Notes on Contributors
Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. He is the author of Al-Kindi and Al-Razi in the series ‘Great Medieval Thinkers’ and has edited or co-edited many books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. He is also the host of the History of Philosophy podcast which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.
Angelos Chaniotis is Professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls, Oxford University. The author of many books and articles, he is senior editor of the ‘Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum’. His books include Theatricality and Public Life in the Hellenistic Age (2009), Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018), and Emotionen und Fiktionen: Gefühle in Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur der griechischen Antike (2023).
Riccardo Chiaradonna is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Roma Tre University. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, in particular on Plotinus, Galen, the Platonist tradition and the Aristotle commentators. His latest book is Ontology in Early Neoplatonism (2023).
John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College, Dublin. Born in 1939, in Madison Wisc., U.S.A, but returned to Ireland in 1946. Educated at Oxford (B.A., M.A.), and University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., The Fragments of Iamblichus’ Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato). On faculty of Dept. of Classics, UC Berkeley, 1969–1980 (Chair of Dept. 1977–1980); Regius Professor of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin, 1980–2006. Main focus of research: Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Chief works: The Middle Platonists, 1977 (2nd ed. 1996); Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism (1993); Iamblichus, De Anima (with John Finamore, 2000); The Heirs of Plato (2003); The Roots of Platonism (2018); Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham (with Ellen Birnbaum, 2021), and three volumes of collected essays.
Panos Dimas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He has published mostly on Plato and Epicurus and is presently working on bigger project on Plato’s Ethics.
Eyjólfur K. Emilsson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, Plotinus in particular. His latest book is an extensive introduction to Plotinus’ thought: Plotinus (Routledge, 2017). A second, revised edition is in the making.
Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Universities of Athens and Geneva. She has published extensively on ancient philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currently working on a monograph about ancient theories of colour and on an edition, translation and commentary of Theophrastus’ De sensibus.
Vassilis Kalfas is Emeritus Professor of Greek Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published translations and commentaries of Plato’s Timaeus and Aristotle’s Physics, De Generatione et Corruptione and De caelo.
Doukas Kapantais (Ph.D. Paris IV, 2000; Ph.D. Bern, 2007) is Director of Research at the Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens. His areas of expertise are Aristotelian logic and metaphysics, history of logic, intuitionism, proof theory and computability theory. Together with George Karamanolis, he has published a translation with commentary of Prior Analytics, Book I, 1–22 (Academy of Athens Press, 2025).
George Karamanolis is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, working primarily on ancient philosophy while maintaining research interests in Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy. He has published two monographs, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, Oxford 2006 (revised paperback 2013), The Philosophy of Early Christianity, London and Durham 2013 (revised edition 2021), and the volumes The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge 2018 (with Vasilis Politis), Pseudo-Aristotle On the Cosmos: A Commentary, Cambridge 2021 (with Pavel Gregorić), Aristotle’s Syllogistic. Prior Analytics I.1–22, Athens 2025 (with Doukas Kapantais, in Modern Greek).
Vassilis Karasmanis (D.Phil Oxford) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the National Technical University of Athens. He is specialized in ancient philosophy and ancient science. He has published four books and edited nine volumes of essays. He has also published fifty two articles in various philosophical journals or collective volumes.
Anthony A. Long is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of various publications on ancient Greek philosophy, including The Hellenistic Philosophers (with David Sedley) and Stoic Studies. His most recent books are Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy and a translation, introduction and commentary on Plotinus Ennead II.4 On Matter.
Richard McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the University of California (Santa Barbara). He has published extensively on ancient philosophy and science, from the Presocratic philosophers through late antiquity. His publications include: Principles and Proofs: Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstrative Science (Princeton University Press 1992); Philosophy Before Socrates, Indianapolis (Hackett 1994; second edition, 2011); Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, Book 8, Chapters 6–10, translation and notes, in the series ‘Ancient Commentators on Aristotle’ (Cornell University Press 2001); Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 1–8 in the series ‘Ancient Commentators on Aristotle’ (Duckworth Publ. 2008), The Milesians: Thales (with G. Wöhrle) in the series ‘Traditio Praesocratica’ (De Gruyter 2014); The Sophists (Routledge 2025); Aristotle and the Eleatics/Aristotele e gli Eleatici (Academia Verlag 2023); A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Bloomsbury Academic 2022).
