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Procli in Platonis Parmenidem commentaria. Tomus 2, libros IV-V continens

By Carlos Steel (editor)

Book information

Publisher
OUP OXFORD
Year
2008
ISBN
0199291713, 9780199291717
Google Books ID
9iUKAQAAMAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7165797 bytes)
Series
Oxford Classical Texts
Pages
352\347
Time added
2023-07-26 06:52:16

Description

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides provides the argumentative and conceptual framework for a scientific theology wherein all mythological discourse about the gods can be integrated. Its exposition was therefore the culmination of the curriculum of the Platonic school. This theological reading of the Parmenides persisted, through the medium of Ficino, until the nineteenth century. Previously this important text was only accessible in the edition of V. Cousin (Paris, 1864). This new critical edition is based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translation. This volume contains Books IV and V.

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