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Prof. Dr. Eckart Schütrumpf

Department of Classics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Eaton Humanities Building 360
Boulder, CO 80309-0248
Tel. (303) 492-7620 Fax (303) 492-1026
Schutrum@Colorado.Edu

2055 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO 80303
Tel. (303) 494 - 8643

EDUCATION

1958-63 Undergraduate Studies of Classics and Philosophy at the Universities of Marburg and Munich

1963-65 Graduate Study of Classics and Philosophy at University of Marburg

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1966 Ph.D. at the University of Marburg (result: "sehr gut") with a thesis on the Aristotelian theory of tragedy in its relation to Ethics (see list of publications)

1976 'Habilitation in Klassischer Philologie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der antiken Philosophie' (`Habilitation' in Classics with special regard to ancient philosophy) with a thesis on Aristotle's political philosophy (see list of publications)

APPOINTMENTS

1988 Fall to present: Professor, Department of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder

1987 Fall to 1988 Fall: Visiting Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder

1985 Spring to 1987Spring: Associate Professor and Chairman of the Greek section in the Department of Classics at the University of Cape Town

1983 Fall to Spring 1985: Senior Lecturer University of Cape Town

1979 Appointment as Privatdozent (venia legendi) at the University of Marburg, Department of Classics

1966 Fall to 1983 Spring: Lecturer of Classical Languages at the University of Marburg (1976 to 1980 teaching assignment for ancient philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Marburg)

SPECIAL INTERESTS

1. Ancient Philosophy, History of Political Theory
2. Greek and Roman Literary Criticism/Rhetoric
3. Historiography

PUBLICATIONS

Ia. BOOKS

*1. Die Bedeutung des Wortes ethos in der Poetik des Aristoteles, Marburger Philosophische Dissertation 1966, published in: "Zetemata", Monographien zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, H. 49, 1970, VII, 147 pp.

*2. Die Analyse der polis durch Aristoteles, Marburger Habilitationsschrift 1976, published in: "Studien zur Antiken Philosophie", Heft 10, Amsterdam 1980, XV, 400 pp.

*3. Xenophon Poroi, Vorschläge zur Beschaffung von Geldmitteln oder Über die Staatseinkünfte, Einleitung, krit. Textausgabe, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen, in "Texte zur Forschung", Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1Darmstadt 1982, 129 pp., reprinted (with corrections) 1987.

*4. Aristoteles Politik Buch I, übersetzt und erläutert, in: Aristoteles Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung Bd. 9, Teil I, Berlin - Darmstadt 1991, 390 pp.

*5. Aristoteles Politik Buch II - III, übersetzt und erläutert, in: Aristoteles Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung Bd. 9, Teil II, Berlin - Darmstadt 1991, 590 pp.

6. Aristoteles Politik Buch IV - VI, Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Eckart Schütrumpf, erklärt von E. Schütrumpf und H.J. Gehrke, in: Aristoteles Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung Bd. 9, Teil III, Berlin - Darmstadt 1996, 670 pp.

7. Aristoteles Politik Buch VII - VIII, übersetzt und erläutert, in: Aristoteles Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung Bd. 9, Teil IV, 688 pp., Berlin (Akademie Verlag) - Darmstadt 2005

8. Eric Voegelin's Deutung der Aristotelischen Politik in Order and History, Occasional Papers XXIV, Eric-Voegelin-Archiv, München 2001, 89 pp.

Ib. EDITOR, COEDITOR of editions of ancient texts and scholarly papers

9. Demetrius of Phalerum. Annotated edition of fragments, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh - E. Schütrumpf, New Brunswick - London 1999

10. Dicaearchus of Messene. Texts, Translation and Discussion, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh - E. Schütrumpf, New Brunswick - London 2001.

