Download or read book Reading Ancient Texts: Presocratics and Plato written by Denis O'Brien and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?