Download or read book The Handbook of Platonism written by Alcinous and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dillon presents the first English translation of Alcinous's Handbook of Platonism, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary that reveal the intellectual background to the ideas in the work. The Handbook purports to be an introduction to the doctrines of Plato, but in fact gives us an excellent survey of Platonist thought in the second century A.D.