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Cleopatra As The Goddess Isis, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a relief depicting the pharaoh Cleopatra VII as the goddess Isis, from the Ptolemaic period. Original is housed in the Dendera temple complex, Egypt, circa 332-30 BCE.

Group Known As Orestes And Elektra, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a group by sculptor Menelaos, often identified as Orestes and Elektra. Original is housed at the National Museum, Rome circa 1st century BCE to 1st century CE.

Group Representing Hathor In The Form Of A Cow, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a statue depicting the goddess Hathor in the form of a cow protecting the government official Psamtik. Original housed in the Cairo Museum, Egypt. Site of origin is the Tomb of Psamtik, Saqqara necropolis, Memphis, Egypt, circa 664-332 BCE (the Late Period).

Angels Singing And Playing Musical Instruments, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a relief panel titled Angels Singing and Playing Musical Instruments. Original is currently housed in its site of origin, the Basilica di Sant'Antonio, Padua, Italy, circa 1447-1450 CE.

Seated Statuette Of Amenemhat, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a small statue of the Pharaoh Amenemhat. Original is housed in the British Museum, circa 1991-1802 BCE (Dynasty XII).

Athena (Minerve Au Collier), Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a marble statue of Athena, completed circa 1st-2nd century CE. Original housed in the Louvre. Roman copy of a 5th century BCE Greek sculpture.

Figure From Group Of Two Boys Quarreling, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a figure from two boys quarreling over a game of knucklebones. Original found in the Baths of Titus, Rome, now housed in the British Museum, circa 1st century.

The Case Of Flavia Christodote: Observations On Psi I 76, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Of the three periods into which the study of the Greek papyri from Egypt has been traditionally divided – Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine – it has become commonplace to note that the last named receives the least attention. An assortment of reasons has been offered to explain this lack of interest, including "un préjugé défavorable aux époques dites de décadence." But whatever the reason or reasons, and despite the truth of the commonplace, it is equally true that most of the Byzantine texts and archives have attracted at least some attention (much more rarely has the whole range of the Byzantine …

Antoninus Pius, Morehead State University. Camden-Carroll Library.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection

Plaster cast of a marble portrait-bust of Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor from 138-161 CE. Original is housed in the British Museum. Site of origin is the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, North Africa circa 160 CE.

Listing Of The 1978-1979 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Motivations For The Building Program Of Herod The Great, Edith Diane Parnham

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis deals with the building program pursued by Herod the Great. It begins with a short historical summary and a description of the main features of Herodian style architecture. There is a catalogue of all of Herod’s known buildings in Judaea, and a short list of his works outside his own country. The constructions within Judaea are analyzed according to structure type, and Herod’s motivations examined. There is an extensive bibliography arranged by site.

The Form Of The Good In Plato's Republic, Gerasimos X. Santas

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The theory of the Form of the Good in the Republic is truly and coherently the centerpiece of the canonical Platonism of the middle dialogues, the centerpiece of Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics, and even his theory of love and art. In this theory of the Form of the Good Plato was truly the first grand philosophical synthesiser. If to achieve such a grand synthesis he had to employ a few unholy combinations, such as the combination of reality, goodness, and self-predication, he may perhaps be forgiven - at least if he is understood.

Eidos As Norm In Aristotle's Biology, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The first part of the paper explores Aristotle's biological concept of an eidos (species or form) in comparison with modern biological taxonomy. The second part outlines normative determinants of an Aristotelian eidos. The third part considers two passages in which Aristotle compares non-biological eide to biological: pleasures, in EN 10.4-5, and kinds of government in Pol. 4.4.

