Poetry and Philosophy: On Plato's Protagoras
17th-19th October 2013, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Viale Trenta Aprile 33
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Thursday 17th October
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch, at the Institute
15.00 – 16.15 Kristin Sampson, "Dialectics and Emergence" (beginning of the dialogue)
16.30 – 17.45 Gro Rørstadbotten, “The Protagoras: A Tragedy?”
20.00 Dinner
Friday 18th October
09.45 – 11.00 Jens Kristian Larsen, “By what is the soul nourished?”
11.15 – 12.30 Atle Ytrehus, “Becoming good and living a virtuous life”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch, at the Institute
14.00 – 15.15 Knut Ågotnes, “Protagoras does not know how to handle courage as a virtue, but is Socrates capable of doing that?”
15.30 – 16.45 Elena Irrera, “Finding the ‘real’ Simonides. A reading of Protagoras 338e-348c”
20.00 Dinner
Saturday 19th October
10.00 – 11.15 Rune Tyse Helland, “Lack of inner dialogue in Protagoras”
11.30 – 12.45 Lars Holm-Hansen, “Protagorean education”
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 Vigdis Songe-Møller, “Who is speaking – human beings (anthropoi), men (andres), Greeks, citizens, Athenians, or I? Protagoras vs. Socrates
15.30 – 16.45 Vivil Valvik Haraldsen, "Is pleasure any good?" (from ca 351b)
18.30 – 19.30 Project meeting