Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199257584)

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he reconstructs for the first time a coherent political philosophy of Late Platonism.

Author: Dominic J. O'Meara
ISBN-10: 0199257582
ISBN-13: 9780199257584
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2003
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.60w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1678