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Socrates, Socratics and Sophists

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Department of the Classics
Date
Apr 9, 2022   All Day
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Originating Calendar
Department of the Classics

Saturday, April 9
Illini Union, Room 407 (1401 W. Green Street)

8:30 AM: Benjamin McCloskey (Kansas State University), “Finding a New Sophist: On Polyphony in
Xenophon”

10:00 AM: Abigail Fritz (Utah State University), “Socratic Religion: Plato and Xenophon on Socrates’
Daimonion”

11:30 AM: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario/Cambridge University), “A Disguised
Dialogue with Aristippus in Plato’s Protagoras”

[Lunch break 1:00-2:30 PM]

2:30 PM: Brian Reese (University of Central Florida), “Being and Becoming Good in Plato’s
Protagoras”

4:00 PM: Justin Clark (Hamilton College), “Love and Friendship in Plato’s Lysis: A Socratic Account”

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