TESTIMONIES OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION

Παρουσίαση

In the course of writing The Library of Plato and the Academy many open issues were brought to the fore, which relate to the reproduction and the classification of the Dialogues from Plato's day, and by extension to the path that the Platonic corpus followed over time. The present book aims on the one hand to shed light on obscure aspects of the reproduction and publication diachronically of the Platonic Dialogues and the Laws -both in the original and in their Latin and Arabic translations, until the end of the sixteenth century- and on the other to draw attention to the known commentaries on the Dialogues, as well as to the treatises written for the purpose of interpreting Plato's ideas and theories. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

To the readers
THE AGE OF THE ACADEMY
TOWARDS THE NEW ACADEMY
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
ROMAN AGE
THE BACKROUND TO NEOPLATONISM
LATE ANTIQUITY
THE FIRST LATIN CHRISTIANS AND PLATO
THE BYZANTINE WORLD
THE ARAB FACTOR IN THE DISSEMINATION OF PLATO
THE REVIVAL OF PLATO IN BYZANTIUM
THE FORTUNES OF PLATO IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST AND THE CASE OF TIMAEUS
WESTERN MIDDLE AGES
RENAISSANCE
Epilogue
Notes
Sources of ancient authors
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index