Curriculum Vitae 
Voula Tsouna
 
Department of Philosophy, University of California				
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3090
vtsouna@philosophy.ucsb.edu

Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Nationality: Greek (EU) & USA
Languages: Ancient Greek, Latin, French (fluent), English (fluent), Modern Greek (fluent), Italian (competent), German (reading)

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Ancient Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Siècle des Lumières (French Enlightment), Early Modern Philosophy, topics in Epistemology, Moral Psychology, and Ethics.

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

UCSB Distinguished Professor, University of California (Santa Barbara) 

EDUCATION

1988		PhD (Thèse de doctorat), Ancient Philosophy, University of Paris X. 
	 	Supervisors: Jacques Brunschwig and Myles Burnyeat.
1984-86 	Doctoral Research, fully enrolled graduate student at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Myles Burnyeat.
1983-84	Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA, equivalent to the MA), Ancient Philosophy, University of Paris X. Supervisor: Jacques Brunschwig.
1979-83	Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Classics (Πτυχεῖον: 4 year degree) 
		summa cum laude), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 

2022 - 	University of California (Santa Barbara), Distinguished Professor
2006–2022	University of California (Santa Barbara), Full Professor 
2000–2006	University of California (Santa Barbara), Associate Professor 
1997–2000	University of California (Santa Barbara), Assistant Professor
1997 (Winter)	University of California (Santa Barbara), Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy 
2010 (Spring)	University of Crete, Holder of the Michelis Chair in Aesthetics at the Department of 
	Philosophy and Social Studies
1994–1996	Pomona College, Visiting Assistant Professor
1992–1993	University of Glasgow, Scotland, Research Fellow
1991–1992	California State University at San Bernardino, Lecturer in the Department of 
	Philosophy
1991 (Spring)	Claremont Graduate School, Instructor in the Department of Philosophy 
1988–1989	Research Fellow, Centro per lo studio dei papiri Ercolanesi

AWARDS AND HONORS

2025	Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy awarded by the National and Kapodistrian 
	University of Athens
2022 – present 	UC Distinguished Professorship.
2020 – present	President of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP). 
2021 – present 	Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt
2019 	Symposium organised in honour of the publication of the Greek translation of my 
	book The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge University Press, 1998). 
2016	Centenary Fellow of the Scottish Philosophical Association.
2016	Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Christ’s College, Cambridge.
2015	Beaufort Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge.
2013		Symposium organised at the University of Athens in honour of the publication of my 
		book Knowledge, Virtue, Happiness. Collected Essays on the Socratics and the 
		Hellenistic Philosophers.
2013	Honorary fellow of the Interdisciplinary Center of the Aristotelian Studies, Aristotle 
	University of Thessaloniki.
2011	Prix Desrousseaux des études grecques for contributions to the volume Les 
	Épicuriens, Éditions de la Pléïade, Paris. 
2010	 	Michelis Professor of Aesthetics, University of Crete (Greece)
2010	Senior Fellow of the Onassis Foundation
1995	Theodor Mommsen Award for the book Philodemus: On Choices and Avoidances, 
	Naples: Bibliopolis 1995.
1994	Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
1988–89	Junior Fellow at the Centro per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, Naples. 
1979–83	National Merit Scholarship of the Greek State (I.K.Y.)

DISTINGUISHED APPOINTMENTS (e.g., Editorships, Officer of Professional Organisation)

2025 – present	Member of ΕΣΕΤΕΚ (ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ, ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ 
	ΚΑΙΝΟΤΟΜΙΑΣ = National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation), Greece
2022 – present 	UC Distinguished Professorship
2020 – present	President of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) [also stated above]
2021 – present 	Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt 
2020 – present 	Member of the Organising Committee of the Symposium Hellenisticum [also stated above]
2019 – present 		Co-editor (together with Alex Long, University of St Andrews and editor of 
		Phronesis) of the Cambridge University Press book series Key Themes in Ancient 
		Philosophy.
2019 – 2022 	Member of the research project Epicurean Science and Meteorology (SPIDER), 
 	directed by Francesca Masi (University of Venice), Francesco Verde (University of 
	Rome), Stefano Maso (University of Venice) and Pierre-Marie Morel (University of 
	Paris I-Sorbonne) and supported by the European Research Council.
2017 – present		Member of the editorial board for Plato Journal (the journal of the International Plato 
 		Society)
2017 – present 		Member of the scientific committee for Syzetesis (editor: Francesco Verde, 
 		University of Rome)
2016 – 2022	Member of the Board of Directors, European Cultural Center at Delphi. 
2016 – present		Member of the advisory board for Philosophie Antique
2015 – present		Regular referee for the Institute of Advanced Studies (Princeton, NJ). 
2014 – present	 	Member of the advisory board for Cronache Ercolanesi
2016	Centenary Fellow of the Scottish Philosophical Association. [also stated above]
2016	Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Christ’s College, Cambridge. [also stated above]
2015	Beaufort Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge. [also stated above]

