دانلود کتاب Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition

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Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Plato’s Timaeus
The Platonic Tradition
Roman Philosophy
Plato’s Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
Chapter 1 The Setting: Plato\'s Timaeus
Dialogue Content
Methodology
An Interpretative Controversy
Demiurge, Cosmic Soul, and Lesser Divinities
Dualism
The Receptacle
Chapter 2 Cicero
Cicero’s Plato and Platonism
Cicero the Translator
Translation and Rhetoric
Roman Translation and the Contest of Cultures
Cicero and the Timaeus
Why the Timaeus?
Timaean Methodology
Tim. 29b2–d3: The Εἰκὼς Λόγος as a Sceptical–Rhetorical Investigation
Tim. 29d7–30c1: An Example of the Sceptical-Rhetorical Quaestio
Cicero and the Creation of the Cosmos: His Philosophical Treatises
Cicero and the Creation of the Cosmos: Evidence from Cicero’s Timaeus Translation
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Apuleius
Preliminaries: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the Second Sophistic
Apuleius’ Plato and Platonism
Platonism in the Second Century ce: Dogmatism and Religion
Divine Plato and Apuleius the High-Priest
‘Doing Philosophy’: Apuleian Cross-Genre Dialectic
Apuleius and the Timaeus
The Timaeus in the Early Centuries ce
Apuleius’ Timaean Methodology
The Creation of the Cosmos
A Note on Time
Theology: Introducing the Summus Deus
Theology: The Summus Deus and the Cosmos
Theology: Providence and Demons
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Calcidius
Preliminaries: Calcidius’ Identity
Calcidius’ Plato and Platonism
Calcidius the Translator
Translation as a Commissioned Work
Translation and Commentary
Calcidius and the Timaeus
Calcidius’ Timaean Methodology: The Εἰκὼς Λόγος as a Mediocris Explanatio
The Creation of the Cosmos
Theology: Introducing the Summus Deus
Theology: The Summus Deus, Providence, and Fate
A Note on Demons
Theology: Providential νοῦς
Theology: The Cosmological Principles
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Augustine
Preliminaries: Manichaeism, Neoplatonism, Christianity
Augustine’s Plato and Platonism
Augustine and the Timaeus
Augustine’s Creation Narrative
Temporal and Eternal Existence
Augustine’s Creation Narrative, Continued
Matter
Augustine’s Creation Narrative, Continued
Metaphysics: Christ the Mediator
Theology: Augustine on Demons and Angels
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Editions and Translations of Plato’s Timaeus
Editions of Cicero’s Translation
Editions of Apuleius’ Works
Editions and Translations of Calcidius’ Translation and Commentary
Editions of Augustine’s Works
Secondary Sources
Index Verborum Graecorum
Index Verborum Latinorum
Index Locorum
Subject Index