G.R.F. (John) Ferrari
Professor of Classics, Department Chair

Ancient Philosophy, Greek Culture, Ancient Poetics and Rhetoric.
B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983 Cambridge University

Contact information

Office: 7217 Dwinelle Hall
Email: gferrari@berkeley.edu
Office phone: (510) 642-3164

Office hours: M 2-3 pm, W 1-2 pm, and by appointment

Mailing address:
7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520
Berkeley, CA 94720-2520

Selected publications

Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedrus. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987.

City and Soul in Plato's Republic. Lecturae Platonis. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag. 2003. 123 pp. (Hardback.)  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  2005.  (Paperback.)

Personal statement

The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic, of which I am the editor, is due to appear in 2007. I have also contributed the chapter on the tripartite soul to this volume. I recently finished on article on "Socratic irony as pretence," which develops ideas taken from the contemporary field of pragmatics and applies them to the Platonic dialogues.

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