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Division And Explanation In Aristotle's Parts Of Animals, Allan Gotthelf Mar 1991

Division And Explanation In Aristotle's Parts Of Animals, Allan Gotthelf

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The nature and proper methods of logical division, διαίρεσις, are important concerns in at least four of Plato’s later dialogues, and reflections on the process may even have led Plato to a revised conception of the very nature of a Form. The place of division in Aristotle’s Topics - both in the organization of some of its materials and as the method for seeking definitions which many of the topoi are designed to regulate - suggests the importance διαίρεσις must have had in the Academy, as does the Epicrates fragment and Aristotle’s criticism of alternative views of the nature or …

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Plotinus On The Objects Of Thought, Eyolfur Emilsson Mar 1991

Plotinus On The Objects Of Thought, Eyolfur Emilsson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The strong identity Plotinus maintains between the intellect and its objects, the ideas, can be explained in terms of his acceptance of certain sceptical arguments; in particular he holds that unless the subject and the object of thought are strictly identical, there is room for doubt and error. Moreover, I suppose that Plotinus believed that without this identity the traditional account of the forms as at once ontological and epistemological standards cannot hold. Thus, I am suggesting that we see Plotinus' position here as that of a Platonist who says to his fellow Platonists: if you wish to hold, as …

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Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.3 (March), Anthony Preus Mar 1991

Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.3 (March), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the program of the Society with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association for March 28, 1991.

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Aristotle's Poetics: The Rhetorical Principle, John T. Kirby Jan 1991

Aristotle's Poetics: The Rhetorical Principle, John T. Kirby

Classics Articles and Papers

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Silver Coins And Public Slaves In The Athenian Law Of 375/4 B.C., Thomas R. Martin Jan 1991

Silver Coins And Public Slaves In The Athenian Law Of 375/4 B.C., Thomas R. Martin

Classics Department Faculty Scholarship

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A Deconstructive Analysis Of Plato's Phaedrus, Marlene Evangeline Anderson Jan 1991

A Deconstructive Analysis Of Plato's Phaedrus, Marlene Evangeline Anderson

Theses Digitization Project

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Perception And Power, Marisela F. Nyoka Jan 1991

Perception And Power, Marisela F. Nyoka

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

In Virgil’s Aeneid, the hero is epic enough but is importantly different enough from the tradition of the Greek epic hero to warrant investigation. At the crux of it is that Virgil utilizes a Roman approach to the Greek cosmos. Thus the hero reflects the political changes and moods of the times. This paper traces how Virgil’s use of language constructs this Roman vision of the Greek cosmos. In the end it suggests that humans in Virgil’s world have a greater task than they did before and that only the pious will survive.

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Explication: The Cratylus, Joseph S. Gray Jan 1991

Explication: The Cratylus, Joseph S. Gray

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Plato’s Cratylus is a dialogue on language involving Cratylus, Hermogenes, and Socrates. The issue at hand involves the correctness and truth in names and whether modification of names changes their meaning. This paper reflects on how the Cratylus presents Socrates’s argument and then goes on to suggest that Plato’s description of Socrates’s use of myth suggests that he was subtly pointing out the human-like quality of gods and the godlike qualities of man. For Plato all of this is framed and informed by the discussion of truth in naming.

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The Phaedo: A Painting In Three Parts, Sharon Parker Jan 1991

The Phaedo: A Painting In Three Parts, Sharon Parker

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

This paper argues that Plato’s Phaedo might be interestingly viewed as a painting: a landscape in three parts. This triptych is unified through the central question of the immortality of the human soul. This paper traces this conception of the Phaedo through an interrogation of the textual markers that might lead to an understanding of the whole. In the end, The Phaedo is seen as ascending from the corporeal to the ethereal.

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Investigations Of Self, Merlin Douglass Jan 1991

Investigations Of Self, Merlin Douglass

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

While Margery Kempe, fourteenth century English country wife and mystic/pilgrim, and Lady Nijo, thirteenth century Japanese imperial concubine and itinerant Buddhist nun, might at first seem disparate subjects, this paper argues that the themes of pilgrimage and the act of writing an autobiography link them together in interesting ways. By tracing the ways in which both authors form their autobiographies and by using critical theories of autobiography a theme repeatedly appears, that of the welcoming nature of the wilderness of the faith pilgrimage and of the wandering paths both women took in their search for salvation

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Review: Lucan's Civil War, John F. Makowski Jan 1991

Review: Lucan's Civil War, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

On all counts this translation of the Pharsalia is a resounding success and will, one predicts, stand as the definitive English version. Readers discontented with Robert Graves' idiosyncratic and often misleading prose translation will welcome this verse edition by Widdows with its readability, accuracy, and, above all, its poetic sensibility. Lucan ardens and concitatus in the original is easy to make flat and ponderous in English, but in Widdows' hands he retains his fire and momentum. For one thing, Widdows' choice of meter, the English hexameter, works remarkably well at capturing the nuances of the original. For another, the translator's …

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Tel Zavat A-1806/1991, Shalom Yankelevich Jan 1991

Tel Zavat A-1806/1991, Shalom Yankelevich

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 1991, an excavation was conducted at the eastern margins of Tel Zavat, under the direction of S. Yankelevich. Five stratigraphic phases were identified, dated to the Middle Bronze Age IIb, Late Bronze Age II, and the Hellenistic period. The excavation revealed tombs with accompanying grave goods, as well as the remains of structures and walls, a pit, ovens, and fragments of bricks and pottery.

