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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 August 2018
      30 August 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316650899
      9781107154698
      9781316608302
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316650899
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 442 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic
      Collection:
      Proclus' Commentaries on Plato
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic
    Collection:
    Proclus' Commentaries on Plato
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    The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the reader to the use that the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus' essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine wisdom of Homer which is, in Proclus' view, allegorically communicated through his poems.

    Reviews

    '… this extraordinarily careful and scholarly rendering is clearly destined to remain the principal access in English to Proclus' thoughts on the Republic for the foreseeable future.'

    Robert Lamberton Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    ‘This is an excellent translation and edition that provides an opportunity to learn more about a topic nearly all of us need a better understanding of, late antique political theory … a scholarly achievement of the highest order.’

    Source: Polis

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