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Evidence For The Byzantine Army In The Syene Papyri, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

For more than seventy-five years, the standard work on the Roman army in Byzantine Egypt has been Jean Maspero's Organisation militaire de l'Egypte byzantine. Maspero's book was published in 1912, when the contents of the Syene papyri were as yet imperfectly known. At that time, Maspero had available for study of the Syene papyri: one London facsimile; an edition and reduced facsimile of a second London piece; one fully edited Munich papyrus; Wenger's "preliminary report" (Vorbericht) and its Munich papyrus extracts; and some additional information about the London papyri through correspondence with their assigned editor, Harold Bell.

Georges Depeyrot, Le Bas-Empire Romain: Économie Et Numismatique (284-491), Collection Des Hesperides (Paris:Ditions Errance 1987), Jacqueline Long

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This is a book review of Georges Depeyot's "Le Bas-Empire Romain. Economie et Nusmatique (284-491)."

Heraclitus: The River Fragments, Leonardo Taran

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Heraclitus was known in antiquity for the obscurity and the ambiguity of his expression, and there can be little doubt .that he purposely made use of ambiguity to emphasize the paradoxical character of some of his doctrines. For us who so many centuries later wish to understand his thought, these characteristics are increased and magnified by the very way his thought has been transmitted: citations and paraphrases by others whose interests were in most cases alien to his. Yet many ancient authors cited him to find authority and corroboration for their views in such an archaic thinker. Other writers, among …

Plotinus On The Articulation Of Being, Steven K. Strange

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Ennead Vi.2 presents itself as Plotinus' official account of the structure of the second Hypostasis, i.e. Intellect (νοῦς) or Being, what corresponds in his metaphysical universe to Plato's realm of Ideas or Forms. Having refuted the Peripatetic and Stoic theories in VI.1, he turns to developing his own view of Being, which he intends to be in agreement with Plato's. Indeed, the account of the 'genera of being' that he give in VI.2 is closely modeled on Plato's discussion of the so-called 'greatest kinds' or megista gene in the Sophist.

The Study Of Chivalry: Resources And Approaches, Howell Chickering, Thomas H. Seiler

TEAMS Varia

In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.

Sagp Newsletter 1989/90.2 (November), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Programs of the meeting of the Society with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association December 28, 1989, in Atlanta, and with the American Philological Association, December 28, 1989, in Boston.

Alkman And The Athenian Arkteia, Richard Hamilton

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Lonergan On The Catholic University, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.

Unity And Logos: A Reading Of Theaetetus 201c-210a, Mitchell Miller

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Abstract for “Unity and Logos” (Anc Phil 12.1:87-111):

A close reading of Socrates' refutation of the final proposed definition of knowledge, "true opinion with an account." I examine the provocations to further thinking Socrates poses with his dilemma of simplicity and complexity and then by his rejections of the three senses of "account," and I argue that these provocations guide the responsive reader to that rich and determinate understanding of the sort of 'object' which knowledge requires that the Parmenides and the Eleatic dialogues will go on to explicate.

This paper is available at http://pages.vassar.edu/mitchellmiller/.

Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan And His Heroes, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Laughter in Lucan? Johnson takes the laughing matter of Lucan seriously, and with mordant wit and cynical humor presents an original and provocative reading of the Pharsalia as Lucan's black comedy-full of hilarity, farce, high camp, and cartoon-like caricature sardonic laughter at the dread seriousness of what Rome had become under Nero with its loss of freedom and pessimism unto despair.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 94 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות צד, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

