A while back I tried to compile a list of Platonists in the Italian Renaissance, beginning with Marsilio Ficino's Florentine circle. It didn't take long...
John Would you place Leonardo da Vinci in that circle? I have made a study of his version of Vitruvian Man and certain aspects of his notebooks. I have...
If we acknowledge the continuity of modern science with ancient philosophy, then we immediately demolish the central founding myth of modern scientism: the...
Les, I looked into possible direct connection between da Vinci and Ficino's Platonic circle, but don't recall what I concluded (though this would be an easy...
Certainly. I am especially interested in Leonardo's relationships with Donato Bramante and, in particular, with Cesar Cesariano, who also published a...
Leszek Kolakowski mentions interestingly the mythical science of our time in his book "The Presence of Myth". I think it is a good book. ... From: Curt...
I see that you're as annoying here as you were in the Julian Society. I'm not sure how you managed to track me down here, or why you bothered to dig up a post...
Just received a copy of the 2008 English translation of Nemesius' "On the Nature of Man" by R.W. Sharples and P.J. van der Eijk. It's in the Liverpool U Press...
This may indeed be old news, but I found this most fascinating today, that among the leaves of the Archimedes palimpsest is also apparently part of a likely...
Hi JC, Please be so kind as to moderate your language and attitude so i will not have to moderate your posts. Much appreciated and let this stop here! Cheers, ...
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John Dillon
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Nov 4, 2009 9:31 am
... Many thanks for that, Dennis. I had heard of it vaguely, but not focused on it. The link is most interesting. I hope to see Bob Sharples briefly next ...
... That's certainly well timed - I guess it would be nice to have some Platonist content in the Commentary also, though it sounds from his report that so far...
In fairness to JC, my opinion is that it is the purpose of moderation to intercept precisely such messages. If this one fell through the cracks, that's not...
Sorry to pick your collective brains in this way, but can you help me find a reference? What number fragment, according to Diels' classification, is...
Charles Kahn's translation (in his "The Art and Thought of Heraclitus") is "the way up and the way down is one and the same". I think that's the more usual...
Quick work, Bruce! DK = Diels and Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (The Fragments of the Presocratics), Berlin 1951. John Uebersax ... From: Bruce...
As promised earlier this year, the Prometheus Trust has now published a slightly updated edition of Westerink's texts and translations of Olympiodorus and...
... That's good news, Tim. Even with the new Bude of the Damascius on Philebus - and it should be noted by the way the very gracious statement by van Riel in...
Dennis The aim of the "Platonic Texts and Translations Series" - of which the two volumes on the Phaedo are the latest additions - is to reprint texts which...
... That would be nice to have too, of course. I don't think the Olympiodorus has been translated into English - or any other modern language? But here's a...
They are late, they may be "tainted" by Byzantine Orthodoxy (the counter-vailing factor is the monks-Palamas group would not have made such commentaries unless...
... M.C. An odd series of comments. Yes, Olympiodorus is late....but so are Simplicius and Damascius, and I presume no one would assume they are ""tainted" by...
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Jan Opsomer
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Nov 7, 2009 10:35 am
I have studied Olympiodorus for my article in the Cambridge History of Late Ancient Philosophy, and I can assure you that he was not "tainted" by Orthodoxy....
The Byzantines not only maintained texts but commented on them. Some of the Renaissance interpretations of Plato are guided by these Byzantine commentators. I...
Hi Thomas, I had difficulty, too, seeing the immediate connection between your post and the earlier one, so thanks for explaining it. You seem to be suggesting...
... George Gemistos Plethon lived the last half of his very long (~100 years) life in exile in Mistra, which is widely reported to have been a hotbed of...
... There was nothing "secret" about Pletho's writings: some were addressed to the emperor Manuel, and they gave rise to lively controversies during his...
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