Essay: introduction to The Lockdown Papers

Essay: introduction to The Lockdown Papers

Feb 18, 2021 | Blog

I always wanted to be a ‘writer’ – that is to say, a rather louche character with long, straggly hair, a mauve smoking jacket, a cigarette holder, and perhaps a sultry mistress, based preferably somewhere on the Riviera, or possibly one of the smaller islands of the...

The Lockdown Papers by John Dillon

Feb 12, 2021 | Current Books

ISBN 978-1-5272487-7-9 / 270 pp / 6” x 9” / €10.95 / Pub date: 03 March 2021 “A witty and well written book, which combines scholarship with acute observation ….” – John Bruton “A delightful pot pourri, at times idiosyncratic but written with old-style elegance...
The Scent of Eucalyptus by John Dillon

The Scent of Eucalyptus by John Dillon

Feb 12, 2021 | Current Books

ISBN 978-1-9999075-6-3  / 420 pages / €15.95 / by order from any bookshop A fully revised new edition of this irreverent coming of age novel set in Ethiopia Wonderfully observed. Ethiopia … as landscape and history, is solidly ‘there’.  – Seamus Heaney An...
The Enneads by Plotinus, Introduction: John Dillon

The Enneads by Plotinus, Introduction: John Dillon

Feb 12, 2021 | Books

Penguin Classics, 1991 Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of...
The Middle Platonists by John Dillon

The Middle Platonists by John Dillon

Feb 12, 2021 | Books

Bristol Classical Press, 1996 This work, which is the first book-length study in any language of the whole development of Platonism in the 300 years between Cicero and Plotinus, the author lays the scholarly and intellectual groundwork for what is now recognised as a...