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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 3, Book 3, Part 1, Proclus on the World's Body
Hardback
Main Details
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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 3, Book 3, Part 1, Proclus on the World's Body
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Proclus
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Edited and translated by Dirk Baltzly
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Series | Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:218 | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 19 |
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Category/Genre | Western philosophy - Ancient to c 500 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521845953
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Classifications | Dewey:186.4 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
18 January 2007 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offered the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the third in the edition, offers a substantial introduction and notes designed to help readers unfamiliar with this author. It presents Proclus' version of Plato's account of the elements and the mathematical proportions which bind together the body of the world.
Author Biography
Dirk Baltzly is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University.
Reviews'the four volumes of the Camridge translation of Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus are undoubtedly a major contribution to scholarship on Proclus. They are a wonderful compliment to the expanding scholarly literature on the philosophy of nature and cosmology in Neoplatonism, which enjoys in recent year a renewed scholarly interest.' Journal of Classical Philology
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