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Philodemus: On Choices and Avoidances, Co-authored with G. Indelli (Naples: Bibliopolis Press, 
 1995).

2. The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
 Translated into Greek, with a new preface and additional bibliography (Athens: PEK, 2018).

3. The Ethics of Philodemus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

4. Philodemus: On Property Management (Society of Biblical Literature, 2012).

5. Knowledge, Virtue, Happiness. Collected Essays on the Socratics and the Hellenistic 
 Philosophers (Athens: Ekkremes Editions, 2012).

6. Plato’s Charmides. An Interpretative Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). 
 
7.  The Normativity of Nature, in the series Elements edited by J. Warren,  Cambridge:  
	Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Co-edited volumes

7. Gabor Betegh and Voula Tsouna (eds.) Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy, 
	Cambridge University Press (2024).

8. Alexander Nehamas, Voula Tsouna, Riccardo Chiaradonna, and Richard McKirahan (eds.) New Essays on the Platonic Tradition, Brill / De Gruyter (in press).

Articles

1.	‘New Readings in P. Herc. 1251’, co-authored with G. Indelli. Cronache Ercolanesi (1990), 20: 27–38.
2.	‘The Cyrenaic Theory of Knowledge’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1992), 10: 161–192. 
3.	‘Cynicism’, Ready Reference: Ethics, ed. J.K. Roth, Salem Press Inc. (1993).
4.	‘The Socratic Origins of the Cynics and Cyrenaics’, The Socratic Movement, ed. P.A. Vander Waerdt, Cornell University Press (1994): 367–391.
5.	‘Conservatism and Pyrrhonian Skepticism’, Syllecta Classica 6: Hellenistic Thought (1995): 69–86.
6.	‘Epicurean attitudes to management and finance’, L’epicureismo greco e romano (1996): 701–714. 
7.	‘La philosophie politique des sceptiques anciens’, Dictionnaire de la Philosophie politique, eds. P. Raynaud and S. Rials, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (1996).
8.	‘Aristippus’, ‘The Cyrenaics’, ‘The Socratic Schools’, in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig, London: Routledge (1997).
9.	‘Aristippus’, ‘Cyrenaics Philosophy’, ‘Phaedrus’, ‘Phaedo’, ‘Socratic Circle’, The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, ed. D. J. Zeyl, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (1997).
10.	‘Doubts about Other Minds and the Science of Physiognomy’, Classical Quarterly (1998), 2: 1–12. 
11.	‘Socrates’ Attack on Intellectualism in the Charmides’, Apeiron, (1998), 30.4: 63–78.
12.	‘Remarks About Other Minds in Greek Philosophy’, Phronesis (1998), 18.3: 1–19.
13.	‘Interprétations socratiques de la connaissance de soi’, Philosophie Antique (2000), 1: 37–64. 
14.	‘The Minor Socratic Schools’, Greek Philosophy from Antiquity to the 20th Century, eds. K. Ierodiakonou and S. Virvidakis, Greek Open University Textbooks (2000): 101–120.
15.	‘Cicéron et Philodème: quelques considérations sur l’éthique’, Cicéron et Philodème, eds. C. Assayas and D. Delattre, Éditions Rue d’Ulm (2001): 159–172.
16.	‘Philodemus on the Therapy of Vice’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2001), 21: 233–258.
17.	‘Is There an Exception to Greek Eudaemonism?’, Le style de la pensée, eds. P. Pellegrin and M. Canto, Paris: Les Belles Lettres (2002): 464–489.
18.	‘“Portare davanti agli occhi”: Una tecnica retorica nelle opere ‘morali’ di Filodemo’, Cronache Ercolanesi (2003), 33: 243–247.
19.	‘Interpretations of Socratic Self-Knowledge’, Socrates: 2400 Years Since His Death, ed. V. Karasmanis, European Cultural Centre of Delphi (2004): 319–330.
