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This volume, the third year of published proceedings, contains nine papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1986-87. The commentators take up the themes of these papers, in some instances developing and building on the main argument, while in others offering direct challenges to the principal author’s thesis.

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This series well illustrates the liveliness of scholarly debate in the field of ancient philosophy; the diversity of approaches to the great classics, as well as the recent revival of interest in less known figures that have been unduly neglected....The index is a welcome addition...--Gisela Striker

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John J. Cleary is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at NUI, Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1982. He was director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor of this series of proceedings. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, including a monograph on Aristotle and Mathematics (Leiden, 1995). Currently he is studying the role of paideia in ancient political thought.

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