Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Gore Vidal's beautiful novel Julian about the life of the Emperor who tried to convert ...
Plotinus was one of the most important philosophers of the late Roman Empire and his impact can be seen even today. He started Neoplatonism, a way of thinking that had a big impact on Western and ...
Plotinus was born around the year 204 or 205 AD, most likely in Egypt, which was then part of the Roman Empire. He is remembered today as the founder of a school of thought called Neoplatonism. In ...
The year 529 is a seminal date, and a handy one to keep in mind when trying to untangle Plato first from Platonism and then from Christianity. In that year, Plato's Academy was finally closed in ...