Elizabeth Asmis
Elizabeth Asmis (* 20th century ) is an American classical philologist and historian of philosophy .
Life
After earning a BA at the University of Toronto (1958–1962) and an MA in Classics at Yale University (1965–1966), Asmis received his doctorate there with a dissertation on The Epicurean Theory of Free Will (1968–1970).
Already from 1963–1965 employed as a lecturer at McGill University in the Department of Classics, from 1966 to 1968 she was Research Assistant at the British Museum , London . After completing her doctorate, she was initially an assistant professor at Cornell University (1970–1979) and associate professor at the University of Chicago (1979–1994) before being appointed Professor of Classics and in the College there in 1994.
Asmis' main research interests in her preoccupation with ancient philosophy are Epicureanism (in addition to Epicurus , especially Lucretius and Philodemos of Gadara ) and Stoicism ( Seneca ). Further research areas are Stoic and Epicurean Aesthetics ; Cicero as a political thinker; and Karl Marx 's Epicurus and Lucretian reception.
Fonts (selection)
- monograph
- Epicurus' Scientific Method. Cornell University Press, 1984.
- Co-editing
- Mithrsg. (with Shadi Bartsch and Martha Nussbaum ), The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. University of Chicago Press, 2010-2017.
- Current essays
- The Stoics on the Craft of Poetry. In: Rheinisches Museum 160 (2017), pp. 113-151.
- Lucretius' Reception of Epicurus: De Rerum Natura as a Conversion Narrative. In: Hermes 144 (2016), pp. 239-61.
- Art and Morality. In: Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray (eds.): A companion to Ancient Aesthetics. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA. 2015, pp. 486-504.
- Venus and the Passion for Renewal in Lucretius's On the Nature of Things. In: Hanjo Berressem, Günter Blamberger , Sebastian Goth (eds.), Venus as Muse. From Lucretius to Michel Serres. Brill / Rodopi, Leiden 2015, pp. 41-54.
- Seneca's Originality. In: Shadi Bartsch and Alessandro Schiesaro (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge 2015, pp. 224-38.
Web links
- Personal page at the University of Chicago (with photograph)
- Curriculum vitae and list of publications at the University of Chicago
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Asmis, Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist and historian of philosophy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |