Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic (Brill 2022) discusses Greco-Roman exhortations to philosophy (protreptics) as the first texts in Western literature that systematically address the question of the ultimate goal of education.

Participants: Daniel Markovich (University of Cincinnati), Darko Todorović (Department of Classics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade), Igor Cvejić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Ivan Nišavić (IFDT, University of Belgrade), Milica Sekulović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Olga Nikolić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Predrag Krstić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Sandra Šćepanović (Department of Classics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade), Tamara Plećaš (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade).

Daniel Markovich is a professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. His main fields of interest are Greek and Latin rhetoric, philosophy, and poetry, and particularly the ways in which these three types of discourse shape ancient educational texts. He has published on Lucretius (including the monograph on The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Brill 2008), Vergil, the Vergilian Aetna, Horace, Martianus Capella, Greco-Roman rhetorical theory, and Greco-Roman philosophical protreptic (Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic, Brill 2022). He is currently writing a commentary on Cicero’s rhetorical treatise De partitione oratoria.

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