Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in... » 

Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas. He also reconstructs a coherent political philosophy of Late Platonism. «