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Plato's Timaeus and the Latin tradition
- Title
- Plato's Timaeus and the Latin tradition / Christina Hoenig.
- Author
- Hoenig, Christina
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 331 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how these authors created new contexts and settings for the intellectual heritage they received and thereby contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge classical studies
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge classical studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Plato's Timaeus -- The Platonic Tradition -- Roman Philosophy -- Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition -- 1. The Setting: Plato's Timaeus -- Dialogue Content -- Methodology -- An Interpretative Controversy -- Demiurge, Cosmic Soul, and Lesser Divinities -- Dualism -- The Receptacle -- 2. Cicero -- Cicero's Plato and Platonism -- Cicero the Translator -- Cicero and the Timaeus -- Conclusion -- 3. Apuleius -- Preliminaries: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the Second Sophistic -- Apuleius' Plato and Platonism -- Apuleius and the Timaeus -- Conclusion -- 4. Calcidius -- Preliminaries: Calcidius' Identity -- Calcidius' Plato and Platonism -- Calcidius the Translator -- Calcidius and the Timaeus -- Conclusion -- 5. Augustine -- Preliminaries: Manichaeism, Neoplatonism, Christianity -- Augustine's Plato and Platonism -- Augustine and the Timaeus -- Conclusion -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4636
- ISBN
- 9781108415804
- 1108415806
- LCCN
- 2018013736
- 40028478236
- OCLC
- 1028584067
- Author
- Hoenig, Christina, author.
- Title
- Plato's Timaeus and the Latin tradition / Christina Hoenig.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge classical studiesCambridge classical studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028478236
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4636