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      HomerPresocratic PhilosophyPlatoPythagoreanism
This book is the first complete collection and analysis of ancient testimony relating to the chronology of the early Greek natural philosophers, astronomers, and geometers who were active before Aristotle. New estimates are given for the... more
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      Ancient Greek HistoryAncient Greek PhilosophyAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
One of the better-known episodes in the life of John Tzetzes is his complaint that during a period of poverty in the 1130s he had been forced to sell off his books until only two remained in his possession – a copy of Plutarch’s Lives and... more
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      Byzantine LiteratureHistory of ScienceAncient ScienceByzantine Studies
This article presents a strategy for introducing Presocratic thought to students in a manner that is both engaging and relevant. The first section addresses students' reactions to the claim that the Presocratics were the first... more
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      Presocratic PhilosophyMetaphilosophyPlatoHistory of Science
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      Utopian StudiesAristophanic comedyPlato's RepublicPlato's Dialogues
Abstract The Discovery of Physis and the First Secular Theories of Everything Gerard Naddaf, York University Invited Paper XIII International Ontology Congress Physics and Ontology San Sebastian, October 2-6, 2018 In contemporary... more
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      Anthropology of ConsciousnessAncient Greek PhilosophyAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
Review of Greek history and society textbook which encompasses a timespan from the Bronze Age to 31 BC , utilising approaches from archaeology, history, literature, art, philosophy and reception studies.
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      Greek HistoryGreek ArchaeologyAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Philosophy
Si bien la historia de la filosofía es también filosofía, no por ello puede pasar de largo sobre la necesidad de ser también una historia. Los textos que exponen lo que se considera como el conjunto de argumentos del pasado dentro del... more
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      Ancient PhilosophyAncient Greek PhilosophyPresocraticsFilosofía Antigua
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      Social PsychologyAncient PhilosophyCognitive BiasesAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
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      SenecaHistory of AtheismAncient Greek PhilosophyCynicism (Ancient Greek Philosophy)
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      Greek TragedyPresocratic PhilosophyUrban HistoryTraditional and subsistence agriculture
In 2015, Polis—The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an international conference on Hellenistic Egypt's most famous center of scholarship and learning. The interdisciplinary event gathered historians, archaeologists,... more
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      Library ScienceHellenistic HistoryAncient ScienceBiblical Studies
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      History of ScienceGreek MathematicsHistoriography of scienceAncient Greek Science
The paper seeks to explain a difficult passage in Strabo’s Geography (II. 1. 1–20 C67–77), which is devoted to Hipparchus’ objections against Eratosthenes’ conclu-sions about the latitudinal position of India. It is argued, among other... more
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      Ancient ScienceHistory of Geographic ThoughtAncient GeographyStrabo
Dear readers, I teach a course in Ancient Philosophy--primarily Plato and Aristotle--and have a fairly sturdy set of notes compiled over many years. I'm more than happy to share these with other instructors and scholars.
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      EthicsPlatoAristotleVirtue Ethics
With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic... more
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      Greek LiteratureJewish StudiesLate Antique and Byzantine StudiesAssyriology
This paper compares the Milky Way in Aratus (Ph. 469–79) and Manilius (1.684–804), focusing on the role of the sublime in both texts. In Aratus, to gaze at the Milky Way is a sublime experience that constitutes an image for reading the... more
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      Augustan PoetryAncient ScienceManiliusThe Sublime
RESUMEN: Los conceptos de nomos y physis fueron tan fundamentales en el pensamiento griego, que alcanzaron otros campos de estudio y aplicación, como la teoría harmónica griega. En este ramo de estudio, cada uno de ellos daba cabida a dos... more
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      Ancient Greek MusicAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
Empedocles-the-scientist got a minoritarian attention, and this paper was meant to do something in order to redress the situation. Two preliminary questions are addressed here at the beginning: (1) how folklore, speculation and 'science'... more
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      PhilosophyHistory of ScienceAncient Greek PhilosophyHistory of Life Sciences
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      Textual criticism (Classics)PeripateticsTheophrastusAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
Ο τόμος αυτός επιχειρεί να προσφέρει ένα έγκυρο βοήθημα για τη μελέτη της αρχαίας ελληνικής γραμματείας κατά τους ελληνιστικούς και αυτοκρατορικούς χρόνους, δηλαδή την περίοδο από τον θάνατο του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου, το 323 π.Χ., έως το... more
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      Greek LiteratureHellenistic LiteratureHistory of ScienceLate Antiquity
The aim of this essay is to rebuild the score of the musical fragment of Eu-ripides's Orestes (Vienna Papyrus, G 2315), based on the analysis of preserved notes and according to Ancient Greek music theory. This reconstruction takes... more
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      MusicMusicologyPhilosophyAncient Philosophy
This paper focuses on one of the major criticisms made to Aristotle's virtue ethics, namely that it lacks explicit moral action guidance. The same criticism has been addressed to later developments of virtue ethics. There have been... more
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      PhilosophyEthicsPhilosophy of ActionMoral Psychology
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      Ancient ScienceMagicScience and ReligionNatural philosophy
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      Presocratic PhilosophyPythagoreanismAncient Greek PhilosophyPythagoreans
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      Presocratic PhilosophyPythagoreanismAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
