Christian Wildberg

Professor of Classics

Princeton University

Fall 2009

Fall 2009

CLA500 Greek Prose Composition

CLA599 Dissertation Writers' Seminar

Background

Mag. Theol. Marburg, ’85, Ph.D. Cambridge, ’84.

Professor Wildberg teaches in the Department of Classics and the Program of Classical Philosophy. He is a Sometime Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has held a Junior Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies. His research interests focus on Classical Philosophy, in particular Neoplatonism, Plato and Aristotle; the intellectual history of the fifth century BCE (Tragedy, Presocratics); Ancient Science and Cosmology; Ancient Greek Religion.

Books & Articles

Philoponus against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. London 1987; John Philoponus’ Criticism of Aristotle’s Theory of Aether. Berlin, New York 1988; Simplicius against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World. London 1991; Hyperesie und Epiphanie. Ein Versuch über die Bedeutung der Götter in den Dramen des Euripides. Munich 2002.