The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol.
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What it is about
Proclus's Platonic Theology in Thomas Taylor's English translation: six books that read Plato's dialogues as a system of gods and hypostases.
Context and history
It is worth knowing who the translator is. Thomas Taylor was a convinced Neoplatonist translating in the early nineteenth century, when almost nobody in England could check him, and his versions are at once an enormous service and a problem: he interprets as he translates, and the vocabulary is his own. Thanks to him Blake, Coleridge and the English Romantics read Neoplatonism; for philological work, however, he cannot be trusted without checking.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Zευς, χαι θεοι, βροτεια λευσσοντες παθη. _Euripides._ There are, there are, though laugh the scoffer may, Jove and the Gods, who mortal ills survey. ωσπερ εισι θεοι πολλοι, χαι χυριοι πολλοι. Corinth. I. Cap. 8. v. 5. As there be GODS many, and LORDS many. TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, _By A. J. Valpy, Tooke’s Court, Chancery Lane_. AND SOLD BY MESSRS. LAW AND Co.; LONGMAN AND Co.; BALDWIN AND Co.; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. 1816. To WILLIAM MEREDITH, ESQUIRE, WHO WITH A FIRMNESS AND MUNIFICENCE, UNPARALLELED IN MODERN TIMES,
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