Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the
most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled
insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This
edition offers the first new English translation of the work for
nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in
scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides 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 present volume, the first in the edition,
deals with what may be seen as the prefatory material of the
Timaeus. In it Socrates gives a summary of the political
arrangements favoured in the Republic, and Critias tells the story
of how news of the defeat of Atlantis by ancient Athens had been
brought back to Greece from Egypt by the poet and politician Solon.
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