Noticias

 

Socratica 2008

 

Livio Rossetti*

 

* Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Roma, es profesor de filosofía antigua en la Universitá di Perugia, y estudioso de los presocráticos, los sofistas, Sócrates, Platón y del derecho ático. Correo electrónico: rossetti@unipg.it.

 

On December 2008 an international conference entitled Socrática 2008. Seconde giornate di studio sulla letteratura socrática antica was held in Naples (Italy). The symposium was the follow-up of the Socratica meeting held in 2005 in Senigallia (the proceedings of which appeared in 2008). Another one is scheduled for 2011.

The scientific aim of these conferences is to provide a broad approach to the context of Plato's work: Socrates, the Socratics as a group, Xenophon, the other Socratics who were direct pupils (or friends) of Socrates, the ancient Socratic literature as a whole. As such, the Socratica meetings are meant to be parallel to the Symposia Platonica, and it is no chance that the International Plato Society is one of their official sponsors, together with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Naples).

The 2008 edition was coordinated by Livio Rossetti (Universitá di Perugia), Franco Ferrari (Universitá di Salerno), Giovanni Casertano and Lidia Palumbo (both Universitá di Napoli "Federico II") and Alessandro Stavru (Universitá di Napoli "L'Orientale"). The basic information is currently available in www.socratica.eu.

On August 2010, the proceedings of the 2008 edition were officially presented at the IX Symposium Platonicum in Tokyo. The book, co-edited by Livio Rossetti and Alessandro Stavru, is entitled Socratica 2008. Studies in Ancient Socratic Literature (Bari 2010, Levante ed., 353 p., € 32). It includes a substantial Introduction where pages 11-47 are meant to give a detailed survey of the most recent literature on the topics mentioned above.

Here is the table of contents of the volume devoted to the 2008 session:

A. Stavru & L. Rossetti, Introduction

I. The First Generation

L. Rossetti (Universitá di Perugia), I Socratici 'primi filosofi' e Socrate 'primofilosofo'.

N. Notomi (Keio University of Tokio), Socrates versus Sophists: Plato's Invention?

A. Brancacci (Universitá di Roma "Tor Vergata"), Sull'etica di Antistene.

D. Plácido (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), Esquines de Esfeto: las contradicciones del socratismo.

II Plato

L.-A. Dorion (Université de Montréal), L'impossible autarcie du Socrate de Platon.

W. O. Kohan (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Sócrates: La paradoja de enseñar y aprender.

L. Palumbo (Universitá di Napoli "Federico II"), Socrate e la conoscenza di sé: per una nuova lettura di Alc. I 133 a-c.

G. Cornelli (Universidade de Brasilia) & A. L. Chevitarese (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Socrate tra golpe oligarchico e restaurazione democratica (404-403 a. C.).

III. Xenophon

D. Morrison (Rice University, Houston), Xenophon's Socrates on Sophia and the Virtues.

A. Stavru (Università Napoli "L'Orientale"), Essere e apparire in Xen. Mem. III 10.1-8.

IV. Nachleben

M. Erler (Universitát Würzburg), La parrhesia da Socrate a Epicuro.

G. Ranocchia (CNR/ILIESI, Roma), Il ritratto di Socrate nel De superbia di Filodemo: PHerc. 1008, coll. 21-23.

M. Narcy (CNRS, Paris), Socrate et Euripide: Le point de vue de Diogéne Laerce.

In Memoriam

A. Montano (Universitá di Salerno), Ricordo di Mario Montuori Notes on the Contributors.