Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus
Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 24 September 2020
- ISBN 9781108420563
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 160x230x20 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 143
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Short description:
The first study in its entirety of this fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus, also addressing the Latin translation.
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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.
'We have been waiting a long time for a full study of this important witness to the Platonist tradition, and Prof. Reydams-Schils has made the wait worth while. Her work resurrects Calcidius as an intelligent guide through the complex layers of philosophical debate that his commentary was meant to negotiate, and brings a new breadth of understanding to fourth-century philosophy.' George Boys-Stones, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I: 1. An authorial voice; 2. How to read Plato's Timaeus; 3. The coherence of the commentary; Part II: 4: Time and the universe; 5. On soul and souls (1): the world soul; 6. On soul and souls (2): the human soul and its relation to the world soul; 7. God and gods; 8. Providence and fate; 9. Matter and evil; 10. Matter, being, and form; Part III: 11. Calcidius and Aristotle; 12. Calcidius and the Stoics; 13: Source and sources (1): Numenius; 14. Source and sources (2): Porphyry; 15: Calcidius Christianus? (1): an authorial voice revisited; 16. Calcidius Christianus? (2): God, matter, and creation; Conclusion: who is Calcidius?
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