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Commentaries on Plato refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Plato. Many Platonist philosophers in the centuries following Plato sought to clarify and summarise his thoughts, but it was during the Roman era, that the Neoplatonists, in particular, wrote many commentaries on individual dialogues of Plato, many of which survive to the present day.

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Commentaries on Plato

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Commentaries on Plato refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works...

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Exegesis

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Commentaries on Plato include a large corpus of literature, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Plato....

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Commentaries on Aristotle

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philosopher, wrote commentaries upon Aristotle's Meteorology and Categories. Simplicius of Cilicia (6th century) wrote extensive commentaries upon Aristotle...

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Proclus

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Proclus's works are commentaries on dialogues of Plato (Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus). In these commentaries, he presents his own...

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Allegorical interpretations of Plato

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Surviving commentaries on Plato's dialogues by Neo-Platonists such as Proclus contain extended allegorical interpretations. Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides...

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Plato

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proposing an ideal city governed by philosopher-kings. Many of these commentaries on Plato were translated from Arabic into Latin and as such influenced Medieval...

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Crantor

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of the Old Academy who was the first philosopher to write commentaries on the works of Plato. Crantor was probably born around the middle of the 4th century...

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Allegory of the cave

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Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect...

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Phaedo

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these commentaries, see now Gertz 2011, pp. 4–5 Both are translated in two volumes by L.G. Westerink (1976–7), The Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo...

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Marsilio Ficino

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Commentaries on Plato. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Bilingual, annotated English/Latin editions of Ficino's commentaries on the works of Plato. vol. 1, 2008...

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Platonic Academy

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romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle studied...

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Theory of forms

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criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms is a large one and continues to expand. Rather than quote Plato, Aristotle often summarized. Classical commentaries thus...

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Atlantis

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of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. In the story, Atlantis...

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Aspasius

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It is the earliest extant commentary on any of Aristotle's works. Porphyry told that Aspasius wrote commentaries on Plato, and that his Aristotelean...

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Themis

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Commentary on Plato's Republic II 207, 14 Kr.], 162 [= Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus 41 e (III 274, 17 Diehl)], 181 [= Proclus, Commentary on...

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Iamblichus

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philosophers. Iamblichus designed a curriculum for studying Plato and Aristotle, and wrote commentaries on the two which survive only in fragments. Pythagoras...

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Cronus

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August 2016 – via Perseus Digital Library Plato, Cratylus, 402b Plato, Cratylus, 402b Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Cratylus, 396B7. Marenbon, John (ed.)...

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Zagreus

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The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus of Plato Vol 1., London: Thomas Taylor, 1820. Internet Archive Taylor, Thomas (1820b), The Commentaries of Proclus...

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Commentary of a philosophical text

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commentators carried out on renowned philosophical texts, especially texts from Plato and Aristotle (see Commentaries on Plato and Commentaries on Aristotle). A...

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Astral plane

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accounting for the influence of the stars upon human affairs. In his commentaries on Plato's Timaeus, Proclus wrote the following: Man is a little world (mikros...

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