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Series: Philosophers in Context Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (February 1987) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312004850 ISBN-13: 978-0312004859 Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6 x 9 inches

Text: English, Latin

This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: Longinus, Plotinus, Porphyry and lamblichus. It documents and explains the coalescence of Aristotelian and Platonic elements in the...

Thomas Henri Martin. -- Reprint Of The 1841 Ed. Published By Ladrange, Paris. Texte Et Traduction Du Timée: P. [53]-244 Bis (2d Group) Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [385]-427 (3d Group)

Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation...

A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power

Text: English, Greek

Ivan M. Linforth ; Edited With An Introduction By Leonardo Tarán. Includes Bibliographies.

This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the...