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Review Of Joan De Jean's Fictions Of Sappho, Paula Saffire Jan 1991

Review Of Joan De Jean's Fictions Of Sappho, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Paula Saffire's Review of Joan De Jean's Fictions of Sappho

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Iocosus Maecenas: Patron As Writer, John F. Makowski Jan 1991

Iocosus Maecenas: Patron As Writer, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Maecenas as discoverer and supporter of the literary luminaries of his day achieved a name virtually synonymous with patronage. Less well known, however, even to many students of Augustan literature is Maecenas, prose stylist and poet. Explicably, the obscurity of his reputation as a writer is due inlarge part to the failure of most of his writing to survive. but fortunately the handful of fragments still extant is enough to afford an intriguing glimpse into one of the most colorful and contradictory figures of the Augustan Age. Though scanty, the nine fragments of prose and eight of poetry provide a …

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Excavations And Surveys In Israel 9, Israel Antiquities Authority Jan 1991

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 9, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Mount Hermon, 1989, Shimon Dar [1], Banias, 1989, Vassilios Tzaferis and Rina Avner [3], Tel Dan, 1988, Avraham Biran [3–5], Golan Survey, 1988, Claudine Dauphin [5–6], Golan, Survey of Central Area, Amir Golani [6–7], Rasm Ḥarbush, Claire Epstein [7], Gamla, 1987/1988, S. Guttman, A. Segal, Y. Patrich, D. Wagner and Z. Yavor [7–11], Safed Citadel, Emanuel Damati [11], ‘Akbara, 1988, Emanuel Damati [11–12], Eastern Galilee, Survey of Roman Roads, Zvi Ilan [12–13], Akko, Hellenistic Necropolis, Nurit Feig and Emanuel Damati [13–14], Arbel, …

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Haifa, Horvat Rosh Mayim, A-1819/1991, Sender Shlomo Jan 1991

Haifa, Horvat Rosh Mayim, A-1819/1991, Sender Shlomo

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In August 1991, a salvage excavation was conducted in Haifa, at the site of Horvat Rosh Mayim (Romema neighborhood, map. ref. 2002/7439), under the direction of S. Sender and funded by Almog Company. The excavation took place in preparation for the construction of a new building on the southern slope of the Tell.

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Double Meaning And Mythic Novelty In Euripides' Plays, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 1991

Double Meaning And Mythic Novelty In Euripides' Plays, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

The mythic tradition of dle Greeks is protean. Each of the vast number of stories is itself variable, appearing now in one form, now in another, often standing alongside other versions which it flatly contradicts. Critical study of this remarkable tradition is doubly vexed, firSt by received myth's intrinsically fluid nature, then by the fragmentary preservation of mythic source material.

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Women In ‘Akritic’ Song: The Hero’S ‘Other’ Voice, Nancy Sultan Jan 1991

Women In ‘Akritic’ Song: The Hero’S ‘Other’ Voice, Nancy Sultan

Scholarship

Women have long been considered marginal in rural Greek society. In the mythic realm of Greek heroic song, however, women are empowered over the life-cycle of the wandering male hero. Through their connections with the natural world, their management of all rites of passage, and their timely verbal expressions of panos in ritual laments, women control the hero's seasonality and have the power to bring his life full circle. The hero spends his youth as a wandering ksenitemenos whose life is external and sterile, occupied with the exclusively male· panos of trials of manhood. Once the hero returns home, he …

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Tel Zeror A-1770/1991, Radwan Badhi Jan 1991

Tel Zeror A-1770/1991, Radwan Badhi

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In February 1991, a salvage excavation was conducted at Tel Zeror (map ref. 1975/7039) in advance of the installation of electric poles by the Israel Electric Corporation. The excavation was directed by R. Badhi and funded by the Israel Electric Corporation. The finds included numerous pottery sherds dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages.

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Sderot (The Northeast) A-1812/1991, Uri Haim Nadar Jan 1991

Sderot (The Northeast) A-1812/1991, Uri Haim Nadar

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 1991, an archaeological excavation was conducted in the northeastern sector of Sderot, under the direction of U.H. Nadar. No archival file pertaining to the excavation has been located.

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Ramla, The White Mosque A-1797/1991, Arie Rosenberger Jan 1991

Ramla, The White Mosque A-1797/1991, Arie Rosenberger

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 1991, an archaeological excavation was conducted at the site of the White Mosque in Ramla under the direction of A. Rosenberger. No archival file for the excavation has been located.

