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University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

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Abbreviations Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction 1 The Timaeus and the "Longer Way": "God-Given" Method and the Constitution of Elements and Animals
MITCHELL MILLER

ix xi xiii 1 17

2 The Multilayered Incoherence of Timaeus'Receptacle

KENNETH SAVRE

60

The Timaeus in the Old Academy

JOHN DILLON

80

Cicero and the Timaeus

CARLOS LEVY

95

Plato's Timaeus and the Chaldaean Oracles

LUC BRISSON

111

Plato's Timaeus, First Principle(s), and Creation in Philo and Early Christian Thought
DAVID T. RUNIA

133

The Mind-Body Relation in the Wake of Plato's Timaeus

RICHARD SORABJI

152

Aristides Quintilianus and Martianus Capella

STEPHEN GERSH

163

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Contents 183

Medieval Approaches to Calcidius

PAUL EDWARD DUTTON

10

The Timaeus' Model for Creation and Providence: An Example of Continuity and Adaptation in Early Arabic Philosophical Literature
CRISTINA D'ANCONA

206

11 The Ficinian Timaeus and Renaissance Science

MICHAEL J.B. ALLEN

238

12

A Commentary on Genesis: Plato's Timaeus and Kepler's Astronomy

RHONDA MARTENS

251

13

Plato's Timaeus in German Idealism: Schelling and Windischmann

WERNER BEIERWALTES

267

Bibliography Index of Passages Cited General Index

291 309 325