20.	‘Aristo on Blends of Arrogance’, Aristo of Ceos: Text, Translation, and Discussion (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, Volume XIII), eds. W. Fortenbaugh and S. White, Transaction Publishers (2005): 279–292.
21.	‘Rationality and the Fear of Death in Epicurean Philosophy’, Rhizai: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science (2006), 3.1: 59–97.
22.	‘The Epicureans on Death and Dying’, Cogito (2006): 23–35.
23.	‘Philodemus and the Epicurean tradition’, Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers: Hellenistic Philosophy in the period 155–86 BC, eds. A.M. Ioppolo and D. Sedley, Bibliopolis Press, (2007): 341–400.
24.	‘Philodemus on Emotions’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (Special Issue: Greek and Roman Philosophy 100BC to 200AD), eds. R. Sorabji and R. W. Sharples (2007),	50: 213–241.
25.	‘Le traité La colère de Philodème’, Philosophie Antique (2008), 8: 215–258.
26.	‘The Metaphysics and the Knowledge of the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus’ (in Greek), Neusis (2008), 17: 46–63.
27.	‘The Epicureans on Anger and the Desire for Revenge’, Logos and Language: Essays in Honour of Julius Moravcsik, eds. D. Follesdal and J. Woods, College Publications (2010): 163–180.
28.	‘Socrates’ Last Will and Testament: A New Reading of Plato’s Crito’ (in Greek), Deaths of Philosophers in Classical Antiquity, eds. G. Zographidis, P. Kotzia, and Ch. Balla, Ypomnema 9 (2010): 85–104.
29.	‘Epicurean Therapeutic Strategies’, The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, ed. James Warren, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010): 249–265.
30.	‘Philodemus, Seneca, and Plutarch on Anger’, Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition, eds. J. Fish and K. Sanders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010): 183–210.
31.	‘Philodème, L’administration de la propriété’, co-authored with D. Delattre, Les Épicuriens, Éditions de la Pléïade (2010): 631–633.
32.	‘Philodème, L’arrogance’, co-authored with D. Delattre, Les Épicuriens, Éditions de la Pléïade (201): 594–616.
33.	Philodème, La Mort,” co-authored with D. Delattre, Les Épicuriens, Éditions de la Pléïade (2010): 1276–1278.
34.	‘Is there an answer to Socrates’ puzzle? Individuality, Universality, and the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus’, Philosophie Antique (2012), 12: 199–235.
35.	‘Mimêsis and the Platonic Dialogue’, Rhizomata (2013), 1.1: 1–30. An earlier version was published in Greek in the peer-reviewed journal Deukalion 28/2 (2012). 
36.	‘Plato’s Representation of the “Socratics”’, From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools, edited by U. Zilioli, London: Routledge, (2014): 1-25. Published also in Greek in Philosophia 44 (2014): 137-169
37.	‘Plato’s Charmides’. Encyclopedia Entry (in Greek), Philosophical Lexicon, ed.V. Kalfas (2014). 
38.	‘Plato’s “Socratics”’, Nuit de Philosophie. Le logos, Institut Francais d’Athènes (2014).
39.	‘Epicurean Preconceptions’, Phronêsis, (2016), 61: 160–221.
40.	‘Cyrenaics and Epicureans on Pleasure and the Good Life: the Original Debate and its Later Revivals’, Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy, eds. S. Weisser and N. Thaler, Brill, Leiden/Boston (2016): 113–149.
41.	‘Die stoische Lebenskunst und ihre platonischen Vorläufer,’ Philosophie als Lebenkunst. Antike Vorbilder, moderne Perspektiven, eds. by G. Ernst, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin (2016): 161–206.
42.	‘What is the Subject of Plato’s Charmides?’, For A Skeptical Peripatetic: Studies in Greek Philosophy in Honour of John Glucker, eds. Y.Z. Liebersohn, L. Ludlam, and A. Edelheit, Sankt Augustin (2017): 33–62.
