THE PYTHAGOREAN WAY 2026
International Conference on the Pythagorean Heritage
Conference dates: 23–25 April 2026
Full programme will be announced soon.
Keynote speakers:
Catherine Rowett is Professor emerita of Ancient Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. In the field of Presocratic philosophy her books include Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy (1987), and Presocratic Philosophy, a very short introduction (2004), and major influential articles include ‘Empedocles Recycled’ (1987), ‘Was verse the default form for Presocratic philosophy?' (1998), 'Was there an Eleatic Revolution in philosophy?' (2006), 'On calling the gods by the right name' (2013), 'Philosophy's numerical turn: why the Pythagoreans' interest in numbers is truly awesome.' (2013), and 'The Pythagorean Society and Politics' (2014). She is currently working mostly on Plato and at the interface of ancient philosophy with critique of contemporary politics and political values.
Dominic J. O'Meara is Professor emeritus of philosophy, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland). He studied at Cambridge University and in Paris with Pierre Hadot. He has written about the history of Pythagoreanism and Platonism in Antiquity and in Byzantium. His books include: Cosmology and Politics and Plato's Later Writings (Cambridge 2017); Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford 1989); Plotinus. An Introduction to the Enneads (Oxford 1995); Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2003); The Ladder of the Sciences in Late Antique Platonism (Cambridge 2026).