Platonic Heritage

This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006 the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy through Philo and Middle Platonism to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Particular concerns evidenced in the papers are the continuities in the Platonic tradition and the setting of philosophers in their social and cultural contexts while at the same time teasing out the philosophical implications of particular texts. Such topics are addressed as atomism in the Old Academy Philo's concept of immateriality Plutarch's and Julian's views on theology and peculiar features of Iamblichus' exegeses of Plato and Aristotle but also the broader questions of the social position of the philosopher in second century A.D. society and the nature of ancient biography.