Christian Wildberg (born 1957) is a German classical scholar and Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

. He is emeritus professor of classics at Princeton University. He is known for his works on

Greek philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC. Philosophy was used to make sense of the world using reason. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, epistemology, mathematics, political philosophy, ethics, metaphysic ...

Books

* Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. London: Duckworth 1987, 188pp. * John Philoponus’ Criticism of Aristotle's Theory of Aether. Peripatoi 16, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter 1988, 274pp. * Simplicius against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World. London: Duckworth 1991, pp. 95–135. (Co-authored with David Furley). * Hyperesie und Epiphanie. Ein Versuch über die Bedeutung der Götter in den Dramen des Euripides. Zetemata 109, Beck Verlag, München 2002, 231pp.

Edited

* Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century. Co-edited with Martin Cropp, Kevin Lee, David Sansone, Eric Csapo and Donald Mastronarde. Illinois Classical Studies 24/25, Champaign, Il., 2000. * Religion, Mysticism, and Ethics: A Cross-traditional Anthology. Co-edited with Daniel Zelinski. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 9. Saur Verlag Munich, 2007. * New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo. A collection of interpretative articles on Aristotle's cosmological treatise. Co-edited with Alan Bowen. Philosophia Antiqua 117, Brill, Leiden 2009, 321pp. * Dionysos und die vordionysischen Kulte. A posthumous edition of Vyacheslav Ivanov's manuscript on Dionysiac Religion. Co-editor with Michael Wachtel. Mohr Siebeck 2012, 416pp. * A Handbook of Neoplatonism. Oxford University Press (in preparation).

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* 1957 births Living people 21st-century German philosophers German philosophy academics Princeton University faculty Scholars of ancient Greek literature University of Marburg alumni German classical scholars Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of Pittsburgh faculty {{Germany-philosopher-stub