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Source: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, No. 78, ANCIENT
APPROACHES TO PLATO'S "TIMAEUS" (2003), pp. 1-3
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INTRODUCTION
1 G. E. L. Owen ('The place of the Timaeus in Plato's dialogues', CQ n.s. 3 (1953) 79-95, re
Plato's Metaphysics , ed. R. E. Allen (London 1965) 313-38 (338). Harold Cherniss's respons
Timaeus to Plato's later dialogues', AJPh 78 (1957) 225-66, reprinted in Allen 339-78) in
comment, which we quote here because of its wider significance for the theme of this volume, t
Platonic interpretation ... has been ... a series of insistently charitable efforts on the part of weste
to baptize Plato in his particular faith.' (347 of the reprint).
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2 ANCIENT APPROACHES TO PLATO' S TIMAEUS
Timaeus this has owed not a little to the recognition2 that Plat
creations rather than straightforward expositions, and that
in the first instance on their own terms, rather than assesse
within a picture of Plato's overall philosophical develop
accordingly. Both the approach to the dialogues as individual
Plato's philosophical development, are different from those
whom Plato's works were expressions of a single understand
interpreter to elucidate; though in attempting to place each w
and account for its individual character, in accordance with t
commentary,3 the ancient approach was perhaps, paradoxica
to the 'developmental' approach.
The selection of the Timaeus and the ancient commentary tra
for the Institute of Classical Studies research seminar in anci
year 2000-2001 was influenced by several factors: the renew
general; the fact that, both in London and elsewhere, a consi
working either on the ancient commentary tradition or on the
(two topics themselves closely intertwined); and, as an imme
to a Frances Yates Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, like
a part of the School of Advanced Study of the University o
was already developing new insights into Calcidius' commen
value of MSS annotations as evidence for its medieval recep
In the event the seminar series was so successful that it exten
from October 2000 to December 2001. The majority of the p
included in this volume; some could not be because they
publication elsewhere. The latter included: The Recepti
Academy', by John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin);4 'Seneca
Sedley (University of Cambridge);5 'Early medieval readings (
Timaeus and Calcidius's Commentary ', by Anna Somf
'Discussions concerning the cosmos and the soul in Souther
the twelfth century', by Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute
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INTRODUCTION 3
RWS
ADRS
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