Curriculum Vitae

JOHN F. FINAMORE

Professor and Chair

Department of Classics

210Jefferson Building

The University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-0288

E-mail: john-finamore@uiowa.edu

Web Page: http://www.uiowa.edu/~classics/finamore/index.html

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Education

1977-1983 Ph.D. in Classics, Rutgers University

1975-1977 M.A. in Classics, Rutgers University

1972-1975 M.A. in Philosophy, Tufts University

1968-1972 B.A. in Philosophy, University of Maryland

Areas of interest

Ancient philosophy (especially Neoplatonism), Latin Poetry

Classes recently taught

20E:103 Medical and Technical Terminology

20G:11 Second-Year Greek I: Plato's Symposium

143:050 Honors Seminar in Humanities: Magic and Demonology in Ancient Greece and Rome

Recent Publications

Books

Iamblichus' De Anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary (with J. M. Dillon), (Leiden: Brill Press, 2002).

Articles

"The Platonic Tripartite Soul and the Platonism of Galen's On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato," in J. Finamore and R. Berchman, Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern (New Orleans 2007) 1-16.

"Apuleius on the Gods," in H. Tarrant, Reading Plato in Antiquity (Duckworth Press, forthcoming).

"The Tripartite Soul in Plato's Republic," in J. Finamore and R. Berchman, History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus (New Orleans 2005) 35-51.

"Proclus on Ritual Practice in Neoplatonic Religious Philosophy," in A. Kijewski (ed.) Being or Good? Metamorphoses of Neoplatonism (Lublin 2004) 123-137.

"'In Angelic Space:' Chaldaean Oracles Fr. 138 and Iamblichus, in M. Barbanti, G. Giardina, and P. Manganaro (eds.), HENOSIS KAI PHILIA: Unione e Amicizia: Omaggio a Francesco Romano (Catania 2002), 425-432.

"Iamblichus, the Sethians, and Marsanes," in J. D. Turner and R. Majercik, Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts (Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta: 2000), pp. 225-257.

Work In Progress

Parts and Powers of the Soul in the Platonic Tradition

"Chaldaean Oracles" (with Sarah Iles Johnston) in the Cambridge History of Later Greek Philosophy

Isis and Osiris: Gods in Apuleian Platonism

Conferences and Invited Lectures

International

"Apuleius and Alcinous on the Soul," The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Helsinki, Finland, June 14-16, 2007.

"Platonic Conceptions of the Soul in the De Anima Commentary of the Pseudo-Simplicius," The Neoplatonic Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, July 22, 2006.

"Tripartition of the Soul and the Afterlife in Plato's Timaeus," The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Liverpool June 24-27, 2004.

"Proclus on Ritual Practice in Neoplatonic Religious Philosophy," The Conference on Being or Good (Goodness). Metamorphoses of Neoplatonism, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, October 7, 2003.

"Apuleius on the Demiurge and the Invisible Gods," Plato’s Ancient Readers: An International Conference on how Plato was read in Antiquity, University of Newcastle NSW, July 15th-18th 2002.

"The Simplicity of the Soul in Themistius," International Aristotelian Society, Rome, Italy, July 5, 2001.

"Iamblichus and the Soul," Institute for Platonic Tradition, Dublin, Ireland, April 17, 2000.

National

"Descending Daemons in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus," American Philological Association, Montreal, January 7, 2006.

"Iamblichus' Interpretation of Parmenides' Third Hypothesis," American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, PA, November 19, 2005.

"Galen on the Platonic Soul," The Neoplatonic Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2005.

"Plato's Timaean Psychology," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, WI, April 1, 2005.

"Plato and the Tripartite Soul," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO, April 16, 2004.

"The Tripartite Soul in Plato's Republic," The Neoplatonic Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 6, 2003.

Positions/editorships

Editor of The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Brill Academic Press. 2006-present.

Editor for book manuscripts in Neoplatonism, Brill Press Series, "Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts: Academic Studies in History, Philosophy, Religion, and Culture," 2002-present.

Editor, Philosophy Series, University Press of the South, 2005-present.

Editorial Advisor Board of the journal Dionysius 2005-present.

President, U. S. Section of the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies, 1998-present.

Chair, Organization Committee for the Neoplatonic Conference (sponsored by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) June 18-22,

2007 in New Orleans, LA, 2004-2005.