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Fábio Alexandre Matilde Serranito (b. 1982) is a researcher in Philosophy, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main (ongoing) work is “Μανία and Φρονεῖν: A Philosophical Problem in Plato’s Phaedrus”, expected to be completed in 2014.

has written several publications and proceedings regarding Ancient Philosophy, mainly Plato and Aristotle; ancient Greek cultural history; ancient Greek religion; ancient Greek rhetoric; Greek tragedy and comedy and Greek perspectives on love and homosexuality.

Language skills: Besides my native language, Portuguese, I am fluent in English and French.

I also have good reading skills in a variety of other languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish,

Italian and German.

Education

2010-2013: Researcher, University of Leeds, Department of Classics

2006-2008 – Masters Degree in Philosophy, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Dissertation: “O Fenómeno da Μανία no Fedro de Platão”, a preliminary analysis of μανία in Plato’s Phaedrus.

2002-2006 – Bachelors Degree in Philosophy, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Dissertation: “Φιλία em Aristóteles”, an investigation on the notion of φιλία in Nichomachean Ethics books 8 and 9.

Publications

Serranito, F. 2012. Φρονεῖν e Ἡδονή – Encontros e Desavenças. In: Caeiro, A. C., Carvalho,

M. J. Incursões no Filebo – Estudos sobre Platão. Porto: Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, 11-43.

Serranito, F. 2013. A Somewhat Unconvincing Start: The First Three Kinds of Beneficial

Μανία in the Palinode. In: Caeiro, A.C., Carvalho, M. J., Telo, H., In the Mirror of the

Phaedrus. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 77-112.

Conference Papers:

June 2010: First Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference – Department of Classics, University of Leeds

“The War Within: Stasis, Homonoia and the Definition of Eros in Phaedrus 237d- 238c”

June 2011: Second Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference – Department of Classics, University of Leeds: “The Rape of Oreithuia and Other Love Stories”

June 2013: Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference – Department

of Classics, University of Leeds

“Gods Old and New: Echoes of a New Theology in Plato’s Phaedrus”

2013: Member of the Organising Committee for the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary

Postgraduate Research Conference – Department of Classics, University of Leeds.

2012: Exam Invigilation at the University of Leeds.

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2008-2010: Participation in the Ancient Philosophy Permanent Seminar, led by Prof. Mário

Jorge de Carvalho, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

This seminar consisted in a translation of Plato’s Philebus into Portuguese, together with a

philological commentary.

2008-2010: Participation in the Permanent Seminar on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, led

by Prof. Mário Jorge de Carvalho, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade

Nova de Lisboa.

2008-2011: Preparation of an unpublished translation of Petrus Hispanus’ Summulae

Logicales, in collaboration with Hélder Telo.