Dr. Menahem Luz
(a.k.a. Mervyn Lewis)

Office: Eshkol 1709
Email: mluz@research.haifa.ac.il
Phone: +972-4-8240659 (office); 972-4-8219665 (home)
Fax: +972-4-8249735
Office Hours

Further inormation on my activities in my personal homepage.

Education: M.A. (Classics), Univ. of Glasgow (1968); M.A. (Greek Philosophy), Hebrew University (1972); Ph.D. (Greek Philosophy) Hebrew University (1981) -- further details at this website

Teaching Areas: Ancient Philosophy (from the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus), Classical Literature (mainly Greek epic and lyric). See current teaching syllabus

Research Interests: Plato; Aristotle; Hellenistic philosophy and literature.

Current Research: Aristotle's Metaphysics (Heb. trans. & commentary); Antisthenes' Life and Philosophy (Eng.)

See further for society affiliation and conferences attended.

Publications
All those underlined may be accessed directly from this site

    a) in press

  1. "Digging up Menippus" to appear.

  2. "Cynicism typical to Eretz-Isrel in the Hellenistic and Talmudic Periods" to appear in M. Mor (ed.). Jews and Gentiles in Eretz-Israel (Eng) (Yad Ben-Zvi)

  3. "Disgracefulness is Disgraceful: Antisthenes' Logic, Ethics and Sources" to appear in K. Boudouris, Greek Philosophy and the Fine Arts (Athens)

    b) recent publications (1996-1999)

  4. "Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: Twin Professions," in Michmanim 13 (1999) 7*-23* (Eng.), 7 (Heb. abstr.)

  5. Antisthenes' Concept of Paideia published on the internet in the ancient philosophy section of the the Paideia 20th World Congress of Philosophy Archives (1999)

  6. Menahem Luz & Niva Arav, 'Teaching Philosophy and the Values of Democracy in Israel' in D. Evans-I. Kucuradi Teaching Philosophy on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (International Federation of Philosophical Societies; Ankara , 1998 ), 30-41

  7. 'Dionysus: Myth and Ritual in sources of the Archaic Period' in: Dionysus and His Retinue in the Art of Ertetz-Israel (ed. R. Rosenthal-Heginbottom), Hecht Museum Catalogue 14 (1998), 52-56 (Eng,), 68-71 (Heb.)

  8. "Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's koinonia of Wives and its Hellenistic Development" in: K. Boudouris (ed.), Plato's Political Philosophy and Contemporary Democratic Theory (Athens; 1997), 100-108.

  9. "The Philosophical Background of Hippocrates' 'On Nutriment'" in: K. Boudouris (ed.), Philosophy and Medicine vol. I (Athens, 1998), 114-122

  10. 'Antisthenes' Prometheus Myth', in: J. Glucker- A. Laks (eds.), Jacob Bernays Un philologue juif = Cahiers de Philologie .... Lille III 16 (Eng.; Villeneuve d'Ascq, 1996), 89-103.

  11. "The Encyclopedic Tradition of Alexandria and its Libraries," Michmanim 10 (1996), 67-78 (Heb); pp. 13-14 Eng. abstr.).

    c) earlier publications (1982-1994)

  12. 'The Transmission of Antisthenes' Hercules in Hellenistic Philosophy and Literature', in: Hellenistic Philosophy II (1994, Athens, ed. K.J. Boudouris).

  13. 'Relativism and the Sophists: a Reply to Modern Critics', in: Skepsis V (Athens; 1994), 74-80.

  14. 'Marine Deities and their Metamorphoses', in: 'Mysteries of the Sea' (ed. N. Kashtan), National Maritime Museum, Haifa 1993 (Heb.).

  15. 'Oenomaus and Talmudic Anecdote', in: Journal for the Study of Judaism xxiii/1 (1992), 42-80.

  16. 'The Introduction to the Poetics and Aristotelian Methodology', in Dapim Research in Literature 8. 1992 (ed. Kagan-Yaniv-Zoran; the University of Haifa) vi-vii (Eng. abstract), 35-44 (Heb.).

  17. 'Cynics as Allies of Scepticism', in: Scepticism: Inter-disciplinary Approaches (Proceedings of the 2nd Olympia Symposium; ed. L.C. Bargeliotes; Athens, 1990), 101-114.

  18. 'Marinus: an Eretz-Israel Neoplatonist at Athens', in: Rappaport-Kasher-Fuchs (eds.), Greece and Rome in Eretz-Israel (Jerusalem, 1990), 92-104-also published as:.

  19. 'Marinus: an Eretz-Israel Neoplatonist at Athens', in: Rappaport-Kasher-Fuchs (eds.), Greece and Rome in Eretz-Israel (Jerusalem, 1989; Heb.), pp. 36-47.

  20. 'A Description of the Greek Cynic in the Jerusalem Talmud', in: Journal for the Study of Judaism xx (1989), pp. 49-54.

  21. M. Luz - A. Ben-Zeev, Aristotle, On the Soul (Haifa, 1989; Heb.)

  22. M. Luz, Plato and Aristotle (Heb.) -- unit in the Israel Open University course: The Hellenistic Age (Tel Aviv, 1988).

  23. 'Salam, Meleager!', in: Studi Italiani di Filologia classica VI,2 1988, pp. 222-231.

  24. 'Abnimos, Nimos and Oenomaos: a note', in: Jewish Quarterly Review LXXVII.2-3 (October, 1986-Jan. 1987), 191-195.

  25. 'Eleazer's Second Speech on Masada and its Literary Precedents', in: Rheinisches Museum 126.1 (1983), pp. 25-43.

  26. 'Clearchus of Soli as a Source for Eleazer's Deuterosis', in: U. Rappaport (ed.), Josephus Flavius (Jerusalem, 1982; Heb.- Eng. summary, pp. vii-ix).

    d) reviews

  27. S. Gersh - C. Kannegiesser (eds .), Platonism in Late Antiquity in: International Studies in Philosophy XXVIII/2 1996 pp. 132-134.

  28. A. Erskine, The Hellenistic Stoa in: International Studies in Philosophy XXVI/1 1994 pp. 109-110.

  29. D.J. O'Meara, Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity in: International Studies in Philosophy XXV/1 1993 pp. 102-103.