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The Platonic Heritage: Further Studies in the History of Platonism and Early Christianity

By John M. Dillon

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
140944662X, 9781409446620, 9781351219228
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14760557 bytes)
Series
Variorum Collected Studies 1008
Pages
336\333
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2021-01-17 15:01:28

Description

This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition, and the setting of philosophers in their social and cultural contexts, while at the same time teasing out the philosophical implications of particular texts. Such topics are addressed as atomism in the Old Academy, Philo's concept of immateriality, Plutarch's and Julian's views on theology, and peculiar features of Iamblichus' exegeses of Plato and Aristotle, but also the broader questions of the social position of the philosopher in second century A.D. society, and the nature of ancient biography.

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