These events are made possible in part by generous support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.

Upcoming Events and Lectures

Spring, 2008: In cooperation with the Philosophy Department of the Catholic University of Milan, 'Deciding Culture: Stobaeus' Collection of Excerpts of Ancient Greek Authors,' Milan, Italy, March 5-8, 2008.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, and at Notre Dame by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Medieval Institute, the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy, and the College of Arts & Letters.

Conference Program

Full Papers (Authorization Required)

Contributors (paper titles link to abstracts):

Sophie Aubert (Paris, France): Réflexions sur une mêtis stoïcienne à travers les témoignages de Stobée

Mauro Bonazzi (Milan, Italy): Il platonismo nel secondo libro dell'Anthologium di Stobeo

Michele Curnis (Italy): Plato Stobaeensis. Studies in indirect manuscript tradition of platonic quotations in the Anthologion of Johannes Stobaeus

Luigi Ferreri (Italy): Théognis chez Stobée

Pedro Pablo Fuentes González (Spain): Los cínicos y otros filósofos populares en Estobeo

Julie Giovacchini (Paris, France): Techniques du discours et techniques de vérité chez Stobée

Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Paris, France): Aëtius et Didyme chez Stobée

Elena Gritti (Italy): Dossografia sulla percezione visiva e problemi annessi nell'Anthologium di Stobeo

David Konstan (US): Stobaeus' hermeneutics; Epicureanism and the atomist tradition

Valéry Laurand (Paris, France): Remarques sur le peri gamou chez Stobée

Serge Mouravieff (Paris, France): Stobée, citateur d'Héraclite : peut-on lui faire confiance?

Ilaria Ramelli (Italy): Ierocle neostoico in Stobeo: i kathekonta e l'evoluzione dell'etica stoica

Graziano Ranocchia (Rome, Italy): Aristone di Chio in Stobeo e nella tradizione gnomologica

Denis Searby (Sweden/US): Condensing a culture (chapter headings)

Sophie VanderMeeren (France): Ethical disocurse in 2.7, and in the work in general

Emmanuele Vimercati (Italy): Libertà e superamento (sospensione) dell'etica nella figura del saggio stoico

Past Events

Cicero's Practical Philosophy, Fall 2006

The Medieval Greek Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Spring 2006, publication forthcoming

Plato's Statesman, Fall 2004, contributions published in the electronic journal Plato

Moral Perfection and the Exemplary Sage, year-long seminar in 2003-2004

Idealism in Antiquity, Spring 2002, collection of essays forthcoming with the University of Notre Dame Press

Nature and Natural Law, Fall 2002, published in The Studia Philonica Annual 15 (2003)

Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon, Spring 2000, published as a collection of essays by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.

Philo of Alexandria, Fall 1994, published in The Studia Philonica Annual 7 (1995)