43.	‘Diogenes of Oinoanda and the Cyrenaics’, Diogenes of Oinoanda. Epicureanism and Philosophical debates / Diogène de Oenoanda. Epicurisme et controverses, eds. by J. Hammersteadt, P.-M.Morel, and R. Güremen, Leuven: Leuven University Press (2017): 143–164.
44.	‘Le scepticisme pyrrhonien et le concept de raison’, Les raisons de doute. Études sur le scepticisme antique, eds. D. Machuca and S. Marchand, Classiques Garnier, Paris (2017): 91-125.
45.	‘Pyrrhonian Logoi (in Greek), Topoi: a Gift for Pantelis Basakos, eds. by V. Kindi, C. Balla, and G. Faraklas, Athens: Editions Polis (2017): 311-336.
46.	“Epicureanism and Hedonism,” The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, edited by S. Gotlob et al., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2017): 57-74.
47.	‘Epicurean Dreams’, Elenchos 39/2 (2018): 231-256.
48.	‘La conception aristotélicienne de la sôphrosynê dans l’Éthique à Nicomaque et son arrière-fond platonicien’, Revue de philosophie ancienne 36/2 (2018): 33-63.	
49.	‘The Stoics and the Epicureans on Art and the Arts’, Philosophia 2019 (in modern Greek). 
50.	‘Lucrèce sur les origines et le développement des arts et des métiers’, AITIA 10/ 2020. Special Issue edited by D. El-Murr: Le De rerum natura de Lucrèce: perspectives philosophiques (2020): 1-44. 
51.	‘Les rêves des épicuriens’, Rêve et imagination: approches antiques, edited by Christelle Veillard et Charlotte Murgier, Cahiers philosophiques (2020): 81-98. 
52.	‘Le dialogue de Cicéron et Philodème dans les Tusculanes et le Περὶ θανάτου (La Mort)’, co-author Daniel Delattre. Cronache Ercolanesi 50 (2020): 101-118.
53.	‘Philodemus’ History of the Philosophers: Plato and the Academy (PHerc. 1021 and 164). Text and Translation’ (co-author: P. Kalligas) and Notes (author: M.Hatzimichali), in P. Kalligas et al. (eds.), Plato’s Academy. Its Workings and Its History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2020): 276-383. 
54.	‘Epicurean Hedonism’, in P. Mitsis (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020): 141-188. 
55.	‘Aristippus of Cyrene’, Early Greek Ethics, ed. D. Wolfsdorf, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020): 380-411.
56.	‘The Stoics on Technê and the Technai’, in T. Johansen (ed.) Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge: University Press (2020): 166-190. 
57.	‘The Epicureans on Technê and the Technai’, in T. Johansen (ed.) Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2020): 191-225.
58.	‘The method of multiple explanations in Epicureanism', in F. Masi, P.-M. Morel, and F. Verde (eds.) Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Antiquity and Late Reception – Vol I: Language, Medicine, Meteorology, Leuven: Leuven University Press (2023):  221-256
59.	‘The Epicurean notion of epibolê’, Rhizomata 9/2 (2021): 179-201. Special volume on Ancient Philosophy of Mind, edited by Maté Veres.
60.	Introduction, co-authored with G. Betegh, in G. Betegh, V. Tsouna (eds.) Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2024): 1-15. 
61.	‘The Epicureans on Preconceptions and Other Concepts’, co-authored with G. Betegh, in G. Betegh , V. Tsouna (eds.) Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2024): 203-236.
62.	‘The account of democracy by Plato’s Socrates in Republic 8 (555b3-562a3). Historical references and political criticism’ [in Greek; English version available], in V. Kindi (ed.) Τρόποι του φιλοσοφείν Τιμητικός τόμος για τον Στέλιο Βιρβιδάκη, preface by F. Peonidis, Athens: ΕΚΚΡΕΜΕΣ: 2024.
63.	‘The ambiguity of the Borysthenitic Discourse (Discourse 36) by Dio of Prusa’ [in Greek], in P. Kalligas (ed.), Dio of Prusa. The Borysthenitic Discourse, Athens: ΣΤΙΓΜΗ Editions, 2025.
