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The Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy is a structured doctoral program in ancient philosophy. Students in the program write dissertations, in German or English, on ancient philosophy. Dissertations may be more philosophical or more philological in character. They may focus on original Greek or Roman sources or on later interpretation and appropriation of ancient views. The program involves research courses, reading groups, tutorial supervision, international workshops, and intensive short courses.
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Ancient Philosophy and Everyday Life is an introduction to Cynicism, Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. After a general account of the nature of ancient philosophy, it looks at each of these four particular schools in turn, outlining their histories and their doctrines. Special attention is paid to how these philosophies formed the bases for distinctive ways of life in antiquity. It is shown how their founders not only articulated the fundamental ideas of their schools but ... embodied them in their own lives. Some of the more colourful characters of ancient philosophy appear here, including Diogenes of Sinope who lived in a wine barrel and Peregrinus Proteus who died by climbing onto his own funeral pyre at the Olympic Games. Consideration is also given to whether it would be possible to live like an authentic Cynic, Stoic, Epicurean or Sceptic today and if so, how.
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The Program in Ancient Philosophy is administered jointly by the Departments of Philosophy and Classics, and members of the two departments cooperate in teaching and supervision. The program aims at training productive scholars and effective teachers of ancient philosophy who will ... be competent and well-rounded classicists or philosophers. Students apply for admission to, and are accepted by, the Department of Philosophy or Classics, depending on their major interests and previous qualifications. The program is designed differently for students in the two departments, but encourages those enrolled in one department to strengthen their preparation by relevant work in the other.
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The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy has existed since 1978. It was founded by Prof. Robert Hahn at Brandeis University under the name of "The Greater Boston Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy." Initially it functioned as a loose coalition of three or four universities in the Boston area, which each sponsored a lecture or two in the series. Scholars who happened to be visiting the area from other parts of the U.S. or abroad delivered impromptu lectures on topics of interest to local philosophers and classicists.
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The Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy (SAAP) was founded in 1955, and meets annually for a short residential conference in September. The venue alternates between Oxford and Cambridge. The fiftieth anniversary meeting in 2005 was in Oxford, and the 2006 one was in Cambridge. The Association will meet in Oxford in September 2007.
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Allen Miller (PhD Texas, Professor, Classics) works primarily in contemporary poststructural philosophy and theory, Plato, and ancient poetry. He is currently working on a book that examines the role Platonic philosophy has played in the development of poststructuralist philosophies of the subject. He is ... interested in the intersection between ethics, epistemology and metaphysics in Plato. He is currently the editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association. He also serves on the Editorial Board for Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
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