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Why Did The Greek "Polis" Originally Need Coins?, Thomas R. Martin

Classics Department Faculty Scholarship

Why did the ancient Greek polis originally need coins? This question, so simple to pose and so difficult to answer, leads to more specific queries such as what practical purposes coins served in the polis and what messages they communicated either explicitly through their types and legends or implicitly by their very creation as products of the political community of the polis.

1996 Greeks, Romans, Comedy And Other Human Foibles, Christina H. Roseman

C. May Marston Lectures

Traditions of ancient Greeks and Roman comedy.

Parrēsia In The Pauline Epistles., David E. Fredrickson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 15, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Banias, Temple of Pan - 1993, G-78/93, Zvi Ma‘oz [1], Banias, 1993, G-53/93, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [4], Map of Rosh Pinna, Survey, 1993, G-14/93, Yosef Stepansky [12], Horvat ‘Ovesh, A-1847, Mordechai Avi‘ram and Nimrod Getzov [14], Horvat Bet Zeneta, A-2037, Nimrod Getzov [16], Akhziv, the East Cemetery, *A-1878, *A-1995 , Idan Shaked [17], Khirbet esh-Shubeika, 1993, G-101/93, Ayelet Tatcher and Danny Syon [18], ‘Amud Cave, 1993-1994, G-77/93, G-80/94, Erella Hovers and Yoel Rak [19], Horvat Kenes, A-2058, Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Mordechai Avi‘am …

Even Friends Cannot Have All Things In Common: Aristotle's Critique Of Plato's Republic, Christos C. Evangeliou

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle considered as the core of Plato's ideal polity the proposal of communism in its double form, community of women and children and community of property for the guardians who, thus, would be able to provide the means to achieving the perfect unification of the state. Aristotle objected to these innovations and came out as a defender of common sense and common Greek political practice. His arguments were intended to show not only the impracticability of Plato's proposals and their incompatibility with common Greek practices but also their undesirability. He believed that, human nature being what it is, a political …

Material Alteration And Cognitive Activity In Aristotle's De Anima, John Sisko

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper, I would like to sketch my account of the relation between cognitive activity and material alteration within Aristotle's psychological theory. I will begin by suggesting a new framework through which to view the important issues (§2). I will then show that on Aristotle's account material alteration is required both for any episode of perception in animals taken generally (§3) and for any episode of thought in human beings (§4). Finally, I will examine Aristotle's rationale for supposing that material alteration is required for human thought (§5).

Plato's Theologia Revisited, Gerard Naddaf

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The word theologia is attested for the first time in Plato’s Republic II, 379a4: Hoi tupoi peri theologias. According to Werner Jaeger (The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, Oxford 1947, 4-­‐13), Plato coined the word to support the introduction of a new doctrine which resulted from a conflict between the mythical and the natural (rational) approach to the problem of God. For Jaeger, the word theologia designates what Aristotle was later to call theologikê or “first philosophy (hê protê philosophia) – whence his translation of hoi tupoi peri theologias by “outlines of theology.” Victor Goldschmidt, for his part, in …

Sagp Newsletter 1995-96.2 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the panels of SAGP with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association December 28 in New York and with the American Philological Association December 28 in San Diego.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 104 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קד, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

מבצר נמרוד, 1968-A, משה הרטל [1] בניאס, אמת המים, 1876-A-2002 ,A-2122 ,A, משה הרטל [5] בניאס, 1993, 2057-A, וסיליוס צפיריס ושושנה ישראלי [8] בניאס, 1994, 58/94-G, וסיליוס צפיריס ושושנה ישראלי [10] תל דן, 1994, 38/94-G, אברהם בירן [13] מבצר מרגליות, 2069-A, עידן שקד [16] ח' אל-חורמייה, 1933-A *, הנא אבו עוקסה [17] סאסא, (מערב), 1927-A *, הווארד סמיטליין [18] פקיעין, 2297-A, צבי גל, הווארד סמיטליין ודינה שלם [20] נחל כזיב, אמת עבדון, 1614-A, צביקה צוק [22] מערת היונים, 1993-1994, 72/93-G-62/94 ,G-102/94 ,G, …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 14, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Banias – 1992, G-32/92, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [1] Tel Dan – 1992, G-31/92, Avraham Biran [3] Qiryat Shemona, Giv‘at Sheḥumit, A-1957*, Idan Shaked [6] Rosh Pinna Map, Survey – 1992, G-6/92, Yosef Stepansky [11] Kisra, A-1875, Ronny Lieberman-Wander [13] Kabri – 1992/1993, G-63/92, G-65/93, Ahron Kempinski and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier [14] Oshrat, A-1842, Howard Smithline [17] Hayonim Cave, G-59/92, Ofer Bar-Yosef [18] Akko, the Citadel, A-1766, G-102/92, Miriam Avissar and Eliezer Stern [19] Bethsaida – 1992, G-39/92, Ram Arav [22] ‘Amud Cave – 1992, G-67/92, Erella Hovers and …

