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Agamemnon's Test Of The Army In Iliad Book 2 And The Function Of Homeric Akhos, Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

I offer a reading of the Diapeira episode based on the semantics and thematics of akhos. My findings resolve a crux at 2.171, where Homer identifies akhos as the reason Odysseus is not launching his ship. Homer clearly signposts the nature of Odysseus' akhos as grief over loss of time in Athene's subsequent speech to him, but the reference is proleptic and has consequently eluded the commentators.

The Psychopolitics Of Sexual Scandal: Can Gorgias Of Leontini Help?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the political implications of sexual scandal, considering the advice of Georgias of Leontini in his “Ecomium of Helen” that was written sometime after 427 B.C.E.

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 115, Israel Antiquities Authority

Hadashot Arkheologiyot–Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Bilingual Series)

Tell el-Wawiyat, 2001, A-3457, Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Nimrod Getzov [1] ‘En Avvazim, B-246/02, Yoav ‘Alon [2] Tel Hazor, 2002, G-72/02, Amnon Ben-Tor [4] Tel Hazor, A-3249, Karen Covello-Paran [5] Meron, Yosef Stepansky [5] Peqi‘in, Yossi Moshe [7] Map of Kefar Nahum, Survey, G-81/91,G-30/01, Yosef Stepansky [8] Deir ‘Aziz, 2000-2001, G-49/00, G-85/01, Zvi Ma‘oz and Hayim Ben-David [11] Horbat Susita, G-92/02, Arthur Segal [15] ‘Enot Kokhav, A-3303, A-3502, Nimrod Getzov [20] Haifa, Tel Shiqmona, A-2983, Hagit Torgë and Uzi ‘Ad [21] Haifa, Wadi Salib, …

A Mathematical Commentary On Xenophon, Hellenika 2.1.25, 5.3.5 And Thucydides 3.2, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In Greek antiquity, gravity, actuated by archers on city walls, turned many a tide, as victorious besiegers routed a city's land forces, but in the excitement of pursuit, got too close to the city walls! Xenophon presents one such instance as but the most recent of many cases, in relating the death of Teleutias.

The bow, among the Greeks, was the principal weapon for the city besieged. The bow being so effective in this situation explains why the an early advance in ancient siege machinery was the movable tower. It is an anti-gravity machine! Its purpose was to zero out …

Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Editorial, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Ambiguity In Thomas Aquinas: Reflections After Aquinas, Fergus Kerr, O. P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Spring/Summer 2003, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Truth And Identity: The Thomistic Telescope, John Milbank

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Milbank’S Telescope: A Response, Matthew Cuddeback

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Climax Or Incoherence? The Place Of Christology In Thomas’ Summa Theologiae, Sarah Coakley

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Christ’S Place In The Overall Design Of The Summa: A Response To Sarah Coakley, Paul Gondreau

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Beauty Of God, Emilio Brito, S. J.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Eric Voegelin: Philosopher Of Eros, Tom D’Evelyn

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Glimpsing The Face Of God: A Review Of Alister Mcgrath, James F. Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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April Blood, Florence And The Plot Against The Medici And The Medici, Michelangelo And The Art Of Late Renaissance Florence, Alice H. R. H. Beckwith

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Leonardo’S Incessant Last Supper, Jean Sorabella

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks, Robert J. Randall

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Masters Of Death: The Ss Einsatzgruppen And The Invention Of The Holocaust, Raymond L. Sickinger

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Newton: The Making Of Genius, Francis P. Mac Kay

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Time, Heat, And Wendy Walgate, J. Lynn Fraser

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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If you want to learn about a culture's history you look to its art. If you want ceramic art to reveal its truths you ask a ceramic artist to sift the culture's memories. At the Kommos Minoan escavation [1] in Crete ceramic artist Wendy Walgate [2] sifted the layers of antiquity searching for lost voices.