Ic. EDITOR, COEDITOR of scholarly monographs

11. The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, June 2003, Melanges de l'Universite Saint Joseph, vol. 57, Beirut 2005 (co-editor with P. Crone, Princeton; D. Gutras, Yale University)

Id. BOOKS IN PRESS

12. Heraclides Ponticus: new edition of fragments, to appear in Rutgers Studies in Classical Philology vol. 14, manuscript completed and mailed to editor, Novem­ber 2006

Ie. BOOK PROJECTS UNDER CONTRACT

13. Reprint of revised translation of Aristotle᾿s Politics (above titles 4-7) with new introduction and notes in “Philosophical Library” (F. Meiner, publishers), expected for 2007

14. New edition of collection of philosophical fragments of Aristotle, under contract with deGruyter, Berlin, partial funding by research grant of Humboldt foundation

If. BOOK IN PREPARATION

15. Praxis and Lexis. Selected essays, ca. 320 pages, in preparation by Akademie Verlag; Berlin, scheduled to appear in 2007

II. ARTICLES / CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

*16. "Kosmopolitismus oder Panhellenismus? Zur Interpretation des Ausspruches von Hippias in Platons Protagoras 337 c ff.", in: Hermes, Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Heft 100, 1972, 5 - 29.

*17. "Die Folgen der Atimie für die Athenische Demokratie, Ps.-Xenophon <Vom Staat der Athener> 3, 12 f.", Philologus 117, 1973, 152 - 168.

*18. "Probleme der Aristotelischen Verfassungstheorie in Politik III", Hermes 104, 1976, 308 - 331.

*19. "Aristoteles über Athen in PERI DIKAIOSYNES" Hermes 108, 1980, 322 - 337

*20. "Platon Politeia 401 e", Rheinisches Museum 123, 1980, 181 - 186.

*21. "Kritische Überlegungen zur Ontologie und Terminologie der Aristotelischen <Politik>", Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 1981, Heft 2, 26 - 47.

*22. "Simonides 542 PMG", Festschrift W. Kullmann, Würzburger Jahrbücher 13, 1987, 11 - 23.

*23. "The meaning of ethos in Aristotle's Poetics - a reply", Hermes 115, 1987, 175 - 181.

*24. "The Rhetra of Epitadeus: A Platonist's Fiction", Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 28, 1987, 441 - 457.

*25. "Platonic elements in the structure of Cicero's De oratore Book I", Rhetorica 6, 1988, 237 - 258.

*26. "Form und Stil aristotelischer Pragmatien", Philologus 133, 1989, 177 - 191.

*27. "Magnanimity, Megalopsychia and the system of Aristotle's Ethics", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71, 1989, 10 - 22

*28. "Platonic Methodology in the program of Aristotle's political philosophy Politics IV 1", Transactions of the Amer. Philol. Assoc., 119, 1989, 211 - 220.

*29. "Traditional Elements in the Concept of hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics", Harv. Stud. Class. Philol. 92, 1989, 137 - 156.

30. "Hermann Diels", in: Classical Scholarship. A Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. by W. W. Briggs & W.M. Calder III, New York London 1990, 52 - 60.

*31. "Cicero De oratore I and Greek Philosophical tradition", Rheinisches Museum 133, 1990, 310 - 321.

*32. "Hermagoras and the Neoplatonic classification of Aristotle's works", Mnemosyne 24 (ser. IV), 1991, 96-105.

*33. "Einige wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Voraussetzungen v. W. Jaegers Aristotelesdeutung", in: Werner Jaeger Reconsidered, Illinois Classical Studies, Supplement 3 (1992) 209-225.

*34. "Aristotle on Slavery - a Platonic dilemma", Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993) 111-123.

*35. "The model for the concept of ethos in Aristotle's Rhetoric, Philologus 137 (1993) 12-17.

*36. "Verteidigung natürlicher Strebungen - zu den Vorstufen der Stoischen Ethik", Antike und Abendland 39 (1993) 48-63.

37. "Aristotle on Sparta", in The Shadow of Sparta, ed. by L. Powell and S. Hodkinson, London - New York (Routledge), 1994, 323-345.

38. "Non-logical Means of Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cicero's De oratore", Rutgers Studies in Classical Philology 6, 1994, 95-110.

39. "Some observations on the introduction of Aristotle's Rhetoric". Chapter in Aristotle's Rhetoric, Proceedings of the XII International Symposium Aristotelicum, Princeton University Press 1994, 99-116.