The Length Of The Siege Of Masada, Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Dialectic And Definition In Aristotle's Topics, May Sim

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The middle term between dialectic and being is definition. Definitions are formulae of essences or substances. Thus, one’s view of substance will depend on one’s view of definition: what a definition is, and how it is acquired. Further, insofar as definitions are arrived at through dialectic, definitions depend on dialectic. That is, the specific procedure of dialectic shapes the mode of definition, and the mode of definition shapes the notion of being. Not only does dialectic shape being through definition, but being and knowledge of it also determines dialectic. In short, these three things go together: dialectic, definition and being. …

Aristotle's Child: Formation Through Genes, Oikos, Polis, Daryl Mcgowan Tress

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The discussion of children in Pol VII and the linking of nature, habit and reason supports our thesis that Aristotle has a composite conception of the child and that it can be reconstituted by way of a linked examination of his analyses in the biology, ethics and politics.The child has his or her beginnings prior to birth and grows from unfinished to finished adulthood through linked phases. Each phase of development has its own telos - the complete human animal nature at birth, the complete ethical character later on, and the cultured, educationally complete person ready for adult life in …

Aristotle On The Αρχή Of Practical Reasoning: Countering The Influence Of Sub-Humeanism, Lynn Holt

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My central aim is to show that Aristotle convincingly avoids what has been the linchpin of the dominant contemporary view of the starting point of practical reasoning: that practical reasoning must begin, both normatively and motivationally, with some desire or want (call this sub-Humeanism). My task is made more difficult by the presence of a now common interpretation of Aristotle himself in which desire is both normatively and motivationally super-ordinate. On this view, Aristotle cannot be a genuine alternative to the contemporary view, since he just is a contemporary: Aristotle is the first sub-Humean about practical reasoning.

In order to …

An Aristotelian Definition Of Friendship, Paul Schollmeier

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My paper explicates the Aristotelian definition of friendship, and it demonstrates that friendship for Aristotle can be either altruistic or egoistic. Aristotelian friendship includes three species, one of which is altruistic and two of which are egoistic. Good friendship is essentially friendship, and it is for the sake of another. Useful and pleasant friendships are accidentally friendships, and they are for the sake of oneself.

Society For Ancient Greek Philosophy Bylaws, Sagp

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Sagp Newsletter 1994-95.3 March, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panel with the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association for April 28, 1995, in Chicago.

Sagp Newsletter 1994-95.2 February, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the meeting of SAGP with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association March 31, 1995, in San Francisco.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 103 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קג, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

בניאס, מקדש פאן – 1993, 78/93-G, צבי מעוז [1] בניאס, 1993, 53/93-G, וסיליוס צפיריס ושושנה ישראלי [4] תל דן , 1993, 39/93-G, אברהם בירן [6] תל אל-ואוויאת (תל תנים) , 1993, 2046-A, אלכסנדר און, רפי גרינברג, עידן שקד ויהודה רפיואנו [8] תל חצור , 1994, 30/94-G, אמנון בן-תור [10] סקר מפת ראש פינה, 1993, 14/93-G, יוסי סטפנסקי [12] חורבת עבש, 1847-A, מרדכי אביעם ונמרוד גצוב [14] חורבת בית זניתה, 2037-A, נמרוד גצוב [16] אכזיב, בית הקברות המזרחי, 1878-A -1995 ,*A*, עידן שקד [17] ח' א-שוביכה, 1993 …

Topography And Theology In The Gospel Of John, Craig R. Koester

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

1995 Loom Weights, Water Jars And Catastrophes: Or The View From The Women's Quarters, Christina H. Roseman

C. May Marston Lectures

An examination of the lives of "ordinary" women of the ancient world.