Review Of A Comparative Study Of Thirty City-State Cultures: An Investigation Conducted By The Copenhagen Polis Centre, Edited By Mogens Herman Hansen, James C. Wright

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of Schiffman & Vanderkam, Eds., Encyclopedia Of The Dead Sea Scrolls, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The aim of the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to its editors, is “to encompass all scholarship on the scrolls to date, making use of the research of many scholars of international reputation” (x). The word “scrolls” is used here in its broad meaning to refer to all the collections of ancient manuscripts found in the region of the Dead Sea and the Judaean wilderness in the twentieth century. These collections include the Qumran Scrolls, the Samaria Papyri, the Bar Kokhba texts, Masada and Khirbet Mird. Thus, although the Encyclopedia is more limited in geographical and chronological …

The Raft Of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination Of Homer's Odyssey [Review], Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

In The Raft of Odysseus, Carol Dougherty wishes to read several major episodes of the Odyssey as ways of imagining colonial experience, and as informed by the discourse of colonial foundation. Odysseus can be compared to an ethnographer, who gains self-knowledge through a process of “decoding” a foreign culture and “recoding” it for one’s own, so that “the strange becomes familiar and the familiar strange” (p. 10). At the same time, he is also a colonist, whose experiences among the Phaeacians and Cyclopes offer complementary images of colonial encounters, and a traveling poet, who trades his stories for commercial …

Saying, Meaning And Signifying: Aristotle's Λέγεται Πολλαχῶς, Jurgis (George) Brakas

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The purpose of this essay is to identify the precise meaning of λέγεται as it appears in constructions such as those considered, as well as the meaning of those constructions themselves. My thesis is that λέγεται means “is uttered signifying something.” If we take this to be correct for the moment, then a construction as τἀγαθόν ἰσαχώς λέγεται τῶ ὄντι, γάρ εν πάσαις ταῖς κατηγορίαις λέγεται means “ ‘the good’ is uttered signifying as many things as ‘being’ is, for it is uttered signifying something in all the categories”-- for example: god in the category of substance, the virtues in …

Plato's Geometrical Logic, Mark Faller

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Socrates’ brief mention of a complex problem in geometrical analysis at Meno (86d-87c) remains today a persistent mystery. The ostensible reason for the reference is to provide an analogy for the method of hypothesis from the use of hypotheses in analytic geometry. Both methods begin by assuming what is to be demonstrated and then show that the assumption leads to a well-founded truth father than something known to be false.

But why did Plato pick this particular problem in analysis and why at this particular place in the inquiry? For those of us who view the dialogues as pedagogical puzzles …

Form And Flux In The Theaetetus And Timaeus, David P. Hunt

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The subject of this essay is the "Heraclitean" flux in the Theaetetus and its role in the discussion of the first definition of knowledge, particularly in light of the flux doctrine that Plato propounds in the Timaeus. There are two principal interpretive approaches to the argument in this part of the Theaetetus, and the question whether its theory of flux is, to any appreciable degree, Plato's own view is perhaps the central issue dividing the two camps. Though the Timaeus has been cursorily cited by the one camp, and as cursorily dismissed by the other, I believe that a closer …

Introduction To The Book Of Esther In Modern Research, Sidnie White Crawford

Sidnie White Crawford Publications

The last decade of the twentieth century was marked by an unusual number of articles, books and commentaries on the book of Esther. While the reason for this sudden upsurge in interest was slightly mysterious, it was clear that interest in the book was peaking, and the time seemed ripe, in the year 2000, for a conference devoted solely to the book of Esther. And so it was in April of 2000 that, as Carey Moore put it, 'a decree was sent, and the scholars were gathered', at the Esther 2000 symposium in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska. The present volume …

Mothers, Sisters, And Elders: Titles For Women In Second Temple Jewish And Early Christian Comunities, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In this paper I will investigate two fragmentary texts from the Qumran scrolls, each of which gives us a tantalizing glimpse of women, first as part of the community presupposed by each text, and second as having a particular role or status within that community. That role or status is indicated by the use of particular titles, which, according to their grammatical forms, are applied only to women. I will then trace the use of these same titles in later Jewish inscriptions and texts, in order to suggest a wider context in which the Qumran titles might be understood. Finally, …

Aesthetic Revolutionaries : Picasso And Joyce, Joy M. Doss

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Picasso’s Cubist works and Joyce’s Ulysses transcend tradition, merge time and space, and radicalize form. By accomplishing these feats, the two men become seminal embodiments of Modernism. This thesis examines the conceptual and formal qualities shared by Cubism and Ulysses. With particular attention given to changing concepts of space and time, similarities between the works are related to four characteristics generally attributed to Modernism: deviance from tradition, an emphasis on form, fragmentation, and appropriation of popular culture. The monumental effects of these works on society are examined in the conclusion. The legacy of these aesthetic revolutionaries is unavoidable and continues …