Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism: Or Didaskalikos, Attributed to Alcinous (Long Identified with the Middle Platonist Albinus, But on Inadequate Grounds) (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)

by JohnDillon (Editor), Alcinous (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $66.96

  John Dillon presents an English translation of Alcinous' Handbook of Platonism, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary which explain the ideas in the work and show their intellectual and historical context. The Handbook purports to be an introduction to the doctrines of Plato, but in fact gives us an excellent survey of Platonist thought in the second century AD.