, 4/96-G, פולקמאר פריץ ודיטר ויווג'ר [21] עראבה, 2123-A *, דני שיאון [22] יודפת, 1995-1996, …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 16, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Namrud Fortress, A-1968, Moshe Hartal [1], Banias, the Aqueduct, A-1876, A-2002, A-2122, Moshe Hartal [5], Banias, 1993, A-2057, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [8], Banias, 1994, G-58/94, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [10], Tel Dan, 1994, G-38/94, Avraham Biran [13], Margaliot Fortress, A-2069, Idan Shaked [16], Kh. el-Khurromiyé, *A-1933 , Hana Abu ‘Uqsa [17], Sasa, West, *A-1927, Howard Smithline [18], Peqi‘in, A-2297, Zvi Gal, Howard Smithline and Dina Shalem [20], Nahal Keziv, ‘Avdon Aqueduct, A-1614, Tsvika Tsuk [22], Hayonim cave, 1993-1994, …

Review Of Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, By Roger S. Bagnall, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Prior Analytics And Aristotle's Commitment To Logos, George Boger

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Prior Analytics describes a natural deduction system as part of an underlying logic. It is a proof-theoretic treatise concerned principally to establish and to perfect a deduction system for science. Aristotle knew that deductions about matters pertaining to a given subject matter are content specific and that they employ a topic neutral deduction system; such a system makes evident that given sentences logically follow from other given sentences. One process of deduction is accomplished through taking pairs of given categorical sentences to generate immediate inferences according to prescribed rules, which categorical inferences are then added to the given sentences and …

Aristotle's Account Of The Virtue Of Courage In Nicomachean Ethics Iii.6-9, Howard J. Curzer

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle's account of courage exhibits several general principles of his architectonic. First, Aristotle applies to courage what I have called the doctrine of disjoint spheres. (1) Each virtue has its own sphere completely separate from the spheres of all other virtues. Aristotle then goes on to narrow the sphere of courage by insisting correctly that courage governs only situations involving both fear and confidence. Aristotle does not make the mistake of further restricting courage to life-threatening situations. Like his accounts of other virtues, Aristotle's account of courage involves several different parameters. (2) Each virtue is a disposition for getting all …

Cicero, On Invention 1.51-77: Hypothetical Syllogistic And The Early Peripatetics, William W. Fortenbaugh

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In the course of this paper, I shall say some things about Cicero’s discussion of induction, but my primary concern will be with his account of deduction. In particular, I want to call attention to Cicero’s argument for a quinquepartite analysis of deductive reasoning (Ded. 3). It is remarkable in that it makes elaborate use of the mixed hypothetical syllogism, and also of some importance in that it supplements our evidence for early Peripatetic interest in syllogisms of this land. Recent scholarship on the history of ancient logic has generally focused on later sources—like Alexander of Aphrodisias, Boethius, Philoponus and …

Impulse And Animal Action In Stoic Psychology, John A. Stevens

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Even in orthodox Chrysippan epistemology, the Stoics believed that impulse can precede assent. Their doctrines on the propatheiai form a theory of temptation, in which impressions exert a force upon us to assent, just as the Academic critics of the Stoics argued. Close readings of De Fato 40-43 and Stobaeus do not actually bear out the consensus understanding of modern critics like Inwood that impulse is identical with, and can only occur with assent. Stevens collects more evidence and sets out the argument with greater clarity in his published version "Preliminary Impulse in Stoic Psychology", Ancient Philosophy 20.1 (2000) 139-168.

On Using The Past In Sextus Empiricus: The Case Of Democritus, Emidio Spinelli

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

If we draw the conclusions from a quick reconstruction of the presence of Democritean doxai in Sextus, we could underline that he seems to use them with the precise (and often explicit) intention of reaching at least two purposes, both functional to the attitude he constantly shows vis-à-vis philosophic past. These purposes are — it seems to me — the following:

a. the first one, that of taking advantage of D.'s doctrines as an integrating part of the diaphoniai that he builds (or that he inherits from the Pyrrhonian tradition which preceded him), always presenting D. as a Dogmatist among …

Sagp Newsletter 1996-97.2 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP Panels with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association for December 1996.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 106 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קו, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

