Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans

Proclus

ISBN 10: 1108730205 / ISBN 13: 9781108730204

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 6, Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108730205
• ISBN 13: 9781108730204
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Proclus' commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition nevertheless offers the first new translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship by Neoplatonic commentators. It will provide 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 book presents Proclus' unrepentant account of a multitude of divinities involved with the creation of mortal life, the supreme creator's delegation to them of the creation of human life, and the manner in which they took the immortal life principle from him and wove it together with our mortal parts to produce human beings.

About the Author

Harold Tarrant is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His recent publications include The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception (Cambridge, 2015) and The Neoplatonic Socrates (2014).