Bøger af Harold Tarrant

"This book turns a text that has been easy to ignore into an important resource for an area of ancient Greek thought that deserves more attention. Harold Tarrant's reflections on the provenance of the Second Alcibiades and its discussion of prayer are by turns suggestive and forensic, and offer fruitful provocation for us to think more about the rise of skepticism in Plato's Academy." --George Boys-Stones, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto "Tarrant's volume is an excellent and multifaceted guide to both the dialogue itself and its contexts, philosophical, literary and historical. The discussion of authenticity is state-of-the-art, and the engaging translation is also recommended for teaching. Everyone working on the Second Alcibiades should have this work on hand." --Dr. Alex Long, Senior Lecturer, School of Classics, University of St. Andrews

Plato's Meno is a dynamic and entertaining examination of the nature and origin of the kind of excellence displayed by successful Greek leaders. That such excellence existed was difficult to deny, but people expected to show it often disappointed, and others expected to know about it seemed confused.

Collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century. This title deals with Socrates, Plato and the Old Academy, the Platonic revival and the 2nd century AD, and later Neoplatonism.

With his extensive knowledge of the ways in which Plato was read and invoked as an authority in late antiquity Dr Tarrant builds a most impressive reconstruction of Philo of Larissa's brand of Platonism and of its arrival in Middle Platonism, particularly that of Plutarch, long after the Academy's institutional demise.