On Plato’s Timaeus
Title | On Plato’s Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Calcidius |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 795 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674599179 |
In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.
Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus
Title | Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2020-09-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108356176 |
This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
Title | Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Hoenig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108415806 |
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus
Title | Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2020-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108420567 |
The first study in its entirety of this fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus, also addressing the Latin translation.
Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon
Title | Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed global condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called postmodern life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is on the move. This book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries.
Timaeus and Critias
Title | Timaeus and Critias PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | 1st World Publishing |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1421892944 |
The Spell of Calcidius
Title | The Spell of Calcidius PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Dronke |
Publisher | Sismel |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
While histories of literature and philosophy have till now presented Calcidius as if he were no more than a secondhand mediator of Platonic thought, Peter Dronke, in The Spell of Calcidius, shows that this judgement must be radically revised. Calcidius' commentary (probably of the early fourth century) on Plato's Timaeus is a deeply individual work, which was able to inspire a fresh way of looking for truth, of searching for a world-picture that was not ready-made, among exceptional thinkers across eight centuries. The spell Calcidius cast was intellectual freedom, a Christian's refusal to make Christian propaganda, a spirit of open enquiry. After the discussion of some key cosmological motifs in Calcidius himself and in Boethius, there follow chapters on the brilliant transformations of Calcidian thought in the ninth century by Eriugena and others; on the odi et amo towards Calcidius of Manegold of Lautenbach in the eleventh century; and on the ardent assimilation of his thought in the early twelfth by “us who love Plato”, as William of Conches proclaimed. The final chapter shows how in Bernardus Silvestris' epic, the Cosmographia (1147/8), the daring uses of language and speculation begun by Calcidius find their culminating creative renewal.