Socrates and the Sophists

A workshop organized by the Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

March 9, 2024

10am               Opening remarks: Chloe Balla

10.15-11.15       Session 1: Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, “Socrates the "Sophist" in Plato's Meno”

Short break

11.30-12.30      Session 2:  Eleni Kaklamanou, “The battle for Homer: Socrates versus the Sophists”

12.30-13.30      Session 3: Lia Theodoroudi, “Socrates as a sophist in the Theaetetus (a book written by Euclid of Megara)”

Lunch 

15.00-16.00      Session 4: Giorgos Iliopoulos, “Socratic elements in the description of the Sophists: Plato's complex strategy in the Sophist”

16.00-17.00      Session 5: Francesca Pentassuglio, “Socratics as Sophists: some doxographic testimonies”

Coffee

17.30-18.30      Session 6: Spyros Rangos, “Wonder-full Socrates and wonder-less Sophists?”

18.30-17.00      Closing discussion: Josh Billings

Reception

Speakers:

Chloe Balla, University of Crete/Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy

Josh Billings, Princeton University

Giorgos Iliopoulos, University of Athens 

Eleni Kaklamanou, University of Crete/Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy

Francesca Pentassuglio, University of Messina

Spyros Rangos, University of Patras

Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, University of Patras/Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy

Lia Theodoroudi, University of Crete