Classics Department
Walter Englert
Omar & Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Studies
Greek and Latin literature, ancient philosophy
walter.englert@reed.edu
On campus:
ETC 217
Phone: x7310
Off campus:
Professor Walter Englert
Department of Classics
Reed College
Portland, OR 97202
Phone: 503-517-7310
Fax: 503-777-7769
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Recent Courses Taught
Fall 2006
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Hum 110: Introduction to Western Humanities: Greece
Spring 2007
Latin 312: Advanced Latin (Augustine's Confessions)
Hum 110: Introduction to Western Humanities: Rome
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
On leave.
Professor-in-Charge, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
Publications and Papers
Books and Articles:
Articles on 19 ancient atomists for the Routledge Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Scientists, ed. P. T. Keyser and G.L. Irby-Massie, forthcoming 2007.
“Socrates and temporal lobe epilepsy: a pathographical diagnosis 2400 years later.” Co-authored with Osamu Muramoto. Epilepsia 47: 652 March 2006.
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things. Focus Publishing: Newburyport, MA, 2003.
"The Death of Socrates and the Development of Greek Philosophy," in Events that Changed Ancient Greece, ed. Bella Vivante, 141-155 Greenwood Press (2002).
Articles on Lucretius, Herillus, Metrodorus of Stratonicea, and Monimus for The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, D. Zeyl, editor. Greenwood Press: Westport, 1997.
"Stoics and Epicureans on the Nature of Suicide," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 1996.
"Bringing Philosophy to the Light: Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum." Apeiron 24 (1990).
Cicero Pro Caelio. Bryn Mawr Latin Commentary: 1990.
Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action. Scholars Press. Atlanta: 1987.
Book Reviews:
Review of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia, by James Warren. Cambridge: 2002. Forthcoming in Ancient Philosophy.
Review of Lucretius on Atomic Motion. A Commentary on De Rerum Natura, Book Two, Lines 1-332, by Don Fowler. Oxford: 2002. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.07.28. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2003/2003-07-28.html
Review of Philodemus On Piety, edited by Dirk Obbink. Ancient Philosophy 20 (2000) 250-254.
Review of David Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom. Phoenix 53 (1999) 381-383.
Review of Diogenes of Oenoanda: The Epicurean Inscription, edited by M.F. Smith Ancient Philosophy 18 (1998) 220-225.
Review of Cicero's Knowledge of the Peripatos, W.W. Fortenbaugh and P. Steinmetz edd. (New Brunswick and London: 1989) Ancient Philosophy (1995).
Review of The Stoic Theory of Oikeiosis, by Troels Engberg-Pedersen. Ethics 103 (1993).
Review of Epicurus' Ethical Theory, by Phillip Mitsis Ancient Philosophy (1993).
Review of Epicurus' Scientific Method, by Elizabeth Asmis. Phoenix (1987).
Review of Lucretius and Epicurus, by Diskin Clay. Ancient Philosophy 5 (1985).
