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This volume, the second year of published proceedings, contains nine papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1985-86. The commentators take up the themes of these papers, in some instances developing and building on the main argument, while in others offering direct challenges to the principal author’s thesis.

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"""The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy is known for scholarship of the highest caliber."" F. A. Grabowski, (Rogers State University) in CHOICE, vol. 53, no. 5 (2016)"

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John J. Cleary is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at NUI, Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1982. He was director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor of this series of proceedings. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, including a monograph on Aristotle and Mathematics (Leiden, 1995). Currently he is studying the role of paideia in ancient political thought.

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