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"Few works of philosophy have enjoyed the prestige of the Timaeus, the dialogue in which Plato set out to provide a rational account, cast in the form of a cosmological "myth," of the universe and humankind. Calcidius translated and commented on Plato's Timaeus. Chronology does little to explain Calcidius' work, which so falls outside the scope of any developmental account of "Middle-" and "Neoplatonism." Calcidius' identification of the Platonic Receptacle with Aristotelian Matter and his various Stoicising impulses reflect traditions that had altered ancient perspectives on the Timaeus, but it is difficult to ascertain the degree to which his philosophical points of reference are Numenius, Alcinous, and Apuleius in the second century CE as opposed to Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus in the third to fourth. This may have contributed to the later fascination with Calcidius, especially during the "renaissance" of the twelfth century, when his translation and commentary presented themselves as a coalescence of ideas frozen outside of time and space. From Calcidius twelfth-century readers may have learned how ancient opinions on the World Soul, Fate, and Matter lined up conceptually, but they got from him no reliable means of disentangling the historical descent or intersections of those opinions. Yet Calcidius proved to be a fundamental source of inspiration for thinkers such as Bernardus Silvestris, William of Conches, and Alan of Lille, who set out to make new sense of the world, its architecture, the forces that animate it, and our place within it."--Provided by publisher.

Cosmology. --- Plato. --- Plato / Timaeus. --- Plato, --- Platon - commentaire. --- Platon. --- Timaeus (Plato). --- Cosmology --- Plato. - Timaeus

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Big bang theory. --- Cosmology. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Science --- Plato. - Timaeus.

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Matter --- Matière --- Plato. --- Plato --- Contributions in metaphysics --- Matière --- Contributions in metaphysics. --- Plato - Timaeus

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"Introduction Beyond the Calcidius Pass It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of Calcidius' work on Plato's Timaeus, which consists of a partial Latin translation and commentary.1 So many links in the extensive commentary tradition of the Timaeus are no longer extant. We have snippets from Crantor, a mere allusion (and a highly debated one at that) to a possible commentary by Posidonius,2 part of a translation by Cicero, allusions to Adrastus' commentary, a commentary by Theon of Smyrna that deals only with the mathematical issues, and a mere shadow of Porphyry's commentary, to name but some. Because of these lacunae Calcidius' work becomes all the more valuable. Moreover, Calcidius presents one of those very rare cases of a Latin philosophical commentary. As the knowledge of Greek started to wane at the end of Antiquity, Calcidius became one of the main channels through which Plato's legacy was transmitted to the Middle Ages.3 Indeed, his work is one of the four master-texts of that era, as É. Jeauneau points out (1975: 30), together with Boethius' On the Consolation of Philosophy, Macrobius' commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, and Martianus Capella's On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"--

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Philosophy --- Place (Philosophy) --- Chora (The Greek word) --- Plato. --- Chora (the Greek word) --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Greek language --- Etymology --- Chōra (the Greek word) --- Place (Philosophy). --- Chōra (the Greek word). --- Chōra (the Greek word) --- Plato. - Timaeus