Christopher Moore

early greek philosophy

Mirror of Antiquity podcast

I am interviewed about self-knowledge and my struggles to get any in this episode of the “Mirror of Antiquity” podcast. It’s 48 minutes, condensed from a three-hour discussion. It does end up representing a number of things I in fact believe. Curtis Dozier, at Vassar College, is the interviewer and producer.

The Origins of Self-Knowledge

In late April 2019, I spoke at a conference on self-knowledge organized by the Swedish Ax:son Johnson Foundation — an Engelsberg Seminar held outside Stockholm. The following is the precis for my presentation, which addresses the way “self-knowledge” became formulated and treated as an urgent topic of study at the headwaters of Greek philosophia. (See…

Critias of Athens: Oxford Bibliography

Chris Raymond and I published in 2019 an annotated Oxford Bibliography to two centuries of scholarship on Critias of Athens. In over two hundred entries and twenty thousand words, we present the state of the art on this contemporary of Socrates, perhaps the most interesting political intellectual of late 5th century Athens: a poet, literary…

The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists

In press, co-edited with Joshua Billings (Princeton), and expected early in 2023, the first Cambridge Companion to the Sophists. The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophical reflection at the time of Socrates. They…

★Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Published by Cambridge U.P. in 2015, Socrates and Self-Knowledge, now available in inexpensive paperback, and previewable on Google, has now been reviewed in the following journals: Classical Philology (A. Callard) Philosophical Quarterly (B. Hennig) Phronesis (D. Scott) Revue de Philologie (P. Pontier) Polis (T. Brickhouse) Ancient Philosophy (W. Prior) Classical Journal (B. Norton) Plato Journal…