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Does Aristotle's Political Philosophy Rest On A Contradiction?, David J. Depew

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Critique of David Keyt. 1987. "Three Fundamental Theorems in Aristotle's Politics." Phronesis, 32.1:54-79. Keyt claims that Aristotle is committed to these three propositions: 1. The polis is a natural entity, coming to be and existing by nature. 2. A polis comes to be when a legislator imposes constitutional form on social matter by political art. 3. Nothin can come to be both as a natural entity and as a product of rational art. This paper surveys previous attempts to resolve the dilemma, then argues that Keyt relies too much on the idea that the polis is the consequence of an …

Sagp Newsletter 1988/9.4 (March), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Program of the meeting of the Society with the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association April 28, 1989, in Chicago.

Sagp Newsletter 1988/9.3 (February), Anthony Preus

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Program of the meeting of the Society with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association March 24, 1989, in Oakland, CA.

Organic Models In The Poetics, David Gallop

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

According to Aristotle, art (technë) imitates nature. This celebrated doctrine is not limited to what we call the 'fine arts', or to works of 'art' in any narrow modern sense; and it does not mean that such art-works copy things in the natural order. It means, more generally, that craftsmen adopt means to produce ends; and that in doing so, they follow a pattern found throughout organic nature. The crafts, in their respective domains, do what nature does everywhere. This parallel often provides Aristotle with analogies from the crafts to illuminate the workings of nature. ,The Poetics is uniquely interesting …

Sulla Imperator Iterum : The Samnites And Roman Republican Coin Propaganda, Thomas R. Martin

Classics Department Faculty Scholarship

A large number of inscriptions surviving from the late Roman Republic testify to the abiding interest that public figures of the time had in publicizing themselves. By proclaiming their own achievements and those of their families in inscribed texts, displayed as conspicuously as possible, Romans with ambitions could create the kind of personal publicity which apparently helped to advance their status and careers. The most conspicuous publicity was generated by inscriptions placed on public monuments; the most widely circulated publicity, however, was generated by the inscriptions and small relief sculptures which appeared on coins. Since people at all levels of …

Ancient Etruscan Metalsmiths: The Afterlife Mirrors Life, Dianne K. Debeixedon

Art Faculty Publications

(First Paragraph) Looking down the long corridors of time, the ancient Etruscans emerge as a powerful people whose economic and social development was founded on their metal industry. Over the centuries, however, the Etruscans were gradually absorbed into the Roman Empire and their language disappeared.

Pastoralism In Roman Egypt, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The communications of the IX International Congress of Economic History were recently (1988) published in a volume entitled Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity.1 The volume's papers very much follow, or anticipate, Deborah Hobson's advice to papyrologists in her essay, "Towards a Broader Context for the Study of Greco-Roman Egypt," Echos du Monde Classique 32, n.s. 7 (1988) 353-63. They rely as far as they can on literary and archaeological evidence, but where this fails (and even where it doesn't), they turn to the riches of comparative history and ethnology. Works prominently cited with praise include A.M. Khazanov's brilliant study of …

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Roman Criminal Law In A Berlin Papyrus Codex (Bgu Iv 1024–1027), James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Of the statuary that has survived from Egypt's ancient dynasties, a familiar pose, whose prototype dates back to the Old Kingdom, is that of the scribe, sitting cross-legged with a papyrus roll spread open between his knees. Through Egypt's Ptolemaic and into its Roman period, although the scribe's position and posture may have changed, his use of the papyrus roll remained as before. But, beginning in the second century of Roman rule in Egypt, a new book form, the codex, identical in general design to the modern book, began to be developed and its use began to spread. Papyrus continued …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 6, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Mount Hermon, Har Sena’im, 1986/1987 [1] Banias, 1986 [1] ‘Erav, Ḥorvat [4] Naḥal Beṣet I, 1987 [4–5] Kabri, Tel, 1986 [5–6] Golan, Chalcolithic Sites, 1986 [7–8] Safed, Burial Cave [8–9] Kefar Ḥananya [10] Hayonim Terrace, 1986 [10–11] Land of Geshur, 1987 [11–14] Yin‘am, Tel, 1986 [14] el-Wawiyat, Tell, 1986 [14–16] Ṣippori (Sepphoris), 1986 [16–18] Yoqne‘am and its Villages, 1984/1987 [18–24] Summaqa, Ḥorvat [24] ‘Atlit-Yam [25] Gesher [25–26] Naḥal Zehora [26–27] Dor, Tel, 1986 [27–30] Kebara Cave, 1987 [30–31] Bet Shean Project [31–32] el-Ḥammah, Tell, 1987 …

