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"Plato's third eye," according to an ancient anecdote, was an eye Plato dreamt he had grown after he had discovered the theory of ideas. In Marsilio Ficino's reinterpretation of it, it was an eye located in the center of Plato's forehead by which he perceived divine things - the eye of the mind, in other words. But we might, by a sort of postmodern allegory, identify Allen himself as Plato's Third Eye. For Allen has devoted the best part of his scholarly endeavors to interpreting a great interpreter of Plato, Marsilio Ficino. No scholar has penetrated so deeply and so learnedly into ...

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