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Friday, February 9th, 1979
Thursday, July 3rd, 1980
Friday, January 2nd, 1981
Friday, January 9th, 1981
Saturday, June 20th, 1981
Wednesday, July 6th, 1983
Friday, September 2nd, 1983
Friday, September 9th, 1983
Friday, September 16th, 1983
Thursday, September 22nd, 1983
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Class held on multiple days

Feb 9th
1979
Friday

Columbus, OH

Metaphysical Chart

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 33

Keyword(s): Idea of the Good (Triad), Twofold Zeus, Matter, Parmenides, Soul, Idea of Man, Five (Seven) Dhyani Buddhas, Three Intellects, Vesica of Houses 10-12, Four Intellects, “Six Doubts Concerning the Nature of Ideas”
Class

Jul 3rd
1980
Thursday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 5

Keyword(s): “Introduction to the Parmenides” by Thomas Taylor, Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart, Demiurge, Nature, Imagination
Class

Jan 2nd
1981
Friday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 7

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses Hyp. 2, One, One Being, Double Act, Unities, Essence
Class

Jan 9th
1981
Friday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 6

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses Hyp. 2, One, One Being, Double Act, Unities, Essence
Class

Jun 20th
1981
Saturday

Platonism

History

Edited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 5

Keyword(s): Definition of Philosophy, Orphic Hymns, Mythology, Parmenides, Heraclitus
Seminar

Jul 6th
1983
Wednesday

Western Tradition

Coomaraswamy

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Time and Eternity, Soul, Planetary Spheres, Parmenides Hypothesis 2A
Class

Sep 2nd
1983
Friday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses Hyp. 1-2A, Soul, Double Knower, Insight, Astrology
Class

Sep 9th
1983
Friday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses Hyp. 3-4, Soul, Omnipresence, Double Knower, Mentalism, Astrology
Class

Sep 16th
1983
Friday

Plato

Parmenides

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses Hyp. 5-8, Soul
Class

Sep 22nd
1983
Thursday

Plotinus

Nature

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Soul, Cosmology, Parmenides, World-Idea, Reason-Principles, Evolution, Idea of Man, Gods, Sage, Symbol
Paper

Undated

Plato

Parmenides

Outline of the Eight Hypotheses from Plato's Parmenides

F.M. Cornford (trans.), Anthony J. Damiani

Summary of a published work
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses
Paper

Undated

Plato

Parmenides

The Eight Hypotheses of the Parmenides: An Abridgment of William F. Lynch's An Approach to the Metaphysics of Plato through the Parmenides

Anthony J. Damiani

Summary of a published work
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses
Paper

Undated

Plato

Parmenides

Parmenides and the Authentic Existents

Anthony J. Damiani, Avery Solomon

Paper
Diagrams: 2

Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses, Soul, World-Idea