The Enneads by Plotinus, Introduction: John Dillon

The Enneads by Plotinus, Introduction: John Dillon

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

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...
The Greek Sophists, edited by John Dillon

The Greek Sophists, edited by John Dillon

​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...
Neoplatonic Philosophy by John Dillon and Lloyd P. Gerson

Neoplatonic Philosophy by John Dillon and Lloyd P. Gerson

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...
The Heirs of Plato by John Dillon

The Heirs of Plato by John Dillon

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...