DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
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Kurt Lampe
Lecturer
Phone: external (+44) (0)117 92 88118
Email: clkwl@bristol.ac.uk
Research
Dr. Lampe received his PhD in classics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007. His thesis, which is on the ultra-hedonistic ethics of Cyrenaic philosophers, was written there and in residence at both Cambridge and the Warburg Institute at the University of London. Over the last year he has been devoting most of his (non-teaching) hours to rewriting this thesis, and hopes to complete it very soon for publication! Meanwhile he's also completing articles on Aristippus in the Socratic Epistles, the courtesan Theodote in Xenophon's Memorabilia and the pseudo-Platonic Theages. In general he enjoys working at the intersection of literature and philosophy, both ancient and modern.
Teaching
Dr. Lampe teaches both Greek and Latin literature (in the original and in translation) as well as courses on ancient philosophy, intellectual history and critical theory at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is interested in supervising PhD students who work at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and critical theory.
Publications
In Peer-Reviewed Journals
- 'Socratic Therapy from Aeschines of Sphettus to Lacan,' forthcoming in Classical Antiquity 29.2 (2010) 181-221.
- “Seneca’s Nausea: ‘Existential’ Experiences and Julio-Claudian Literature,” Helios 35.1 (2008) 67-87.
- “A Twelfth-Century Text on the Number Nine and Divine Creation: A New Interpretation of Boethian Cosmology?” Mediaeval Studies 67 (2006) 1-26.
Other
- 'Camus, Pindar, and the Myth of Sisyphus, forthcoming in V. Zajko (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Reception of Ancient Myth.
- 'Stoic Mythology,' forthcoming in E. O'Gorman and V. Zajko (eds.), Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis. Oxford.
- 'Philosophical Poetry' and 'The Seven Sages,' in M. Gagarin (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford (2010) vol. 5: 394-96 and vol. 6: 287-89.
- Review of M.C. Meaney, Simone Weil’s Apologetic Use of Literature. Her Christological Interpretations of Ancient Greek Texts (Oxford, 2007), Classical Review 59.2 (2009) 615-17.
- (With Charles Burnett and Ji-Wei Zhao) “The Toledan Regule (Liber Alchorismi, Part II): A Twelfth-Century Arithmetical Miscellany,” Sciamus 8 (2007) 141-231.