Galen: Writings on Plato's Timaeus
Compendium of Plato's Timaeus; Commentary on the Medical Statements in Plato's Timaeus
Series: Cambridge Galen Translations;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9781009552677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages385 pages
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The first critical English translation of two previously inaccessible readings by Galen of Plato's highly important and influential Timaeus.
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To Galen, Plato was the great authority in philosophy but also had important things to say on health, disease, and the human body. The Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galen's thought on the body's structure and functioning as well as being a key source of inspiration for his teleological world view, in which the idea of cosmic design by a personified creative Nature, the Craftsman, plays a fundamental role. This volume provides critical English translations of key readings of the Timaeus by Galen that were previously accessible only in fragmentary Greek and Arabic and Arabo-Latin versions. The introductions highlight Galen's creative interpretations of the dialogue, especially compared to other imperial explanations, and show how his works informed medieval Islamicate writers' understanding of it. The book should provoke fresh attention to texts that have been unjustly marginalized in the history of Platonism in both the west and Middle East.
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Introduction; Translation; List of departures from the editions of Walzer/Kraus, Schr&&&246;der et al; List of titles, abbreviations, editions and online resources of Galenic works; Bibliography; English-Arabic glossary to the compendium and the commentary; Arabic word index to the compendium; Greek word index to the commentary; Arabic word index to the commentary; Index of names; Index of texts and passages cited; General index.
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