Form And Content In Gorgias' Helen And Palamedes: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Inconsistency And Invalid Argument In Some Greek Thinkers, Arthur Adkinis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I ask whether Gorgias indulges in rhetorical flourishes in which form takes precedence over content, and whether the presuppositions of the Helen and Palamedes are inconsistent with one another. More generally, are the presuppositions and inconsistencies of Gorgias shared with other early Greek philosophers.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 63–64 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות סג–סד, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

תל דן, 1977 [1] בניאס [6] תל חי [7] שלומי, 1977 [8] גוש חלב, 1977 [9] יחיעם [11] סאסא [11] מירון, 1977 [13] נהריה [15] עכו, 1977 [16] מערת היונים, 1977 [18] ח' בתה , (כרמיאל) [19] תל יקנעם, 1977 [21] תל קירי (הזורע), 1977 [23] עין גב - III [25] נחל עין גב [26] סוסיתא, מפעל המים [27] טבריה [28] תל ינעים, 1977 [29] ח' שטה [30] תל קשיון [30] בית שאן, תל אצטבה [31] בית שאן, כביש רומי [32] רחוב, בית הכנסת, 1977 [33] קיסריה–ים …

An Extension Of Mcguire's Inoculation Theory T8 Controversial Topics, Michele S. Roberts

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extension of McGuire's inoculation theory to controversial topics. It was assumed that the employment of controversial topics would reverse the conditions described as obtaining with the employment of cultural truisms. McGuire's first study on the inoculation theory was used as a paradigm, and three hypotheses were investigated: Hypothesis One: A supportive treatment will be superior to a refutational treatment in conferring resistance to persuasion. Hypothesis Two: An active participation in developing defenses will increase the amount of immunity conferred. Hypothesis Three: There is an interactive effect between the type of defense …

"Nothing" As "Not-Being": Some Literary Contexts That Bear On Plato And On Parmenides, Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In the main Section of this paper I examine a certain "characterizing" use of meden/ouden and medeis/oudeis in pre-Platonic non-philosophical contexts. The passages discussed and analyzed offer cle.ar and suggestive illustrations of the assimilation of "nothing" or "nobody" to "not-being." In the concluding Section I explore connections between that use and philosophical concepts,with particular reference to Plato's doctrine of degrees of reality.

The dialectic of being in classical Greek speculation focuses not on 'What there is' but on 'what it is' or 'how it is'; not on existence but on physis, constitution, or form.

Oracula Mortis In The Pharsalia, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Although it departs from epic convention in many ways, most notably in the rejection of the deorum ministeria, the Pharsalia adheres to tradition in the matter of oracles and contains three visitations to a seat of prophecy. Appius goes to Delphi (5. 67-236), Sextus Pompeius to the Thessalian witch Erichtho (6. 413-830), and Cato to the temple of Jupiter Hammon (9. 511-86). The obvious similarities of the situations invite comparison, but no one has as yet attempted to analyze them as a unit.' Such a study, however, will be fruitful because the three episodes have more in common than first …

F.M. Ahl, Lucan: An Introduction, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Frederick M. Ahl, well known to the scholar of Lucan through his recent articles on the Pharsalia, here undertakes to introduce the poet to a wider audience. He directs his work "to the Latinless reader as well as to the classicist." Both should welcome the effort, since even for the Latinist, Lucan's reputation has steadily declined from the time when Dante ranked him among the four great poets of antiquity. A book of an introductory nature has been long overdue, especially in the English speaking world where the last major study was Mark Morford's very fine The Poet Lucan.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 61–62 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות סא–סב, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

קצרין , דולמנים, קלר אפשטיין [1] גולן, אל-מג'מע , קלר אפשטיין [1] עינן – 1975/6, פ' ואלא ומוניק לשבלייה [3] עברון, משה פראוסניץ וא' איסר [4] תל כיסון – 1976, האב טורניי [5] סוסיתא, אמות המים לסוסיתא [6] כפר נחום – 1976, ו' קורבו וס' לופרדה [7] מגדל – 1976, ו' קורבו וס' לופרדה [8] טבריה, אסתר דינור, אליוט בראון [9] בית ירח, זאב ייבין, רות עמירן וכרמלה כהן, דן בהט [10] גבת, אבנר רבן [11] כפר ניין, רמי ערב [13] תל שדוד [13] תל כיתן – 1976 …

Listing Of The 1977-1978 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Three Short Notes On Late Roman Documents From Egypt, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The observations printed below were made in the course of research on social mobility in late Roman Egypt conducted under a Summer Faculty Fellowship for 1976 from Loyola University Chicago.

Problems In Epicurean Physics, David Konstan

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

This article treats several problems in Epicurean atomic theory, including how atoms rebound (the answer is that they must keep moving at a uniform speed and simply move in another direction when impeded), the role of minima in defining the boundaries of an atom and accounting for its impenetrability and why adjacent atoms do not merge, and the explanation of atomic weight as a tendency of atoms emerging from collisions to move in a preferred direction, which is by definition “down.”

