CORNELL CLASSICS FACULTY AND STAFF

Charles Brittain
Chair and Professor of Classics

120B Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
(607) 255-8330
FAX: (607) 254-8899
e-mail: cfb9@cornell.edu
Office Hours: WF 12:15 - 1:15 and by appointment

Fall 2007 courses: LATIN 205-Latin Prose MWF 11:15-12:05 Uris Hall 204

• 1995-1996: Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich.
• 1996-2002: Assistant Professor of Classics, Program in Ancient Philosophy, Cornell University.
• 2002-2006: Associate Professor of Classics, Program in Ancient Philosophy, Cornell University.
• 2006-Present: Professor of Classics, Program in Ancient Philosophy, Cornell University.

• Classics 412 Seneca's Letters (Spring 2007).
• Classics 405 Augustine's Confessions (Spring 2006).
• Classics 205 Latin Prose: Cicero, Pro Milone (Fall 2005).
• Classics 679 Graduate Seminar in Latin: Cicero: de divinatione (Fall 2005).
• Classics 412: Graduate class: Cicero (Spring 2004).
• Classics 205: Cicero, In Catilinam I-II (Fall 2003).
• Classics 341/Philosophy 308: Hellenistic Philosophy. (Fall 2003).
• Ancient Philosophy 611(also Classics 671) (Spring 2003).
• Classics 201: Intermediate Ancient Greek (Fall 2002).
• Classics 260/Philosophy 209 Conceptions of the Self in Classical Antiquity) (Spring 2002).
• Classics 511/Philosophy 411Greek Philosophical Texts (Spring 2002).
• Classics 231/Philosophy 211 Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2001).
• Classics 511/Philosophy 411Greek Philosophical Texts (Fall 2001).
• Philosophy 309: Platoís Psychology (Spring 2001).
• Society for the Humanities Seminar: Augustine's Confessions (Fall 1999).
• Classics 207: Catullus (Fall 1998).
• Classics 608: Lucretius' Philosophy of Mind (Spring 1998).

• Philo of Larissa. The last of the Academic sceptics. Oxford, 2001.
• Simplicius' Commentary on the Encheiridion of Epictetus, 2 vols., translated with Tad Brennan, London & Ithaca, 2002.
• Cicero: On Academic Scepticism, Indianapolis  2006.
• 'Arcesilaus', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arcesilaus/
•  'Philo of Larissa', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philo-larissa/
•  'Common Sense. Concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa.', in D. Frede & B. Inwood (ed.) Language and Learning (2005) 165-209.
•  'Attention Deficit in Plotinus and Augustine', PBACAP, XVIII (2003) 223-63.
• 'Non-rational perception in the Stocis and Augustine', OSAP XXII Summer 2002 253-308.
• 'The New Academy appeals to the Presocratics', written with John Palmer, Phronesis 46.1 2001 38-72.
• 'No place for a Platonist soul in 5^th Century Provence? The case of Claudianus Mamertus', R Mathiesen & D Shanzer (ed.s), Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul. Revisiting the sources, 2001 237-60.

• Lucr;ce & les sciences de la vie, by P. Schrijvers, Classical Review, 51.2 2001 247-9.
• Topics in Stoic Philosophy, edited by K. Ierodiakonou, 'Rationality, Rules and Rights', Apeiron 34.3 2001 247-67.
• Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists, by R Bett, Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999): 178-83.
• Paradosis and Survival, by D Clay, Phoenix 53 (1999): 379-81.

• Cognitive Experience in Augustine  (a study of Augustine's epistemology and philosophy of mind drawing on his source in late Hellenistic philosophy and Plotinus and Porphyry).
• Translation of Epictetus' Dissertationes (with Tad Brennan).
• Posthellenistic Philosophy 1:  Middle Platonism (with George Boys-Stones).

• 'Common sense', Symposium Hellenisticum, Hamburg, July 2001.
• 'Attention deficit. (Augustine's appropriation of the Platonist grades of virtue)'. Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, May 2002.
• 'Middle Platonists on Academic scepticism'. ICS conference, London, July 2004
•  'The compulsions of Stoic assent'. SAAP, Cambridge , Sept. 2004
• 'Posidonius on divinatory dreams', Oxford , Feb. 2006
               
                 

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