{"id":1042,"date":"2007-06-15T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-06-15T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:08:33","slug":"about-the-ancient-philosophy-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/about-the-ancient-philosophy-society\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Ancient Philosophy Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Philosophy Society was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts. Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, T\u00fcbingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works. It is the intention that, within the larger aim of assessing the meaning and significance of ancient texts, the Ancient Philosophy Society serve as the site of critical engagement among these various schools of interpretation and that it encourage creative and rigorous independent readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Philosophy Society was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts. Honoring the richness of the American and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society supports phenomenological, postmodern, Anglo-American, Straussian, T\u00fcbingen School, hermeneutic, psychoanalytic, and feminist interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary works. It is the intention that, within the larger aim of assessing the meaning and significance of ancient texts, the Ancient Philosophy . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/about-the-ancient-philosophy-society\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-gO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2627,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/ancient-philosophy-society-call-for-papers-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1042,"position":0},"title":"Ancient Philosophy Society Call For Papers","author":"William Koch","date":"September 26, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Ancient Philosophy Society for the Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Thought was established to provide a forum for scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts and their diverse receptions. 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