The Classics Department is pleased to host Professor Chirstopher Gill for a talk on “Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 1- How Stoic and How Roman?” on Monday, October 17th at 5 pm in Phelps 401.
Yale is pleased to have the opportunity to host a small workshop on October 16th and 17th 2016, presented by Professor Christopher Gill from Exeter University. The workshop addresses the place of Stoic ethics in the context of modern moral philosophy and is supported by a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship from the UK. It will bring together a group of philosophers from outside Yale with our own colleagues and provides an opportunity for a limited number of graduate students and faculty from Yale to participate. Professor Gill, whose doctorate in Classics is from Yale, is one of the world’s most distinguished specialists in ancient thought, especially in its relation to modern philosophy and psychology. His books include Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue (1996), The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (2006), Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Marcus Aurelius Meditations Books 1-6, translated with an introduction and commentary (2013).