Antony of Tagrit's Treatise on Rhetoric. (University of Manchester) This project aims to reshape our understanding of Syriac intellectual culture by investigating its engagement with late antique ...

In this essay, a peacock represents an "untimely" agent of transformation in an Aristotelian-based rhetoric. The peacock refers to a fragment attributed to Antiphon. This essay identifies and develops ...

The most stunning fact I discovered in the many obituaries written this week about former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was that he'd studied philosophy as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.