This culminating event in our series of workshops was held at the British Institute at Ankara, recognising the importance of the eastern Mediterranean in post-hellenistic philosophical networks. The programme reflected the explicit aims of the project to establish the appropriate historiographical context for first-order reconstruction of philosophical debate at this period; and to balance local practices of philosophy with the translocal theoretical engagements of their networks.

• Organised with the support of the University of Toronto and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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INTRODUCTORY

June 4 (Thursday), 2:30-5:30. Panel 1: Introduction & challenges; historiographical context

2:30: Introduction to the project: George Boys-Stones (Toronto) and Matthias Haake (Bonn)

3:20: Leo Catana (Copenhagen): Post-Hellenistic Philosophy in Histories of Philosophy

Discussion to 5:30

PART I: contexts

June 5 (Friday). Panel 2. The meaning and constitution of “schools”:

• Morning: excursion to Temple of Augustus and Anatolian Museum

2:30 - Thomas Slabon (SFU): Judaism/Christianity as Schools

3:20 - Kendra Eshleman (Boston College): Sophistic Networks

Discussion to 5:30

June 6 (Saturday).  Panel 3. Technologies of philosophical communication and debate:

10:00 - 🖥️ Han Baltussen (Adelaide): Transmitting philosophical views: forms and functions of ‘histories’ of philosophy in the Early Roman Empire

10:50 - Johan Thom (Stellenbosch): Popular philosophy as non-technical communication.

Discussion to 1.

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Panel 4. Cognate intellectual networks (medicine, law, rhetoric):

2:30 - Erica Bexley (Durham): Cicero, Seneca, and Law

3:20 - 🖥️ Matthijs Wibier (Cincinnati) and Paul Du Plessis (Edinburgh): Roman law and ancient philosophy in the 21st century.

Discussion to 5:30

PART II: philosophy in theory and practice

June 7 (Sunday). Panel 5. Ethics I:

10:00 - 🖥️ Carlo Natali (Venice): Two-and-a-Half Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics: A Comparison between Aspasius, the Anonymous Commentator, and the Ethical Problems

10:50 - Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame): Providence and Fate

11:40 - 🖥️ Mauro Bonazzi (Bologna): Genres of Life

Discussion to 1.

Panel 6. Ethics II:

2:30 - Tyler Patyas (ACU): The Virtue of Piety in Stoicism

3:20 - 🖥️ George Van Kooten (Cambridge): Christian and Jewish Ethics

4:10 - 🖥️ Athanasios Despotis (Bonn): Philia/Love in Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Authors

Discussion to 5:30

June 8 (Monday). Panel 7: Natural philosophy – understanding causes and technological successes:

• Morning: excursion to Anıtkabir.

2:30 - 🖥️ Cristina Viano (CNRS): Greek Alchemists and Theories of Matter

3:20 - Phillip Horky (Durham): Alexander of Aphrodisias on Time and Intentional Thought

4:10 - 🖥️ Courtney Roby (Cornell): Science and technology

Discussion to 5:30

June 9 (Tuesday). Panel 8: Metaphysics and religion:

10:00 - 🖥️Arianna Piazzalunga (Geneva / KU Leuven): Principles and Causation in Post-Hellenistic Platonism

10:50 - Jane Heath (Durham): The Face-to-Face Gaze as a Christian Version of the telos

11:40 - 🖥️ Raphael Woolf (London): Cicero’s Timaeus

Discussion to 1.

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2:30 - 🖥️ Matthias Perkams (Jena): Philosophical views of religious practice

3:20 - 🖥️ Johannes Haubold (Princeton): Chaldaeans

Discussion to 5:30

June 10 (Wednesday)

• Excursion to Gordion.