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FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS COLLOQUIUM CALENDAR EVENTS CALENDAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PROGRAM CONTACT US MASTER SCHEDULE UNIVERSITY CALENDARS USC LIBRARIES ABOUT COLUMBIA SC RESTRICTED ACCESS: Faculty | Graduate Students Search USC   THIS SITE		The                    Rosamond Kent Sprague Lectures in Ancient Philosophy   A USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUND in support of a lectureship in ancient philosophy The Sprague Lectures in Ancient Philosophy were initiated in 1993 (at the instigation of one of our graduate students, Mary Belle Scanlon) to honor Rosamond Kent Sprague, who retired from the department in 1991.   Rosamond Kent Sprague was born in Boston and is a graduate (1945), MA (1948), and PhD (1953) of Bryn Mawr College. She retired as Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Greek at USC in 1991, having joined the department in 1965. Mrs. Sprague's major publications include Plato's Use of Fallacy (Routledge 1965), Plato's Philosopher-King (USC Press 1976), and translations of Plato's Euthydemus (Bobbs-Merrill 1965) and Laches and Charmides (Bobbs-Merrill 1973). She has edited The Older Sophists (USC Press 1972), and A Matter of Eternity, an anthology of the theological writings of Dorothy L. Sayers (Eerdmanns 1973). She has published numerous articles and reviews, and was a member of the editorial boards of Classical Philology (1966-90), Journal of the History of Philosophy (1970-83), and New Oxford Review (1978-84).   Mrs. Sprague has taught and lectured worldwide. In 1956 she was a Fellow of the American Association of University Women, and in 1957 a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. She has held a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (1965). She has also been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (1976), and a Visitor in the Women's Scholar Program at the Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1986).   An annual lectureship in her honor was established by the University of South Carolina in 1993. Each year a prominent scholar is invited to deliver a lecture on a topic in Ancient philosophy. A list of past lecturers is posted below. Further information about the Rosamond Sprague Lectures in Ancient Philosophy can be obtained from:   The Rosamond Kent Sprague Lectures   Department of Philosophy   University of South Carolina   Columbia, SC 29208   (803) 777-4166 A fund has been established to support these lectures. Gifts may be made through the USC Educational Foundation. Checks should be payable to the "Rosamond Kent Sprague Lectures" and mailed to the address above.   The following is a list of Sprague Lecturers, in reverse chronological order.     17. Steven K. Strange Emory University   "Cosmic Intelligence in Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus" 24 April 2009   16. John Dillon Trinity College, Dublin   "The Origins of Platonist Orthodoxy in the Old Academy" 20 March 2008   15. Roslyn Weiss Lehigh University   "Justice and Moderation in Plato's Republic" 5 March 2007   14. Mitchell Miller Vassar College   "Ambiguity and Transport: Reflections on the Proem to the Poem of Parmenides"   24 March 2006   13. John Ferrari University of California, Berkeley   "Plato, Freud, and the Tripartite Soul" 8 April 2005   12. Malcolm Brown Brooklyn College, CUNY   "Theaetetus, the Man and His Work: Recovering Some of His Fragments"   20 April 2004   11. Thomas Robinson University of Toronto   "Sober Second Thoughts? Some Reflections On Plato's Laws"   7 April 2003   10. Diskin Clay Duke University   "The Problem of Philosophical Poetry" 8 April 2002   9. Reginald Allen Northwestern University   "Thrasymachus and the Concept of Justice" 19 March 2001   8. Anthony A. Long University of California, Berkeley   "Ancient Philosophy's Hardest Question: What to Make of Oneself?"   4 April 2000   7. Francis Sparshott University of Toronto   "Aristotle on Women" 4 March 1999   6. David Gallop Trent University, Ontario   "Socrates, Injustice, and the Law: A Response to Plato's Crito"   26 March 1998   5. Denis O'Brien Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique       "Aristotle and Plotinus on Non-Being" 4 April 1997   4. Charles H. Kahn University of Pennsylvania   "A New Interpretation of Plato's Socratic Dialogues"   12 April 1996   3. William Charlton University of Edinburgh   "Aristotle in Search of Principles" 22 March 1995   2. Holger Thesleff University of Helsinki   "Plato's Replublic: A Datable Utopia?" 27 April 1994   1. Monique Canto-Sperber Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique       "Aristotle on Imagination in Action" 25 March 1993 The following lectures were given in 1992 to observe Mrs. Sprague's retirement:     Shannon Dubose (USC) David Furley (Princeton) Richard Parry (Agnes Scott)   "Socrates Improved" "Stoic Dynamics" "The Philosopher-King in Plato's Gorgias"
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