40. "Politische Reformmodelle im vierten Jahrhundert. Grundsätzliche Annahmen politischer Theorie und Versuche konkreter Lösungen", in: Die athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v.Chr. ed. by , Eder, W., Stuttgart 1995, 271 - 300 [contributions to discussion of other papers: p. 65f.; 135; 223; 246; 300; 425; 473; 559f.].

41. "Philosophical concepts in the system of constitutions in Aristotle's Politics. Plato's Influence", in K. Boudouris (Hrsg.): Aristotelian Political Philosophy, vol. I, Athens 1995, 177 - 188.

42. The definition of justice in Plato's Republic, in: Worte, Bilder, Töne. Studien zur Antike und Antikerezeption, Festschrift B. Kytzler, ed. R. Faber B. Seidensticker, Würzburg 1966, 51-58.

43. "Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics", Review article of a monograph by F.D. Miller Jr. (Oxford 1995), Ancient Philosophy 16 (1996), 514 - 521.

44. "Konventionelle Vorstellungen über Gerechtigkeit. Die Perspektive des Thrasymachos und die Erwartungen an eine philosophische Entgegnung," Book chapter in: Plato' Republic, ed. by O. Höffe, Akademie Verlag Berlin 1997, 29-53

45. "Demetrios von Phaleron", in: Neue Pauly, vol. 3, 1997, 429 - 430.

46. Lucretius De rer. nat. III (830-1094) a diatribe against the fear of death?" in: Candide Iudex. Beiträge zur augusteischen Dichtung. Festschrift für Walter Wimmel zum 75. Geburtstag, Stuttgart 1998, 345 - 351.

47. "Die Depravierung Roms nach den Erfolgen des imperiums bei Sallust, Bellum Catilinae Kap. 10 - philosophische Reminiszenzen": in: Imperium Romanum. Studien zu Geschichte und Rezeption. Festschrift für K. Christ zum 75. Geburtstag, Stuttgart 1998, 674 - 689.

48. "An idiom of explanatory expansion. A note on the text of Aristotle Poetics ch. 6, 1450b 8", Philologus, 143, 1999, 32 - 40.

49. "Credibility". Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Oxford - New York 2001, 177 - 181.

50. "Verfassungen und politische Institutionen (Aristoteles Politik IV 1 - 16)", book chapter in: Klassiker Auslegen, Aristoteles Politik: Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2001, 121 - 136.

51. "Dikaiarchos' BIOS HELLADOS und die Philosophie des vierten Jahrhunderts", Rutgers Studies in Classical Philology 10, 2001, 255 - 277.

52. "Themistogenes", in: Neue Pauly vol. 12/1, Stuttgart 2002, 305 - 306.

53. Xenophon, in: Neue Pauly vol 12/2 Stuttgart 2002, 633 - 642.

54. "Slaves in Plato's Political Dialogues and the Significance of Plato's Psychology for the Aristotelian Theory of Slavery" in: W. Detel - A. Becker - P. Scholz (ed.s), Ideal and Culture of Knowledge in Plato, Stuttgart 2003, 245- 260

55. "Imperfect regimes for imperfect human beings. Variations of infractions of justice", book chapter: in: Melanges de l'Universite Saint Joseph, vol. 57 (2005), 13-36

56. Erziehung durch den Staat. Beschränkung und Befreiung der Individualität in Aristoteles' bestem Staat (Limitation and liberation of individuality in Aristotle's best state), book chapter in: Ch. Rapp (ed.), Wissen und Bildung in der antiken Philosophie, Stuttgart-Weimar 2006, 239-254

57. Ernest Barker on the Composition and Structure of Aristotle’s Politics, book chapter in: Ernest Barker, The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle (1906). A Centenary Tribute (ed. J. Stapleton), Polis 23, 2006, pp. 288-301

IIb. REPRINTS OF PARTS OF BOOKS:

58. Xenophon Poroi, Vorschläge zur Beschaffung von Geldmitteln, etc. above title 3, in: R. Rillinger, Lust an der Geschichte. Leben im antiken Griechenland - Ein Lesebuch, Piper, München Zürich 1990, pp. 22; 281 f., 459 f.; 515

59. Aristoteles Politik Buch IV - VI, etc. above title 6, in: H.-J. Lendzian, Zeiten und Menschen, Paderborn 2006, 75-76

III. Reviews

60. R. Stupperich, Melanchthons Werke in Auswahl, Bd. III, hg. v. R. Nürnberger, Gütersloh 1961, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 21, 1969, 369-371.

