Download or read book The Middle Platonists written by John M. Dillon and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1977 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Middle Platonists' is a work that focuses on the period of intellectual activity which flourished from the time of the "dogmatist" Antiochus Aschalon (ca. 80 BC) to Ammonius Saccas (ca. 220 AD), the mysterious "teacher" of the great Plotinus.