In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens
broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical
school there arose the new dogmatic philosophy of Antiochus,
synthesized from Stoicism and Platonism, and the hardline
Pyrrhonist scepticism of Aenesidemus. 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. Particularly valuable is his
exploitation for this purpose of a text barely discussed since its
publication 80 years ago - a commentary on Plato's Theaetetus whose
unidentified author Dr Tarrant has cogently argued to be a follower
of Philo. Among many other achievements, Dr Tarrant throws much
light on the relation of Aenesideman scepticism to the Academy.
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