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The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC

By John Dillon

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
9780199279463, 0199279462
Open Library ID
OL7404961M
Language
english
Format
DOC
Filesize
1 MB (1547776 bytes)
Pages
260\0
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC--the period generally known as 'The Old Academy'. Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of Plato, were independent philosophers in their own right, and felt free to develop his heritage in individual directions. Dillon's clear and accessible book fills a significant gap in our understanding of Plato's immediate philosophical influence, and will be of great value to scholars and historians of ancient philosophy.

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