The Archaeology of the Soul – Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy

The Late Seth Benardete was an outstanding teacher and scholar in classical literature and philosophy, who taught at New York University. He is the author of numerous works from both the University of Chicago Press and St. Augustine’s Press. The titles from St. Augustine's Press are: author of Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero, Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone, Herodotean Inquiries, and as co-translator with Michael Davis for Aristotle – On Poetics.

Ronna Burger teaches philosophy at Tulane University; she is the author of The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth from St. Augustine’s Press and Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics (University of Chicago Press).

Michael Davis teaches philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College; he authored Wonderlust: Ruminations on Liberal Education, The Poetry of Philosophy: On Aristotle’s Poetics and, with Seth Benardete, translated Aristotle – On Poetics, both from St. Augustine’s Press. Burger and Davis collaborated on editing Seth Benardete’s Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero (St. Augustine’s Press).