Transgression And Limits In Euripides' Alkestis, Leshu Torchin

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

This paper seeks to understand Euripides' Alkestis in the terms of the transgression described by both Michel Foucault and Longinus. The first section explores transgression as a process that erases the prior limits in order to reconstruct and redefine them. During this process, limits and boundaries are stripped away. A period of horror and liminality ensues in which the meaning of boundaries comes into question. The second section examines the positionality of death as the primary limit that frames the events of the tragedy. The third Section explores the deteriorating functionality of the gender roles held by Admetus and Alkestis. …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 13, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Banias, Aqueduct, A-1829, Moshe Hartal [1], Banias, Temple of Pan, 1991/1992, G-111/91, G-85/92, Zvi Ma‘oz [2], Banias, the ‘Officers’ Pool’, A-1783, Idan Shaked [7], Tel Dan – 1991, Avraham Biran [7], Hagoshrim, A-1814, Karen Covello-Paran [10], Kabri – 1991, G-55/91, Ahron Kempinski and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier [12], Khirbet esh-Shubeika, G-114/91, Ayelet Tatcher and Dina Avshalom-Gorani [14], Ḥorvat Qav, A-1795, Yael Gorin-Rosen and Edna J. Stern [15], Ḥorvat Rosh Zayit, 1991, G-33/91, Zvi Gal [16], Ḥorvat ‘Uẓa, A-1763, Nimrod Getzov [19], Land of Geshur, 1991/1992, G-62-64/91, G-88-90/92, …

What Does Aristotle's Prime Mover Do?, Sarah Waterlow Broadie

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The Prime Mover of Metaphysics Lambda is the source, above all, of eternal motion in the first sphere. It may seem silly to ask 'What (according to Lambda) does the Prime Mover do?' The answer is obvious: 'He — or it — gives rise to the motion of the first sphere'. But according to a widely accepted interpretation, this is not what the Prime Mover does first and foremost; instead, the Mover essentially contemplates. This contemplative conception is my target here. I shall adduce reasons for suspecting that the contemplative Prime Mover is not an Aristotelian postulate in Lambda, but …

The Parts Of Definitions, Unity, And Sameness In Aristotle's Metaphysics, Mark R. Wheeler

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

First principles (ἀρχάι) are crucial to Aristotle's conception of scientific knowledge (επιστήμη). In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle teaches us that all scientific knowledge is either knowledge arrived at through demonstration from first principles or knowledge of the first principles themselves. The first principles of a given science are the primary premises (τὰ πρώτα) of that science (Pst. An., 72a7); they express the essential characteristics of the substance about which the given science is concerned; and all other scientific knowledge is derived from the first principles through syllogistic inference.

The first principles of the various sciences are expressed through definition (ὁρισμός). …

Being According To Aristotle's Metaphysics Delta, Richard Bodeus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In ordinary language, what is said 'being' is so-called in several different ways. In his attempt to clarify this important point, Aristotle introduces distinctions that are not as easily grasped as one might at first believe. Commentators are particular troubled by what 'being per se' means, especially in relation to the 'categories'. Some of them are also surprised to see that Aristotle leaves no room for what one might call 'existential being.' And other aspects of Aristotle's account raise additional problems. I hope to contribute to a more successful understanding of Aristotle's general aim in this text.

Sex & Mysticism In Plato, John Thorp

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

It is a commonplace that Plato seems to entertain two rather different pictures of our access to knowledge of the forms. On the one hand there is anamnesis, remembering a knowledge that we had before our incarnation and that we have since forgotten – thus the Phaedo and the Meno. On the other, there is something that looks far more like abstractive generalization from sensible particulars – the Symposium is the best example, though there are elements of it also in the Republic and the Sophist. This paper argues that there is also a third epistemological model at work, …

Sagp Newsletter 1994-95.1 November, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panels with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association December 28, 1994, and with the American Philological Association, December 30, 1994.

Sagp Ssips 1994 Addendum, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Addendum to the SAGP SSIPS Program October 1994

Utopian And Dystopian Theories On Property, Cheryl Cowles Poe

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The selected works of Plato, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell revealed intriguing political theories on property (liberty) from a utopian and dystopian point of view. The theorists formed new social orders by abolishing various kinds of property. For the most part, their arguments for destroying property were defended by presenting a cure for an existing problem and then sustained through education, psychological conditioning, social and genetic engineering and so on. Common themes and differences were found between the utopian and dystopian theories and among the individual societies as well.