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Matĕj Of Janov: Corpus Mysticum, Communionem, And The Lost Treatise Of His Regulae, Stephen E. Lahey

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Bohemian theologian Matěj of Janov (d.1393) is little known outside of Czech Hussite scholarship, yet his Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamentum is arguably as important an influence on the genesis and development of Hussitism, as is the thought of John Wyclif. The chief Hussite theologian Jakoubek of Střibro relied on his works, and his emphasis on the need for daily Eucharist for all Christians seems to have been central to the utraquist ideal central to Hussitism. This article describes the structure and content of Matěj’s Regulae, a carefully constructed sustained argument of the threat of Antichrist facing the …

Theoria As Practice And As Activity, Julie Ward

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In Book X chapter 7 of Nicomachean Ethics (henceforth, EN), Aristotle reaches two decisive conclusions: frst, the activity of our intellect which he terms θεωρία is the highest kind and comprises “complete happiness” (ἡ τελεῖα εὐδαίμονια, EN 1177a19); second, a theoretical life, being divine, counts as the highest, and is the one to aim at (EN 1178a5-7). These are compelling claims, rightly generating much scholarly comment, particularly about the balance of excellent theoretical and moral activity in the best human life.2 Yet the present paper proposes to follow a diferent standard, one with a broader, thematic approach to θεωρία. My …

David Stuttard, Nemesis: Alcibiades And The Fall Of Athens. Cambridge, Ma, And London, Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. Xv + 380. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-674-66044-1) $29.95., Michael Nerdahl

New England Classical Journal

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An Archaeology Of Disbelief: The Origin Of Secular Philosophy, Edward Jayne, Elaine Anderson Jayne

All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton's concept of gravity, Darwin's concept of evolution, and …

Material Culture And The Greek And Latin Classroom, Liane Houghtalin

Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry Articles

Responding to the new Standards for Classical Language Learning, this article emphasizes the importance of material culture to the study of Greek and Latin language and literature at every level, both K-12 and college. Using inscriptions on Greek vases and Roman coins as well as maps and house plans as examples, it demonstrates ways to insert material culture into the Greek and Latin classroom that will enhance a student’s knowledge of the language. It also shows how the use of material culture will help a class meet not only the Cultures goal of the new Standards, but also the Connections, …

Nl East Scs 2018, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

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Among The Ancestors At Aidonia: Accessing The Past In Mycenaean Mortuary Contexts, Lynne Kvapil, Kim Shelton

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Apoikia In The Black Sea: The History Of Heraclea Pontica, Sinope, And Tios In The Archaic And Classical Periods, Austin M. Wojkiewicz

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This study examines the influence of local and dominant Network Systems on the socio- economic development of the southern Black Sea colonies: Heraclea Pontica, Sinope, and Tios during the Archaic and Classical Period. I argue that archeological and literary evidence indicate that local (populations such as the Mariandynoi, Syrians, Caucones, Paphlagonians, and Tibarenians) and dominant external (including: Miletus, Megara/Boeotia, Athens, and Persia) socio-economic Network systems developed and shaped these three colonies, and helped explain their role in the overarching Black Sea Network.

This study is divided into three chapters. Chapter one starts with the history and historiography of Greek colonization. …

Truth And Self At Colonus, Grace M. Ledbetter

Classics Faculty Works

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Listening To Aesop's Animals, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

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Review Of "Phaedrus: Ein Interpretationskommentar Zum Ersten Buch Der Fabeln" By U. Gärtner, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

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Preliminary Report On The 2015 Field Season Of The American Excavations At Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (Cap), Alex Walthall, Randall Souza, Jared Benton, Elizabeth Wueste, Andrew Tharler

Art Faculty Publications

In its third season, the Contrada Agnese Project (CAP) continued archaeological investigations in the remains of a building, located near the western margins of the ancient urban center of Morgantina. In 2015, excavations opened a larger portion of the so-called Southeast Building, extending from the trenches opened during the 2014 season. These investigations yielded evidence from construction trenches and sub-floor fills that now allow a preliminary dating of the building’s phases. The building appears to have had a short life, having been built and abandoned within fewer than 75 years, beginning around the middle of the third century BCE. New …

Identity Through Discourse: Narrative Technique In The Epistula Severi, Mark Pearsall

New England Classical Journal

This article analyzes the Epistula Severi, a fifth-century letter which describes the coercive conversion of Jews on the island of Minorca. Approaching the text on the level of narrative and rhetoric, rather than history alone, it argues that the letter’s framing and historical account serve to promote a discourse of binary opposition between Jews and Christians. In his presentation of the events, the letter’s author obscures Christian agency in anti-Jewish violence and argues for divine sanction of violent conversions. The historical dimension of the letter’s discourse is considered along with that of its content.

