Research Expertise and Interest

classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric

Research Description

John Ferrari is the Jane K. Sather Administrative Chair in Classical Studies and the Melpomene Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and a professor of Classics. He specializes in ancient philosophy. His philosophic interests are in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and political thought. He has published primarily on Plato, with books on the Phaedrus and the Republic, and has collaborated on a new translation of the Republic.