John Dillon

JOHN DILLON was born in 1939 and educated at Downside School and Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught Classics at Berkeley from 1966 to 1980, returning from there to become Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include The Middle Platonists (1977, 2nd edn 1996), Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria (with David Winston, 1983), Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism (1993), and The Heirs of Plato (2003).