Plato''s Timaeus and the Latin Tradition

List of contents

1. The setting. Plato's Timaeus; 2. Cicero; 3. Apuleius; 4. Calcidius; 5. Augustine; Epilogue.

About the author

Christina Hoenig is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her academic research specialises in the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic transmission of philosophical concepts and ideas in Greco-Roman antiquity, with a focus, specifically, on the role of Greek-Latin translation as an exegetical tool in the history of Greek and Roman Platonism.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Hoenig, Christina (University of Pittsburgh) Hoenig
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781108402392
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40239-2
• No. of pages: 349
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500