Proclus: Commentary on Plato's 'Republic'

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Main Details

Title Proclus: Commentary on Plato's 'Republic'
Authors and Contributors      Edited and translated by Dirk Baltzly
Edited and translated by John F. Finamore
Edited and translated by Graeme Miles
SeriesProclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:434
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - Ancient to c 500
Social and political philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781107154711
ClassificationsDewey:321.07
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 12 May 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The 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 second volume of the edition presents Proclus' essays on the tripartite soul and the virtues, female philosopher rulers, and the metaphysics and epistemology of the central books of the Republic. The longest of the essays in Volume II interprets the nature and significance of the 'marriage number' whose miscalculation leads to the degeneration of the ideal city-state.

Author Biography

Dirk Baltzly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He has edited and translated three of the six volumes of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus (Cambridge, 2007-13). John F. Finamore is the Roger A. Hornsby Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He has edited and translated (with John Dillon) Iamblichus' De Anima (2002), and has published many articles on the Platonic tradition. Graeme Miles is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation (2018).