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Calcidius on Matter: His Doctrine and Sources: A Chapter in the History of Platonism
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The article was published on 1959-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 41 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Platonism & Ancient philosophy.read more
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Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
TL;DR: Taub as mentioned in this paper explores the rich variety of formats used to discuss scientific, mathematical and technical subjects, from c.700 BCE to the sixth century CE, focusing on poetry, letter, encyclopaedia, commentary and biography.
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Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
TL;DR: The development of Roman Platonism at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE is discussed in this article, where the authors' contributions to the dialogue's history of transmission are shown to have enriched and prolonged the enduring significance of Plato's cosmology.
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New Light on the “Chaldaean Oracles”
TL;DR: The Chaldaean Oracles were a divine revelation in bad hexameter verse; its authors were believed to be gods (speaking through the lips of entranced mediums?), but it was given to the world, as Lobeck guessed and Bidez finally proved, by one "Julianus the theurgist," who lived under Marcus Aurelius.
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Meta-Discourse: Plato's Timaeus according to Calcidius
TL;DR: The authors brought Calcidius' 4th. c. AD Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus into the fold of research on the methodological assumptions and hermeneutical practices of the ancient commentary tradition.
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Knowing God: a study of the argument of Numenius of Apameia's On the good
TL;DR: The surviving fragments of Numenius' On the Good show the progression of a discernable argument; the dialogue as a whole deals with the search for a deeper understanding of the Form of the Good that is discussed in Plato's Republic as discussed by the authors.