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The Aphrodite Papyri And Village Life In Byzantine Egypt, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The nearly one thousand years during which Egypt was characterized by a Greek-speaking elite have by papyrologists and historians traditional;y been divided into three periods: the Ptolemaic, which marks its beginning with Alexander’s invasion in 332 B.C.; the Roman, which begins with Octavian’s reduction of Alexandria in 30 B.C.; and the Byzantine, which starts with Diocleatian’s accession in A.D. 284 and ends with the Arab invasion of A.D. 639. The Greek papyri recovered from ancient Egypt’s cemeteries and waste heaps, whether by supervised excavations or by the less formal ‘excavations’ of the sebakh-diggers, especially toward the end of the nineteenth …

The Late Bronze Age Temple In Palestine, Thomas Glen Lee

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The purpose of this thesis is to study the temples of the Late Bronze Period found within the geographical area of Palestine. A number of previous studies have been done on this subject, but they have principally been all inclusive works, and have not dealt with any specific time period. In the present study, a number of factors have been considered. The ground-plans of the various temples, as well as their locations within the city plan, have been investigated both chronologically and geographically. The interior elements and objects have also been studied. The purpose is to try to discern if …

On The Meaning Of Kategoria In Aristotle's Categories, John P. Anton

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

All the commentators who have suppressed the terminological difference between predicate and predication (κατηγορούμενον and κατηγορία) conclude that kategoria means 'predicate', thus lending their authority to a misreadng of the passages in which Aristotle uses the word κατηγορία to mean 'attributive proposition.' In this paper I take the position presented as an argument to support a different reading and with the hope that the established interpretation can be challenged through a fresh examination of the textual testimonies to accommodate the suppressed part of Aristotle's theory of categories as ultimate types of canonical propositions. The thesis that i seek to advance …

Hierocles: Theory And Argument In The Second Century Ad, Brad Inwood

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I propose a consideration of two important questions concerning the traditional Stoic doctrine of oikeiosis, in an attempt to see the sort of position Hierocles takes on these central questions, to determine something about the intellectual milieu in which he operated and about his philosophical style. The larger goal will be to present a partial picture of Stoic philosophical activity in this later period which, I hope, will justify the belief that phllosophically interesting Stoicism did not die out with Poseidonius. The two questions are these: why does Hierocles devote so much of what survives of the Stoicheiosis to …

Some Remarks On Some Neoplatonic Discussions Of Some Mathematical Concepts, Ian Mueller

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Despite their reverence for Plato, the Neoplatonists tended to associate mathematics very closely with the sensible. I here discuss two issues frequently raised in Neoplatonic discussions of the category of quantity. Both concern disputes about the relation of priority between two concepts, in one case quantity and quality, in the other the discrete and continuous.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 83 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות פג, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

ולן, סקר דגמי התיישבות, קלודין דופין [1] ח' דביה, צבי מעוז [2] גולן, אתרים כלקוליתיים בגולן – 1983, קלר אפשטיין [3] פיק, חנה קסטנבאום [5] קדש, מקדש רומי, אשר עובדיה, משה פישר וישראל רול [6] ייסוד המעלה, י' שהם [7] תל כינרות, 1983, פולקמר פריץ [8] תל נהריה, אורה יוגב [9] חורבת ראש זית, צבי גל [12] יפתחאל, אליוט בראון, יוסי גרפינקל [12] יגור, יגאל טפר ועזריאל זיגלמן [15] אלונים, אדם דרוקס [15] בית שערים, בית זייד, פאני ויטו [16] הזורע, …

Narrative Structure And Technique In Thucydides Vi-Vii, John T. Kirby

Classics Articles and Papers

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Perception, Appearance And Kinesis: The Secret Doctrine Of Plato's Theaetetus, Veda Cobb-Stevens

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

At the end of the examination of the first definition of knowledge we find that both the definition and its (radical) ontological ground have been refuted. Yet in neither case have we been left with the mere negativity of the avoidance of error. For the refutations are not mere refutations. The overturning of the theory of Radical Flux leaves us free to return to the exposition with a clearer eye for the previously hidden truth of the theory of Mitigated Flux, and the destruction of the definition of knowledge as aisthesis by an appeal to the functioning of the soul …

What Plato's Demiurge Does, Richard D. Mohr

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The paper argues that the project of Plato’s craftsman-like god is directed to an epistemological end rather than an aesthetic one. The Demiurge is chiefly bent on improving the world’s intelligibility rather than its looks. Specifically, the paper argues that what the Demiurge does is to introduce standards or measures into the phenomenal realm by imaging as best he can the nature of Forms where Forms are construed as standards or measures. The two most spectacular examples of Demiurgic crafting on this model are: 1) his crafting the rational world-soul, which serves both as an object of human cognition, and …

Plato's Unwritten Dialectic Of The One And The Great And Small, John Niemeyer Findlay

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this essay Findlay summarizes his position that the Unwritten Doctrines of Plato, as outlined by Proclus, are essential for understanding the ontological theories of Plato's major dialogues.

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The 'Third Man Argument' And The Text Of The Parmenides, Robert G. Turnbull

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I attempt to show that the 'Large' argument of Parmenides 132 must be understood as part of the attempt to clarify Socrates' response to Zeno. The threat to that response is to the requirement that each form be one and not many. But it is also a threat to the very idea of having a share of a form. In context, the argument is underbrush clearing, getting an unworkable idea out of the way.

