The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, the Department of the

Classics, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, together with the Joint Program in Ancient
Philosophy at the University of Texas, are all pleased to announce that the 45th Annual Ancient Philosophy
Workshop will take place on the University of Illinois campus.
This year’s Workshop has been organized around the theme:

SOCRATES, SOCRATICS, AND SOPHISTS

Schedule of Talks
Friday, April 8
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Mathews Avenue)
8:30 AM: Sean Driscoll (University of Richmond), “Hippias and Socratic Heterodoxy” (comments by
Taylor Pincin, University of Texas at Austin)
10:00 AM: Mateo Duque, (Binghamton University), “A Tale of Two Protagorases: ‘Protagoras’ in the
Theaetetus vs. Protagoras in the Protagoras” (comments by John Anderson, University of Texas at Austin)
11:30 AM: Sean Foley (Catholic University of America), “Sophistic Speech and False Statements in
Plato’s Sophist ” (comments by Joshua Trubowitz, University of Chicago)

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

2:30 PM: Ross Preuss Greene (University of Texas at Austin), “Sources of Shame: Shame and the
Refutation of Polus in Plato’s Gorgias” (comments by Cass McCleskey, University of Illinois)
4:00 PM: Keren Shatalov (University of Illinois), “In Praise of Gorgias” (comments by Bess Myers,
University of Illinois)

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” (comments by Daniel W. Leon, University of Illinois)
10:00 AM: Abigail Fritz (Utah State University), “Socratic Religion: Plato and Xenophon on Socrates’
Daimonion” (comments by Kirk Sanders, University of Illinois)
11:30 AM: Georgia Mouroutsou (University of Western Ontario/Cambridge University), “A Disguised
Dialogue with Aristippus in Plato’s Protagoras” (comments by Reid Comstock, University of Notre Dame)

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

2:30 PM: Brian Reese (University of Central Florida), “Being and Becoming Good in Plato’s
Protagoras” (comments by Blaze Marpet, Northwestern University)
4:00 PM: Justin Clark (Hamilton College), “Love and Friendship in Plato’s Lysis: A Socratic Account”
(comments by Benjamin Miller, University of Illinois)

*The organizers of the conference would also like to acknowledge the generous support and co-sponsorship of the European Union
Center; the Departments of Communication, English, French & Italian, History, Linguistics, Political Science, and Religion; and the
Programs in Comparative and World Literature, Medieval Studies, and Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Illinois.

Background image: Constantin Brâncuși’s Socrates (1922) | MoMA (photograph by Kirk R. Sanders)