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Workshop: The Reception of Socrates Program Wall
31 Oct 2025
October 31 – November 1 MUSAΦ, Leopoldstraße 11b, 4th floor, Room 433 Organization: Peter Adamson and Santiago Chame
Wall painting at a house depicting Socrates, 1st–5th century CE. Museum of Ephesus, Efes, Turkey
- October 31 – November 1
- MUSAΦ, Leopoldstraße 11b, 4th floor, Room 433
- Organization: Peter Adamson and Santiago Chame
Program
Friday, October 31
09.30: arrival and coffee
09.45: Opening words
10.00: Fiona Leigh (University College London): “Socratic Conversation and Platonic Social
Epistemology”
11.00: coffee break
11.15: Christof Rapp (LMU): “Epictetus as a Socratic Philosopher”
12.15: Lunch
14.00: Alessandro Stavru (Università di Verona): “Cicero on Socrates and the Socratics:
virtue, philosophy, and oratory”
15.00: Coffee break
15.15: Francesca Pentassuglio (Università di Messina): “Exemplum Socratis: The Reception
of (Xenophon's) Socrates in Simplicius’ Commentary on Epictetus’ Encheiridion”
16.15: end of first day
18.30: conference dinner
Saturday, November 1
09.45: arrival and coffee
10.00: Pauliina Remes (Uppsala University): “Socratic Care: Epimeleia in the First
Alcibiades and in Olympiodorus’ Commentary”
11.00: coffee break
11.15: Peter Adamson (LMU): “Proclus on ‘the Socrates in the Republic’”
12.15: Lunch
14.00: Santiago Chame (LMU): “The Socratics in Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
15.00: end of second day