- The 12th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society opens today in San Francisco, lasting until Sunday, April 22
- Some Ancient Greek philosophical manuscripts will be accessible for the first time via digital scanning and posting online.
“The Bodleian collection of Greek manuscripts will include testimonies on works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Hippocrates and others.”
- A silly opinion piece at the Guardian that, “The command and control style of Plato has been overtaken by Aristotle’s less authoritarian style in modern boardrooms“. Good as an uplifting chuckle, if nothing else.
- The German office of L’Année philologique is in danger of being defunded. If you are unfamiliar with the service, it is a annual index of all the written scholarship on Greek and Latin sources, including Philosophy.
- Harvard literary critic Stephen Greenblatt was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for his book, “The Swerve: How The World Became Modern.”
The book examines the discovery and significance of a once-lost epic poem written by the Roman philosopher Lucretius in 50 B.C.