Voula Tsouna is Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara. She earned her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Athens, and completed her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge under the direction of Myles Burnyeat and the University of Paris X under the direction of Jacques Brunschwig. She has been fellow of the Instituto per lo studio dei papyri ercolanesi in Naples, Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellow of the Onassis Foundation, Centenary Fellow of the Scottish Philosophical Association for 2016, Beaufort Fellow at St John’s College (Cambridge, 2015), and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ’s College (Cambridge, 2016). Since 1997 she has been Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published the following books: [Philodemus] [On Choices and Avoidances] (Naples 1995), co-authored with Giovanni Indelli and recipient of the Theodor Mommsen Award 1995; The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1998), also translated and published in modern Greek (PEK: Athens 2018); The Ethics of Philodemus (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2007); Philodemus On Property Management (Society of Biblical Literature, 2012); and a volume of collected essays translated into modern Greek with the title Knowledge, Virtue, Happiness (Ekkremes editions: Athens 2012). Moreover, she has published over seventy articles on Socrates, the Minor Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic and Roman philosophers.







