TY - BOOK ID - 72795604 TI - The teachings of Syrianus on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides PY - 2011 SN - 9789004192904 9004192905 9789004201811 9004201815 128312050X 9786613120502 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Damaskios, KW - Plato. KW - Proclus, KW - Syrianus. KW - Siriano KW - Συριανός, KW - Syrianos, KW - Plutarch, KW - Syrianus Philosophus UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72795604 AB - Although it has long been established that Syrianus, the teacher of Proclus, was the source of much of his student's metaphysics, it is not known precisely what in Proclus' thought can be attributed to Syrianus. The problem is compounded by the fact that Syrianus wrote very little and there is uncertainty as to whether written commentaries ever existed of his teaching on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides , the most important sources for Platonic metaphysics. This work attempts to re-construct the major tenets of Syrianus' philosophical teachings on the Timaeus and Parmenides based on the testimonia of Proclus, as found in Proclus' commentaries on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides and, Damascius, as reported in his On First Principles and commentary on Plato's Parmenides . ER -