• Research Interests
• Teaching
• Publications

Kenneth Moore (PhD, St-And) studied Literary Theory and Classics at Birmingham-Southern College, U.S.A. where he received a B.A. in 1994, Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the Florida State University, U.S.A., graduating with an M.A. in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of St. Andrews, U.K. in 2003. He taught Classics and Ancient History at F. S. U. and has tutored at St. Andrews in the Classics from 2000 to the present as well as Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh since 2005. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Project Archelogos in the department of Philosophy at Edinburgh.

Research Interests

Platonic political theory, morality and metaphysics, ancient utopianism and theory of sexuality.

Publications

Books

• Sex and the Second-Best City: A study of sex and society in the Laws of Plato, Routledge 2005.

Reviews

• Review of A Journey into Platonic Politics: Plato's Laws, by Albert Whitaker in Polis: The Journal of Greek Political Thought, October 2005.

Papers

• 'Telling on the Spartans: Wagging the Dog in Utopia,' to be presented at the University of St. Andrews postgraduate seminar, 20 April 2005.
• 'A Special Definition of Manliness in Plato's Laws,' presented at the University of St. Andrews postgraduate seminar, 20 March 2002.
• 'Educating Magnesia: Plato on Pedagogy in the Laws,' presented at the St. Andrews University School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History Class Seminar, 16th February 2001.
• 'The Role of Women in Plato's Laws,' first presented at the Scottish Classics Postgraduate Conference at St. Andrews in March 1998. A revised version of the same paper was presented at the First International Congress on Ancient Thought: Plato's Laws and their Historical Significance, at the University of Salamanca, Spain, on 25 November 1998.
• 'Reader Response in William S. Burroughs' Wild Boys,' presented on 11 May 1994, during the Honours Symposium at Birmingham-Southern, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
• 'The Changing Myth: Star Trek and Star Trek the Next Generation,' presented at Popular Culture Association of the Southeast conference in October 1993, at the Regal Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Forthcoming Publications

• ‘From Erōs to Mania via Hybris: Same-Sex Love and Desire in Plato’s Laws’. Polis vol. 24 (2007), issue 1.

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