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Ancient approaches to Plato's Timaeus / edited by Robert W. Sharples & Anne Sheppard.

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Ancient approaches to Plato's Timaeus / edited by Robert W. Sharples & Anne Sheppard.
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London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2003.

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  • Sharples, R. W.
  • Sheppard, Anne D. R.
  • University of London. Institute of Classical Studies. School of Advanced Study.
Description
228 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 78
Uniform Title
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 78.
Subject
Plato. > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Papers from the Institute of Classical Studies research seminar in ancient philosophy, 2000-2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes (p. 215-228).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
090058789X
OCLC
51964426
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library