Plato's Academy

Plato's Academy
Author: Paul Kalligas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108426441


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A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.


Plato's Academy
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Paul Kalligas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also incl
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Categories: History
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Pages: 262
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Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-30 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Arthur M. Field
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Founded by Cosimo de' Medici in the early 1460s, the Platonic Academy shaped the literary and artistic culture of Florence in the later Renaissance and influenc
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Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: C. D. C. Reeve
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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