Author: Damascius the Neo-Platonist.
Title: EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF ISIDORE.
Description: An interested party posted this typed mss. to HPG in the early 80s for possible publication. FINE RESEARCH COPY, being a Typed Manuscript of 165 leaves, double spaced, In a sturdy binder. Also, includes additional material on the last days of the Academy in Athens, being a photocopy of Allen Cameron's article from the Cambridge Philological Society, 1969. Isidore is known principally as the teacher of Damascius, whose testimony in his Life of Isidore presents Isidore in a very favorable light as a man and a thinker. Damascius' Life is preserved in summary form by Photius in his Bibliotheca, and in fragments in the Suda. This is the first English translation of the Life of Isidore, based the text, Damascii Vitae Isidori Reliquae, published by Olms in 1969.

Keywords: ancient philosophy Greek mysteries Platonic thought