Proclus' Cosmogony - (D.T.) Runia, (M.) Share (edd., trans.) Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Volume II. Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation. Pp. xii + 410. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Cased, £65, US$130. ISBN: 978-0-521-84871-8.

Abstract

with Gnosticism and Manicheism) with their equally distinctive treatments of such notions as 'evil', 'sin', 'ascent', and the like. C. Steel concludes the collection fi ttingly, with an illustration of the former, demonstrating Proclus' continuation of a tradition of philosophical 'veneration of the earth' wherein in fact for Proclus 'the earth is a divine living being' (p. 266).