{"id":1928,"date":"2019-12-13T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:49:44","slug":"platos-timaeus-and-the-missing-fourth-guest-finding-the-harmony-of-the-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/platos-timaeus-and-the-missing-fourth-guest-finding-the-harmony-of-the-spheres\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato&#8217;s Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest: Finding the Harmony of the Spheres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna M. Altimari Adler, Ph.D., long time member of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies,  is pleased to announce that Brill Academic Publishers will be releasing her new book, Plato&#8217;s Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest: Finding the Harmony of the Spheres on December 24, 2019. This technical work in ancient philosophy solves a very old puzzle and will be most useful to scholars of ancient cosmology, the history of ideas, and the roots of western music theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna M. Altimari Adler, Ph.D., long time member of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, is pleased to announce that Brill Academic Publishers will be releasing her new book, Plato&#8217;s Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest: Finding the Harmony of the Spheres on December 24, 2019. This technical work in ancient philosophy solves a very old puzzle and will be most useful to scholars of ancient cosmology, the history of ideas, and the roots of . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/platos-timaeus-and-the-missing-fourth-guest-finding-the-harmony-of-the-spheres\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","bookauthor_tax-donna-m-altimari-adler","bookreviewer_tax-donna-adler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/9789004389915_print_cover_cmyk.jpg?fit=4949%2C3556&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-v6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/platos-timaeus-the-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":1928,"position":0},"title":"Plato&#8217;s Timaeus: The Conference","author":"Christopher Long","date":"July 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"September 13\u201316, 2007, University of Illinois-Urbana. 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