Plato
Title | Plato PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1975 |
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Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus
Title | Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Broadie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2011-11-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139503448 |
Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of interpretation which have been brought to bear on the work. Her book is for everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology, whether classicists, philosophers, historians of ideas or historians of science. It offers new findings to scholars familiar with the material, but it is also a clear and reliable resource for anyone coming to it for the first time.
Timaeus and Critias
Title | Timaeus and Critias PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | 1st World Publishing |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1421892944 |
One Book, the Whole Universe
Title | One Book, the Whole Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Richard D. Mohr |
Publisher | Parmenides Publishing |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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"The most wide ranging and stimulating presentation of ancient and modern views on Plato's cosmological dialogue ever published. Highly recommended." David T. Runia, University of Melbourne --
A Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Title | A Commentary on Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Edward Taylor |
Publisher | Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Astronomy, Greek |
ISBN |
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.
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.