Timaeus (The Focus Philosophical Library)

"Both an ideal entrée for beginning readers and a solid text for scholars, the second edition of Peter Kalkavage's acclaimed translation of Plato's Timaeus brings enhanced accessibility to a rendering well known for its faithfulness to the original text. An extensive essay offers insights into the reading of the work, the nature of Platonic dialogue, and the cultural background of the Timaeus. Appendices on music, astronomy, and geometry provide additional guidance. A brief outline of the themes of the work, a detailed glossary, and a selected bibliography are also included." --From publisher's description Philosophy Front Cover 1 Focus Philosophical Library 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Preface to the Second Edition 10 Introduction 12 Why Read the Timaeus? 13 The Dramatic Setting 14 The Timaeus in Outline 17 Note on the Translation 18 Timaeus 20 17A–20C: From the city at peace to the city at war: the desire of Socrates 20 20C–27B: Critias and the distant past: the Egyptian regime, the story of Athens and Atlantis 24 27C–29D: The prologue of Timaeus: likeness and model, Becoming and Being, truth and trust 31 29D–34B: The good craftsman and the cosmic body 33 34B–37C: The cosmic soul: music, motion, thought and the heavens 38 37C–40D: Time and the heavens 41 40D–47E: Gods and mortals 46 47E–53C: The new beginning: necessity and space 56 53C–56C: The construction of the primary bodies 63 56C–69B: Their motions and affections 67 69B–81E: The human body 83 81E–87B: Diseases of body and soul 100 87B–90D: The treatment of body and soul 106 90E–92C: Sex and the lower animals 111 Essay 114 The Feasting of Socrates 115 Solon in Egypt 125 The World According to Timaeus 129 The First Founding: the Story of Intellect 129 The Second Founding: the Story of Necessity 140 Completing the Whole: the Story of Man 149 Final Reflections 156 Glossary 160 Appendices 176 Appendix A—Music 176 Appendix B—Astronomy 181 Appendix C—Geometry 184 Selected Biblography 189 Back Cover 193 Plato,Philosophy,Ancient Greece,Timaeus,Atlantis Latin translation and commentary by Calcidius of a metaphysical dialogue of Plato, the Timaeus. For 800 years the only extensive text of Plato known in the Latin West.