Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptics

By Charles Brittain

This is the first book-length study of Philo of Larissa (159-84 BC), leader of the Platonic Academy in its final period as an Athenian institution, and also the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. The appendix contains full testimonia and "fragments" of Philo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198152981
• ISBN13: 9780198152989
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"