Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Platonism: A Workshop 26-27/05/2016 - Durham (England)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 26-27/05/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, 38 North Bailey (Durham, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Phillip Horky, Giulia De Cesaris, and Matteo Milesi
INFO: giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: contacto/contact/contatto: giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday 26 May 2016
13.00-14.00: Arrival and tea
14.00-15.30: Harold Tarrant (Newcastle University, Australia)
Porphyry and 'Neopythagorean' exegesis in Cave of the Nymphs and elsewhere
15.30- 17.00: George Karamanolis (University of Vienna)
Exegetical strategies in the philosophical commentaries of Porphyry and Iamblichus
17.00-17.30: Tea
17.30-19.00: John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin)
Xenocrates as Exegete of Plato, Pythagoras and the Poets
19.30-: Dinner (Please contact Giulia de Cesaris at giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk by Friday 13 May in order to attend the dinner)
Friday 27 May 2016
09.30-10.00: Coffee
10.00-11.30: Dimitri El Murr (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
(Neo)Platonic political science
11.30-13.00: Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University)
Medicines drenched in honey: Olympiodorus on the superiority of philosophy
13.00-14.30: Break for lunch
14.30-16.00: Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Homer and Plato in agreement: the use of Homeric exegesis in commentaries on Plato and Aristotle by Syrianus, Proclus and Hermias
16.00-16.30: Tea