Homer, Emily Wilson, Trans., The Odyssey, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018. Pp. 592. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-393-08905-9) $39.95., Max Gabrielson

New England Classical Journal

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Kathryn Lomas, The Rise Of Rome: From The Iron Age To The Punic Wars. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. Xxii + 405. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-674-65965-0) $35.00., Catherine Baker

New England Classical Journal

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Maren R. Niehoff, Philo Of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 336. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-300-17523-3) $38.00., Jennifer Otto

New England Classical Journal

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J. Alison Rosenblitt, E. E. Cummings’ Modernism And The Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. Xxiv + 370. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-19-876715-2) $65.00., Ruth Breindel

New England Classical Journal

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New England Classical Journal

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Recent Futures: Classical Antiquity As Biopolitical Tool, Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

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Spaces For Deposition Of Offerings In Early Byzantine Churches: Possible Sacristies At Golemo Gradište, Konjuh, Carolyn S. Snively

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Faculty Publications

This paper is primarily a presentation of two recently excavated rooms in the 6th c. Episcopal Basili-ca at the site of Golemo Gradište, village of Konjuh. The location and furnishings of the spaces raise the possibility that they were used for the deposition of offerings, such as bread and wine for the Eucharist, by members of the congregation as they entered the church. Gifts of bread and wine immediately move the discussion into issues of liturgy. In order to set the church and these specific rooms in context and to avoid entanglement in difficult liturgical issues, some background will be …

Life—And Death—In The Late Antique City At Konjuh, Carolyn S. Snively, Goran Sanev

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Faculty Publications

Death was a part of life, perhaps a frequent and highly visible aspect of daily life in a Late Antique town such as the anonymous city at Golemo Gradiste, village of Konjuh. The residents went about their daily activities of farming, crafts, food preparation, textile production, mining, and metallurgy The several skeletons found within the city, i.e., two children probably killed by falling debris and several cist burials on the northern terrace, indicate that death was frequent and familiar: for the residents of the city the threat of violent and unexpected death was always present.

Jonathan L. Ready, The Homeric Simile In Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions From Saudi Arabia To Indonesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 336. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-19-880255-6) $90.00., Stephen Scully

New England Classical Journal

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Lycophron’S Alexandra: “Restaging” The East-West Conflict, Akira V. Yatsuhashi

New England Classical Journal

This paper argues that Lycrophon’s Alexandra overwrites the model of Herodotus to condense the conflict between East and West and advocate for uniformly “Greek” cultural identity. As the idea of what it meant to be Greek or barbarian began to transform with the events of the early Hellenistic period, concurrent literary works like those of Lycrophon responded to cultural anxieties by redefining Hellenicity to unite displaced Greek-speaking peoples. Herodotus and Lycrophon both claim epistemological authority of their narratives, but unlike Herodotus, Lycrophon explores the individual motivations of historical actors and incorporates both poetic and prose traditions into his narrative. In …

Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, And Sara E. Cole, Eds., Beyond The Nile: Egypt And The Classical World. Los Angeles, Ca: Getty Publications, 2018. Pp. 360. Cloth (Isbn: 978-1-60606-551-8) $65.00., Molly Swetnam-Burland

New England Classical Journal

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Paulin Ismard, Jane Marie Todd, Trans., Democracy’S Slaves: A Political History Of Ancient Greece. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 208. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-674-66007-6) $35.00., Christopher Welser

New England Classical Journal

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Sarah Hitch And Ian Rutherford, Eds., Animal Sacrifice In The Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 348. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-521-19103-6) $99.99., Nancy Evans

New England Classical Journal

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Catalina Balmaceda, Virtus Romana: Politics And Morality In The Roman Historians. Chapel Hill, Nc: University Of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 312. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-4696-3512-5) $45.00., Kathryn Steed

New England Classical Journal

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Daniel S. Richter And William A. Johnson, Eds., The Oxford Handbook Of The Second Sophistic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp Xii + 758. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-19-983747-2) $150.00., Brandon Jones

New England Classical Journal

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Catalina Balmaceda, Virtus Romana: Politics And Morality In The Roman Historians. Chapel Hill, Nc: University Of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. Xiii + 297. Paper (Isbn 978-1-46963-212-5) $45.00., Mark Wright

New England Classical Journal

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Deviant Origins: Hesiodic Theogony And The Orphica, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

Hesiod’s Theogony provides one of the most widely authoritative accounts of the origin of the cosmos, but his account has always been challenged by rivals claiming to be older, wiser, and better, and the name of Orpheus has always been privileged in the evidence for ancient rivals to Hesiod. The Orphic accounts play their variations on the Hesiodic themes, riffing in different ways on the idea of the ultimate origin of the cosmos; the processes of reproduction by which subsequent entities were generated; the conflicts between these divinities that created the changes from the original state to the current one; …