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      From the Pseudopythagorica to the Neopythagoreans

      The original essays in this volume continue the collective exploration of the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans in the Hellenistic and Imperial times, initiated in the same series…

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      Orphee et l'Orphisme dans l'Antiquite greco-romaine

      Luc Brisson

      The main purpose of this book is to provide a contextualization of the Orphic fragments cited by Medio-Platonists and Neo-Platonists, Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author concludes that the Rhapsodies…

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      Plato the Myth Maker

      Luc Brisson

      Reconstructing Plato’s multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the Atlantis story, Luc Brisson also contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of…

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      Plato the Myth Maker

      Luc Brisson

      In this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato’s multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter’s famous Atlantis story. He also contrasts this sense of myth, as…

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      How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

      Luc Brisson

      Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on…

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      How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology

      Luc Brisson

      Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on…

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      Plato’s Universe

      Gregory Vlastos

      Discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the cosmos on man’s perception of his place in the universe, and describes the problems this posed. In an analysis of the…

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      Inventing the Universe: Plato’s Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge

      Luc Brisson,F. Walter Meyerstein

      A parallel investigation of both Plato’s Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible…

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      Inventing the Universe: Plato’s Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge

      Luc Brisson,F. Walter Meyerstein

      A parallel investigation of both Plato’s Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible…

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      Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

      Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the…

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      Plato’s Parmenides: Selected Papers of the Twelfth Symposium Platonicum

      This book provides an introduction to six key concepts within philosophy: philosophy itself, language, knowledge, truth, being and the good. At the same time, it aims to initiate its readers…

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      Pythagoras Redivivus: Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

      This original collection of essays by some of the best world specialists of ancient Greek philosophy focuses on the philosophical texts written during the Hellenistic and Imperial times under the…

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      Making Sense of Myth

      Gerard Naddaf

      For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human - a condition of life for all. Making…

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      Making Sense of Myth

      Gerard Naddaf

      For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human - a condition of life for all. Making…

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      Lectures de Platon

      Luc Brisson (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

      Les etudes ici reunies rendent compte de ce que furent le contexte historique et litteraire de la redaction des dialogues platoniciens, puis de la maniere dont leur auteur a choisi…

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      Introduction a la Philosophie Du Mythe Tome I: Sauver Les Mythes

      Luc Brisson (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

      Depuis l'Antiquite jusqu'a la Renaissance, la transmission des mythes de la Grece Ancienne et de Rome fut assuree de facon paradoxale par la philosophie qui, apres avoir denonce l'incapacite de…

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      Platon 1995-2000 Bibliographie

      Luc Brisson (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris),Benoit Castelnerac

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      Platon 1990-1995: Bibliographie

      Luc Brisson (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris),Frederic Plin

      La bibliographie Platon 1990-1995 prend concretement la suite du travail bibliographique (couvrant la periode 1950-1990) deja paru dans la revue Lustrum publiee a Gottingen et qui preserve, pour l'essentiel, la…

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      Etudes Sur La Republique: Vol. 1: de la Justice, Education, Psychologie Et Politique

      Meme si elle tient a la fois de la poesie et du sermon, la Republique est avant tout un livre de philosophie. Et Nettleship, un de ses plus grands interpretes…

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      Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception

      In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features…

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      Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge

      Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than…

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