64.	‘An Introduction to Plato's Republic VIII-IX. The structure, characters, themes, and dialectical function of Plato's account of civic and human decline’, Entretiens 71 (August 2025), Geneva:  Fondation Hardt (forthcoming 2026).
65.	‘Aristippus of Cyrene and the Cyrenaics’, in . Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelmen (eds.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (in press).
66.	‘Aristotle in Dialogue with Plato. Revisiting the puzzle in Aristotle's De anima III.2 (425b12-25)’, in A. Nehamas, V. Tsouna, R. Chiaradonna, R. McKirahan (eds.) New Essays on the Platonic Tradition, Brill / De Gryter (in press).
67.	‘Can the philosopher govern the state? Or: who must solve the Two Worlds problem?’, in G. Zographides, Ch. Balla, and S. Stavrianeas (eds.), Παραδείγματος Χάριν: Honorary volume for Vassilis Kalfas, Athens: Estia (in press).
68.	‘The Cynics on Pleasure’, in Destrée P and Kachuck A (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Cynicism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).
69.	‘Hellenistic Concepts’, co-authored with G. Betegh, in Taieb H and Schmidt S (eds.) A Philosophical History of the Concept, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).
70.	‘Socratic Friendships’, in Anderson R L, Huddleston A, Moss J (eds.) Essays on the Philosophy of Friendship, London: Routledge (in press).
71.	‘Variations of Greek Subjectivism. The case of perception,’ co-authored with G. Betegh, in M. Duncombe and T. Nawar (eds), Truth and Relativism in Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).
Reviews
72.	‘The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action by A. Erskine’, Philosophy in Review (1990), 11.4: 241–243.
73.	‘Plato’s Sophist by W.S. Cobb,’ Canadian Philosophical Review, (1993). 83-85.
74.	‘Philosophy and the Philosophical Life: A Study in Plato’s Phaedo by I. Dilman’, Ancient Philosophy (1996), 15.2: 626–631.
75.	‘Paradosis and Survival: Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy by Diskin Clay’, Classical Philology (2002), 97.2: 187–192.
76.	‘The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy by John Dillon’, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2004), 3.
77.	‘Epicurus and Democritean Ethics by James Warren’, Classical Philology (2005): 99: 174–182. 
78.	‘Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics by J. Warren’, Rhizai: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science (2007): 4.1: 105–113.
79.	‘A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus by D. Konstan’, American Journal of Philology (2010), 131.2: 327–331.
80.	‘Aristone, Sul modo di liberare dalla superbia Nel decimo libro De Vitiis di Filodemo by G. Rannochia’, Classical Review (2010), 60:2: 387–389.
81.	‘Aristone, Sul modo di liberare dalla superbia Nel decimo libro De Vitiis di Filodemo by G. Rannochia’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2010), 92.1: 103–110.
82.	‘Philodemus: On Death: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes by W. Benjamin Henry’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (2013), 50: 301–308.
83.	‘The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism by C. Perin’, Mind (2015), 124: 668–675.
84.	‘Lucretius De rerum natura, modern Greek translation with an introductory monograph and notes, by Th. Papaggelis’, Deukalion. 
85.	‘Classics and Classicists. Selected Essays 1964-2000 by John Glucker, edited by A. Edelheit, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)’, Scripta Classica Israelica 41 (2022): 1-3.
86.	‘Five Platonic dialogues. A New Translation’, Athens Review of Books, February 2025 (in modern Greek)

