On a Road from Eleusis to Larissa

On a Road from Eleusis to Larissa is a dialogue by Mount Allison University Philosophy professor Robbie Moser. Modelled on the Meno dialogue and following in the tradition of imaginative re-writings by Iris Murdoch and others, this text sets contemporary and ancient philosophers in conversation with one another. The voices here recall and respond to Jan Zwicky, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Plato, and others.

It is the fifth century BCE, and Athens is bustling with thousands of people getting ready to take part in the sacred religious Mysteries at Eleusis. Socrates, who has just finished his conversation with Meno, is walking alone in the streets when he encounters a group of Plato’s siblings and rivals. They discuss the nature of experience and knowledge, and they approach an account of what philosophy can know.

Digitally printed onto Zephyr Laid paper, it is sewn and bound in a letterpress-printed cover of Mohawk Renewal paper made from hemp and recycled cotton rags.