Latin Philosophy

Program

Friday, 23 March

2:00-2:20pm Introduction

2:20-3:00pm Harry Hine (St Andrews)
Philosophy and philosophi from Cicero to Apuleius

3:00-3:40pm Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame)
Nature in Cicero's Thought

3:40-4:20pm Tobias Reinhardt (Oxford)
To See and to Be Seen: On Vision and Perception in Lucretius and Cicero

4:20-4:40pm Break

4:40-5:20pm Katharina Volk (Columbia)
Roman Pythagoras

5:20-6:00pm James Zetzel (Columbia)
Philosophy is in the Streets

6:00pm Reception

Saturday, 24 March

9:30-10:00am Breakfast

10:00-10:40am Andrew Riggsby (University of Texas, Austin)
Seneca: De ira: Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things

10:40-11:20am Brad Inwood (Toronto)
Getting Going by Getting Angry: Seneca and the Peripatetics

11:20-11:40am Break

11:40am-12:20pm Yelena Baraz (Princeton)
True Greatness of Soul in Seneca the Younger

12:20-1pm Gareth Williams (Columbia)
Mind the Gap: Seneca, The Self, and the Sublime

1:00-2:10pm Break

2:10-2:50pm Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins)
Precept and Example in Seneca

2:50-3:30pm Margaret Graver (Dartmouth)
The Emotional Intelligence of Epicureans: Doctrinalism and Adaptation in Seneca’s Epistles

3:30-3:50pm Break

3:50-4:30pm Wolfgang-Rainer Mann (Columbia)
"My Station and its Duties": Helvidius Priscus as a Stoic Hero

4:30-5:10pm Richard Fletcher (Ohio State)
Platonizing Latin: Apuleius' Phaedo

5:10-5:50pm Katja Vogt (Columbia)
From Investigation to Doubt: The Beginnings of Modern Skepticism

5:50-6:00pm Conclusion

6:00pm Reception

Organized by the Department of Classics.

For more information, contact:
Katharina Volk at [email protected].