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Ancient Law and Politics

Part A
(PDF, 30mb)
Part B
(PDF, 27mb)

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Ideas in Antiquity

Part A
(PDF, 15mb)
Part B
(PDF, 13mb)
Part C
(PDF, 10mb)

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Proverbs..., and Illustrations

Frans Hogenberg, Proverbs, c. 1558 (click to enlarge photo)

Breugel's Netherlandish Proverbs:
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Breugel, Big Fish Eat Little Fish
(notice the man in the boat "pointing" out the lesson to his son.)

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Alexander Tulin (Associate Professor)
Office: LKH 312
Phone: (202) 806-6725
E-mail: a_tulin@verizon.net

Dr. Tulin's primary interests lie in the fields of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Law, Rhetoric, Greek Language and Literature, and Latin. His Ph.D. was completed at Columbia University in 1990 with a dissertation on Plato's Euthyphro, written under the direction of  Leonardo Tarán, Jay Professor of Greek and Latin. Dr. Tulin has taught at Howard University since 1990, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics.

His book, Dike Phonou, contains a detailed study of a single, but important aspect of Attic homicide procedure (viz., who was entitled to prosecute in a dike phonou), with the aim of proving up the point at issue (that the right of prosecution was indeed restricted), and of solving a controversy that arises in the interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro. His most recent article attempts an examination of Socrates' refutation of Polemarchus in Republic I, and demonstrates that analysis (as opposed to synthesis) originated in Plato's use of dialectic. This paper also demonstrates, to the extent that demonstration in such matters is attainable, that Republic I was from the outset conceived as a prologue to the dialogue as a whole, and that it was not itself an independent dialogue tacked on to the rest at a later stage -- as Giannantoni and others have claimed.  In both cases the claim is made that the proofs advanced are more or less definitive.

Book:

Dike Phonou: The Right of Prosecution and Attic Homicide Procedure. BzA 76. (Stuttgart, 1996)

For reviews, see D. MacDowell, CR 47.2, 1997, 384f.; also Carawan, JHS 118, 1998; Gagarin, BMCR 97.4.17; Harris, CW 92.4, 1999, 392;  Iarkho, Eirene 35, 1999;  Mirhady, AJP 119, 1998, 639-42; Ruschenbusch, Gnomon 71, 1999, 165f.;  Sheets, Rel.Stud.Rev. 23.4, 1997; Valieri,  Paideia/Brescia, 53, 1998; C. Rowe, Phronesis 46.2, 2001, 225.

(Though now out-of-print, copies of the book are available by request.)

Articles:

"On the Refutation of Polemarchus: Analysis and Dialectic in Republic I." Elenchos 26.2, 2005, 277-316.

"Please Remind Me of Anamnesis: A Double-Entendre in Plato's Phaedo." QUCC 75/3, 2003, 63-66.

"Slave Witnesses in Antiphon V.48." Scripta Classica Israelica 18, 1999, 21-24.

"A Note on Euripides' Bacchae 39-42." Mnemosyne 47, 1994, 221-24.

"Xenophanes Fr. 18 D.-K. and the Origins of the Idea of Progress." Hermes 121, 1993, 129-38.

Review-Article:

Review of Antiphon: The Speeches, ed. M. Gagarin.  BMCR 9.8, 730-37 (98.6.19)

(Printed copies of this paper, with proper Greek fonts, are available on request. They can also be obtained by consulting the originally published edition. It was the last volume printed before the series went entirely on-line.)

Reviews:

Rev: The Platonic Theages. Introd., Comm., and Crit. Edition, by M. Joyal. SCI 22 (2003), 312-15.

Rev: L'Empédocle de Strasbourg (P.Strasb.gr.Inv. 1665- 1666), edd. A.Martin-O.Primavesi. SCI 19 (2000), 289-92.

Rev: Platons Menexenos. Einleitung, Text, und Kommentar, by S. Tsitsiridis. CW 93.3 (2000), 305f.

Rev: Auf dem Weg zur rhetorischen Theorie, by E. Gondos. CW 93.2 (1999), 220f.

Rev: The Birth of Rhetoric, by R. Wardy. CW 92.1 (1998), 80f.

Rev: Synopsis, Vol. 1, ed. A. Dimarogonas. CW 92.1 (1998), 79f.

Rev: Platonic Piety: Philosophy & Ritual in Fourth-Century Athens, by M. L. Morgan. AJP 113 (1992), 630-33.

Rev: Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, by Gregory Vlastos. International Philosophical Quarterly (IPQ) 32 (1992), 519-20.

Reprint:

Reprint (with Foreword) L. L. Forman, Selections from Plato (Norman, 2006; orig. 1911).

Suida-on-Line:
alpha 4512 (autonomoumene polis)