61. J. Derbolav, Von den Bedingungen gerechter Herrschaft (1980) in: Gnomon 55, 1983, 106-109.

62. A.B. Neschke, Die Poetik des Aristoteles, 2 vols., Frankfurt 1980 in: Gnomon 59, 1987, 388-395 (Review-article).

63. A. Kamp, Die politische Philosophie des Aristoteles und ihre metaphysischen Grundlagen, München 1985, in: Gnomon 61, Heft 4, 1989, 293 - 296.

64. Jakob Wisse: Ethos and Pathos From Aristotle to Cicero. Amsterdam: Hakkert 1989. 370 p., in Gnomon 64, 1992, 579-583.

65. C. Lord - D. K.O'Connor (ed.), Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford 1991, in Classical Journal 89 (1993) 200-204.

66. W. J. Prior, Virtue and Knowledge: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics (London - New York 1991), in Classical Journal 89 (1993) 204.

67. Review of Markus H. Wörner, Das Ethische in der Rhetorik des Aristoteles, Freiburg-München 1990 Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993) 441-444.

68. Review of P. Aubenque / A. Tordesillas (ed.), Aristote Politique. Études sur la Politique d' Aristote, Paris 1993, Ancient Philosophy 16 (1996), 511 -514.

69. Review of: R. Bodéüs, The Political Dimensions of Aristotle's Ethics, translated by J.E. Garrett. Albany, 1993, Gnomon 69, 1997, 13-16.

70. Review of Aristotle Politics Books V and VI, translated with a commentary by David Keyt. Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford 1999, and Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, translated with a commentary by Richard Kraut. Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford 1997, in Classical Journal 96, 2001, 446 - 452.

71. Review of Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (editors): Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle, Albany 1999, in: Ancient Philosophy 21, 2001, 209 - 214.

72. Review of Bates C.A. Jr. 2002, Aristotle's Best Regime: Kingship, Democ- racy, and the Rule of Law, 2002 Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, in: "Ancient Philosophy" 25, 2005, 464-469

73. Review of U. Wolf, Aristoteles' Nikomachische Ethik, Darmstadt 2002, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11.4, 2006, 647-651

IV. PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS

74. Êthos in persuasion and in musical education in Plato and Aristotle, to appear in Festschrift W.W. Fortenbaugh, ed. D. Mirhady (Brill, Leiden) (proofs read)

75. The origin of the name of Rhome – a text wrongly attributed to Heraclides Ponticus, article accepted by Philologus

V. Abstracts

76. "Die Bedeutung des Wortes ethos in der Poetik des Aristoteles", Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 1971.

77. "Platonic influence on the program of Aristotle's late political theory in Politics IV - VI", Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association 1987, p. 3.

78. "Platonic elements in the structure of Cicero's De oratore Book I" Rhetorica 6, 1988, 208-209.

79. "Invented Speeches in Thucydides?", Abstracts, 125th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, 1993, 118.

80. "Philosophical concepts in the system of constitutions in Aristotle's Politics, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for Ancient Philosophy in Ierissos, 1994, p. 82 - 84.

81. "Magnanimity, Megalopsychia and the system of Aristotle's Ethics", Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 37 (1994) 356 - 357.

82. "The Concept of hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics", Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte 37 (1994) 357-358

83. "Aristotle on Slavery - a Platonic Dilemma", The Philosopher's Index (on CD 1995).

VI. PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

"Philosophical Theories of slavery" for: Handwörterbuch zur Antiken Sklaverei (under contract)
A. Rosler, Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle, Oxford Aristotle Studies 2005: review, commissioned by Gnomon
J. Frank, A democracy Of Distinction, University of Chicago Press, 2005: review, commissioned by Ancient Philosophy
Not "quite as much" (ou mallon e), non tam quam, and other idioms of polite rejection"
"The suffering of the beautiful Panthea", Reader from Xenophon's Kyrou Paideia, with introduction and grammatical notes (contract under negotiation with Routledge, London)
Thucydides' Melian dialogue - the burden of paradigms
Invented Speeches in Thucydides?