WORK IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW

Books

1. Imperfect Cities, Imperfect Lives. Tragic reversal in Plato’s Republic VIII-IX. 
 Under contract to be published by Cambridge University Press.

2.  The Limits of Reason.  Conceptions of Rationality and the Non-Rational in Greek Philosophy.  
     Collective volume, co-edited with Gabor Betegh.	
	
Articles

1.‘Psychological Causation and the Decline of Polities and Characters in Plato’s Republic VIII-IX (543a1-580c9).

2. ‘Elegant’ thinkers in Plato’.

SELECTED CONFERENCE TALKS AND INVITED TALKS

1999		Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris): Interpretations of Socratic 
		Self- Knowledge (May)
2000 	University of Texas, Austin [Conference on Peripatetics]: Aristo on Blends of 
	Arrogance
2000	International conference on Socrates (Athens-Delphi): Interpretations of Socratic Self- 
	Knowledge (July)
2001	University of California, Irvine: Plato’s enquiries into the nature of self-knowledge
2001–02	University of Naples [Conference on the History of Epicureanism]: Philosophy and 
	Rhetoric in Philodemus’ Ethical Treatises (October)
2001–02	University of British Columbia: Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Republic and Phaedrus
2002–03	University of Texas, Austin: Philodemus, On Arrogance (April)
2002–03	University of Texas, Austin: Philodemus, On Property Management (April) 
2003–04	University of London, Institute of Classical Studies: Therapeutic Tactics (July)
2003–04	University of Rome [Symposium Hellenisticum]: Philodemus and the Epicurean 
	Tradition 
2004–05	University of Oxford [Workshop on Epicurean Philosophy of Religion] (July)
2005–06	University of Cambridge: Facing Death (March)
2005–06	University of Budapest: The Epicureans on Death and Dying (May) 2005–06	University of Lille III: La colère (May)
2005–06	University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie: Les Épicuriens sur la peur 
	de la mort (May)
2005–06	Stanford University: “Anger and Revenge” (December)
2006–07	University of Cambridge: Epicurean Therapeutics (May)
2007–08	University of Cambridge: The Hellenistic notion of prolêpsis (May)
2008–09	University of Utrecht: Preconceptions and Innatism in Hellenistic authors (October)
2008–09	University of Athens, Greece: Socrates’ Last Will and Testament (December) 
2008–09	University of California, Berkeley (Classics Department): Epicurean Preconceptions 
2010–11	Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow): “Mimêsis and the Platonic 
2010–11	Greek Philosophical Society (Athens): “Poetic Mimêsis and Platonic Mimêsis” (May) 
2010–11	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece): “The Poets in the Republic” (May)
2010–11	University of Crete (Greece): “The Poets in the Republic” (May)
2010–11	University of Cambridge, B Club, Faculty of Classics “Mimêsis and the Platonic 
	dialogue” (May)
2011–12	Claremont McKenna College: “Universality, Individuality, and the Self in Plato’s 
	Phaedrus” (February)
2011–12	University of Paris I – Sobronne: “Universality, Individuality, and the Self in Plato’s
	Phaedrus” (March)
2011–12	University of Stockholm: “Is there an answer to Socrates’ Puzzle in Plato’s Phaedrus?” 
	(April)
2012–13	Interdisciplinary Center for Aristotelian Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): 
		“Plato and Aristotle on Reflexivity in Perception” (April)
2012–13	University of Paris IV - Centre Leon Robin: “Les preconceptions epicuriennes” (June)
2012–13	23rd Philosophy World Congress (Athens, Greece): “The concept of epibole in 
	Epicurean philosophy” (August)
2012–13	Conference on the Socratics, Soprabolzano (Italy): “Plato’s Representation of the
	Socratics” (September)
2013–14	University of Patras, Philosophy Department: “The prologue of the Charmides” (May)
2013–14	University of Patras, Philosophy Department: “The Relatives Argument in Plato's 
	Charmides: Questions on the grammar and the semantics of Relative Terms” (May)
2013–14	University of Patras, Philosophy Department: “The Argument concerning benefit and
	the end of Plato's Charmides” (May)
2013–14	University of Athens, School of Classical Philology: “Plato’s Representation of the
2013–14	French Institute, Nuit de Philosophie: “Plato’s Representation of the Socratics” (May) 
2013–14	University of Lisbon: “Rationality and Pyrrhonian Scepticism” (June)
2013–14	International Conference in Istanbul on Diogenes of Oenoanda: “Diogenes and the 