הר חרמון, 1989, שמעון דר [1] הר סנאים [1] ביר א-נסובה [1] ממצאי הסקר [2] בניאס-1989, וסיליוס צפריס ורינה אבנר [3] תל דן-1988, אברהם בירן [3–5] הגולן סקר דגמי יישוב – 1988, קלודין דאופין [5–6] סקר מרכז הגולן-1988, אמיר גולני [6–7] רסם ח'רבוש, קלאר אפשטיין [7] גמלא-1987- 1988, ס. גוטמן, א. סגל, י. פטריך, ד. וואגנר ו-צ. יבור [7–11] מצודת צפת-1988, עמנואל דמתי [11] עכברה-1988, עמנואל דמתי [11–12] סקר דרכים בגליל המזרחי, סקר דרכים, צבי אילן [12–13] עכו-בית הקברות ההלניסטי, נורית פייג ועמנואל דמתי [13–14] ארבל-סקר בכפר …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 93 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות צג, 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 …

Failure And Expertise In The Ancient Conception Of An Art, James Allen

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The ancient notion of an art (τέχνη) embraced a wide range of pursuits from handicrafts like shoemaking and weaving to more exalted disciplines not excluding philosophy (cf. Plato Gorgias 486b; Hippolytus Refutatio. 570,8 DDG; Sext. Emp. Μ II13). Nevertheless, there was a sufficient amount of agreement about what was expected of an art to permit debates about whether different practices qualified as arts. According to the conception which made these debates possible, an art is a body of knowledge concerning a distinct subject matter which enables the artist to achieve a definite type of beneficial result. Obviously, the failure of …

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

Part One of this serialized survey (Courier 23.2, Fall 1988) dealt with the emergence of a late-Classical and early-Christian interest in eliciting, with 'euphuistic' punctating techniques, the voice patterns inherent in text. Part Two, herewith, gives attention to the Middle Ages. In this haphazard era, logical punctuation, which concentrates on syntactical structures and is therefore more appealing to eye than ear, begins its faltering growth.

The Good As Unity: Its Role In The Good Life In Plato's Later Thought, Cynthia Hampton

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In the sixth book of the Republic. Socrates begins leading his interlocutors down the 'longer road' that leads to the Form of the Good which is to complete the earlier account of virtue given in Book IV. The end of this road in the Republic is reached via the sketch of the Good portrayed in the famous Sun, Line, and Cave passages. In this paper, I wish to suggest that the road does not, in fact, end here, but extends to the account of the Good offered in one of Plato's latest dialogues, the Philebus . This account, like the …

The Marcel Breuer Papers And Michael Ventris: A Biographical Note, Isabelle Hyman

The Courier

This article provides some biographical insights into the life of the famous architect and classicist Michael Ventis (who gained fame for helping to decipher the Mycenaen script Linear B). The facts are gleaned from correspondence between Michael, his mother Dorothea, and the architect Marcel Breuer, who designed her apartment. The letters are preserved in the Marcel Breuer Papers in the Syracuse University Special Collections.

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

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

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 …

Listing Of The 1988-1989 Sagp Content, Society For Ancient Greek Philosophy

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Judean Pithoi Of Iron Age Eretz Israel, Penny Lynn Pearson

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The excavation and analysis of pottery is an important element in the archaeology of Eretz Israel and in the development of assemblages which are representative of selected strata. The developments in ceramic research over the last century and a half have revealed that there are common characteristics among the pottery produced in a country in a single period of time. There are, however, decided differences between the pottery of various geographical regions. The character and history of the Southern Kingdom of Judah is reflective of the various geographical zones of the country through which the ubiquitous nature of ceramics provides …

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 …

Sumptuary Guidelines In Clement Of Alexandria's Paedagogus And Seneca's Epistulae Morales, Stephen Crump

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis, Sumptuary Guidelines in Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus and Seneca's Epistulae Morales, explores the similarities between the ethical outlooks of Clement of Alexandria and Seneca, as well as peculiar emphases of each writer. The thesis is introduced with a discussion of the Christian search for identity within the Roman world, and the influence of Stoicism in formulating this identity. The next two chapters provide the social and intellectual context within which Clement and Seneca respectively wrote. In establishing Clement's backdrop, the cultural, intellectual, and economic settings of Alexandria are examined. The argument is put forth that these various settings …

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

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

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 …