Derek Duplessie is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University. Although his philosophical interests span the history of philosophy, his research and writing focuses predominately on the relationship between classical Greek philosophy and the Greek poetic tradition.
Education Background
Ph.D, Philosophy, Tulane University
M.A., Philosophy, Tulane University
B.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
Courses Taught
Socrates and the Search for Truth
Ethics and the Good Life
Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature
Love and Friendship
Individual and Community
God and the Philosophers
Plato
Publications
Down from the Clouds: Aristophanes and Plato on the Problem of Socrates (Mercer University Press), April 2027.
“The Tragedy of Dionysus in Euripides’ Bacchae.” POLIS: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 2024.
“Commentary on Irani.” Proceedings of The Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy, 2024
“Socrates’ Analysis of Comedy in Plato’s Philebus.” Review of Metaphysics, 2020.
“Erotic Revolutions in Ecclesiazusae and Republic V” in Nature, Law, and the Sacred, ed. Evanthia Speliotis. Mercer University Press, 2020.