Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 2, Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation »

David T. Runia is Master of Queen's College and Professorial Fellow, School of History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has written numerous books and articles on ancient philosophy, specialising in the thought of Philo of Alexandria and the subject of ancient doxography.

Michael Share is an Honorary Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

This is the second volume in a new translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus.

Notes on the translation; Introduction to Book II; Structure of the commentary; Method of the commentary; The sources for Proclus' commentary; Main themes of the commentary; On the Timaeus of Plato: Book II; Analytical table of contents; On the proemium (27c-29d), translated by David T. Runia; On the creation of the cosmos (29e-31b) by Michael Share; References; English-Greek glossary; Greek word index; General index.