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ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY &\; RELIGION Colloquium
University of Cambridge\, May 14th-16th\, 2014
Convenor: George van Kooten\, Cambridge / Groningen

Attendance is free and open to all academics and postgraduates\, but those from outside Cambridge are asked to register by emailing gv258@cam.ac.uk

Most papers will be published in a new Brill Series &ldquo\;Ancient Philosophy &\; Religion&rdquo\; (editors: George-Boys Stones\, Durham\; George van Kooten\, Groningen)


WEDNESDAY EVENING May 14th (Clare Hall - Herschel Road\, Meeting Room\; entrance via Porter&rsquo\;s Lodge)

8-9 pm Judith Lieu (Cambridge)\, "Perspectives on Marcion and Justin Martyr"

9-10 pm Bernhard Lang (Aarhus/Paderborn)\, "The religion of the ancient Cynic philosophers and its bearing on the early Jesus movement"


THURSDAY May 15th (Divinity Faculty\, Room 2)

9.00-9.55 am David Sedley (Cambridge)\, "Carneades' theological arguments"

9.55-10.50 am Nick Denyer (Cambridge)\, "The real Euthyphro problem\, solved"

Coffee break (10.50-11.10 am)

11.10-12.05 pm Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge)\, "Eros and piety"

12.05 -1.00 pm Daniele Pevarello (Trinity College Dublin)\, "Criticism of verbosity in ancient
philosophical and early Christian writings"

Lunch for speakers at Clare Hall (1-2 pm)

2-3 pm George van Kooten (Cambridge/Groningen)\, "The Last Days of Socrates and Christ:
Euthyphro\, Apology\, Crito\, and Phaedo read in counterpoint with John&rsquo\;s Gospel"

3-4 pm Ilinca Tanaseanu-Dö\;bler (Gö\;ttingen)\, "Neoplatonic readings of the incarnation"


FRIDAY May 16th (Divinity Faculty\, Runcie Room)

9.00-9.55 am Anders Klostergaard Petersen (Aarhus)\, "Philosophy and religion and their interactions in the ancient Graeco-Roman World on the basis of 4 Maccabees"

9.55-10.50 am Helen Van Noorden (Cambridge)\, "Philosophical traces in the Sibylline Oracles"

Coffee break (10.50-11.10 am)

11.10-12.05 pm Simon Gathercole (Cambridge)\, "Christians according to second-century
philosophers"

12.05-1.00 pm Rebecca Flemming (TBC) (Cambridge)\, "Galen on Jews and Christians"

Lunch for speakers at Clare Hall (1-2 pm)

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