Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 1, Book 1: Proclus on the Socratic State and AtlantisProclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offers the first new English translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The present volume, the first in the edition, deals with what may be seen as the prefatory material of the Timaeus. In it Socrates gives a summary of the political arrangements favoured in the Republic, and Critias tells the story of how news of the defeat of Atlantis by ancient Athens had been brought back to Greece from Egypt by the poet and politician Solon. |
Contents
Section 25 | 203 |
Section 26 | 213 |
Section 27 | 217 |
Section 28 | 220 |
Section 29 | 229 |
Section 30 | 230 |
Section 31 | 231 |
Section 32 | 232 |
Section 9 | 124 |
Section 10 | 139 |
Section 11 | 144 |
Section 12 | 146 |
Section 13 | 157 |
Section 14 | 162 |
Section 15 | 164 |
Section 16 | 165 |
Section 17 | 168 |
Section 18 | 173 |
Section 19 | 174 |
Section 20 | 175 |
Section 21 | 184 |
Section 22 | 190 |
Section 23 | 191 |
Section 24 | 194 |
Section 33 | 238 |
Section 34 | 241 |
Section 35 | 242 |
Section 36 | 255 |
Section 37 | 260 |
Section 38 | 263 |
Section 39 | 268 |
Section 40 | 271 |
Section 41 | 274 |
Section 42 | 280 |
Section 43 | 281 |
Section 44 | 282 |
Section 45 | 283 |
Section 46 | 284 |
Section 47 | 287 |
Section 48 | 290 |
Common terms and phrases
according allocation analogy ancient Aristotle arrangement Athena Athenians Atlantis Atlantis story belongs bodies called causes character claim concerned constitution correspond cosmic cosmos creation creative Critias cycle daemons deeds demiurgic destruction dialogue Diehl Dillon discussion divided divine division dyad earth Egyptians element encosmic things enmattered eternal everything explain father Festugi`ere Festugi`ere’s note Festugière formal principles former give an indication Glaucon goddess gods Greek heaven heavenly Hence Hephaestus Hermocrates human Iamblichus images imitation immaculate intellective intelligible interpretation kind lemma linked lives logoi Longinus material matter monad motion myth nature Neoplatonic Numenius one’s Origenes Orph Panathenaea paradigms participation passage Phaedo Phaedrus Phaethon philosopher phrase physical Plato Porphyry Poseidon preserve priest Proclus Pythagorean races reason reference relation Republic rivalry says seems signifies single Socrates Sodano Solon souls symbol Syrianus term Timaeus transcendent translation triad universe verb whole wisdom words Zeus
Popular passages
Page 91 - ... All this dialogue, likewise, through the whole of itself, has physiology for its scope, surveying the same things in images and in paradigms, in wholes and in parts. For it is filled with all the most beautiful boundaries* of physiology, assuming things simple for the sake of such as are composite, parts for the sake of wholes, and images for the sake of paradigms, leaving none of the principal causes of nature uninvestigated.