Author : Calcidius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674599179
In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.
Author : Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108356176
This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415806
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
Author : Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed global condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called postmodern life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is on the move. This book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries.
Author : Harold Tarrant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004355383
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Reception’ (four chapters); ‘Early Imperial Reception’ (nine chapters); and ‘Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism’ (eighteen chapters). Sectional introductions cover matters of importance that could not easily be covered in dedicated chapters. The book demonstrates the great variety of approaches to and interpretations of Plato among even his most dedicated ancient readers, offering some salutary lessons for his modern readers too.
Author : Gijsbert Jonkers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 900433520X
In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers provides new insights into the extant ancient and medieval evidence for the text of both Platonic dialogues. The discussions are set in the broader context of examinations in recent decades of the textual traditions of other individual Platonic works. Particularly the vast collection of testimonia of the Timaeus, one of Plato's most read, interpreted and discussed dialogues of all times, will be of interest for students of ancient philosophy, science and philology.
Author : Plato
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1929
Category :
ISBN : 1421892944
Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107166195
This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521750725
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author : Donna M. Altimari Adler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900438992X
In Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.
