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Ancient Philosophy Society at NYU Program
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Ancient Philosophy Society 2026 Registration and Hotel InformationDear friends of the Ancient Philosophy Society, Registration for our 2026 meeting at New York University is now open. Note that APS membership is required to register for the meeting. We strongly encourage you to register for the APS banquet on the night of Saturday April 18th as well. Historically, the banquet has been a great chance to get to know other participants, and we hope to continue that tradition this year. You can pay membership dues and register for the meeting . . . Read More
- Call for Applicants – Center of Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) 2026 Ancient Philosophy Summer Program
Call for Applications Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC)2026 Ancient Philosophy Summer Program May 31- June 6, 2026 University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesMinneapolis, Minnesota Overview The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) seeks applications for participants in its 4th annual Summer Program (1st ancient summer program), now funded by a $500,000 grant. Participants will take part in a week-long collaborative workshop, in which they learn about figures in an expanded canon of ancient philosophy and . . . Read More
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Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek ThinkingIn Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking (May 2026 on SUNY Press’s series in Ancient Philosophy), D. M. Spitzer develops interpretive channels and linkages joining the Milesian thinkers Thales, Anaximandros, Anaximenes and the 20th century Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant. Engaging a wide range of texts from the archaic Mediterranean and beyond–including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India–alongside modern and contemporary sources, the book opens a way toward dynamic, diverse, and ecologically-oriented perspectives . . . Read More
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Hunting for JusticeThe Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s Oresteia By Kalliopi Nikolopoulou Subjects: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, Religion, ViolenceSeries: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Hardcover : 9798855801286, 264 pages, March 2025Paperback : 9798855801279, 264 pages, September 2025 A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Drawing from Walter Burkert’s anthropology of the hunt in Homo Necans, which articulates an ancient cosmology and implies a theory of (tragic) seriousness that parallels Aristotle’s . . . Read More
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Magic in Ancient Greek Culture and Philosophy Updated DeadlineThe deadline to submit a chapter to the upcoming volume “Magic in Ancient Greek Culture and Philosophy” has been extended from January 15th to February 1st. Please consider submitting a potential chapter.
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Politeia: New Readings in the History of PhilosophyEdited by Anne J. Mamary Edited by Meredith Trexler Drees Subjects: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle, Plato Series: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy Hardcover : 9798855803013, 325 pages, July 2025 Paperback : 9798855803006, 325 pages, January 2026 In classical Greece, the word politeia in its largest sense meant the citizens’ engagement with the shared project that is the lived life of their polis, city, civic society. Ancient philosophers, poets, historians, and orators constantly reflected on what this shared project should be and . . . Read More
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Materia Philosophiae: Material Dimensions of Ancient PhilosophyMateria Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Volume: 9 Volume Editors: William Wians and Robert Hahn Ever since Thales fell into the well, popular imagination has pictured philosophers as abstracted from everyday reality. Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy counters that view. Philosophy in ancient Greece grew out of and remained closely connected to the material realities around it—difficulties of travel, reliance on cumbersome scrolls, learning acquired . . . Read More