Ancient approaches to Plato's Timaeus / edited by Robert W. Sharples & Anne Sheppard
- Published
- London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Sharples, R. W., Sheppard, Anne D. R., Plato, and University of London. Institute of Classical Studies
- Series
- Contents
- Eudoxus, Callippus and the astronomy of the Timaeus / Andrew Gregory -- Aristotle and some of his commentators on the Timaeus' receptacle / Andrew Gregory -- Early reactions to Plato's Timaeus: polemic and exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus / Han Baltussen -- Early Timaeus commentaries and Hellenistic musicology / Andrew Barker -- The king, the architect, and the craftsman: a philosophical image in Philo of Alexandria / David Runia -- Threefold providence: the history and background of a doctrine / Robert W. Sharples -- The nature of daemons: a theological application of the concept of geometrical proportion in Calcidius' Commentary to Plato's Timaeus (40d-41a) / Anna Somfai -- Proclus' Commentary on the Timaeus: the prefatory material / Stephen Gersh -- Perceptions of the Timaeus: thematization and truth in the exegetical tradition / Lucas Siorvanes -- Why should we prefer Plato's Timaeus to Aristotle's Physics? Proclus' critique of Aristotle's causal explanation of the physical world / Carlos Steel -- 'Becoming like God' according to Proclus' interpretations of the Timaeus, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Chaldaean Oracles / Robbert van den Berg -- The mirror of imagination: the influence of Timaeus 70e ff. / Anne Sheppard.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 090058789X
- Note
- Papers from the Institute of Classical Studies research seminar in ancient philosophy, 2000-2001.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
View MARC record | catkey: 2443828