List of Contributors

Mario Capasso

Full Professor of Papyrology and Director of the Centro di Studi Papirologici at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, where he founded and directs the Museo Papirologico. He is co-Director of the Archaeological Mission of the Centro, which has been working in Fayyum (Egypt) since 1993. He is President of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica and has published about 450 papyrological scientific works, including two handbooks on papyrology and one on Herculanean papyrology.

Clive Chandler

Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include Philodemus, rhetoric, and the intellectual history of the Ancient World. He is the author of a book on Philodemus On Rhetoric Books 1 and 2 (first edition 2006). He is currently working on madness in Ancient Greek literature.

Gabriel Danzig

Associate Professor in the department of classical studies at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. His primary area of research is philosophical literature of the classical period. His publications include articles and a book on Socrates, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. He has also published articles on Greek and Roman themes in Jewish literature, including on Socrates, the concept of friendship, and debates between Rabbis and Greek and Roman figures.

Gregson Davis

Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor in the Humanities at Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA. His primary research specialty is in the interpretation of poetic texts in the Greco-Roman as well as Caribbean traditions. In the domain of Late Republican and Augustan poetry, he has published monographs on Horace’s Odes (Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (The Death of Procris: “Amor” and the Hunt in Ovid’s Metamorphoses). His most recent book on Augustan poetry is Parthenope: The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic (2012).

Tiziano Dorandi

Director of Research in the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) UMR 8230, Centre J. Pépin, Paris, France. His interests include papyrology, textual criticism, and ancient philosophy. He is the author of Filodemo. Storia dei filosofi. Platone e l’Academia (1991), Ricerche sulla cronologia dei filosofi ellenistici (1991), Filodemo. Storia dei filosofi. La Stoà da Zenone a Panezio (1994), Antigone de Caryste. Fragments (1999), and Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers (2013).

Walter Englert

Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classics and Humanities, Emeritus, at Reed College, Portland, Ore., USA. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University, and his research focuses on ancient philosophy, especially on Epicurus, the Stoics, and the reception of Greek philosophy in Rome. He has published on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero, and is the author of a translation of Lucretius, On the Nature of Things.

Michael Erler

Senior Professor and chair of the board of directors of the Siebald Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. He is the author of Epikur-Die Schule Epikurs-Lukrez (1994), Römische Philosophie (1997), Plato (2007); editor of Epikureismus in der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit (2000); co-editor of Philosophie der Lust. Studien zum Hedonismus (2012); and has published various articles on Plato, Platonism, Epicurus, Epicureanism, the relation between literature and Greek philosophy, and Greek drama.

Monica R. Gale

Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Her publications include Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000), Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (2001), and other books and articles on Lucretius, and on the poetry of the Late Republican and Augustan periods.

Pamela Gordon

Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans., USA. She is the author of Epicurus in Lycia: The Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda (1996), and The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus (2012). Her research specialties include Greek and Roman poetry, and she is the author of the introduction to The Complete Works of Sappho, translated by Stanley Lombardo (2016).

Margaret Graver

Aaron Lawrence Professor in Classics at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., USA, where she specializes in Hellenistic and Roman moral psychology. Her major publications include Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (2002); Stoicism and Emotion (2007); and, in collaboration with A. A. Long, a complete annotated translation of Seneca’s Letters on Ethics (2015).

Thomas M. Kavanagh

Professor Emeritus of French at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., USA. His research centers on eighteenth-century literature, culture, and the visual arts. His publications include Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance (1993), Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture (2005), and Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism (2010). He is currently working on a book-length study of post-Revolutionary pleasures.

David Konstan

Professor of Classics at New York University, New York, N.Y., USA. He is the author of The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006), “A Life Worthy of the Gods”: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus (2008), Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010), and Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (2014). He is a past President of the American Philological Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Daryn Lehoux

Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Creatures Born of Mud and Slime (2017), What Did the Romans Know? (2012), Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World (2007), and co-editor of Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013).

Carlos Lévy

Professor of Latin, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France. He has written extensively on ancient philosophy, especially Cicero and Philo of Alexandria, as well as on Latin prose and poetry. For many years, he was co-director of the scientific team “Rome et ses renaissances.” His many publications include Cicero Academicus. Recherches sur les Académiques et sur la philosophie cicéronienne (1992), Les philosophies hellénistiques (1997), and Les scepticismes (2008).

A. A. Long

Emeritus Professor of Classics and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA. He is the author and editor of many works on ancient philosophy including, with D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers (1987), and From Epicurus to Epictetus. Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006). His most recent books are Greek Models of Mind and Self (2015), and, with Margaret Graver, Seneca Letters on Ethics (2015).

Michael McOsker

Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral at the Universität zu Köln. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2015. He is the author of On the Good Poem According to Philodemus and, with David Armstrong, the editor and translated of Philodemus’ On Anger. He was a fellow at the Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi “Marcello Gigante” and taught at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Phillip Mitsis

Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University, New York, N.Y., USA, and Academic Director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies. Recent publications include La libertà, il piacere, la morte (2019) and Natura Aut Voluntas? Recherches sur la pensée politique et éthique hellénistique et romaine et son influence (2020).

