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14The Ciceronian DialogueIn Jed W. Atkins & Thomas Bénatouïl (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 25-42. 2021.
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24Reconstructing Brutus’ De Virtute: Consolation and Antiochean FundamentalismPhronesis 66 (1): 52-83. 2020.Brutus’ De virtute, a lost work that had important but overlooked influence on Cicero’s ethical dialogues, is more dependent on Antiochus’ ethics than has been recognized. In reviewing the sources for De virtute, I arrive at a conception of Brutus’ work as a consolation written in a fundamentalist—rather than ecumenical—mode that focalizes its arguments and commonplaces from the perspective of Antiochus’ philosophical system. This conception is supported by the only other testimony for Brutus’ c…Read more
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35The School of Doubt: Skepticism, History, and Politics in Cicero's Academica, Written by Orazio Cappello (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2020.
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3Protagoras’ Homo-Mensura Doctrine and Literary Interpretation in Certamen Homeri et HesiodiMnemosyne 71 (6): 1043-1052. 2018.Taking a cue from the interpretive difficulties faced by Socrates and his interlocutors in Plato’s Theaetetus as they struggle to determine the meaning of Protagoras’ homo-mensura doctrine (HM), I argue that Protagoras, or early Protagoreans, used HM to speak on the relativity of literary criticism. For evidence I adduce an overlooked passage of the anonymous Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, which contains an ethical formulation of HM. This formulation of HM, compatible with the portrait of Protagora…Read more
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Justus Lipsius and his Confusion of Chrysippus' Distinction of Causes in Physiologia 1, 14Hellenistica Lovaniensia 63 197-224. 2014.
Cornell University
PhD, 2020
College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Hellenistic and Later Ancient Philosophy |