Salomo Luria as a historian of science
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      Soviet HistoryHistory of Classical ScholarshipDemocritusHistoriography of science
1st December 2017 Department of Classics and Philosophy University of Cyprus Organizers: Maria Gerolemou (Cyprus), George Kazantzidis (Patras)
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      AristotleAncient ScienceGalenAncient Medicine
Bringing together evidence preserved by Aristoxenus, Aristides Quintilianus, Ptolemy, Porphyry and the Greek musical handbooks in a unified framework, this article and its sequels show how the Classical modulation system reconstructed in... more
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      Digital HumanitiesAncient Greek MusicAncient Greek NotationAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
Depuis quelques décennies, la question d'une compréhension historiquement correcte de la méthode de Diophante a attiré l'attention des chercheurs. « L'algèbre moderne (c'est-à-dire, post-viètienne) », « la géométrie algébrique », «... more
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      History of MathematicsHistory of ScienceGreek MathematicsHistory and philosophy of science (History)
I discuss in this paper the six requirements Aristotle advances in Posterior Analytics A-2, 71b20-33, for the premisses of a scientific demonstration. I argue that the six requirements give no support for an interpretation in terms of... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of ScienceAristotleHistory of Philosophy of Science
Ce livre constitue la première étude du rôle de la génération dans les systèmes philosophiques d’Aristote et d’Averroès (1126-1198). En s’appuyant sur de nombreux textes traduits du grec, de l’arabe et du latin, l’auteur propose une... more
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsOntologyEpistemology
RESUMEN: El propósito de este trabajo es presentar una reconstrucción de cómo se articulan las nociones de finalidad y naturaleza en la física de Aristóteles, así como de la relación que guardan estos principios con la substancia eterna e... more
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      PhysicsMetaphysicsAristotleAncient Philosophy
Traduction entièrement nouvelle de l'Apologie, tenant compte des dernières éditions ainsi que des enseignements tirés de l'édition-traduction du Dialogue avec Tryphon publiée en 2003, avec les articles qui l'accompagnent. Bien que les... more
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      Greek LiteratureHistory of ChristianityEarly ChristianityReligious Conversion
The study of the science of the ancient Greco-Roman world falls between two academic stools: on the one hand, the history of science privileges the period opened by the inventions of the telescope and microscope; on the other, “classics”... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyHistory of MathematicsHistory of MedicineHistory of Science
نهضت ترجمه: سرگذشت ترجمه در فرهنگ اسلامی، از سده نخست هجری تا دوره معاصر/ نوشته سیداحمد هاشمی و دیگران، تهران: نشر کتاب مرجع، ۱۳۸۹ ش موضوع کتاب حاضر بررسی سرگذشت ترجمه در فرهنگ اسلامی از سده‌ی نخست هجری تا دوره‌ی معاصر است. کتاب در دو... more
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      Intellectual HistoryTranslation StudiesHistory of ScienceIranian Studies
The Platonic cosmogony and zoogony of the Timaeus is distinctive in that the actions of the Demiurge and the lesser gods are modelled on a wide variety of skills, some obeying mathematical principles, some being modelled on more empirical... more
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      PlatoProclusAncient PhilosophyPlato and Platonism
Sundials in Roman and Byzantine Mosaics (1st – 9th Century AD). A scientific monograph. The sundials on ancient mosaics have not been the subject of scientific studies so far. The author has gathered together in this publication the... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyMaterials ScienceClassics
In its original Babylonian and Egyptian contexts, astrology was the interpretation of celestial signs and omens sent by the gods as warnings to rulers and the elite. Roman fondness for Stoicism fertilized the growth of astrology in the... more
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      History of ScienceAncient ScienceAstrologyMedieval Science
"This paper proposes three new (and tentatively, another two) identifications of sundials in Middle Eastern mosaics of the 5th – 8th century. The author discusses a vignette from the Holy Martyrs’ Church at Tayibat al-Imâm, central Syria,... more
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      HistoryHistory of Science and TechnologyClassical ArchaeologyNear Eastern Archaeology
Proof. Abstract Nietzsche argued that the Greeks were in possessions of every theoretical, mathematical, logical, and technological antecedent for the development of what could be modern science. But if they had all these necessary... more
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      Friedrich NietzscheHellenismGreek ArchitectureAnaximander
The aim of this paper is to provide some acquaintance with the exegetical history of ἐξαίφνης inside the Platonic Tradition, from Plato to Marsilio Ficino, by way of Middle Platonism and Greek Neoplatonism. (Since this is only a draft,... more
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      PlatoNeoplatonism and late antique philosophyHistory Of Platonic TraditionRenaissance Platonism
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      History of ScienceAncient SciencePythagoreanismGreek Mathematics
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      Ancient ScienceMagicAncient GeographyAncient magic
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      Presocratic PhilosophyPythagoreanismAncient Greek PhilosophyGreek Mathematics
This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality,... more
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      MetaphysicsOntologyAristotleHistory of Science
This article aims at analyzing the history of the Latin iunctura “machina mundi” since its original formulation (Lucretius, DRN 5.95-96). Lucretius’ use of the world-machine metaphor contains a clear polemical intent, directed against two... more
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      Latin LiteratureAncient ScienceEarly ChristianityStatius (Classics)
Il  s'agit d'une étude érudite (160 pages) du processus d'audition au Vème siècle avant notre ère chez les philosophes Grecs, d'après les traces qu'ils ont laissées auprès de leurs successeurs.
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      Speech & Hearing SciencesClassical philologyEmpedoclesAncient Greek Science and Philosophy
This chapter studies the conflict between reason and experience in Greek thought, from the Presocratics, through the Greek rationalists (Plato, Aristotle and his Peripatetic successors, the Stoics), to Galen and his reception in the... more
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      Philosophical ScepticismPlatoAristotleGalen