Philosophy Archive
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Justice and the Justification of War in Ancient Greece: Four Authors
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe Greeks talked about war and they talked about it in terms of right and wrong. But given the intensely military nature of Ancient Greek society and the fierce concern with justice in Greek philosophy, it is surprising that no Greek thinker fully articulated the idea of Just War. -
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically. -
Suetonius and the Death of Pliny the Elder
Posted on August 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis account of Pliny the Elder -
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her CommunitiesRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities
Posted on August 25, 2012 | No CommentsRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities Minardi, -
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development. -
A Critical Assessment of Cicero’s Attempt to Reconcile the Political and Philosophical Callings
Posted on August 19, 2012 | No CommentsA? careful ?reading ?of ?Cicero -
Why did Plato write?
Posted on August 3, 2012 | No CommentsPlato has pointed out the dangers of written works. In his Seventh Letter he states that he never himself wrote in 'the sublime questions of philosophy' and that no serious man will seriously write on serious problems, because he would so lay his thought open to the misunderstanding of the crowd -
Roman Omens, Roman Audiences and Roman History
Posted on July 29, 2012 | No CommentsMembers of all levels of Roman society, -
A Goliard Witness: The De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella in the Methamorphosis Golye Episcopi
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsAnother twelfth-century poem in the same goliardic metre as the two lines just cited, the Methamorphosis go lye episcopi, goes far beyond this passing mention of Martianus and makes a most unexpected use of the De Nuptiis. -
Rhetoric as Ritual: The Semiotics of the Attic Funeral Oration
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsIndeed, these speeches formed a truly popular genre. The speakers were selected by the democratic city council, themselves chosen for office by blind lot, and voted upon by the assembly.
