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Faculty
The faculty for the Program in Ancient Philosophy come from several different departments, with a wide range of expertise and approaches to ancient texts.
In addition to the core faculty, there are also numerous faculty members affiliated with the program, whose research and courses may be of interest to students and who would be valuable resources for dissertation committees.
Emeriti faculty can serve on dissertation committees and even co-direct.
Core Faculty
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Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Classical Studies
Socrates, the Socratic Movement, Plato, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Platonism, Transmission of Greek philosophy into Arabic, Jewish philosophy. Learn more › -
Victor Caston
Philosophy
Ancient philosophy of mind, metaphysics, moral psychology, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Stoics, Sophists, Cyrenaics, Augustine, medieval Aristotelianism. Learn more › -
Aileen Das
Classical Studies
History of Philosophy, Mind-Body Problem, the relationship between medicine and philosophy in the ancient and medieval periods, Plato, Galen and his reception in medieval Islamicate thought. Learn more › -
David Halperin
English
Plato’s erotic theory; ancient theories of love; the history of sexuality; ethics; erotics; aesthetics. Learn more › -
Richard Janko
Classical Studies
Ancient aesthetics and poetics, Epicurean aesthetics, philosophical papyri from Herculaneum, Aristotle’s Poetics, the Derveni papyrus, Athenian hostility to philosophy, atheism in antiquity, Empedocles & Orphism. Learn more › -
Arelene Saxonhouse
Political Science
Greek political thought, in ancient drama, history, and Plato & Aristotle; the place of women in the history of political thought; the relation of Greek political thought to contemporary democratic theory and practice. Learn more › -
Francesca Schironi
Classical Studies
Ancient science (including Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Islamic science); Greek astronomy; Greek medicine; language of Greek science, ancient grammar and scholarship; scientific papyri; commentaries and lexica on papyrus; commentaries and commentators; Christian exegetes and their relationship with Greek scholarship, reception of the classics. Learn more › -
Gabriel Shapiro
Philosophy
starting in Fall 2024 Learn more ›
Affiliated Faculty
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Bruce W. Frier
Classical Studies (emeritus)
Ancient law, rhetorical theory, and their relation to philosophy -
Karla Mallette
Romance Languages & Literatures
Ancient philosophy in medieval translations (Greek into Arabic into Latin), Philosophies of Language, Poetics -
Ellen Muehlberger
Near Eastern Studies
Middle Platonism, Philo, Numenius, Gnosticism, Christianity in late antiquity, Evagrius, and theories of the religious imagination
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