Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus : Greek philosophy, Latin reception, and Christian contexts /
"Introduction Beyond the Calcidius Pass It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of Calcidius' work on Plato's Timaeus, which consists of a partial Latin translation and commentary.1 So many links in the extensive commentary tradition of the Timaeus are no longer extant. W...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2020
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Beyond the Calcidius Pass
- Part One
- Chapter 1 An Authorial Voice
- Chapter 2 How to Read Plato's Timaeus
- Chapter 3 The Coherence of the Commentary
- Part Two
- Chapter 4 Time and the Universe
- Chapter 5 On Soul and Souls (1): The World Soul
- Chapter 6 Soul and Souls (2): The Human Soul and Its Relation to the World Soul
- Chapter 7 God and Gods
- Chapter 8 Providence and Fate
- Chapter 9 Matter and Evil
- Chapter 10 Matter, Being, and Form
- Part Three
- Chapter 11 Calcidius and Aristotle
- Chapter 12 Calcidius and the Stoics
- Chapter 13 Source and Sources (1): Numenius
- Chapter 14 Source and Sources (2): Porphyry
- Chapter 15 Calcidius
- Cristianus? (1): An Authorial Voice Revisited
- Chapter 16 Calcidius Christianus? (2): God, Matter, and Creation
- Conclusion: Who Is Calcidius?
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum