Calcidius on Plato''s Timaeus - Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts

List of contents

Introduction; Part I: 1. An authorial voice; 2. How to read Plato's Timaeus; 3. The coherence of the commentary; Part II: 4: Time and the universe; 5. On soul and souls (1): the world soul; 6. On soul and souls (2): the human soul and its relation to the world soul; 7. God and gods; 8. Providence and fate; 9. Matter and evil; 10. Matter, being, and form; Part III: 11. Calcidius and Aristotle; 12. Calcidius and the Stoics; 13: Source and sources (1): Numenius; 14. Source and sources (2): Porphyry; 15: Calcidius Christianus? (1): an authorial voice revisited; 16. Calcidius Christianus? (2): God, matter, and creation; Conclusion: who is Calcidius?

About the author

Gretchen Reydams-Schils is a Professor within the Program of Liberal Studies and a Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology. Her areas of specialization are the traditions of Platonism and Stoicism and she is the author of Demiurge and Providence: Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato's Timaeus (1999) and The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection (2005). She is also the editor of Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon (2003), Thinking Through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus (2011), and Pouvoir et puissances chez Philon d'Alexandrie (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Gretchen (University of Notre Dame Reydams-Schils, Reydams-Schils Gretchen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108430517
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43051-7
• No. of pages: 253
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500