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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2017
      April 2017
      ISBN:
      9781139506793
      9781107032644
      9781108730204
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506793
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 298 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
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      Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
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      Proclus' Commentaries on Plato
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    History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
    Collection:
    Proclus' Commentaries on Plato
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    Proclus' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition nevertheless offers the first new translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship by Neoplatonic commentators. It will provide 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 book presents Proclus' unrepentant account of a multitude of divinities involved with the creation of mortal life, the supreme creator's delegation to them of the creation of human life, and the manner in which they took the immortal life principle from him and wove it together with our mortal parts to produce human beings.

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    References
    References
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    Riggs, Timothy (2015). ‘Authentic Selfhood in the Philosophy of Proclus: Rational Soul and its Significance for the Individual’, International Journal for the Platonic Tradition 9(2): 177–204.
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    Tarrant, Harold (trans.) (2007). Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, vol. I, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis. Cambridge University Press.
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    Tarrant, Harold (2015). ‘The Phaedo in Numenian Allegorical Interpretation’, in Gavray, Marc-Antoine, d'Hoine, Pieter, and Delcomminette, Sylvain (eds.), Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 134–53.
    Taylor, Thomas (trans.) (1820). Proclus’ Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, vol. II. London: n.p.
    Vlastos, Gregory (1983). ‘The Socratic Elenchus’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1: 27–58.
    Wear, Sarah K. (2011). The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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