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Article: Dillon, John. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.).(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- September 1, 2006
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DILLON, John. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. x + 252 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper $35.00--John Dillon, a distinguished classical scholar, now serving as Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, has provided in The Heirs of Plato what is likely to be for decades the authoritative scholarly account of the philosophical development and doings in Athens of the Academy of Plato during the first century after his death. This generally well-received book has been properly acclaimed as "learned, clear, stimulating, and extremely useful ... a mind-expanding tonic." It has also been said, "John Dillon has done ...
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