Walter Englert
Professor of Classical Studies, Emeritus
Greek and Latin literature, ancient philosophy
walter.englert@reed.edu
Campus Address:
Rees House
Phone: x7310
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Recent Courses Taught
Fall 2017
Latin 210: Intermediate Latin (Cicero's Pro Caelio)
Latin 311: Advanced Latin (Roman Comedy)
Spring 2018
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Latin 210: Intermediate Latin (Virgil's Aeneid)
Greek 312: Advanced Greek (Aristophanes' Frogs)
2016-2017 Sabbatical
Fall 2015
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Greek 311: Advanced Greek (Plato’s Symposium)
Spring 2016
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Latin 210: Intermediate Latin (Virgil's Aeneid)
Latin 312: Advanced Latin (Augustine's Confessions)
Fall 2014
Humanities 110: The Ancient Mediterranean
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Spring 2015
Humanities 110: The Hellenistic Period and the Rise of Rome
Latin 312: Advanced Latin (Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Virgil's Georgics)
Fall 2013
Greek 110: Beginning Greek
Latin 210: Intermediate Latin (Cicero's Pro Caelio)
Greek 311: Advanced Greek (Euripides' Bacchae)
Spring 2014
Classics 303: Hellenistic Philosophy
Greek 210: Intermediate Greek (Homer's Iliad)
Publications and Papers
Books and Articles:
“Roman Epistemology,” forthcoming in 2018 in N. Smith, Bloomsbury History of Epistemology, Volume I: The Ancients, London, Bloomsbury.
“Voluntary action and responsibility,” forthcoming in 2018 in P. Mitsis, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
“Fanum and Philosophy: Cicero and the Death of Tullia,” in Ciceroniana On Line, I.1, 2017, pp. 41-66.
“Epicurus and B.F. Skinner: In Search of the Good Life,” Allen Neuringer and Walter Englert. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 107 (2017), pp. 21-33.
"Halfway to Happiness: A Platonic Reading of Apuleius’ Golden Ass," Philosophy and the Ancient Novel, (Ancient Narrative Supplements 20). Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Silvia Montiglio, edd. 2015, 81-92.
"Democritos," article for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
"Cicero the Philosopher." Article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Michael Gagarin, editor-in-chief. Oxford, 2010.
Articles on 19 ancient atomists for the Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs, ed. P. T. Keyser and G.L. Irby-Massie, Routledge: 2009.
"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 Yelena Baraz, A Written Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical Politics. Princeton, 2012. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.04.50.
Review of Tim O’Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom, Ancient Philosophy 29 (2009) 461-468.
Review of Nino Marinone, Cronologia Ciceroniana (2nd edition) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.11.
Review of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia, by James Warren. Cambridge: 2002. Ancient Philosophy 24 (2004) 496-500.
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).