'...one of the masterpieces of classical scholarship...Contemporary work on the Timaeus will inevitably take Plato's Cosmology as its starting point' - Charles H Kahn, University of Pennsylvania.
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Plato's view of the creation of the world,
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A cosmology is a narrative concerning the creation of the universe. Many ancient philosophers have written or elaborated this kind of work. The Platonic dialogue Timeus is an account of the work of the creator god (called the demiurge - or artisan) sculpting the chaotic material world in accordance with the immaterial model of the Ideas. But the text was written in a very hermetic and symbolic language, making its interpretation difficult or even impossible without the knowledge of the references and symbols used by Plato. This book is a complete translation of the text followed by a comprehensive commentary explaining in detail every passage. Francis MacDonald Cornford is one of the most important ancient philosophy scholars, and this work reveals his deep knowledge of Platonic and Greek thought. It is a must have for anyone interested in greek and Platonic philosophy.
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Cornford's Plato Cosmology/Timaeus,
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This is an excellent and invaluable reference book for Plato's Timaeus. If you are reading Timaeus you MUST have this book. It contains line-by-line commentary, and also, most valuable, some very helpful illustrations (example: illustration of the human body as Timaeus explained it). I would, however, balance this book with other books that attempt to place Timaeus within the rest of Plato's works. I recommend, for example, Peter Kalkavage's Timaeus. There, he attempts to link Timaeus and Republic.
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Timaeus a unique dialogue,
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this book is an important work to read if you are interested in or studying the Timaeus dialogue. The book contains a translation with a running comentary.
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SOCRATES. One, two, three-but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those guests of yesterday who were to entertain me to-day ? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
errant cause, antecedent signs, human craftsman, primary bodies, three outer planets, spirited element, continued proportion, celestial gods, visual ray, geometrical proportion, daily revolution, heavenly gods, planetary theory, intermediate kinds, mortal parts, motion round, immortal principle, motion contrary, armillary sphere, axial rotation, seven circles, solid numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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SOCRATES. One, two, three-but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those guests of yesterday who were to entertain me to-day ? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
errant cause, antecedent signs, human craftsman, primary bodies, three outer planets, spirited element, continued proportion, celestial gods, visual ray, geometrical proportion, daily revolution, heavenly gods, planetary theory, intermediate kinds, mortal parts, motion round, immortal principle, motion contrary, armillary sphere, axial rotation, seven circles, solid numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Taylor, Plato's Theory of Knowledge, Plato's Demiurge, Professor Onians, Great Year, Tower of Zeus, First Heaven, Forms of Fire, Spindle of Necessity New!
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- Life of Johnson, V2 by Boswell on page 187
- Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by William Keith Guthrie on page 139
- The Myths of Plato by J.A. Stewart on page 75
- Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28) by Alfred North Whitehead in Front Matter
- Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell on page 187
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