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Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, part III – Proclus on the World’s Body. A translation with notes and introduction
Citation
Baltzly, Dirk, Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, part III - Proclus on the World's Body. A translation with notes and introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. xiii + 428. ISBN 9780521845953 (2007) [Authored Research Book]
Abstract
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 2007 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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Authored Research Book |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Research Group: | History and Philosophy of Specific Fields |
| Research Field: | History of Philosophy |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| UTAS Author: | Baltzly, Dirk (Professor Dirk Baltzly) |
| ID Code: | 92942 |
| Year Published: | 2007 |
| Deposited By: | Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2014-07-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-02-07 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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