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...
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...
Penguin Classics, 2003 By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2004 John Dillon’s exploration of Athenian society vividly brings to life how the ancient Greeks behaved towards each other. How did husbands treat their wives and parents their children? What were the rights enjoyed, and the perils...
Hackett, 2004 The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general...
Oxford University Press, 2005 This 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 70 years or so following his death in 347 BC – generally known as ‘The Old...
