Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

Abstract Porphyry wrote an interpretation of a passage from the Odyssey under the title On the Cave of the Nymphs; this passage talks about a cave sacred to the water nymphs, which has two gates. Inside the cave, there are stone amphoras where bees store honey; stone looms where sea-purple clothes are woven, and a spr…

• ÜNSAL ÇİMEN

WE STUDY HISTORY in an attempt to achieve a wide perspective of life and reality. Spinal disorders, particularly spine traumas and their complications, have been one of the most challenging problems throughout the history of medicine and, indeed, throughout the history of humanity. The pioneers and founders of scienti…

• AHMET DENİZ BELEN

WE STUDY HISTORY in an attempt to achieve a wide perspective of life and reality. Spinal disorders, particularly spine traumas and their complications, have been one of the most challenging problems throughout the history of medicine and, indeed, throughout the history of humanity. The pioneers and founders of scienti…

• SERKAN ŞİMŞEK

WE STUDY HISTORY in an attempt to achieve a wide perspective of life and reality. Spinal disorders, particularly spine traumas and their complications, have been one of the most challenging problems throughout the history of medicine and, indeed, throughout the history of humanity. The pioneers and founders of scienti…

• AHMET ACIDUMAN

Human beings are meaning-seeking creatures. We, as human beings, have also imagination faculty that enables us to think and by means of these characteristics, religions and mythologies have been emerged on the earth stage since the early dates of history. So, many works of the mankind based on mythological and religio…

This chapter offers an interpretation of Aristotle’s account of elemental transformation, as presented in On Generation and Corruption 2.4, arguing that traditional and revisionary interpretations of Aristotle’s simple bodies, as found particularly in the literature on prime matter, are unable to explain the structure…

Abstract The top part of the famous basalt stele of Kubaba from Karkemish, made by Kamani around 790 BC, was discovered in 2015. This allows for a new discussion of the development of the iconography of the goddess. The stele completes the genealogy of the Karkemish rulers from the 9th century BC and includes the firs…

• HASAN PEKER

We reviewed many of the essential Greek myths to identify the methods used at that time to relieve the pain of both illness and surgery, and we discovered many pioneering methods. Both gods and demigods implemented these methods to ease pain, to conduct surgery, and, on occasion, to kill mythological beings. The myths…

In Parts of Animals II.10, 655b37-656a8, Aristotle tacitly identifies a group of animals which partake of “living only”. This paper is an attempt to understand the nature of this group. It is argued that it is possible to make sense of this designation (i.e. “merely living animals”) if we consider that some animals, w…

• REFİK GÜREMEN

This article is a study of the ancient Mesopotamian literary text known as the 'Cuthaean Legend'. This Naram-Sin legend is known from several versions in the extant cuneiform corpus of texts (Westenholz 1997). The names of Anubanini and members of his clan, the main protagonists, have remained puzzling in several resp…

• SELİM FERRUH ADALI

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• CHRYSI SIDIROPOULOU

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