Alexandra Michalewski is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre Léon Robin, Paris-Sorbonne (CNRS). As a specialist of Plotinus and the late Antique Platonist tradition (La puissance de l’intelligible. La théorie plotinienne des Formes au miroir de l’héritage médioplatonicien, Leuven 2014), her research focuses on the cosmological debates related to the generation of the universe (Dieu, le mouvement, la matière: Atticus et ses critiques dans l’Antiquité tardive, Paris 2024).
Alexander Nehamas is Carpenter Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, and books on Nietzsche, philosophy of art, and friendship. He holds the chair of the History of Philosophy at the Academy of Athens.
Dominic J. O’Meara studied at Cambridge University and with Pierre Hadot in Paris. He is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland), has published a critical edition of Michael Psellos, translations of Plotinus and Syrianus and books including Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 1989); Plotinus. An Introduction to the Enneads (Oxford University Press, 1993); Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2003); Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works (Cambridge University Press, 2017); The Ladder of the Sciences in Late Antique Platonism, Selected Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Eleni Perdikouri is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Late Antiquity at the Department of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Her publications include Plotin. Traité 12 (II 4). Introduction, traduction, commentaires et notes (Paris 2014); Aristotle. De Anima, Translation, introduction and notes (in Modern Greek) (Athens 2025).
Maria Protopapas-Marneli is Doctor of Ancient Philosophy from the Sorbonne (Paris IV) University, former Director of the Centre for Greek Philosophy and now emerita researcher at the Academy of Athens. She has published extensively on Ancient Philosophy, Stoic and Cynic philosophy in Greek, French, English, and Italian, including La Rhétorique des Stoïciens (L’Harmattan, 2002, 7 reprints), and three books in two languages. Her current research focuses on two annotated editions of the fragments of Cleanthes of Assos: one in Modern Greek with commentary, and a critical edition with English translation for the ERC-APATHES series (Von Arnim Revised, De Gruyter, 2026).
Spyridon Rangos is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy in the University of Patras. His recent book,
David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College. He was an editor of Classical Quarterly and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. His books include (with A.A. Long) The Hellenistic Philosophers (1987), Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (1998), Plato’s Cratylus (2003), The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus (2004), Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (2007).
Suzanne Stern-Gillet† was Professor Emerita of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bolton and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester. She was the author of many articles on Plato and Neoplatonism, an editor of the International Jornal of the Platonic Tradition, and a co-editor of numerous volumes the last of which was A Text Worthy of Plotinus: The Lives and Correspondence of P. Henry S.J., H.-R. Schwyzer, A.H. Armstrong, J. Trouillard and I. Igal S.J. (Leuven 2021).
Harold Tarrant studied at Cambridge and Durham Universities, but taught for nearly four decades in Australia (University of Sydney and University of Newcastle Australia). Now retired, he remains Professor Emeritus at the University of Newcastle while living in the UK. His many publications deal mainly with the Platonic tradition.
Voula Tsouna is Distinguished Professor A/S in the Philosophy Department, University of California (Santa Barbara). She is President of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt, and co-editor of the CUP series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy. Her publications include [Philodemus] [On Choices and Avoidances] (Naples 1995, recipient of the Theodor Mommsen Award), The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge 1998), The Ethics of Philodemus (Oxford 2007), Plato’s Charmides. An Interpretative Commentary (Cambridge 2022), Conceptions of the Normativity of Nature in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge 2026), and approximately eighty articles on Socrates, the Minor Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic and Roman philosophers.