Angela Ulacco is Assistant Professor (Ricercatrice in Tenure-track) in the Dipartimento di Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’Arte. After obtaining her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pisa in 2010, she held postdoctoral positions at the universities of Tübingen, Pisa, and the KU Leuven. From 2013 to 2019, she held a chair of Greek Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. From 2020 to 2021, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Feodor-Lynen Experienced Research Fellow at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). From 2021 to 2025, she was a Research Associate at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the KU Leuven as part of the ERC Advanced Project, ‘Not Another History of Platonism’ (grant agreement No. 885273).
Her research focuses on the intersections of philosophical traditions in Antiquity, especially that between Pythagoreanism, Plato and Platonism, and Aristotle. She has worked on topics in the philosophy of nature, metaphysics, and psychology. She has also published on the relationship between epistemic authority, exegesis, and pseudepigraphy in Antiquity, as well as questions of methodology in the history of philosophy.
Publications (selection)Monographs2017
Pseudopythagorica Dorica. I trattati di argomento metafisico, logico ed epistemologico attribuiti ad Archita e a Brotino. Introduzione, traduzione, commento. Berlin. De Gruyter.
Open-acccess reviews: Dorandi, T. in
Sehepunkte, 18/6 (2018) ; Chiaradonna, R. in
Mediterranea, 4 (2019), 221-236 ; Zhmud, L. in
Gnomon, 92/5 (2020), 401-405.
Edited VolumesForthc. 2026
The role of Aristotle’s assessment of Platonic philosophy in the shaping of ancient Platonism. Volume 3: Defending Plato’s physics: Matter, Place and Elemental Bodies, (with J. Opsomer). Berlin/Boston. De Gruyter.
2022
Dealing with Disagreement. The construction of traditions in later ancient philosophy (with A. Joosse). Turnhout. Brepols.
2019
Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and ancient Platonism (with M. Bonazzi et F. Forcignanò). Leiden/Boston. Brill.
2012
Il Timeo. Esegesi greche, arabe, latine. Atti dell’Incontro di Culture GRAL (with F. Celia). Pisa. Plus.
Journal Articles 2025 “Ps.-Timaeus Locrus on the generation of the world”.
Méthexis 37.2, pp. 186-208.
“Di destini umani, punizioni e corpi animali. Ps.-Timeo di Locri e l’esegesi di
Timeo 90e1-92c90”.
Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, CXVII (2025), 1, pp. 69-84.
2024 “Filosofia, esegesi e pseudepigrafia negli
Pseudopythagorica ”.
Syzetesis - Rivista di filosofia 11, pp. 303-314.
2023 “Sacrifici non cruenti, giustizia inter-specie e comunità. Osservazioni su alcuni passaggi della
Vita Pitagorica di Giamblico”.
Archivio di Filosofia, 91/1, pp. 121-131.
2020 “Autorità epistemica e storia della filosofia: un caso dalla filosofia antica”.
Archivio di Storia della Cultura, 33, pp. 34-48.
2014 “Elements and elemental properties in Timaeus Locrus” (with J. Opsomer).
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 157/2, pp. 154-206.
Articles in Edited Volumes2020 “The creation of authority in Pseudo-Pythagorean texts and their reception in late ancient philosophy”. In:
Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, J. Papy and E. Gielen (eds.).Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 183-214.
2020 “Die kosmische Seele bei Ps.-Timaios Lokros und den anderen Pseudopythagorica : kosmologische und erkenntnistheoretische Aspekte”. In
World Soul – Anima Mundi On the Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea, C. Helmig (ed.). Berlin, De Gruyter, pp. 189-210.
2019 “Die präkosmische Bewegung in Platons
Timaios : ἴχνη, χώρα and Ideen”. In :
Platon und die Physis, D. Koch, I. Männlein-Robert, and N. Weidtmann (eds.). Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 185-202.
2016 “Epistemic Authority in Textual Traditions: a Model and Some Examples from Ancient Philosophy” (with J. Opsomer). In:
Shaping Authority, J. Leemans, B. Meijns, and S. Boodts (eds.). Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 21-46.
2016 “The appropriation of Aristotle in the Ps-Pythagorean treatises”. In
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity, A. Falcon (ed.). Leiden, Brill, pp. 202-217.
2011 “Malattia e alterazione del calore naturale: medicina ippocratica e fisiologia aristotelica negli
hosa iatrika e in altri
Problemata pseudo-aristotelici”. In
Studi sui Problemata Physica aristotelici, B. Centrone (ed.). Naples, Bibliopolis, pp. 59-88.
Funded Projects (Selection)2018
DFG - Villa Vigoni, (Deutsch-Italienisches Gespräch) for the conference
Platons Philebos und das gute Leben. Fragen und Perspektiven.
2016
Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung for publishing assistance.
2016
Juniorprofessur Forschungsprogramm Baden-Württemberg for the projet
Ideas, Numbers, Categories. Pythagorean Authority in Late Ancient Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science.
2015
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies for the conference
Heterodoxy and Tradition. Conflict and Dialogue in ancient Pagan and Christian Philosophy.
2015
Programme DAAD Hochschuldialog mit Südeuropa for the organisation of a bilateral conference between Freiburg and Milan.
2014
Juniorprofessur Lehrprogramm Baden-Württemberg for the consolidation of teaching activity.
Editorship2023 Co-founder and co-editor of the series
Philosophy from Imperial Times to the End of Antiquity/Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
2014 - 2017 Editor-in-chief of the
Plato Journal:
The Journal of the International Plato Society