בניאס, 1995, 80/95-G [1] בניאס, מקדש פאן – 1995, 110/95-G, Zvi U. Ma‘oz [1] תל דן, 1995, 52/95-G, אברהם בירן [5] סקר מפת מטולה, אתרים פרהיסטוריים, 106/90-G-6/91 ,G-13/93 ,G, עידן שקד עפר מרדר [7] סקר מרכז רמת הגולן, 107/93-G-14/95 ,G-19/95 ,G, יגאל בן אפרים [8] סקר דרום רמת הגולן, 1993-1994, 108/93-G-112/94 ,G [10] תל נוב, 1988-A, שלומית וקסלר-בדולח [12] תל חצור, 1995, 44/95-G, אמנון בן-תור [13] כפר ורדים, 2160-A, הווארד סמיטליין ודינה שלם [15] חורבת מנות תחתית, 2323-A, עדנה שטרן [15] עכו, חוף …

[Review Of] The Limits Of Empire: The Roman Army In The East. By Ben- Jamin Isaac. Revised Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. Xiv + 510; 5 Maps. $98 (Cloth), $29.95 (Paper); Cdn $53.95 (Paper)., Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 105 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קה, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

בית שאן, משלחת רשות העתיקות, 30/92-G-5/93 ,G-12/94 ,G, גבי מזור ורחל בר-נתן [7] קיסריה, מרץ 1992-יוני 1994, יוסף פורת, אבנר רבן ויוסף פטריך [37] קיסריה, משלחת רשות העתיקות, 38/92-G-6/93 ,G, יוסף פורת [37] קיסריה, המשלחת המשולבת (א), G-47/92-G-48/92 ,G-43/93 ,G-50/93 ,G-8/94 ,G-10/94, יוסף פטריך [47] קיסריה, המשלחת המשולבת (ב), 43/93-G-10/94 ,G, אבנר רבן [54] קיסריה, סקר מבנים צלבניים, 123/92-G, אדריאן בועז [72] רמת בית שמש , מבוא, יהודה דגן [77] רמת בית שמש, סקר פליאואקלוגי, 20/95-G, ליאורה הורוביץ, חגית לוי ואהוד שני [79] רמת בית …

A Catalogue Of The 51 Roman Republican Coins In The Collection Of The Lawrence University Classics Department, Bradford W. Wendel

Lawrence University Honors Projects

The collection of Roman Republican coins in the Classics Department of Lawrence University began with 55 coins. With only a few exceptions, the provenance of the collection is unknown. Coin #4, the bronze as of Publius Cornelius Sulla, was excavated on the Esquiline hill in 1905. Coin #32, the denarius with Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion on the reverse, was donated by George Banta, presumably by George R. Banta, Jr., a Lawrentian of the class of 1910. The exact date that the Classics department came into possession of the collection is also unknown. The terminus ante quem must be 1927-28 …

Aristotle And Chrysippus On The Physiology Of Human Action, Priscilla Sakezles

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The early Stoics do not seem to have physiological theories about the workings of the human body. This is not surprising in light of Chrysippus' admission, reported by Galen, of his ignorance of anatomy. Yet a physiological theory explaining the mechanics of how the body moves in response to the soul's desires can be reconstructed from a handful of neglected fragments. Interestingly, the revealed theory is nearly identical to Aristotle's explanation in On the Motion of Animals of "how the soul moves the body in voluntary motion" (700bl0 and 703b3). In this paper I reconstruct the Stoic theory, and argue …

Aristotle On Civic Friendship, Robert Mayhew

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle offers us no sustained account of civic friendship (πολιτική φιλία), only remarks scattered throughout the Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics. In this paper I hope to make clear what his views on civic friendship are.

Citizens will feel affection for one another due to the mutual benefit they receive from living together in a city. They agree about what is advantageous for the city: who should rule, how the city should be run, etc.; and to the extent that they care about the common good, they all have one aim. In addition, the affection a citizen feels for his …

Sagp Newsletter 1995-96.4 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 Chicago April 26, 1996.

The Emperor Julian (A.D. 331-363): His Life And His Neoplatonic Philosophy, Anthony W. Nattania

Institute for the Humanities Theses

The Neoplatonism of the Emperor Julian (A.D. 331-363) is critically compared to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus (A.D. 205-270). This is done by analyzing their concepts of First Principles, Fate and Destiny, Existence of the Divine Being, the Human Soul, Matter, Time and Eternity, the Contemplation of "The One," and "The One" itself. Julian's psychology is analyzed in light of his Neoplatonism, Mithrasism, and tragic life history. The historical aspects of the attempted pagan reformation during the reign of Julian (A.D. 360-363) is assessed for its historical effects on the Later Roman Empire and its successive generations, while the history of …

Sagp Newsletter 1995-96.3 March, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the panel of SAGP with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in Seattle, April 4, 1996.