Alexander Mourelatos
Professor Emeritus — PhD, Yale

Contact
- E-mail: apdm@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-6749
- Office: WAG 200C
- Office Hours: By appt. only.
- Campus Mail Code: C3500
Interests
Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Philosophical Linguistics
Biography
Fields: ancient philosophy, early Greek science, philosophical linguistics
An internationally renowned specialist in the pre-Socratics and ancient Greek cosmology, he has published widely in classics, ancient philosophy, ancient science, and linguistics. He is author of The Route of Parmenides (1970; expanded and revised edn. Parmenides Publishing, 2008), and editor of an influential collection on The Pre-Socratics (revised edition, Princeton, 1993). He founded, and for many years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Program in Ancient Philosophy. He has held major academic fellowships, NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim; has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.; and he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Crete, Greece (2017), also earlier by the University of Athens, Greece (1994), and is a Corresponding Member (since 2000) of the Academy of Athens, Greece.