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Olympiodorus of Alexandria: exegete, teacher, philosopherUtrecht University (NL), 14-15 December 2017Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, room 0.05&#160;Organised by Albert Joosse&#160;&#160;Thursday December 14th&#160;9.30-10.00       Coffee and Registration&#160;10.00-10.15     Opening10.15-11.00     Danielle Layne (Gonzaga)The Virtue of Double Ignorance in Olympiodorus&#160;11.00-11.15     Break&#160;11.15-12.00     Albert Joosse (Utrecht)Knowing Oneself in Olympiodorus12.00-12.45     Pauliina Remes (Uppsala)Olympiodorus on the Human Being&#160;12.45-14.00     Lunch&#160;14.00-14.45     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 Rhetoric&#160;15.30-16.00     Break&#160;16.00-16.45     François Renaud (Moncton)Reconciling Philosophy with Poetry: Olympiodorus’ Interpretation of the Gorgias Myth16.45-17.30     Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway)Olympiodorus on Drama&#160;&#160;Friday December 15th&#160;9.30-10.15       Cristina Viano (Paris, CNRS)Olympiodore, le commentaire des Météorologiques et l’alchimie gréco-alexandrine&#160;10.15-10.30     Break&#160;10.30-11.15     Simon Fortier (Liège)Olympiodorus and the Teaching of Transmigration11.15-12.00     Péter Lautner (Budapest)Olympiodorus’ Notion of aesthêsis and its Context&#160;12.00-13.30     Lunch&#160;13.30-14.15     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 Virtues&#160;15.00-15.15     Break&#160;15.15-16.00     Harold Tarrant (Newcastle, Australia)Special Kinds of Platonic Discourse: Does Olympiodorus Have a New Approach?&#160;16.00-16.30     Closing discussion&#160;All welcome. Please register by December 1st via olympiodorus2017@gmail.com&#160;&#160;This conference is made possible by financial support from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), through the VENI project ‘Socratic Educations’.