Jed W. Atkins, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• HOUSECS 59.21, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  SEE INSTRU, W 05:15 PM-06:45 PM

• CLST 566S.01, TRADITION AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY Synopsis

  Langford 060, W 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

Office Hours:

T 4:00 - 5:00 PM and W1:30-2:30.
Meet by Zoom (link available on course websites and by request).

Education:

Ph.D., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 2009

M.Phil., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 2005

B.A., Bowdoin College, 2004

Specialties:

Cicero
Greek and Roman political philosophy and ethics
The history of political thought

Research Interests: Cicero; Greek, Roman, and early Christian political and moral philosophy; history of political thought

Cicero; Greek, Roman, and early Christian political and moral philosophy; history of political thought

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Atkins, JW, Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws (Fall, 2013), Cambridge University Press [9781107043589]  [abs].
2. Atkins, JW, The officia of St. Ambrose's de officiis, Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 19 no. 1 (Spring, 2011), pp. 49-77, Johns Hopkins University Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
3. Atkins, JW, L'argument du De Re Publica et le Songe de Scipion, Etudes Philosophiques, vol. 99 no. 4 (Winter, 2011), pp. 455-469, CAIRN [doi] .
4. Atkins, JW, Greek and Roman Political Philosophy, in Oxford Bibliographies in "Classics", edited by Dee Clayman (Fall, 2012), Oxford University Press (Li nk.) .
5. Atkins, JW, Cicero on the Relationship between Plato’s Republic and Laws, in Ancient Approaches to Plato’s Republic, BICS Supplement 117, edited by Sheppard, A (2013), pp. 15-34 .
6. Atkins, JW, Euripides's orestes and the concept of conscience in Greek philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 75 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 1-22, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi] .
7. Atkins, JW, A revolutionary doctrine? Cicero's natural right teaching in Mably and Burke, Classical Receptions Journal, vol. 6 no. 2 (Summer, 2014), pp. 177-197, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
8. Atkins, JW, Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BCE), in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Gibbons, M (2014), pp. 489-498, Wiley-Blackwell .
9. Atkins, JW, Constitution and Empire in Roman Republican Thought, in Rome, Museums and World Civilizations (2015), Peyking University Press .
10. Atkins, JW, Zeno's Republic, plato's Laws, and the early development of stoic natural law theory, Polis (United Kingdom), vol. 32 no. 1 (May, 2015), pp. 166-190, BRILL [doi]  [abs].
11. Atkins, JW, Review of Catherine Steel, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge, 2013) (June, 2014), The Classical Journal [Atkins%20on%20Steel.pdf] .