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Man, soul and body : essays in ancient thought from Plato to Dionysius / John M. Rist

This collection examines Greco-Roman debates on morality and the relationship between soul and body. The papers analyse the intersection of ethics, biology, and cosmology in the work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus through to late antiquity.

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