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Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts - Couverture rigide

Reydams-Schils, Gretchen

 
9781108420563: Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1108420567 ISBN 13 : 9781108420563
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gretchen Reydams-Schils is a Professor within the Program of Liberal Studies and a Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology. Her areas of specialization are the traditions of Platonism and Stoicism and she is the author of Demiurge and Providence: Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato's Timaeus (1999) and The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection (2005). She is also the editor of Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon (2003), Thinking Through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus (2011), and Pouvoir et puissances chez Philon d'Alexandrie (2016).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108420567
ISBN 13 
9781108420563
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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