Stephen Gersh, a doctoral advisor in medieval Platonism, joins to discuss Platonism's sources and influence in the Middle Ages. They explore the limited knowledge of Plato at that time, the role of Byzantine philosophy in reviving Plato's works, the transmission and transformation of Platonism in the Latin West by key figures such as Augustine and Boethius, the association between Platonism and the liberal arts, and how medieval writers dealt with non-Christian aspects of texts, including the challenge of interpreting the works of Proclus.
