Christopher Moore

early greek philosophy

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Hellenic Studies Group

 

Sponsored by the Humanities Institute in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, the Hellenic Studies Group meets six times a year, bringing together faculty and students across Philosophy, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Communication Arts and Sciences, and English, to discuss lesser known but pedagogically significant works in Greek antiquity. I co-direct this collaborative colloquium.

2023–24: Hippocrates

[Sessions to be announced]

2022–23: Antiphon

  • Three forensic capital-case addresses
  • Fragments B44a–c on justice from On Truth
  • Socrates and Antiphon in Xenophon
  • Joel Mann (St. Norbert) on the Tetralogies
  • The ethical fragments, including those On Concord
  • The dream interpretation testimony (visitor TBA)

 

2021–22: Menander

  • Theophrastus’ Characters as comparandum
  • Translating Menanders’ Sententiae
  • Epitrepontes
  • Perikeiromene
  • Dyskolos

 

2019–20: Gorgias of Leontini

  • Chris Raymond (Vassar) on Imperial reception [cancelled due to Covid-19]
  • Laura Viidebaum (NYU) on early reception [cancelled due to Covid-19]
  • Local participants on the Funeral Oration and other shorter fragments
  • Local participants on the Encomium of Helen
  • Patricia Curd (Purdue) on On Non-Being

 

2018–19: Hellenistic Neopythagorean Women

  • Mark Munn (PSU) on Aspasia as icon
  • Susan Prince (Cincinnati) on Stobaeus’ Anthologia as source
  • Phillip Sidney Horky (Durham) on the Hellenistic Pythagorean corpus
  • Dorota Dutsch (UC-Santa Barbara) on ancient women as philosophers

 

2017–18: Philodemus

  • Michael McOsker (Ohio Wesleyan) on recovering texts from Herculaneum
  • David Sider (NYU) on Philodemus’ epigrams
  • David Kaufman (Transylvania) on On Anger
  • Sonya Wurster (Melbourne) on teaching Philodemus’ fragments
  • Erin McKenna Hanses (PSU) on the epigrams (some more)
  • Kelly Arenson (Duquesne) on the Epicurean garden
  • [along with readings of Peri Rhetorikês and Ben Henry’s edition of Peri Parrhesias]

 

2016–17: Aristotle’s Protrepticus (‘Exhortation to Philosophy’)

  • Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) on establishing the text
  • David Wolfsdorf (Temple) on the argument about the excellence of wisdom
  • John Poulakos (Pittsburgh) on the rhetorical situation
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