Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity

By Dominic J. O'Meara

Book Overview

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. But 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199285535
• ISBN13: 9780199285532
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.1"