Myles Burnyeat was formerly Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Volume 3. Introduction; Part I. The Republic: 1. Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul; 2. Long walk to wisdom; 3. The truth of tripartition; 4. Plato and the dairy-maids: the distribution of happiness inside and outside the ideal city of the Republic; 5. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV; 6. Fathers and sons in Plato's Republic and Philebus; 7. By the Dog; 8. Culture and society in Plato's Republic; Part II. The Past in the Present: 9. Plato; 10. James Mill on Thomas Taylor's Plato; 11. What was 'the common arrangement'? An inquiry into John Stuart Mill's boyhood reading of Plato; 12. The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain; Appendix: The Archaeology of Feeling; Volume 4. Introduction; Part I. Ontology and Epistemology: 1a. Apology 30b2-4: Socrates, money, and the grammar of ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿; 1b. On the source of Burnet's construal of Apology 30b2-4: a correction; 2. Plato on how not to speak of what is not: Euthydemus 283a-288a; 3. Platonism in the Bible: Numenius of Apamea on Exodus and eternity; 4. Kinêsis vs. energeia: a much-read passage in (but not of) Aristotle's Metaphysics; 5. De Anima II.5; 6. Aquinas on 'spiritual change' in perception; 7. Epistêmê; Part II. Physics and Optics: 8. ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿; 9. Aristotle on the foundations of sublunary physics; 10. Archytas and optics; 11. 'All the world's a stage-painting'.

Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, on Plato, Aristotle, central topics in ancient philosophy, and its later reception.