Cambridge, 13-16 July 2009
This conference will be the culmination of Cambridge’s four-year AHRC-funded project ‘Greco-Roman philosophy in the first century BC’, with support from the Faculty of Classics.
Programme
(All sessions in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue)
Mon. 13 July
2.30-4.00 Riccardo Chiaradonna, 'Platonists and the Aristotelian corpus in the 1st century BC'
4.30-6.00 Myrto Hatzimichali, [Circulation of philosophical texts]
Tues. 14 July
9.00-10.30 Bob Sharples, 'Metriopatheia'
11.00-12.30 Marwan Rashed, 'Boethus in the Peripatetic Tradition'
2.30-4.00 Andrea Falcon, 'Xenarchus of Seleucia and Aristotelianism in the 1st century BC'
4.30-6.00 Mauro Bonazzi, 'Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the Systematization of Platonism'
Wed. 15 July
9.00-10.30 Roberto Polito, [Pythagoreanism]
11.00-12.30 A.A. Long, [Alexander Polyhistor]
2.30-4.00 Anna Ju, 'Posidonius' study of Plato'
4.30-6.00 Ingo Gildenhard, ' Cicero the Platonist (cf. Q. Cic. Pet. 46)'
Evening: party
Thurs. 16 July
9.00-10.30 David Sedley, 'Cicero and the Timaeus'
11.00-12.30 Julia Annas, 'Law and virtue in Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus'