Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
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Commentary on Plato's Timaeus is a late antique Neoplatonic philosophical work by Proclus that offers an extensive exegesis of Plato’s cosmological dialogue, the Timaeus.
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| Commentary on Plato's Timaeus canonical | 3 |
| Commentary on the Timaeus | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus Context triple: [Proclus, mainWork, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus]
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On the Secret Doctrines of Plato
On the Secret Doctrines of Plato is a lost philosophical treatise by the Middle Platonist Numenius of Apamea that explored and interpreted Plato’s esoteric teachings, often in relation to Pythagorean and Eastern thought.
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Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics is an influential late antique philosophical work in which Simplicius of Cilicia analyzes and explains Aristotle’s treatise on nature, motion, and the principles of the physical world.
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Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
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Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo
"Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo" is a late antique philosophical work by Simplicius of Cilicia that provides an extensive Neoplatonist exegesis of Aristotle’s treatise on the heavens and preserves valuable fragments of earlier Greek philosophy.
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Plato's Theaetetus
Plato's Theaetetus is a Socratic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
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Target entity: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus Target entity description: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus is a late antique Neoplatonic philosophical work by Proclus that offers an extensive exegesis of Plato’s cosmological dialogue, the Timaeus.
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A.
On the Secret Doctrines of Plato
On the Secret Doctrines of Plato is a lost philosophical treatise by the Middle Platonist Numenius of Apamea that explored and interpreted Plato’s esoteric teachings, often in relation to Pythagorean and Eastern thought.
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B.
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics is an influential late antique philosophical work in which Simplicius of Cilicia analyzes and explains Aristotle’s treatise on nature, motion, and the principles of the physical world.
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C.
Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
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D.
Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo
"Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo" is a late antique philosophical work by Simplicius of Cilicia that provides an extensive Neoplatonist exegesis of Aristotle’s treatise on the heavens and preserves valuable fragments of earlier Greek philosophy.
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E.
Plato's Theaetetus
Plato's Theaetetus is a Socratic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neoplatonic commentary
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late antique text ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Platonic Academy (late antique)
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linked to:
Athenian Neoplatonic school
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| author | Proclus ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Plato's theory of the cosmos
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cosmology ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical commentary ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Plato's Timaeus
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linked to:
Timaeus
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| philosophicalTradition | Neoplatonism ⓘ |
| provides | exegesis of Plato's Timaeus ⓘ |
| tradition | Athenian Neoplatonic school ⓘ |
| workPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
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linked to: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus