New York University
Classics / Hellenic Studies
Ph.D. 1982 Cornell University (Classics / Philosophy)
B.A. 1974 Williams College (Philosophy)
Epicurus’ Ethical Theory. The Pleasures of Invulnerability (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology vol. xlviii) Cornell University Press, 1988; reprinted 1989; 1992 (German); 2005; 2014 (De Gruyter, e-version); https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq45fk; free access at https://nyu.academia.edu/PhillipMitsis. Greek translation: Η Επικούρεια Ηθική Θεωρία. Οι Ηδονες της Ατρωσίας, μετάφραση Γιάννης Αβραμίδης, (Θύραθεν, 2022).
Mega Nepios: Il Destinatario nell’ Epos Didascalico; Materiali e Discussione per l'analisi dei testi classici 31, co-editor with Alessandro Schiesaro and Jenny Strauss Clay (Fabrizio Serra, 1993).
Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, ed. Donald Zeyl, co-associate editor with Daniel Devereux (Greenwood Press, 1997; Routledge, 2013).
Thomas Chimes: The Entropy Paintings (Locks Art Publications, 2007).
Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (Trends in Classics--Supplementary Volume 7), co-editor with Christos Tsagalis (De Gruyter, 2010).
Wordplay and Powerplay in Roman Literature (Trends in Classics--Supplementary Volume 36), co-editor with Ioannis Ziogas (De Gruyter, 2016).
La libertà, il piacere, la morte: Studi sull'epicureismo e la sua influenza (Biblioteca di testi e studi 1222), edited and translated with an afterword by Enrico Piergiacomi (Carocci, 2018).
The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism, editor (Oxford University Press, 2020). Winner of CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title, 2020-21. Revised paperback edition (2023).
Natura Aut Voluntas. Recherches sur la pensée politique et éthique hellénistique et romaine et son influence (eds. Carlos Lévy and Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Philosophie hellénistique et romaine 11/ Hellenistic and Roman), translated by Vincent Jolivet and Charlotte Walbecq (Brepols, 2020).
The Poetry in Philosophy. Essays in Honor of Christos C. Evangeliou, co-editor with Heather L. Reid (Parnassos Press, 2021).
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic, editor, with a foreward and notes to the English edition of Jean-Manuel Roubineau’s Diogène: L’antisocial (Presses Universitaires de France, 2020), translation by Malcolm DeBevoise (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Paideia on Stage, co-editor with Victoria Pichugina and Heather L. Reid (Parnassos Press, 2023).
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