Paradox, Poetry, And Eternity: Socrates, Parmenides, And Nietzsche, Scott Austin

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Abstractly, some metalanguages and their allied languages are such that the metalinguistic truths cannot be put into the language itself without a (fruitful or devastating) paradox which breaks the very rules which the metalanguage itself enunciates for the language. Others are such that the transposition of metalanguage into language occurs without difficulty. The status of philosophy as a purported "science of all sciences" from classical times to the present hangs on this difference; for, unless there can be speech about speech in one’s own (however elaborated) natural language, the metaphysical enterprise sooner or later topples, to be replaced by faith, …

Ontological Structures In Aristotle, Donald Morrison

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According to the traditional view of the Categories, the ten "categories" are the highest genera of beings. Each of them stands at the head of a tree-like division of the the items falling under it; this division is also sometimes called a "category". The metaphysical structure made up of these ten divisions is the "system of the categories". According to the traditional view, the system of the categories is very rigidly laid out. Not only is every being included in the structure, but every being has exactly one location. Each being is predicated essentially of those below it along the …

Sagp Newsletter 1988/9.2 (November), Anthony Preus

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Programs of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association December 28, 1988, in Washington DC, and with the American Philological Association January 7, 1989, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 92 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות צב, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

תל דן -1987, אברהם בירן [1] תל אל-ואויאת, אלכסנדר און [1–2] מרות-סתיו 1986, צבי אילן [3] מירון, נורית פייג [3–4] כברי-1987, אהרון קמפינסקי ואלי מירון [4–5] כפר נחום-1986-1987, וסליוס צפיריס ומיכל פלג [5–6] מדריגת היונים-1987, פרנסואה ואלא [6] סקר ומניעת שוד עתיקות בגליל, מוטי אביעם ויוסי משה [7] תל צפצפות-בית בד, רפאל פרנקל [8–7] עתלית-ים, אהוד גלילי ואברהם רונן [9] תל דור-1987, אפרים שטרן אילן שרון ואיילת גלבוע [9–15] תל יזרעאל, אורה יוגב [15–18] רמת הנדיב, יזהר הירשפלד ורבקה בירגר [18–20] עין הנצי"ב, רות עמירן ומיכאל …

Sagp/Ssips Program 1988, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Persons, Community and the Good in Antiquity and in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophy. 7th annual SAGP/SSIPS conference, at Baruch College. Program of papers presented.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 91 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות צא, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

בית שאן, בית המרחץ, האודיאון, התיאטרון, רחוב העמודים, גבי מזור [3] בית שאן, מבוא, זאב ייבין [1] בית שאן, רחוב העמודים, מקדש, נימפיאון, גדעון פרסטר, יורם צפריר [15] בית שאן, הרחבה המרכזית ורחוב העמודים הצפוני [19] בית שאן, בסיליקה מהתקופה הרומית [21] בית שאן, שדירת עמודים מהתקופה הרומית ורחוב חנויות מהתקופה הביזאנטית [23] בית שאן, אמפיתאטרון, רחוב ורובע מגורים מהתקופה הביזאנטית, גדעון פרסטר, יורם צפריר [24] בית שאן , בית המרחץ הדרומי, מיכל פלג [31] בית שאן, חפירות ממערב לבית המרחץ הדרומי, פאני ויטו [32] ח' …

A New Look At The Ergon Argument In The Nicomachean Ethics, Alfonso Gomez-Lobo

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It is commonly assumed that the ergon argument consists in an inference which starts from the powers specific or peculiar to man and arrives at a definition of the human good. This would commit Aristotle to some form of naturalism which is either fallacious or at least not available to us because we cannot share his views about human nature. The purpose of the present paper is to show that this interpretation is unsatisfactory. Aristotle's argument is based on a general principle which may be reformulated as follows: "For any x, if x has an ergon y_, then x will …

Existence Claims In The Posterior Analytics, Richard D. Mckirahan Jr.

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Existence Claims in the Posterior Analytics

Richard McKirahan

This paper treats several questions about the place of existence claims in theory of science presented in the Posterior Analytics. On the basis of a close reading of the text it shows that Aristotle identifies existence claims as a distinct kind of scientific principles (alongside definitions and common principles), that what these principles declare to exist are the subjects as opposed to the attributes that the science studies (triangles, as opposed to the property of having angles equal to two right angles), and not all the subjects, but a subset of them, …

Aristotle On The Mechanics Of Thought: Abstract, Michae V. Wedin

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The submission is itself an abstract, not a complete paper. The revised (complete) paper is included in J. P. Anton & A. Preus, eds. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy V. Aristotle's Ontology. SUNY Press. 245-272.

Sagp Newsletter 1987/8.4 (March), Anthony Preus

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Program for the meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in April, 1988, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sagp Newsletter 1987/8.3 (February), Anthony Preus

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Program for the meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association March 24, 1988, in Portland Oregon.