		Cyrenaics” (September)
2013–14	University of Prague, “Aristotle, De anima III.2” (September)
2013–14	University of California, Davis: “Plato’s ‘Socratics’” 
2014–15	University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy: ‘Pyrrhonian Scepticism
2014–15	University of Durham: ‘Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Concept of Reason (May 2015). 
2014–15	University of Edinburgh: ‘A Case of Ancient Philosophical Polemics:
	Cyrenaics and Epicureans on the nature of Pleasure’ (June 2015).
2014–15	University of Paris IV - Sorbonne: ‘Philodemus on Moral Causation’, June 2015.
2015–16	University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne: ‘Aristotle’s analysis of temperance and its 
	Plato background’, January 2016.
2015–16	University of Athens, School of Medicine (Psychiatry): ‘The Greek Philosophers on 
	Psychic Disease’.
2015–16	Centenary Lectures on Plato’s Charmides: five lectures that I delivered in the capacity 
	of the Centenary Fellow of the Scottish Philosophical Association for 2016 in five 
	successive days at the University of Edinburgh, in May 2016.
2016	University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy: ‘Sceptical Inferences’ (June 2016. 
2017	University of Patras, Philosophy Department: 'Pyrrhonian Inferences'. 
2017	University of Milan: ‘The Argument from Benefit in Plato’s Charmides’ 
2017	University of Leiden: ‘The Techne Analogy in Plato’s Charmides.’ 
2018 	University of California, Berkeley: ‘Is Virtue a Form of Expertise? The case of Plato’s 
	Charmides’. 
2019 	University of California, San Diego: ‘Stoics and Epicureans on Art and the Arts’.
2019 	University of California, San Diego: ‘Virtue and Techne in Plato’s Charmides.’
2019	Academy of Athens: ‘Lucretius on the evolution of human civilisation’
2019	École Normale Supérieure (Paris): ‘Lucrèce: les origines et le développement des arts’
2020	Conference on Epicurean science and meteorology, SPIDER project: ‘The method of 
	multiple explanations in Epicureanism
2020 	Institute of Classical Studies, London: ‘The method of multiple explanations in 
	Epicureanism’.
2021 	University of Utrecht (virtual presentation): ’Republic II. Glaucon’s challenge’ 
		(January 2021).
2021 	University of UItrecht (virtual presentation): ‘Republic II. Adeimantus’ speech’ 
	(February 2021).
2021 	The Twin Seminar (session 1), National Academy (Academy of Athens): ‘The 
	Epicurean notion of epibolê’ (31 March). Virtual presentation.
2021	The Twin Seminar (session 2), British School of Athens (BSA). ‘The Epicurean 
	method of multiple explanations’ (1 April). Virtual presentation.
2021	Hellenistic Forum: ‘The Epicurean notion of epibolê’ (May). Virtual presentation.
2021	Bergen Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (Bergen, Sweden) on Plato’s Charmides and
	Alcibiades I ‘Temperance is knowing oneself. Critias' interpretation of the Delphic
	 inscription in the Charmides (164d3-165b4)’.
2021 Invited lecture, ‘Epicurean Hedonism’, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.
2021 Harvard University, Participation in the panel ‘Causation and Scientific Explanation’, 
	Co-sponsor: CNRS, Paris.
2022 University of St Andrews, Conference on Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. 
	Talk co-authored and co-presented with Gabor Betegh: ‘The Epicureans on 
	Preconceptions and Other Concepts’.
2022 Stanford University, conference on Knowledge and Value. Invited talk: ‘The Method
	of Multiple Explanations revisited’.
2022 Stanford University, EPAM seminar on Chapter 11 of Plato’s Charmides. 
	An interpretative commentary (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022).
2022 CNRS Paris, invited talk: ‘Le rôle causal des émotions à la dégradation des
	 constitutions et de charactères humains dans la République de Platon’.
2022 Academy of Athens Centre (virtual conference widely broadcasted): ‘Can the
	Philosopher rule the state? Reflections on the Two Worlds problem’. 
2022 University of Paris I, Conference: The conditions of the possibility of knowledge in 
	Ancient Philosophy. Talk co-authored and co-presented with Gabor Betegh: ‘The
	Epicureans on preconceptions and other concepts’.
2022 Stanford University, EPAM seminar. Comments on a paper on Plato’s Republic II-III 
	by Thomas Slabon. 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES AND SERVICES

