...this volume does the scholarly world great service, that it deserves a place in any serious collection on late antiquity philosophy, and that one must look forward greatly to the completion of this OCT project.

Harold Tarrant, The Classical Review

at last the most important ancient commentary on Plato's Parmenides is available in a reliable text edition. In this day and age, such meticulous and patient scholarly work is becoming all too rare.

Han Baltussen, Exemplaria Classica

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue in antiquity, 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.
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A new critical edition (the first since 1864) of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Proclus' work is the most important document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue in antiquity, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings.
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New critical edition of this seminal and hugely influential commentary on Plato's Parmenides Based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translations
Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven.
New critical edition of this seminal and hugely influential commentary on Plato's Parmenides Based on an exhaustive study of both the Greek tradition and the medieval Latin translations

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ISBN
9780199291816
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
192 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Falset
Antall sider
360

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Biografisk notat

Carlos Steel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Leuven.