VII. AWARDS

January/February 2006 Visiting Professor at Graduate College of University of Trier (Germany)

2005 Research Price from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for foreign scholars in the Humanities – funding research for 7 months in 2007 and 6 months in 2008 in Berlin

2002 BFA Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 University of Colorado, Faculty Fellowship

Spring 1999 membership: The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton

1989 Kayden Faculty Manuscript Award, University of Colorado at Boulder

1988/1989 Honor Lecturer Mid-America State Universities Association, Graduate Program

1988 Recipient of the Writing Award of the Graduate Schools Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Faculty Article Award, University of Colorado at Boulder

VIII. GRANTS and CONTRACTS

1999 Fellowship Grant: The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Spring)
1998 Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Research Grant (in partial support for stay at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: Spring 1999)
1993 Matching grant by Thyssen foundation for Research Semester
1993 Summer Travel Grant CRCW University of Colorado at Boulder
1989; 1990; 1992 Summer Travel Grant GCAH University of Colorado at Boulder
1981-83 (two years) Research scholarship ("Akademiestipendium für besonders qualifizierte Hochschullehrer", scholarship for distinguished faculty, Volkswagenwerk Foundation), for a commentary on Aristotle's Politics (see list of publications, Books no. 4 and 5)
1979 August/September Grant British Council Scholars Exchange Program with Great Britain
1973-75 (two and a half years) Research scholarship (Deutsche Forschungs­ge­meinschaft) for preparation of 'Habilitation', including a 6 months stay to do research at the University of Toronto, Canada
1964-66 (two years) Graduate Student Fellowship Volkswagenwerk Foundation

IX. MEMBERSHIP

American Philological Association; Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy; Asso- ciation of Ancient Historians; Society for Greek Political Thought; Mommsen Gesellschaft

X. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis J. Thorburn on "Plutarch's De audiendis Poetis", Fall 1992 (Prof. Thorburn is tenured at Baylor U)
Supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis Scott Farrington on: Polybios and the philosophical tradition, 2005-
Supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis Ben Gracey on: Athenaeus and Platonism in the second cent. AD, 2005-
Organizer international conference on Dicaearchus of Messene and Demetrius of Phaleron September 7 - 10, 1995 Boulder

