
William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)
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Scipio's Dream and Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Altman argues the Somnium parallels Plato's cave, criticizes reliance on Macrobius, and calls the dream central to Cicero.
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