Auteur: John Dillon

The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato’s followers in the first seventy years or so following his death i …

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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 …

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 …

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O’Brien, former Directeur de recherche at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, representing the …

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O’Brien, former Directeur de recherche at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, representing the …

By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was t …

The Scent of Eucalyptusis a coming of age novel set in Ethiopia in the early 1960s. Luke La Touche, freshly graduated from Oxford, resists settling down immediately into a career and heads instead fo …

A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama. Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female …

The volume contains a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium, which took place in Hvar, Croatia, in 2006. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the study of …

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus ( c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as …

The Lockdown Papers is a miscellany of satire,  reflection and analysis of Irish life over five decades from academic and columnist John Dillon.  When Ireland went into lockdown in Mar …

Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was …

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Paperback Format is Black and White while e Book is in color .  God’s creation is intricate, delicate, magnificent, colorful, majestic, surprising, peaceful, powerful, awe-inspiring, and so much …

This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community. Travel to well-known destinations and pursuit o …

Until the launch of this series in 1985, the 15, 000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek phil …

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus ( c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as …

A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama. Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female …

Dexippus, a pupil or follower of lamblichus, preserves a crucial moment in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle. Aristotle”s Categories has been attacked by Plotinus, but Porphyry”s defence …