The book offers a felicitous opportunity for mining primary and secondary sources for anyone who is interested in the subjects of Platonic discursive and non-discursive thought, the tension between spiritual ascent and epistemology, or between divine gift and human virtue.

Journal of the History of Philosophy

This book makes an in-depth, compelling case for essential similarities between the philosophical doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. It also provides a clear and concise introduction to those doctrines, and to scholarly issues surrounding its topic.

Michael Wagner, Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego, USA

[This] book is highly accomplished in its scholarship and clear both in its structure and its style … [Its] grasp of the detail and its critical comparison are formidable.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review