Scepticism or Platonism?
Subtitle: the philosophy of the Fourth Academy
By: Harold Tarrant.
Series: Cambridge classical studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient
Description: With his extensive knowledge of the ways in which Plato was read and invoked as an authority in late antiquity Dr Tarrant builds a most impressive reconstruction of Philo of Larissa's brand of Platonism and of its arrival in Middle Platonism, particularly that of Plutarch, long after the Academy's institutional demise.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-175.
Includes indexes.