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Plato’s Timaeus inspired a uniquely enduring interest across disciplines. In the centuries between its composition and the seventeenth century, scholars looked to this dialogue for answers to questions about the structure of the universe and how to live a healthy and happy life. They saw cosmology as vital to medicine and ethics; and, for them, harmony in music and architecture facilitated balance in the human soul. This interdisciplinary collection explores how the dialogue transformed the disciplines of cosmology, music, medicine, and architecture, and how new intellectual and cultural developments in turn shaped and re-contextualized interpretations of Plato’s ideas.
Price: $175.00
Pages: 446
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
19 December 2024
ISBN: 9789004431089
Format: Hardcover
Jacomien Prins is a research fellow at Utrecht University. She has worked extensively on the interaction between music and philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work includes Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Brill, 2014), Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (Routledge, 2017), and The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (Routledge, 2018).
Edmund Thomas is Associate Professor in Ancient Visual and Material Culture at Durham University and a former director of the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. He has published many works on the intellectual and cultural background of Greek and Roman architecture and the classical architectural tradition up to the present day, including Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Edmund Thomas is Associate Professor in Ancient Visual and Material Culture at Durham University and a former director of the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. He has published many works on the intellectual and cultural background of Greek and Roman architecture and the classical architectural tradition up to the present day, including Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age (Oxford University Press, 2007).