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Grant Awarded - Late Antiquity After Antiquity: The Last of the Ancient Platonists in the Early Modern Period

£225,973.27 awarded to the Centre as part of Dr Corrias' Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism has been awarded £225,973.27 as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. The Primary Investigator is Professor Douglas Hedley, and the grant will fund Dr Anna Corrias' research from 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2022. Dr Corrias will spend the first period of the grant in Toronto with Professor Lloyd Gerson and then complete the second half of the grant in residency at the Centre.

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