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Book Title: From Plato to Platonism
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Lloyd P. Gerson
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Individual Philosophers, Ancient / Greece, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: History, Philosophy
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
