Background
Mourelatos, Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou was born on July 19, 1936 in Athens, Greece. Son of Dionysius Alexandrou and Elia Constantinou (Voutsara) Mourelatos. came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1968.
( Mourelatos’ study of the fragments of Parmenides’ poem ...)
Mourelatos’ study of the fragments of Parmenides’ poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Through philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in Parmenides’ text with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem’s key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially from Homer’s Odyssey, are explored in depth.
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Mourelatos, Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou was born on July 19, 1936 in Athens, Greece. Son of Dionysius Alexandrou and Elia Constantinou (Voutsara) Mourelatos. came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1968.
Bachelor, Yale, 1958. Master of Arts, Yale, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Athens, 1994.
Instructor philosophy Yale, New Haven, 1962-1964. Junior fellow Institute for Research in Humanities, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1964-1965. Assistant professor University Texas, Austin, 1965-1967.
Associate professor, 1967-1971. Professor University Texas, since 1971. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967-1968.
Visiting fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1978, 91. Visiting professor Carleton College, 1994.
( Mourelatos’ study of the fragments of Parmenides’ poem ...)
Member American Philological Association, American Philosophical Association, Society Ancient Greek Philosophy.