Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2007
978-0-511-27124-3 (ISBN)
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 offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent 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 first in the edition, deals with what may be seen as the prefatory material of the Timaeus. In it Socrates gives a summary of the political arrangements favoured in the Republic, and Critias tells the story of how news of the defeat of Atlantis by ancient Athens had been brought back to Greece from Egypt by the poet and politician Solon.
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"...crisp translation... accessible and useful to a wide audience.... Highly recommended."--Choice
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English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
File size
2,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-511-27124-3 (9780511271243)
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Proclus
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
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04/2007
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Harold Tarrant is Head of the School of Liberal Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on Plato and ancient Platonism including Scepticism or Platonism? (1985) in the Cambridge Classical Studies series.
Content
General introduction to the commentary; Introduction to Book I; Translation.
