Institute of Classical Studies
Ancient Philosophy Seminar 2015-16
Mondays 4.30-6.30 p.m. Room 243, Senate House
12 October: C.C.W. Taylor (Emeritus Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
‘Emotion and Rationality in the Foundation of Aristotle’s Ethics’
9 November: Péter Lautner (Pázmany Péter University, Budapest)
‘Intentionality and the Transparency of Cognitive Activities in Damascius’
23 November: Christopher Rowe (Emeritus Professor, Durham)
‘Plato on Poetry and Truth’
7 December: Kleanthis Mantzouranis (St Andrews)
‘Aristotle and the Poets on the Ethics of Wealth’
18 January: R.M. van den Berg (Leiden)
‘Neoplatonists on Platonic Drama: the pedagogical function of mimēsis and
enargeia’
1 February: Barbara Sattler (St Andrews)
‘Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature’
15 February: Matthew Johncock (Wellington College)
‘Lucretius’ Reception of Plato’s Metaphors for the Body and Soul’
29 February: Daniele Iozzia (Catania)
‘Callimachus and the Pleasure of Knowledge (Aetia, fr. 43.12-17)’
14 March: David Preston (Royal Holloway)
‘Between the Dionysia and the Dialogues: Plato’s use of comedy’
16 May: Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews)
‘"Where are you going and where have you come from?" Beginnings and
endings in Plato’