Wolfgang Polleichtner

Teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging, to say the least. This volume comprises six articles in which 14 classicists tell us how they met some of these new challenges. They also share their thoughts on what these new developments could mean for the future of their profession.

Teaching Classics in Pandemic Times

Iamblichus

John M. Dillon

Iamblichus is the only Platonist philosopher whose philosophical letters have survived from the ancient world. These nineteen letters, which are translated into English here for the first time, address such topics as providence, fate, concord, marriage, bringing up children, ingratitude, music, and the cardinal virtues, with some letters addressed to students and others to prominent members of Syrian society and the imperial administration. The letters reflect the concerns of popular moral philosophy and illustrate the more public aspects of Iamblichus s philosophy. This volume provides a useful complement to Iamblichus: On the Mysteries, and On the Pythagorean Way of Life, both published by the Society of Biblical Literature, and will be of interest to students of late antiquity, of Neoplatonic philosophy, and of early Christianity.

The Letters

Iamblichus of Chalcis

Der vorliegende Band versucht in vier Beiträgen eine Standortbestimmung der Fachdidaktik der alten Sprachen hinsichtlich sich aktuell ihr stellender Fragen in Forschung und Lehre. Hierbei werden daher besonders hochschuldidaktische Fragen in den Blick genommen. Die schuldidaktische Perspektive wird aber nicht ganz außer Acht gelassen.

Wolfgang Polleichtner

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