Participation In Plato's Dialogues: Phaedo, Parmenides, Sophist, And Timaeus, Leo Sweeney S.J.

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

What was important to Plato was formal causality. From experiencing that many existents are (say) beautiful, he realized that there is a form or essence of beauty. And this causes the beauty in things by its presence somehow in them. Formal causality and participation are two sides of the same coin. But Plato came to realize that his view of participation was incomplete. In the Parmenides and Sophist he joined participation with exemplarity and efficiency.

The Roman Road To Reading Latin, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Keynote address, Nebraska Junior Classical League convention, May 2, 1981.

Can you learn to read Latin better than a Roman? Well, if you study how the Romans learned to read, you can't but observe this: we do have advantages over them. One of them is exemplified by this convention: I didn't know these meetings were so much fun. This is ludus. Ludus was, of course, the Roman word for 'fun,' for 'game,' or 'play.' And it also meant school, and that was a puzzle the Romans could never figure out. They knew better: school was serious, school was earnest: 'discipline' …

Aristotle On Genus And Differentia In The Topics And Categories, Herbert Granger

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Each of Aristotle's early works, the Topics and the Categories, provides important evidence for Aristotle's holding two accounts of the nature of genus and differentia. In one account genus and differentia are radically distinct in nature. In the other they are much the same. In this paper I make a case for Aristotle holding each account, suggest why he adopts them, and consider which of the two is the earlier one.

Aristotle On Women, Francis Sparshott

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Sex differentiation is a pervasive and striking feature of the animal world, of which humans form a part. Patriarchy and role differentiation between men and women are pervasive phenomena in human societies. Aristotle is not about to re-design the world. But these phenomena are explained and justified at the economic level, and that is not where human values lie. At the higher level of civilized life, the differentiation becomes anomalous. Aristotle never shows how the anomaly is to be overcome. This is partly because the account of the homestead and the treatment of the city as such are not made …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 82 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות פב, Israel Antiquities Authority

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

דיר קרוח [1] תל דן, 1982 [3] עינן [5] ייסוד המעלה [6] ח' שורה [7] תל כינרות, 1982 [9] טבריה [10] תל מדור [12] יפתחאל [13] ניר דוד [13] בית שאן [14] עין הנצי"ב [15] עין השופט [16] תל דור, 1982 [17] נמל דור, 1982 [19] נחל סמתר [20] אור עקיבא [21] ח' אל חמאם [21] מכמורת, 1982 [22] תל חפר, 1982 [24] סקר הר מנשה, 1982 [25] הר עיבל [26] רמת השרון [27] תל אפק, 1982 [28] ח' זיכרין, 1982 [30] אזור פצאל [32] תל שילה, 1982 [33] אל-קצר …

Sagp Newsletter 1983.1, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Programs of the Society with the Pacific and Western Divisions of the American Philosophical Association, March and April 1983.

Review Of Caryatid Mirrors Of Ancient Greece: Technical, Stylistic And Historical Considerations Of An Archaic And Early Classical Bronze Series, By Lenore O. Keene Congdon, Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Chronology Of The Fourth-Century B.C. Facing-Head Silver Coinage Of Larissa, Thomas R. Martin

Classics Department Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

An Afterthought On The Names Flavius And Aurelius, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

It has been ten years since publication in zpe (11 [1973] 33-63; 13 [1974] 283-304) of the long article on "The Names Flavius and Aurelius as Status Designations in Later Roman Egypt." During the past decade, papyrological colleagues seem to have approved, by word and in print, the article's theses; at the same time they have been kind enough not to throw too glaring a light on the occasional anomaly that requires attention or the occasional modification in detail that must be made. The general system by which the name Flavius was restricted to definite categories of Egypt's population, with …

Review Of Mandelbaum's Odyssey Of Homer, Paula Saffire

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract provided.

Giv’At ’Arnon (Near Kibbutz Negba) A-1251/1983, Dov Meiron

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In August 1983, an excavation was conducted at Giv’at ’Arnon (Khirbat ’Ajjis er-Ras) under the direction of D. Meiron. The western portion of the area had been utilized for the planting of eucalyptus trees, while its eastern sector served as agricultural land belonging to Kibbutz Negba.

Dor A-1202/1983, Shelley Wachsmann

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 1983, an archaeological excavation was conducted at Dor under the direction of S. Wachsmann.

Aristotle's Philosophical Principles Of Mathematics, Hippocrates George Apostle

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

On Natural And Unnatural Arts, Jerry Clegg

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The analogy between art and nature is basic in Aristotle's work, but he keeps it from degenerating into an identity. We explore the differences between artificial and natural processes.

Towards An Understanding Of De Anima 432a1: Aristotle's Analogy Between The Soul And The Hand, Sarah J. Shorten

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Construing cognitive processes as life-functions of animals enable him to suggest the view that some of the problems of 'psycho-physical dualism' and 'facts of consciousness' may be philosophical creations after all.

Modern And Classical Languages, Wynona H. Wilkins, Rosine Tenenbaum, William I. Morgan, Paul J. Schwartz, Bruno Hildebrandt

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Clairève Grandjouan (1929-1982), Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Hellenistic Art And Hellenistic Style: A Problem Of Definition, Brunilde S. Ridgway

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Tel Qishyon A-1220/1983, Carmela Arnon

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In 1983, an archaeological excavation was conducted at Tel Qishyon under the direction of C. Arnon. No archival file pertaining to the excavation has been located. The majority of the finds are attributed to the Early Bronze Age I, while a single item has been assigned to the Iron Age.