Socrates the Seer

Dr. Kirk Sanders received his PhD in Philosophy from the Joint Classics-Philosophy Program in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Before arriving at Illinois, where he is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics, he taught at Rutgers University and was a junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies. 

His research to date has focused largely on Hellenistic (i.e., post–Aristotelian) philosophy. In addition to a number of articles and notes, he is co-editor (together with Jeffrey Fish of Baylor University) of the volume of essays titled Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

In addition to continued work in Hellenistic philosophy, he has recently turned his attention to Xenophon’s Socratic writings. He is currently in the process of producing a both a new English translation of these (i.e., Apology, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, and Symposium) and a philological and philosophical commentary on the Greek text of Xenophon's Apology and the parts of Memorabilia that most directly concern Socrates' trial.

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