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Plato and the Founding of the Academy: Based on a Letter from Plato, newly discovered

Dickens

In narrative style, Plato and the Founding of the Academy illustrates how the dialogue usually known as the Republic (but which Plato called the Polity) is constructed on the basis of simple but technical mathematical and harmonical principles, or numbers.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
  • Publish Date: Nov 8th, 2002
  • Pages: 238
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 6.06in - 0.69in - 0.71lb
  • EAN: 9780761824350
  • Categories: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

About the Author

John Bremer is Director of the Institute of Philosophy in Kensington, MD.