Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature.

The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting

Studies Plato's Republic and other dialogues.

Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency in