HoP 078 - Middle Men - the Platonic Revival
April 29th, 2012
Pioneering thinkers Eudorus, Alcinous, and Numenius fuse Pythagoreanism with Platonism and pave the way for Plotinus.
HoP 077 - Caesarian Section – Philosophy in the Roman Empire
April 22nd, 2012
In late antiquity, Aristotelianism and Platonism made a comeback, and pagan philosophy developed alongside Judaism and Christianity.
HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen
April 15th, 2012
Jim Hankinson tells Peter about the life, work and philosophical contributions of Galen
HoP 075 - The Joy of Sects - Ancient Medicine and Philosophy
April 8th, 2012
Hellenistic doctors discover the nerves and argue about method; Galen passes judgment
HoP 074 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy
April 1st, 2012
Leading Hellenistic philosophy scholar Tony Long talks to Peter about the self, ethics and politics in the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics