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Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens Jan 1991

Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

The most notable element of Plato's theory of art, or at least the most memorable, is his censorship of poetry from the ideal state (Republic III: 398; X: 607). However Plato's argument is construed, it is enlightening to note the domestication to which it is invariably subjected. Since Aristotle's theory is eminently more amenable to our contemporary appreciation for art, and, in one form or another, is judged more central to the history of Western literature, Plato's attack is dispensed with after due characterization as ironic, unmanageably ambiguous, valid only in a most limited context, or excusable in the light …

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Shameless Shame: St. Augustine's Confessions, Regina Eastman Jan 1991

Shameless Shame: St. Augustine's Confessions, Regina Eastman

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

his paper suggests that the “Shameless Shame” of Augustine’s manipulatory language and rhetoric in the Confessions serves the distinct purpose of converting the reader to Catholicism. By tracing the way in which St. Augustine uses diverse literary forms to appeal to his readers and guide their path. This paper suggests that there is a particular reason for the rise of Catholicism, and it’s not just faith. Augustine’s use of language that could appeal to multiple strata of society allowed each to take their path to conversion, but ultimately conversion comes to be seen as a social act. One imbued with …

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The Protagoras: An Explication, Victorya Khary Jan 1991

The Protagoras: An Explication, Victorya Khary

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

The paper explores themes of Athenian life, Socratic philosophy, and the theme of Knowledge leading to power in the Protagoras. The setting of the Protagoras is primarily a portico at Callias’s home and Socrates debates Protagoras on numerous subjects. This paper shows that those possessing the most knowledge, Protagoras and Socrates, have the most power by invoking a pyramid structure where both Protagoras and Socrates are at the peak and give the lengthiest speeches. All of the speeches, whether by those at the top of the pyramid or the bottom, provide a glimpse into the unique nature of Athenian intellectual …

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An Explication Of The Phaedo, Thahn Ngo Jan 1991

An Explication Of The Phaedo, Thahn Ngo

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Plato’s Phaedo has multiple meanings and uses its narrative framework, sets up debates, and implements myths and allusions in order to present this multiplicity of meaning. This paper looks at the above characteristics in the Phaedo and interrogates their use. The Phaedo is nominally about the last hours of Socrates’s life, but it contains far more than mere biography. This paper traces the ways Plato uses this basic framework to create a multi-faceted work.

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The Argonautica: Apollonius' New Epic, Christopher Frank Jan 1991

The Argonautica: Apollonius' New Epic, Christopher Frank

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Apollonius’ Argonautica takes as its general form the epic tradition of Homer, but often diverges from traditional paths in order to show trends in Hellenistic life. The poem is generally thought of as an Imitation, but its complex imitations do not perfectly follow the Homeric epic tradition. This paper points out the influences that led to these differences and then suggests that ultimately Apollonius is making a concrete and interesting statement about his own culture.

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Response To "New Documents: Qumran And Gnostic Writings" By Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Jr., Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1991

Response To "New Documents: Qumran And Gnostic Writings" By Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Jr., Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In my response, I will discuss three points raised by Professor Fitzmyer: the identification of the Qumran sect as the Essenes, Jerome Murphy-O’Connor’s hypothesis of the Babylonian origins of the Qumran sect, and the impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on Old Testament textual criticism.

I would suggest that the group of Jews who inhabited Qumran may have evolved over time, from a group with deep roots in Palestinian Judaism, who split with other Jews over such disputed things as law and calendar, to a sect with highly developed doctrines of, for example, predestination and angelology, which …

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A Note On The Text Of Sextus Empiricus, Adv. Math. 7.131, Erwin F. Cook Jan 1991

A Note On The Text Of Sextus Empiricus, Adv. Math. 7.131, Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

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Études Sur La Correspondance De Synésios De Cyrène By Denis Roques, Jacqueline Long Jan 1991

Études Sur La Correspondance De Synésios De Cyrène By Denis Roques, Jacqueline Long

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Chronology is a science of minute questions and seemingly picayune distinctions, compared to the grander concerns of history, literature, or the personality of an ancient author. But as Roques emphasizes, interpretive problems should be addressed within a solid objective framework, such as chronology establishes (pp. 6, 235). This volume presents studies that R. carried out preliminary to his Syne'sios de Cyrene et la Cyrenaique du Bas-Empire (Paris, 1987). In fact Synesius' writings are not limited in significance to himself and Cyrenaica: they illuminate literary, philosophical, religious, political, and historical issues of the later Roman Empire as a whole. R.'s thorough, …

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The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson Dec 1990

The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I suggest that any explanation of the Demiurge that has a chance of being correct must take into account the fact that he is invariably described in non-contingent terms, and the entities to which many have wished to reduce him (the world’s soul, or the rationality within it) in invariably and unambiguously contingent terms. This holds true despite Timaeus’s readiness to speak without apparent qualm of the Demiurge as either a father or a craftsman or both, or even - after the manner of Anaxagoras - to talk of him on occasion simply as Reason; whatever the variants in the …

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