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This volume, the fifth year of published proceedings, contains eleven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1988-89. 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. Daniel C. Shartin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches courses in ancient philosophy, logic, and philosophy of mind. Prof. Shartin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA. He has written on Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics, and currently he is working on the middle Platonic dialogues.

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