XI. PAPERS READ (selection)

"Unterschiedliche Gesellschaftsmodelle in der Politik des Aristoteles" - Aristoteles Kolloquium Bochum Oct 11 1979
"Beurteilung der Musse in der aristotelischen Politik" - Aristoteles Kolloquium Bad Homburg Oct 2 1980
"Materia virtutis in der Stoischen Ethik" - Universität Munich June 3, 1981
"Megalopsychia in Aristotle's Ethics" - Biennial Meeting of CASA, Pietermaritzburg Jan 26 1985
"Hamartia in der aristotelischen Tragödientheorie" - Tagung der Mommsen Gesellschaft - Heidelberg May 31 1985
"The Constitution of Carthage in Greek political Thought", 22nd Conference on Afro-Hellenic Studies, Johannesburg Sept 10 1986
"Platonischer Einfluss auf das Programm einer politischen Wissenschaft in der späten Politik" - Aristoteles Kolloquium Berlin September 26 1986
"Platonic Fiction in Plutarch Agis ch 5" - University of Michigan January 12 1987
"Platonic elements in the structure of Cicero De oratore I" - Rutgers Symposion on Cicero, South Berwick, October 4 1987
"Private Morality. A Hellenistic Innovation?" Hulley Lecture, UC Boulder November 1987
"Platonic Influence on the Program of Aristotle's Late Political Philosophy" - Annual meeting of the Am. Philol. Assoc., New York December 28 1987
"Aristotle's ideal views on slavery", CAMWS meeting New Orleans April 1988
"The Legal aspects in Simonides 542 PMG", Annual Meeting RMMLA, Las Cruces, New Mexico Oct. 20, 1988
"The Double Standards of Stoic Ethics", Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder, Nov. 7, 1988
"Lucretius De Rerum Natura III (830-1094): A Diatribe?" CAMWS meeting Lexington, Kent. March 30, 1989
"Platon   ̒macht' Geschichte. Platonisches in Plutarchs Biographie der Könige Agis und Kleomenes", Seminar fur Griechische und Römische Geschichte, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, June 26, 1989
"Aristotle Politics II 12 - a Theophrastean chapter?", Colloquium on the political philosophy of Theophrastus at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 20, 1990
"Some observations on the introductory chapters of Aristotle's Rhetoric", XIII International Symposium Aristotelicum, Princeton, August 4, 1990
"materia virtutis" in Stoic Ethics, Meeting of the American Philological Asso- ciation, San Francisco, December 29, 1990
Alleged inconsistencies in Aristotle on Sparta: Symposion of the London Clas- sical Society on "the Shadow of Sparta", Cardiff March 23, 1991
"Lucretius De Rerum Natura III (830-1094): A Diatribe?" Conference on Private Poetry and Public Responsibility in Augustan Rome, Boulder May 3, 1991
"pathos after Aristotle", Rutgers International Colloquium on Rhetoric, Rutgers University, September 12, 1991
"Thucydides' Melian dialogue - the burden of paradigms", University of Vir- ginia, November 1991
"Did Aristotle write a work “Politica” in at least 8 books?" Center of Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, Jan. 21, 1992
"Aristotle's sociology of the Greek polis", Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin, Febr. 24, 1992
"Thucydides' Melian dialogue - the burden of paradigms", University of Pitts­burgh, March 20, 1992
"The definition of justice in Plato's Republic", 88th Annual meeting of the Class. Assoc. of the Middle West and South, Austin, Texas, April 2, 1992
"Models of Political Reform in the fourth Century", Symposion on "Democracy in Fourth-Century Athens: Zenith or Nadir of a constitution?", Rockefeller Con- ference Center, Bellagio, Italy, August 5, 1992
"Thukydides' Melier Dialog - das Beispiel analoger Situationen"; University of Jena, November 5, 1993
"Invented Speeches in Thucydides?", 125th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, December 29, 1993
"Philosophical concepts in the system of constitutions in Aristotle's Politics", Sixth Conference of the International Society for Ancient Philosophy in Ierissos, August 21, 1994
"Gerechtigkeit in den Eingangsbüchern von Plato's Staat", Platontage der Universität Tübingen, June 8, 1996
"Konventionelle Vorstellungen über Gerechtigkeit in Plato's Republik I", Semi- nar fur Klassische Philologie, Universität Halle, June 19, 1996
"Thrasymachos in Plato Rep. I", 93rd Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Boulder April 3, 1997
"Dikaiarchs Bios Hellados", University of Marburg, July 8, 1997
"Aristotle's Best State", The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Jan. 18, 1999
"Dikaiarchos’ Bios Hellados. An ancient paradise of vegetarians?" University of Pittsburgh, Jan. 30, 1999
"Verfassungen und politische Institutionen (Aristoteles Politik IV 1-16)". Symposion des Philosophischen Seminars zu Aristoteles Politik, Universität Tübingen, February 4, 2000
"Aristotle's theory of slavery and its Platonic foundations", Internat. Conference on Plato's Epistemology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Sept. 3 2000
"E. Voegelin's Aristotelesdeutung in Order and History", Geschwister Scholl Institut für politische Wissenschaften, Munich Dec. 15, 2000
"The Principles of Aristotle's Politics", University of Vancouver, Jan. 17, 2002
"Ethos in musical education and in Persuasion in Plato and Aristotle", Con- ference on "Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric", Rutgers University Sept. 27, 2002
"The communitarian approach in Aristotle's Politics", Department of Political Sciences, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Oct. 4, 2002
"G. Vlastos on slavery in Plato's Republic", Center for the Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, Jan. 29, 2003
"The imperfect regimes in Greek political thought", Conference on: The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought, Institute for Advanced study, Princeton NJ, June 16th 2003
"Pseudo-Aristotle in the Governance of Cities", Conference on The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought, Institute for Advanced study, Princeton NJ, June 17th 2003
"Heraclides Ponticus On Pleasure", International Conference on Heraclides of Pontus, University of Leeds, June 26, 2003
"Teen-sex, abortion and adultery in Aristotle's best state", University of Marburg, July 3, 2003
"Erziehung durch den Staat - Beschränkung und Befreiung der Individualität in Aristoteles' bestem Staat", Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie, 6. Oct. 2004, invited speaker Humboldt Universität Berlin
"Aristoteles über die Sklaverei und Platon", University of Bremen, June 14, 2005
"Das Ringen um Gerechtigkeit im Klassischen Griechenland", Ahrenshoop, June 18, 2005
"Aristoteles’ Sklave von Natur: ein platonisches Dilemma", University of Trier, June 24, 2005
"Translating Aristotle's Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Europe", invited panelist at International Conference on: Translation. The History of Political Thought, CUNY Sept. 30, 2005
“Aristoteles Sklave von Natur: ein platonisches Dilemma“, University of Freiburg (Dept. of Anc. Hist.), Febr. 6, 2006
“Aristoteles Politik: Werk und Wirkung”, University of Trier (Dept. of Polit. Science), February 11, 2006
“Der Skandal antiker Sklaverei in der klassischen Philosophie”, Ahrenshoop, June 23, 2006
 “Why Plato could not write an Art of rhetoric”, CU Boulder, Dept of Compa­rative Literature and Humanities, Nov. 9, 2006
“A new edition of the fragments of Heraclides Ponticus”, CU Boulder, Dept. of Classics, Dec. 7, 2006
“Die frühesten Übersetzungen der Aristotelischen Politik“, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Febr.7,  2007

