Conference

    15—17 February 2002
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, AZ
    7th Annual Arizona Colloquium
    in Ancient Philosophy:
    Plato, Myth, and Religion

    Speakers


    John Armstrong
    (Southern Virginia University)—
    "Piety and Intelligence in the
    Laws"

    Elizabeth Belfiore
    (University of Minnesota)—
    "Dancing With the Gods: The Chariot Myth in
    Phaedrus"

    Thomas Brickhouse
    (Lynchburg College) and
    Nicholas Smith
    (Lewis and Clark College)—
    "The Myth of the Afterlife in Plato's Gorgias"

    John Ferrari
    (University of California, Berkeley)—
    "The Myth of Er"

    Mary Margaret McCabe
    (King's College London)—
    "Protean Socrates: Mythical Figures in the
    Euthydemus"

    Mark McPherran
    (University of Maine at Farmington)—
    "Justice and Pollution in the
    Euthyphro"

    Fred D. Miller Jr.
    (Bowling Green State University)—
    "Myth or Reason? Plato on the Afterlife"

    Kathryn Morgan
    (UCLA)—
    "Imprisonment, Prophecy, and Authority in the
    Phaedo"

    Michael Morgan
    (Indiana University)—
    "The Gods of Plato's
    Republic"

    Donald Morrison
    (Rice University)—
    "Statesman as Demiurge: What Does the Beginning
    of the
    Timaeus Imply for Political Theory?"

    David O'Connor
    (Notre Dame University)—
    "Dionysus Will Judge: Myth and Dialectic in the
    Symposium"

    Matthew Ostrow
    (Wesleyan University)—
    "Images and a Sense of the Sacred in the Republic"

    George Rudebusch
    (Northern Arizona U.)—
    "Socrates, Euthyphro, and Piety"

    Roslyn Weiss
    (Lehigh University)—
    "Mything the Point: Why Mythos is No Logos"

    Paul Woodruff
    (University of Texas)—
    "Plato's Appropriation of Motifs from Mystery Religion"





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