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This volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat topics including: mind and body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, a reconsideration of Socratic intellectualism, the positive motivational intent of Platonic poetics, politics and dialectic in the Statesman, Aristotle on community life, the nature of virtue according to Chrysippus, and the beauty of scientific knowledge in Proclus.

With one notable exception, this volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2006-7. That exception is the colloquium in which Alasdair MacIntyre offers a fresh reading of Plato's "Republic". Indeed, most of the papers included in this volume discuss a wide range of topics related to Plato, for instance, the dangers of misology in the "Phaedo", the Socratic use of rhetoric in the "Gorgias", Plato's anti-hedonism in the "Philebus", the link between mythical and logical thinking in the "Symposium", and...