Professional Organizations

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (President)
Symposium Hellenisticum (Organising Committee)
Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt
American Philosophical Association
European Society for Ancient Philosophy
Southeast European Association for Ancient Philosophy
Society of the Friends of Herculaneum 
Greek Philosophical Society
Co-editor of Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press
Scientific Committee of Philosophie antique
Scientific Committee of Syzetesis
Scientific Committee of Cronache Ercolanesi 
Scientific Committee of Plato Journal
Scientific Committee of Philosophica

Contributions to UC Santa Barbara and the UC system

2002–09	Member, Graduate Council, University of California, Santa Barbara 
2007–09	Chair, Philosophy Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 
2010–12	Central Fellowships Committee, University of California, Santa Barbara
2010–21	Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
2013 – 	Member of Argyropoulos Committee in Hellenic Studies, University of California, 
		Santa Barbara
2014	Vice Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara 
2017	PRP Participation—History Department External Review Committee, University of 
	California, Santa Barbara
2017	Member of the Charlotte Stough Award Committee, Department of Philosophy, 
	University of California, Santa Barbara
2017	PLO Plan for Graduate Studies (together with Sonny Elizondo), University of 
	California, Santa Barbara
2017	Co-organized of the Stephen Humphrey conference on Belief in February 2017 (with 
	Aaron Zimmerman), University of California, Santa Barbara
2019 – 	Co-Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
2020 	Borchard Fellowships Committee
2020 	ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships Committee
2021	Borchard Fellowship Committee
2021	Taught a writing seminar to teach Graduate Students how to write and publish papers
2022 Writing seminar for the Graduate Students
2022 Developed undergraduate emphasis in Ancient Philosophy for the UCSB Classics 
 Department together with the Chair of Classics, Professor Dorota Dutch.
2022 - Founding member of the UC Cooperation in Ancient Philosophy (UCCAP)

Other Professional Contributions

Refereed book proposals at least once (and often many times) for: Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and Routledge.

Refereed at least once (often many times) for: Phronesis, Journal of Hellenic Studies, American Journal of Philology, Ancient Philosophy, The British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Cronache Ercolanesi, Melbourne Historical Journal, Mind, Philosophie Antique, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophie Antique, Classical Philology, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrology, Etudes Platoniciennes, Classical Quarterly, Ramus, Metis, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Rhizomata, Acta Classica, Apeiron.

Gave a one-hour interview in French on the live radio channel France-Culture on the topic ‘La pensée du plaisir. Les Épicuriens’ (2016).

Appeared on the television series ‘Green Olive’ for a several hour interview on the ancient concepts of happiness, pleasure, and the good life; particularly from an Epicurean point of view (2018).

Frequently participate local, national, and international workshops, seminars, and conferences that are relevant to my areas of specialization. Examples of multi-year participation notably include the following: 

1984 – present 	 The Mayweek Seminar organised by Cambridge University. 
2000 – present	 Annual conferences in Ancient Philosophy organised by the University of Paris I,
	 Paris IV, Paris X, and the ENS
2009 – present	 The annual conference of ESAP (European Society of Ancient Philosophy) 
2009 – present	 The annual conference of SEAAP (Southeast European Association for Ancient 
	 Philosophy)	
2009 – 2018	 The Pelion Annual Workshop organised by the University of Athens
2010 – 2018 The Annual Princeton – Greece workshops in Ancient Philosophy jointly organised 
	 by Princeton University and multiple Greek Universities, such as, the University of 
	 Athens)
2021 – present Member of the Advisory Board for the Digital Museum of Hellenic Ideas, 
	 Greek Ministry of Culture.
2021- present Member of the Advisory Board for Aristotle’s Lyceum Archaeological Site,
	 Greek Ministry of Culture. 

Served on committees for several Master’s theses, MPhil examinations, PhD dissertations, and Habilitation dossiers across a range of universities including UC Santa Barbara, the University of Paris I, the University of Paris IV, the ENS – Paris, the University of London (King’s College), the University of Athens, the National Technical University of Athens, the Universities of Patras and Crete, the University of Leuven, and other peer institutions. 

Served on the hiring committee or as a referee for tenure track positions and professorships at many universities including the University of Cambridge, the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Harvard University, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Davis, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Universities of Crete, Patras, and Ioannina, and other peer institutions. 

I have written letters of recommendation for candidates to prestigious positions and fellowships, such as the Leverhulme Trust Prize (a highly distinguished award worth 100,00 British pounds), Leverhulme Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, the Princeton Center of Hellenic Studies, the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the Harvard Center of Hellenic Studies.

TEACHING

I have taught undergraduate and graduate students in large lecture courses, smaller upper division courses, seminars, and tutorials. I have directed many senior theses, independent studies, and honours contracts. I have mentored graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior scholars in both my own university and other universities of Europe and the US. I regularly hold reading groups in person or virtually. I am sincerely committed to the goals of equity and inclusion, and devote time and effort to teach, mentor, and support graduate students and junior scholars coming from different backgrounds and working in the field of Ancient Philosophy.