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Proclus: Commentary on Timaeus, Book 2 (Procli Diadochi, In Platonis Timaeum Commentaria Librum Primum) (Hardcover)
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Proclus: Commentary on Timaeus, Book 2 (Procli Diadochi, In Platonis Timaeum Commentaria Librum Primum) (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Texts
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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.
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