Research Catalog

Title

Procli Diadochi In Platonis Timaeum commentaria / recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gerd Van Riel, in Universitate Louaniensi philosophiae antiquae professor.

Author

Proclus, approximately 410-485

Publication

• Oxonii ; New York, NY : E Typographeo Clarendoniano : Oxford University Press, MMXXXII [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

Van Riel, Gerd

Description

5 volumes; 20 cm.

Summary

"Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts, with apparatus criticus on each page. This five volume work is a new critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato's Timaeus, in which Proclus encompasses seven centuries of philosophical reflection on Plato's cosmology. For many authors belonging to the Platonic tradition, Proclus' commentary is the only extant source. For late Neoplatonic authors such as Proclus, writing commentaries on works by Plato and others was in fact a way to present their own highly original philosophical doctrines. Apart from being an important source text for the historiography of philosophy, this commentary on the Timaeus thus also provides a unique access way to Proclus' own Neoplatonic views on cosmology, theology, physics, and metaphysics. This new edition is based on a thorough re-examination of the entire manuscript tradition, which has led to a complete understanding of the relation between all extant manuscripts, including the Paris palimpsest BNF Supplément grec 921, belonging to the so-called 'collection philosophique' (9th century). On the basis of digitally enhanced UV photos, the scriptio inferior of this palimpsest (containing parts of books IV and V) was made nearly fully accessible. The study of the manuscript tradition and the apparatus fontium take stock of more than 100 years of study of this circumstantial text. The edition of the text is preceded by a substantial introduction, and followed, for each book, by the edition of the scholia to the text. The final volume also comprises an edition of the remaining fragments of the lost part of the text, including an Arabic fragment, edited by Rüdiger Arnzen."--

Series Statement

Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis

Uniform Title

• On the Timaeus. Greek (Van Riel)
• Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

Alternative Title

• On the Timaeus.
• In Platonis Timaeum commentaria

Subject

• Plato
• Proclus, approximately 410-485
• On the Timaeus (Proclus)
• Timaeus (Plato)

Genre/Form

Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• The introduction and critical matter is in English; the main text is in Greek.

Contents

Tomus I, Proemium et Librum I continens -- Tomus II, Librum II continens -- Tomus III, Librum III continens -- Tomus IV, Librum IV continens -- Tomus V, Librum V, fragmenta partis deperditae et indices continens

Call Number

JX 23-14608

ISBN

• 9780192856036
• 0192856030
• 9780192856043
• 0192856049
• 9780192856050
• 0192856057
• 9780192856067
• 0192856065
• 9780192856074
• 0192856073

LCCN

2022935813

OCLC

1357549803

Author

Proclus, approximately 410-485, author.

Title

Procli Diadochi In Platonis Timaeum commentaria / recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gerd Van Riel, in Universitate Louaniensi philosophiae antiquae professor.

Publisher

Oxonii ; New York, NY : E Typographeo Clarendoniano : Oxford University Press, MMXXXII [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis

Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

The introduction and critical matter is in English; the main text is in Greek.

Added Author

Van Riel, Gerd, editor.

Research Call Number

JX 23-14608