Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 11-12 September 2012
Members of the Faculty are invited to attend the Symposium Praesocraticum meeting to be held in the Faculty on 11 and 12 September, and supported by a generous grant from the Faculty. Kindly note that this meeting is not open to non-members of the Faculty.
Tuesday 11 September
Session 1
9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.45 Maria Michela Sassi, “How musical is Heraclitus' harmony? A reading of 22 B 8, 10, 51 DK”
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Leopoldo Iribarren, “Modes of relational thinking in Heraclitus (fragments 5, 34, 79 and 114)”
12.45 Lunch break
Session 2
2.30 Marianne Garin, “Vrais et faux miroirs d'Héraclite. L'énonciateur dans tous ses états”
3.45 Tea
4.15 Jaap Mansfeld, “Heraclitus on soul and super-soul (Aëtius 4.3.12 and 4.7.2 Diels)”
5.30 Break
5.40 Stephen Menn, “Anathumiasis”
7.00 Session ends
Wednesday 12 September
Session 3
9.30 André Laks & Glenn Most, “Some New Fragments of Heraclitus”
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Sandra Šćepanović, “Heraclitus' fragment B52 and other uses of αἰών in early Greek poetry and philosophy”
12.30 Lunch break
Session 4
2.30 Stavros Kouloumentas, “Heraclitus and medical theorists on the circle”
3.45 Tea
4.15 Malcolm Schofield, “Fighting for the νόμος: 22 B44, 114”
5.30 Break
5.40 Oliver Primavesi, “Heraclitus before Schleiermacher”
7.00 Conclusion and envoi