A Second Century Petition To A Strategos, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

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Dust To Dust: Aristotle's Account Of Generation And Desctruction, Mary Louise Gill

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I believe Aristotle could endorse God’s statement to Adam as reflecting his own theory of generation and destruction. Complex bodies, such as living organisms, are generated out of earth, and to earth they will ultimately return. In this paper I will argue that Aristotle defends a cyclical model of generation and destruction which starts and ends with some simple stuff. I will call the model the ''construction model." The construction model underlies many of Aristotle’s claims about substantial generation and destruction, but he presents the main theory in Metaphysics H.5, a text that is curiously neglected in recent discussions of …

Ethical Method In Aristotle: Setting Out The Phainomena, Daniel T. Devereux

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My chief objective here is the task of setting out and clarifying the data that we need to consider in giving an account of Aristotle's method in ethics. These data are more complex than is usually supposed. I argue that it may be quite misleading to speak of the method of endoxa as the dialectical method, and that it is a mistake to think that there are close parallels between this method and the concept of dialectic discussed in the Topics.

Sagp Newsletter 1987/8.2 (November), Anthony Preus

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Announcement of the meetings of the Society with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association for December 1987.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 90 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות צ, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

הר סנאים-1986-1987 [1] בניאס-1986 [1] תל דן-1986 [2–3] ח' עירב [4] נחל בצת I-1987 [4–5] כברי-1986 [5–6] הגולן-אתרים כלקוליתיים [7–8] צפת-מערת קבורה [8–9] כפר חנניה-1986 [10] מדריגת היונים-1986 [10–11] ארץ גשור-1987 [11–14] תל ינעם-1986, 1986 [14] תל אל-ואויאת [14–16] ציפורי-1986 [16–18] יקנעם ובנותיה-1984-1987 [18–24] חורבת סומקה [24] עתלית-ים [25] גשר [25–26] נחל זהורה [26–27] תל דור-1986 [27–30] כבארה-1987 [30–31] בית שאן [31–32] תל אל-חמה-1987 [32–34] הר עיבל-1987 [34–35] אום ח'אלד [36] גילגל-1986 [36–37] נתיב הגדוד-1986 [37] תל-אביב-מוזיאון ארץ ישראל [37–38] ח' א-דוורה-1986 [38] משמר דוד [38–39] סקר מערות במדבר יהודה ושומרון-1985-1986 [39–43] סקר מצפון-מזרח לירושלים [43–46] ירושלים גבעת רם …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 5, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Golan Survey, 1985 [1] Meroth (khirbet Marus), 1986 [1] Gush Ḥalav [2] Hesheq, Ḥorvat [3] Shomera Survey [4] ‘Evron Quarry [5] Hayonim Terrace, 1985 [5] Ginosar, Ancient Boat [6] Ṣippori, 1985 [8] ‘Atlit, Ancient Shipwreck [10] Dor, Tel, 1985 [10] Ma‘agan Mikhael, Ancient Shipwreck [13] Kefar Vitkin [14] Netanya, Umm Khaled [14] en-Nabi, Khirbet [15] Meṣad Hashavyahu [15] Jericho [17] Qal‘at Musa [17] ‘Almit, Khirbet [18] Batash, Tel (Timna), 1984/1985/1986 [19] Miqne, Ekron, Tel 1985/1986 [20] Betlehem [22] Herodion, 1984/1985 [24] Hanot, Ḥorvat (Kirbet el Khan) [25] Luzit [25] Za‘aquqa, Khirbet [26] …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 89 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות פט, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

הר חרמון, 1985-1986 [1] הר סנאים [1] סקר הר חרמון [2–3] ח' חוורית [3] ח' זמל [4] גמלא-1984-1986 [4–8] תל תאו [9–10] ח' דנעילה [10–13] חורבת גליל [13] נחל בצת, I [14] מרות-סתיו 1986 [14–17] צפת [17–18] ח' אל-קציר [18–21] סקר בתי כנסת בגליל [21–23] מגדל [23] יפתחאל-1986 [23–24] בית שערים [24–26] ח' סומקה [26–28] סקר אזור לגיו (ח' כפר עותנאי) [28–29] עין צברים [29] נמל קיסריה-1986 [29–30] תל שלם [30–31] ח'י א-שרף [31–32] הר עיבל-1986 [32–33] מערת בידיא [33–34] אפק-אנטיפטריס-1986 [34] גילגל-1985 [34] ח'ירבת אל-ביודאת [35] ואדי נועיימה [36] כתף יריחו [36] חיזמא [37] חתולה, 1986 …

The Plotinian Reduction Of Aristotle's Categories, Christos C. Evangeliou

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I propose to consider the Plotinian reduction of Aristotle’s categories, especially as presented in the problematic VI. 3. 3. The following questions will be discussed: Which of the Aristotelian categories did Plotinus consider dispensable and for what specific reasons? Are there any non-Aristotelian categories in the Plotinian set and, if so, where do they come from and how do they function? By what method, if any, did Plotinus determine the number of his set of categories and why just five? Finally, why is it that Plotinus is the last, in a long series of Platonists, to sharply criticize Aristotle’s doctrine …