Diogenes Of Oenoanda: The New Discoveries (1968-1976), Diskin Clay

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Short bibliography of the state of the art on the fragments of Diogenes of Oenoanda as of December 1976.

Epicurus' Conception Of The Psyche, K. W. Harrington

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I try to establish the following differences between Epicurean and Lucretian psyches:

1. For Lucretius, the psyche is composed of particles of air, breath, heat, and a fourth unnamed constituent. Epicurus suggests that the psyche is composed of a single kind of atom, and that it in some way resembles heat and in some way resembles breath.

2. For Epicurus, breath and heat are properties of compounds, not kinds of atoms or kinds of compound entities. Lucretius apparently takes the opposite position.

3. For Lucretius, the components of the psyche seem to be entities larger than atoms.

Plato On The Complexity Of The Psyche, John Moline

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

What were the parts of the psyche posited by Plato in the Republic? The question calls not for a list but for an account of the grounds on which Plato posited and distinguished such parts. It calls for an account of their nature and role in his system.

We are not lacking in attempts at such an account. These parts have been termed "faculties", "principles", "activities", "aspects", "instances", and "levels" of the psyche. Their nature and role have been characterized in ways influenced as much perhaps by the connotations of these terms as by the details of Plato's text. …

Epicurus' Scientific Method, Elizabeth Asmis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I argued that Epicurus sought to infer all truths about what cannot be perceived (what is "non-apparent", adêlon) by using what is perceived (the "phenomena") as "signs" of what is non-apparent. This is an empirical method, based on the claim that sensory perception shows what is true. In the case of his basic physical doctrines, Epicurus argued by a reductio ad absurdum that if the negation of the doctrine were true, there would be a conflict with what we perceive. This applies to Epicurus' first two doctrines, that "nothing come to be from non-being" and that "nothing is destroyed …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 59–60 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות נט–ס, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

תל דן, 1976 [1] גמלא [6] עסליה, בית כנסת [7] ח' בטיחה [8] ח' אל-חותיה [8] סאסא [9] הר אדיר [9] ח' אל-עבאסייה [10] מצובה, מערת קבורה [11] שלומי [11] ח' בתה (כרמיאל) [12] נהריה, גבעת אוסישקין [13] עכו, 1976 [13] לוחמי הגיטאות [14] עראק א-זיגאן (כרמל) [15] תל ינעם [16] ח' קרני חטים [17] טבריה [17] רחוב, 1976 [18] מסילות [19] תל קירי (הזורע), 1976 [20] תל מבורך [21] קיסריה, 1976 [22] שכם, קבר [23] טול כרם, קברים [24] תל אביב [25] תל אפק, 1976 [25] עזבת צרטה …

Lex Romana Familiae, Patsy Lewis Barr

Master's Theses

Marriage among the Romans could occur at quite an early age, according to modern standards. Bethrothal might be arranged at any age above seven.1 The custom of early bethrothal and marriage certainly tended to discourage any romantic inclinations. If one did marry for love, generally it was with a widow or divorcee. The possibility of sentimental attachment among the very young was slight, but marriage to the Romans was not for love, but for duty to the state. Often the Romans had to rely on a post-marital propinquity for the development of love which normally precedes marriage.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 57–58 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות נז–נח, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

גולן, אתר כלקוליתי, קלר אפשטיין [1] גולן, סקר [2] תל דן – 1975, אברהם בירן [3] כרם בן-זמרה, דיוויד דיוויס [7] כפר נחום – 1975, ו' קורבו וס' לופרדה [8] מגדל - 1975, ו' קורבו וס' לופרדה [8] כורסי – 1976, וסיליוס צפיריס [9] עכו-ים – 1975, א' לינדר ואבנר רבן [10] תל כיסן – 1975 [11] שקמונה - 1975, י' אלגביש [12] תל כיתן, עמנואל איזנברג [14] רחוב – 1975, בית כנסת , פאני ויטו [16] תל שלם [17] תל מבורך, אפרים שטרן [18] קיסריה, …