Download or read book Philo of Larissa written by Charles Brittain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of Philo of Larissa (159-84 BC), leader of the Platonic Academy in its final period as an Athenian institution, and also the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. The appendix contains full testimonia and "fragments" of Philo.