Anne DR Sheppard

Anne Deborah Raphael Sheppard , née Anne DD Raphael (born November 10, 1951 ) is a British classical philologist and historian of philosophy (specialist in Neoplatonism ).

Sheppard studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at St Anne's College , Oxford . In 1976 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the literary theory of the Neo-Platonist Proklos for DPhil . She then taught philosophy at Oxford, classics at Durham University and philosophy at the Open University . In 1989 she came to the Royal Holloway College , London , whose Department of Classics she now heads.

Sheppard's main interest is the connection between philosophy and literature, especially in Neoplatonism. However, she has also worked on ancient and modern aesthetics . Recently, she has the ancient concept of Phantasia ( imagination , imagination facing). Further work concerns other aspects of ancient philosophy such as philosophical psychology and the ancient philosophy of mind .

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the 5th and 6th essays of Proclus' Commentary on the republic. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980 ( Hypomnemata , H. 61; = Diss. Oxford 1976).
• Aesthetics. An introduction to the philosophy of art. Oxford 1987.
• Phantasia and Inspiration in Neoplatonism, in: M. Joyal (Ed.), Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Leiden 1997, 201-210.
• (Ed., With Robert W. Sharples ): Ancient approaches to Platon's Timaeus. London 2003.
• (Ed., With George Karamanolis): Studies on Porphyry . Institute of Classical Studies , London 2007, ISBN 978-1-905670-12-3 (eleven articles).
• with O. Bychkov: Greek and Roman Aesthetics. Cambridge 2010.

Web links

• Personal page at Royal Holloway College, University of London, with photograph
• List of publications, Royal Holloway College page