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Scepticism or Platonism?

by Harold Tarrant

Ancient PhilosophyPhilosophy, ancientPlatonistsSkeptics (greek philosophy)SkepticismPhilosophy and ethicsPlatonische Akademie

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.

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