Ancient Philosophy

Vivien Law Prize for an Essay on the History of Linguistic Ideas

Lovely news. The Henry Sweet Society has decided to award me the 2010 Vivien Law Prize. My paper is entitled “The Origins of the Notion of Anaphora”. It’ll appear in the November 2011 issue of Language & History. Here’s the abstract (slightly uninformative, though, I’m afraid): Anaphora is a central topic in the study of […]

Sunday, 16 January 2011 {Ancient Grammar, Ancient Philosophy}. — No Comments »

Grammar’s Birth

Or: An Overview of the Beginnings of Linguistic Science in Greece.—The volume is part of the series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Here’s the publisher’s page. And here my preprint. (I haven’t yet received any soft- or hardcopy.) Update 2010-10-06: After inspection of the published version, I must unfortunately say that I cannot recommend […]

Thursday, 1 April 2010 {Ancient Grammar, Ancient Philosophy, Apollonian Bibliography}. — No Comments »

MF

Michael Frede, one of the greatest in Ancient Philosophy, tragically died a few days ago (see, e.g., Leiter’s In memoriam). Since there exists no complete bibliography of his writings in print, I thought this list might serve some in the interim. Update 2008-01-26: The bibliography has now appeared in print—  Ἐργογραφία Michael Frede, Deucalion 25 […]

Saturday, 18 August 2007 {Ancient Philosophy, Apollonian Scholars}. — No Comments »