DCAMP Reading Group 2024-2025: Bernardus Silvestris, Cosmographia

The DCAMP Reading Group meets Mondays 11am-12pm in person (in the Ritson Room, CLAS007, Department of Classics & Ancient History, 28 North Bailey, DH1 3EU) and on Zoom. All are welcome, regardless of knowledge of Greek, post-Hellenistic philosophy, or Plutarch. Please contact Phil Horky for the Zoom link.

We are reading Dronke’s edition (1976) of the Latin text of Cosmographia, which can be accessed here (Durham users only): Bernardus Silvestris Cosmographia

For Wetherbee’s text and translation of the first part (‘Megacosmus’), please see here: Bernardus Megacosmos – Cosmographia

Previous Years’ DCAMP Reading Groups:

2023-24: Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradiction

2022-23: Spinoza’s Ethics

2021-22: Plato’s Gorgias

2020-21: Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things

2019-20: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book I

2018-19: Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy

2017-18: Thomas Aquinas’ Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul, & Aristotle’s On the Soul

2016-17: Cicero’s On Ends

2015-16: Iamblichus’ Exhortation to Philosophy

2014-15: Sextus Empiricus’ Outlines of Pyrrhonism

2013-14: Seneca’s Moral Epistles

2012-13: Alcinous’ Handbook of Platonism