Notes on Contributors

Luc Brisson

Director of Research (Emeritus) at the National Center for Scientific Research (Paris [Villejuif], France; Centre Jean Pépin umr 8230 cnrs-ens, psl), is known for his works on both Plato and Plotinus, including bibliographies, translations, and commentaries. He has also published numerous works on the history of philosophy and religions in Antiquity.

Andrea Capra

(Durham University) teaches ancient Greek literature and civilisation. He has published widely on Plato, Aristophanes, lyric poetry, the reception of archaic epic, and the Greek novel. His work on Plato focuses on the dialogue form and emphasises the philosophical appropriation of the poetic tradition. His books include a monograph on the Protagoras (Il Protagora di Platone tra eristica e commedia, Milan 2001) and one on the implicit poetics of the dialogues as expressed mainly in the Phaedrus (Plato’s Four Muses. The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy, Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA 2014).

Carlotta Capuccino

is Senior Assistant Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bologna (Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies). Ηer publications include the books ΑΡΧΗ ΛΟΓΟΥ: Sui proemi platonici e il loro significato filosofico, Florence: Olschki, 2014, and Platone: Ione, Santarcangelo di Romagna: Rusconi, 2017; the article ‘Happiness and Aristotle’s Definition of Eudaimonia’ (Philosophical Topics, 2013) and the essay ‘Socrate’ in La Grande Storia—L’Antichità edited by Umberto Eco (Milan: Encyclomedia Publishers, 2011). Her ongoing research concerns in particular Socratic maieutics and the project Speaking through images: Platonic models of analogical argumentation.

Michael Erler

(PhD Cologne 1977, Habilitation Konstanz 1985, Professor Erlangen 1989 [Latin]) was Professor Ordinarius of Classics at the University of Würzburg (1992), Germany. He is now Senior Professor and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies University of Würzburg. He was Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Edinburgh. He is author of monographs and numerous articles on Ancient Greek and Roman literature, as well as on Ancient philosophy; amongst them: Der Sinn der Aporien in den Dialogen Platons (1987), Epikur-Die Schule Epikurs-Lukrez (Die Philosophie der Antike, vol. 4,1, 1994); Römische Philosophie (1997), Platon (2006), Platon (Die Philosophie der Antike, vol. 2,2, 2007), Philosophie, in: Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike vol. 1 (2011) 254–288; vol. 2 (2014) 279–452; Epicurus (2020)

Margalit Finkelberg

is Professor (Emerita) of Classics at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005), Homer (2014; Hebrew), The Gatekeeper. Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic. Collected Essays (2020) and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (2011, 3 vols.).

Stephen Halliwell

is Wardlaw Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrews and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His books include Aristotle’s Poetics (1986), Plato Republic Book 10 (1988), Plato Republic Book 5 (1993), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), Greek Laughter: a Study in Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008), and Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011). His edition of pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime, is forthcoming in the Lorenzo Valla series.

David Horan

is a member of the Trinity Plato Centre, Trinity College Dublin. He received his B.Sc. and M.B.A. degrees from University College Dublin and his PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He has published on Plato’s Sophist and Parmenides and their interrelation, and on Plotinus’ use of the latter dialogue. He is currently engaged, with private support, upon the production a new translation of the complete works of Plato from ancient Greek into English. This project is scheduled for completion in (2020).

Eleni Kaklamanou

is currently a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete. She teaches ancient philosophy at the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. Her main research interests include Plato and Platonism and political philosophy.

Kathryn A. Morgan

is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (Cambridge, 2000) and Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford and New York 2015), as well as numerous articles on Plato, Greek literature, and Greek intellectual history.

Μaria Pavlou

is Lecturer of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. Her main areas of interest are archaic lyric poetry, Plato, digital classics, and reception studies. She has published on Pindar, Thucydides, Plato, and Yannis Ritsos. She is the editor (with V. Liapis and A. Petrides) of Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece (Cambridge Scholars 2018).

Zacharoula Petraki

is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Crete. She is the author of the book The Poetics of Philosophical Language: Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the Republic, De Gruyter, 2011 and of several articles on Plato’s reception of the arts.

Spyridon Rangos

is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy at the University of Patras. He has been educated in Athens, Paris, Cambridge and Princeton. Recent and forthcoming publications include: ‘The Final Attack on Hedonism: Philebus 53c4-55c3’, in P. Dimas, R. Jones & G. Richardson-Lear (eds.), Plato’s Philebus, Oxford 2019; ‘Limb-Bending and Natural Teleology’, in A. Falcon & S. Stavrianeas (eds.), Aristotle on How Animals Move: Aristotle’s De incessu animalium, Cambridge 2020; ‘Divine Names as Cryptic Myths’, in C. Macris, K. Panagopoulou & E. Phassa (eds.), The Changing Face of Hellenism: Cultural Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean, 323 BC–700 AD, Leiden 2020. His monograph Wonder, Perplexity, Philosophy is under publication from the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation.

Pauliina Remes

is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, especially History of Philosophy, at the Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the author of Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the ‘We’ (CUP 2007), and of Neoplatonism (Acumen 2008). She has edited three books, among them The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (2015), with Svetla Slaveva-Griffin. Her publications center on Plotinus, but she has recently also studied other late ancient philosophers, as well as Plato.

Panagiotis Thanassas

studied Law in Athens and Philosophy in Tübingen, where he received his Ph.D. (1996) with a dissertation on Parmenides. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; he has also taught at the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, Munich, Cyprus, and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has also received fellowships from the Evangelisches Studienwerk ‘Villigst’, from DAAD, from DFG and from the Princeton University (Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow, 2019). His research interests focus on Greek philosophy (esp. Pre-Socratics and Plato), German Idealism (Hegel), Heidegger and Philosophical Hermeneutics.

Antonis Tsakmakis

is Associate Professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy, University of Cyprus. His research interests are Greek historiography, Old comedy, the sophistic movement (Protagoras), Greek stylistics, Greek particles, the use of narratology, linguistics and cognitive theory in literary interpretation, the reception of antiquity in modern times, the teaching of Greek in Secondary Education. He is the author of Thukydides über die Vergangenheit, Tübingen 1995 and co-editor of Brill’s Companion to Thucydides, Leiden 2006, and Thucydides between History and Literature, Berlin and New York 2013. Recently he has completed a new series of textbooks for teaching Greek in High School. His current research projects include a Commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.