This volume presents essays and seminars by Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede, two of the most eminent scholars of ancient philosophy in recent decades, on the fascinating and much-debated Seventh Platonic Letter. They question the authenticity of the letter by showing how its philosophical content conflicts with the Platonic dialogues.

Myles Burnyeat is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of Robinson College.
Michael Frede was formerly Professor of the History of Philosophy at Oxford University.
Dominic Scott is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent.

• Editor's Introduction


• Sicily time-line


• Part I: Michael Frede


• Seminar 1


• Seminar 2


• Seminar 3


• Seminar 4


• Seminar 5


• Appendix


• Editor's Guide


• Endnotes


• Facsimile pages of Michael Frede's notes


• Part II: Myles Burnyeat


• 1: The pseudo-philosophical digression in Epistle VII


• The second prose tragedy: a literary analysis 116 of the pseudo-Platonic Epistle VII


• Appendix: Verbal repetitiveness in Epistle VII


• Bibliography