Eva Marie Noller

teaches at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, where she received her doctorate in Classics (Latin Literature) in 2016. Her dissertation (Die Ordnung der Welt. Dynamik, Statik und Ermergenz in Lukrez’ De Rerum Natura) was published in 2019. She is co-editor, with Christian C. Haß, of Was ordnet Bedeutung—was bedeutet Ordnung? Zu bedeutungskonstituierenden Ordnungsleistungen in Geschriebenem (2015).

Gianni Paganini

Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy and fellow of the Research Centre of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. He is the author of Les philosophies clandestines à l’age classique (2005), Skepsis (2008, awarded by the Académie Française), and the Italian edition of Hobbes, De motu loco et tempore (2010), awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei.

Ada Palmer

Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College, the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA, and is a cultural and intellectual historian focusing on radical thought and the recovery of the classics in the Italian Renaissance. She works on the history of science, religion, heresy, freethought, atheism, censorship, books, printing, and on patronage and the networks of power and money that enabled cultural creation in early modern Europe. Her first book is Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (2014).

Enrico Piergiacomi

Visiting Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Philosophy with a thesis on the theologies of the ancient atomists and their ethical consequences, which has been recently published (Storia delle antiche teologie atomiste, 2017).

James I. Porter

Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA, where he holds the Irving Stone Chair in Literature. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future (2000), The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy (2000), The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience (2010), The Sublime in Antiquity (2016), and Homer: The Very Idea (forthcoming). He is also the editor of several collected volumes in classics and the reception of classics, and of the book series “Classical Presences.”

Ilaria Ramelli

Full Professor of Theology and Britt Chair (Angelicum), Visiting Fellow and Fowler Hamilton Fellow (Oxford), and Senior Fellow (Princeton CHS; Catholic University, 2003–present). She earned two MAs, a Ph.D., postdoc, and two Habilitations to Full/Ordinary Professor, and has been Professor of Roman History, Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought (Harvard), and Senior Fellow (Durham; Erfurt). She specializes in ancient and patristic philosophy and has published many academic books and articles, incl. Epicurea (2002) and Social Justice (OUP 2017).

Carl J. Richard

Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, La., USA. He received his Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University in 1988. His books include The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (1994), Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (2008), and The Founders and the Bible (2016).

Stephen E. Rosenbaum

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nev., USA. Having written articles about Epicurean thanatology and ethics, he continues to explore and write about the implications of Epicurus’s views about death.

Geert Roskam

Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. He has published several monographs on Hellenistic and later Platonic philosophy and on Plutarch, including Live Unnoticed (lathe biosas). On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine (2007) and A Commentary of Plutarch’s De latenter vivendo (2007).

W. H. Shearin

Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Miami, Miami, Fla., USA. He is author of The Language of Atoms (2015) and co-editor, with Brooke Holmes, of Dynamic Reading: Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism (2012). Currently, he is editing the Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy and completing Thick-Witted Minerva: Stupidity in Roman Philosophy.

Emidio Spinelli

Full Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy/Sapienza-Università di Roma, Rome, Italy. He has published many articles on different topics (Presocratics, Atomists, Socrates/minor Socratics, Plato, Stoics, Epicureans, philosophical papyri); among his main works are Sesto Empirico: Contro gli etici (1995), Sesto Empirico: Contro gli astrologi (2000), Questioni scettiche: Letture introduttive al pirronismo antico (2005), Electronic Edition of Sextus Empiricus’s Works (2012, in DAPHNET, see the Section ‘Ancient Philosophy’: http://www.daphnet.org).

Gisela Striker

Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Her research has focused mainly on Aristotle’s logic, Hellenistic epistemology, and Stoic and Epicurean ethics. Her publications include Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics (1996) and Aristotle: Prior Analytics book I (translation and commentary, 2009).

Ann Thomson

Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She works on the intellectual history of the long eighteenth century, in particular the “natural history of man,” the circulation of ideas and cultural transfers, and European thinking on the Islamic world, on all of which she has published extensively. Her most recent monographs are Bodies of Thought (2008), and L’âme des Lumières (2013).

Voula Tsouna

Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA. She is co-author of Philodemus: On Choices and Avoidances (1995), which received the Theodor Mommsen Award, and the author of The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (1998), which has been translated into modern Greek (2018), The Ethics of Philodemus (2007), Philodemus on Property Management (2012), and her most recent monograph is Plato’s Charmides. An Interpretative Commentary (2020).

Francesco Verde

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of “Sapienza” – University of Rome, Italy. His interests are ancient atomism, ancient physics, Hellenistic philosophy, and Herculaneum papyrology. He published a translation with commentary of Epicurus’s “Letter to Herodotus” (2010), a volume devoted to the Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts (2013), and an up-to-date presentation of Epicurus’s philosophy (2013).