Steven K. Strange (1950-2009), In Memoriam
Posted: September 29, 2009
Steven K. Strange, 1950-2009
It is with keen sadness that we report that Steven K. Strange, one of the most talented and accomplished graduates of UT Austin's Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy (Ph.D. 1981), died on Wednesday, October 28. At the end of summer, he had a lengthy hospital stay and had subsequently undergone a period of chemotherapy.
Through the previous academic year, Steve had served as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Emory University. Before Emory, he taught at Harvard and at the University of Pittsburgh; and he had also held visiting appointments at Princeton and at Ohio State.
Steve convened and organized the 29th Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop, which was held at Emory, April 21-22, 2006. The 33rd Ancient Philosophy Workshop, to be held at UT Austin March 25-28, 2010, will be dedicated to his memory.
Listed here are some of his principal publications:
"Porphyry and Plotinus’ Metaphysics", in George Karamanolis and Anne Sheppard, eds., Studies on Porphyry, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, supplementary volume 98 (2007), 17- 34.
"Proclus and the Ancients", in Kevin Corrigan and John B. Turner, eds., Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (Brill, 2007), 97-108.
Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations, edited with Jack Zupko (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
"The Stoics on the Voluntariness of the Passions", in Strange and Zupko, eds., Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 32-51
"Plotinus on the Nature of Eternity and Time" in Lawrence Schrenk, ed., Aristotle in Late Antiquity (Catholic University of America Press, 1994), 22-53
Translation with introduction and notes of Porphyry, On Aristotle, Categories (Duckworth and Cornell University Press, 1992), in the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Richard Sorabji, general editor
"Plotinus' Account of Participation in Ennead VI.4-5", Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1992), 479-496
"Plotinus, Porphyry, and the Neoplatonic Interpretation of the Categories", in H. Temporini and W. Haase, eds., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Teil II.36.1 (1987) 955-974
"The Double Explanation in the Timaeus", Ancient Philosophy 5 (1985), 25-39; reprinted in Gail Fine, ed., Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 397-415.
We had all been looking forward to more contributions from him to the study of the philosophy of late antiquity, especially his projected book on Plotinus' metaphysics and the translations he had been working on of Plotinus and of other later Platonist authors. He will be enormously missed.
