CHS Online Open House | Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, with Armand D’Angour


We are pleased to welcome Armand D’Angour, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford, for a discussion about Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. The event will take place on Thursday, February 14 at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded.

Focus passages for this discussion will follow, and reference will be made to the following primary sources:

  • Plato, Symposium
  • Plato, Menexenus
  • Aristophanes, Clouds
  • Diogenes Laertius Life of Socrates

You can watch the event on the CHS Kosmos website or on the CHS YouTube channel.

Armand D’Angour

Armand D’Angour is an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. Author of The Greeks and the New (2011), an investigation into ancient Greek attitudes to novelty, he has written widely about Greek and Latin poetry, music and literature, and was commissioned to compose odes in ancient Greek for the Olympic Games in Athens (2004) and London (2012). Trained as a pianist and cellist as well as a classicist, he has recently reconstructed ancient Greek music from original documents on stone and papyrus. His book Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher will be published by Bloomsbury in March 2019.