Simon Trépanier

Biographic Data

ID1138476
NAMESimon Trépanier
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMETrépanier
SIGNATURETRÉPANIER S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-8891-3482
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Rereading Plato’s Republic

    Mary Margaret Mccabe, Simon TrépanierBOOKRereading Plato’s Republic2025

    Plato’s Republic is the master’s masterpiece; but how to go about interpreting it is still disputed. Indeed, it may be a masterpiece just because how to understand it is fiercely controversial. This collection of 24 original essays by an international mix of junior and senior scholars reconsiders the Republic as a written text and rethinks its philosophical legacy. The volume seeks to explore how the Republic goes about doing philosophy with its …

  • Empedocles on the Origin of Plants

    Simon TrépanierCHAPTERPresocratics and Papyrological…2019

  • From Hades to the Stars

    Simon TrépanierARTICLEClassical Antiquity2017

    καὶ πῶς τις ἀνάξει αὐτοὺς εἰς φῶς, ὥσπερ ἐξ Ἅιδου λέγονται δή τινες εἰς θεοὺς ἀνελθεῖν; Plato Republic 521c This study reconstructs Empedocles’ eschatology and cosmology, arguing that they presuppose one another. Part one surveys body and soul in Empedocles and argues that the transmigrating daimon is a long-lived compound made of the elements air and fire. Part two shows that Empedocles situates our current life in Hades, then considers the test…

  • Empedocles, On Nature 1.273-287

    Simon TrépanierARTICLEMnemosyne2017References: 7

    This article presents a new, complete edition of Empedocles, On Nature 1.265-290, in particular lines 1.273-287 or a (ii) 3-17 of the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles, P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666 . The edition is based on two new supplements to section a (ii) grounded on doxographic testimony. These new supplements confirm that the passage is devoted to cosmology, specifically the relation between place and the elements. That in turn provides a…

  • Empedocles

    Simon TrépanierBOOKEmpedocles2014

    Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.

  • Xi — The Didactic Plot of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, and Its Empedoclean Model

    Open AccessSimon TrépanierARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2007

    XI — THE DIDACTIC PLOT OF LUCRETIUS, DE RERUM NATURA, AND ITS EMPEDOCLEAN MODEL Get access SIMON TRÉPANIER SIMON TRÉPANIER University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_1, June 2007, Pages 243–282, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02427.x Published: 20 January 2014

  • Empedocle

    Simon Trépanier, Jean Bollack et al.ARTICLEPhoenix2004

  • We' and Empedocles' Cosmic Lottery

    Simon Trépanier, Trépanier TrépanierARTICLEMnemosyne2003Cited by: 2

    This paper presents an alternative interpretation and reconstruction of ensemble a from the Strasbourg papyrus of Empedocles, P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666 , first published by A. Martin and O. Primavesi in 1999. I claim that Martin and Primavesi's working hypothesis for the reconstruction of lines a (ii) 3-17 , upon which most of their individual supplements rely, is wrong, and that the doctrinal implications they draw from it are unfounded. Aga…

  • The Structure of Empedocles’ Fragment 17

    Open AccessSimon TrépanierARTICLEEssays in Philosophy2000

    Fragment 17 of Empedocles has long been recognized as the most important in the corpus. In 1998, the significance of this 35-line fragment was further increased by the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus, containing roughly 74 lines of Empedocles