Service

Service Department of Classics
1987 Fall to Summer 1994: Chairman of the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Graduate Director, Department of Classics, AY 1994 - 1995, Spring 1996
Member Executive Committee 1994-1997; 1999-2000; 2002-3
Chair promotion committee to Full Professor, Fall 1995
Member promotion committee to Associate Professor 1998; 2003; 2005; 2006
Chair reappointment committee 2001/2
Member reappointment committee 1998; 1999; 2003
Member search committee Assist. Prof. Fall 1997; 1998; 2002; 2005
Chair PURC reappointment of instructor, spring 2006

Service within A&S
Member Internal Review Committee for Department of EALC 2001
Member of Dean's Personnel committee 1999/2001
Member A&S council 1999/2001
Co-Chair College Futures Committee Spring 1995
Member Internal Review Committee for Department of French and Italian 1989/90
Committee for Language Laboratory 1989/90
Steering Committee for Comparative Literature, 1988 - 1993
Core curriculum committee, Chair foreign language committee 1987-88

Service Boulder Campus
BFA Library Committee 2003-2006 (Spring)
BFA Excellence in Research Award ad hoc committee, member 2005
BFA Excellence in Research Award ad hoc committee, chair 2004
BFA Professional Responsibilities Committee 1993 -1998 (chair Spring 1994, co- chair Fall 1997-Spring 1998); co-authored the document on Professional Responsibilities now in place
BFA Assembly 1995 to 1998
Graduate Committee for the Arts and Humanities, 1988 - 90

Service to Profession

Member Advisory Board Rutgers Studies in Classical Philology 1991 - present
Reviewer of Polis Center (Copenhagen) for Danish Research Foundation, 2002
Outside reviewer for tenure decision Dr. D. Mirhady, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (Can) 2003
Referee of a scholarly book manuscript for Princeton University Press, 1989
Referee of a research proposal for "Thyssen foundation", 1989
Referee for NEH of funding of publication of the edition of Theophrastus's Fragments
Chair of session on Socrates, APA meeting Chicago, Dec. 1997
Referee of scholarly manuscripts for American Journal for Ancient History; Ancient Philosophy; Classical Journal; Classical Philology; Philologus; Phoenix; Boston Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy, TAPA

Service to the Community

Secretary Boulder Youth Symphony 1993-1995

January 2007