Plato
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Magnesia and Brasília: planning cities and fostering values’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Gábor Betegh (Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge) In this paper I propose to compare two planned cities, Plato’s Magnesia, as set out in his late dialogue the Laws, and Lúcio Costa’s Brasília, a landmark of modernist city planning. It is rarely remarked that Plato in the Laws does not only outline the legal, institutional and educational […]
Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, United StatesThe Anachronism and Antiquity team is delighted to announce ‘Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship’, a conference to be held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, on March 23-24, 2018. Speakers and their titles are: Carol Atack, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, ‘Plato’s Queer Time: Dialogic Moments in the Life and Death […]
CFP: The Reception of Plato in Later Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Athens Athens, GreeceOur Approach: Taking start from our common interest in the Platonic tradition and its reception in later periods, our collaboration has to date yielded one edited volume (The Neoplatonists and their Heirs, Brill, 2020, ed. Ken Parry and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides), while a second one is anticipated to host select papers from the conference. We now […]