Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

This volume contains papers and commentaries presented at the 13th annual Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1990-1991. Along with a preface and introduction by the editor, it features the following major contributions: Harold Attridge, Gnostic Platonism ; Richard Kraut, Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521 ; Elizabeth Asmis, Epicurean Ethics ; Jaap Mansfield, The Concept of Will in Posidonius and Galen ; Christopher Rowe, Philosophy and Literature: The Arguments of Plato’s Phaedo ; Richard Patterson, The Ascent in Plato’s Sympostum ; and Richard Janko, Philodemus Restatus .