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Olympiodorus of Alexandria: exegete, teacher, philosopherUtrecht University (NL), 14-15 December 2017Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, room 0.05Organised by Albert Joosse&#160;Olympiodorus of Alexandria, who is often considered to have been the last leading, non-Christian philosopher of classical antiquity, has also been termed ‘the first classicist’ (Tarrant 1997). His place in the history of thought brings into focus issues of doctrinal difference and toleration, of the value of philosophical tradition, and of pedagogical concern for those coming of age in uncertain times. But there is more to Olympiodorus than the times in which he lived. His commentaries on Plato’s First Alcibiades, Gorgias and Phaedo, and on Aristotle’s Categories and Meteorology are now becoming better known and explored. Recent scholarship has also reopened the question of Olympiodorus’ philosophical calibre. There is reason enough, then, to try to present an all-round picture of Olympiodorus, as this conference intends to do.(Text by the organizer)&#160;Thursday December 14th                   &#160;9.30-10.00       Coffee and Registration10.00-10.15     Opening10.15-11.00     Danielle Layne (Gonzaga) - The Virtue of Double Ignorance in Olympiodorus11.00-11.15     Break11.15-12.00     Albert Joosse (Utrecht) - Knowing Oneself in Olympiodorus12.00-12.45     Pauliina Remes (Uppsala) - Olympiodorus on the Human Being12.45-14.00     Lunch14.00-14.45  Maria Chriti (Thessaloniki/CHS)  - Olympiodorus of Alexandria on ‘Composition’ in Language and Thinking  after Ammonius of Hermeias and John Philoponus14.45-15.30     Bettina Bohle (Bochum) - Olympiodorus and Hermeias on the Platonic Theory of Rhetoric15.30-16.00     Break16.00-16.45     François Renaud (Moncton) - Reconciling Philosophy with Poetry: Olympiodorus’ Interpretation of the Gorgias Myth16.45-17.30     Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway) - Olympiodorus on Drama&#160;Friday December 15th            &#160;9.30-10.15       Cristina Viano (Paris, CNRS) - Olympiodore, le commentaire des Météorologiques et l’alchimie gréco-alexandrine10.15-10.30     Break10.30-11.15     Simon Fortier (Liège) - Olympiodorus and the Teaching of Transmigration11.15-12.00     Péter Lautner (Budapest) - Olympiodorus’ Notion of aesthêsis and its Context12.00-13.30     Lunch13.30-14.15     Sonsoles Costero Quiroga (Madrid) - Scala virtutum in Proclus and Olympiodorus. Two Different Views about Grades of Knowledge in Late Neoplatonism14.15-15.00     Michael Griffin (UBC) - Olympiodorus on the Scale of Virtues15.00-15.15     Break15.15-16.00     Harold Tarrant (Newcastle, Australia) - Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus Have a New Approach?16.00-16.30     Closing discussion&#160;All welcome. Please register by December 1st via olympiodorus2017@gmail.comThis conference is made possible by financial support from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), through the VENI project ‘Socratic Educations’.