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Ahura Mazda
Ammonius Saccas
ancient biography studies
ancient philosophy
Author_John Dillon
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Book III
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De Facie
De Genio Socratis
De Mysteriis
De Procreatione Animae
Demiurgic Intellect
Disorderly Soul
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early Christian thought
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Holy Man
Home Town
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Indefinite Dyad
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Irrational Parts
King Helios
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Middle Platonic
Middle Platonic Period
Middle Platonism
Neoplatonism
Non-literal Interpretation
Nonliteral Interpretation
Personal Daemon
philosophical exegesis
Platonic tradition in late antiquity
Platonist Exegesis
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Pop Stars
Pythagoreanizing Platonism
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Timaeus Commentary
Triadic Division
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409446620
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
John Dillon is Emeritus Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
