Proclus' Defence of Homer
Author: Oiva Kuisma
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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Proclus' Hymns
Author: Rudolphus Maria Berg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789004122369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book puts the hymns by the Neoplatonist Proclus in the context of his philosophy and offers a detailed commentary together with a new translation of them.
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: 1999
Author: David Sedley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999-09-15
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780198250197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. Aristotle and the Stoics are particularly prominent in this volume.
Proclus' Hymns
Author: Robbert Maarten van den Berg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9047401034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the hymns composed by the Neoplatonist Proclus in the context of his philosophy. Its main claim is that the hymns should be understood in the context of theurgy, the ritual art adopted by the Neoplatonists in order to obtain mystical experiences. The first part of the book consists of a series of essays which discuss the relation of the hymns to Proclus’ Neoplatonism, his theory of poetry, and especially to theurgy. The second part offers translations of the individual hymns together with a detailed commentary. This study will be of special interest to those working in the field of Neoplatonism and a helpful guide to scholars of Late Antique poetry and religion who wish to explore these intriguing, yet at times obscure poems.
Interpreting Proclus
Author: Stephen Gersh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0521198496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500-1600 CE).
Proclus
Author: Radek Chlup
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107376513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProclus of Lycia (412–485) was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, producing the most systematic version of late Neoplatonic thought. He exercised enormous influence on Byzantine, medieval, Renaissance and German Classical philosophy, ranking among the top five of ancient philosophers in terms of the number of preserved works. Despite this he is rarely studied now, the enormous intricacy of his system making the reading of his treatises difficult for beginners. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to all the basic areas of Proclus' thought. It carefully guides the reader through his metaphysics, theology, epistemology and theory of evil, as well as his sophisticated philosophy of religion. It also sets Proclus in the historical, social and religious context of late antiquity, offering a synthetic account that will appeal to historians and students of ancient religion.
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
Author: Nicola Spanu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1000166376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the content of Chaldean doctrine or must instead be abandoned because it represents a substantial misinterpretation of originary Chaldean teachings. The volume is augmented by Proclus’ Greek text, with English translation and commentary. Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles will be of interest to researchers working on Neoplatonism, Proclus and theurgy in the ancient world.
Proclus on Nature
Author: Marije Martijn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-03-22
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9004193251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf Proclus’ immense philosophical system, the part concerning the natural world may well be the most fascinating. Traditional scholarship tends to downplay that part of Neoplatonism, in favour of idealism, but recently this attitude is changing. This study contributes to that development by showing how Proclus’ natural philosophy relates to theology, while remaining a science in its own right. Starting from his Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, it presents a revision of Proclus’ metaphysics of nature and provides new insight into his surprisingly peripatetic philosophy of science, the role of mathematics, and the nature of discourse in natural philosophy. This book will be of interest both to students of the Platonic tradition, and to historians of natural science, metaphysics and epistemology.
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic:
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-30
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1108562930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the reader to the use which the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus' essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine wisdom of Homer which is, on Proclus' view, allegorically communicated through his poems.
Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems
Author: Proclus
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781589837119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Proclus's "Commentary on the Republic of Plato" contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the "Republic," Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an analysis of Homer's polysemous text whose influence can be observed in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and semiotics." --Cover, p. 4.
