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Armand D'Angour

Disciplines:
biography
ancient history/classical scholarship
ancient history/ancient greek music
ancient philosophy/socrates research

Summary

British classical scholar at the University of Oxford whose Socrates in Love reconstructed the early life of Socrates — arguing that Aspasia of Miletus was the model for Diotima and the true teacher of Socrates in the philosophy of love — and who has reconstructed ancient Greek music.

Core Contribution

Reconstructed the intellectual formation of Socrates — arguing that his transformation from a conventional materialist thinker to the philosopher of virtue was driven by his relationship with Aspasia — providing the most biographical account of Socrates' philosophical development.

Notable Works & Achievements

Socrates in Love

The Greeks and the New

Historical Influences

Classical scholarship tradition E.R. Dodds

Intellectual Lineage

Oxford Classical StudiesAncient Greek Music ResearchSocratic Biography

Contemporaries & Peers

Mary Beard Paul Cartledge Robin Lane Fox

Minds Influenced

Socratic biography genreMW ancient philosophy content

Intellectual Posterity

Socrates in Love Ancient Greek music reconstruction

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