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Profile: Rosemary Wright, M.A. (London), B.Litt (Oxon: Lady Margaret Hall)

·      Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Wales

·      Head of Department of Classics, University of Wales Lampeter, 1995-2000

·      Previous posts at the University of Queensland Australia, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

·      and University of Reading

·      Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington

·      Elected as British representative to the Council of FIEC (Federation Internationale des Associations d'Etudes Classiques) by the Classical Association and the Hellenic Society

·      Life member of the Classical Association and the Hellenic Society

·      Creator of Mathos: the original self-taught ancient Greek course.

·      Main interest is in Ancient Philosophy

·      Founder and for 18 years Director of the Lampeter Summer School in Greek and Latin.

·      Married to Moorhead Wright B.A. (Princeton), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), with four children Tom, Cathy, Edward and Helen and eight grandchildren Ella, Robbie, Bethan, Amelia, Tim, Megan, Leo and Tomos

 

Selected Publications of M.R.Wright

NEW Introducing Greek Philosophy, Durham: Acumen, and Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Empedocles of Acragas, a new, revised and updated paperback edition of Empedocles: The Extant Fragments, edited with an Introduction, Commentary and Concordance, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981, reprinted 1986; London: Duckworth, and Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995, pp viii+370..


The Presocratics: The Main Fragments in Greek with Introduction, Commentary and Appendix containing text and translation of Aristotle on the Presocratics, Bristol Classical Press, 1985, pp 212; reprinted 1986.


Cicero: On Stoic Good and Evil; De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum III and Paradoxa Stoicorum, edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Aris and Phillips, 1991, pp 220; reprinted 1994; hardback and paperback.


Cosmology in Antiquity, in the series Sciences in Antiquity sponsored by the Cambridge Wellcome Unit in the History and Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 1995, pp 206; hardback and paperback.

Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus, Duckworth 2000, pp.190 (editor, introduction and ch.1 'Myth, Science and Reason in the Timaeus')

'Cicero on self-love and love of humanity', in Cicero the Philosopher, ed. J.G. Powell, Oxford: OUP 1995, 171-96.

'Empedocles' in History of Philosophy Volume 1, ed. C.C.W. Taylor, London:Routledge, 1997, 175-207.

'Empedokles' in Philosophen der Antike vol. I, ed. Friedo Ricken, Munich: Verlag Kohlhammer, 1996, 111-128.

'Ferox Virtus: Anger in the Aeneid', in Understanding the Passions in Roman Literature and Thought, eds. S. Braund and C.J.Gill, Cambridge: CUP, 1997

For complete list, see Bibliography.

Page last updated: 21st October 2009

 

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