Symposium Hellenisticum
Political Philosophy and Society in the Hellenistic Age
July 7-10, 2025
Cornell University
Monday, July 7
9:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12:30 pm Session I
Benjamin Gray, Cities and Savants
Chair: Gábor Betegh
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 pm Session II
Isabelle Chouinard, The Cynics against Civilization: Dio Chrysostom's Primitivist Reading of Ancient Cynicism
Chair: Margaret Graver
6:30 pm Dinner
Hosted by Rachana Kamtekar
Tuesday, July 8
9:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12:30 pm Session III
Eric Brown, Stoicizing about Laws
Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 pm Session IV
Aiste Celkyte, From money to virtue: The concept of trust in Stoicism
Chair: Brad Inwood
Wednesday, July 9
9:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12:30 pm Session V
Jed Atkins, Institutional religion and politics
Chair: Rachana Kamtekar
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 pm Session VI
Melissa Lane, Moses as Lawgiver in Philo and Josephus: synthesizing the tools of archaic Greek lawgivers in ethical education
Chair: Voula Tsouna
Thursday, July 10
9:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30 pm Session VII
Pierre-Marie Morel, The epistemological basis of Epicurean politics
Chair: Gretchen Reydams-Schils
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 pm Session VIII
Maximilian Robitzsch, The Epicureans on political order and political change
Chair: Tad Brennan
6:00 pm
Drinks and Dinner at the Inn at Taughannock
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Contacts and Addresses
| Charles Brittain | charles.brittain@cornell.edu | 607-229-8822 |
| Ethan Della Rocca | ehd35@cornell.edu | 203-200-8229 |
| Alessandro Peiris Pattiyage | ap793@cornell.edu | 607-280-9672 |
| Ryan Belle | rtb95@cornell.edu | 607-255-3354 |
| Michael Pinnisi | mp694@cornell.edu | 607-255-7471 |
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