By comparing relevant phrases and fragments from Calcidius’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (5th century ?), the concept of the Latin author on the Universe is reconstructed in the context of foreign historiography of the 20th century. The studies of B. Switalsky (1902), G. Borghost (1905), G. K. Prächter (1910), E. Steinheimer (1912); R. Jones (1918), Victor De Clercq (1954), J. C. M. Van Winden (1959), J. H. Waszink (1962), J. Den Boeft (1970, 1977), J. Dillon (1977; 1996), St. Gersh (1986) are discussed; attention is drawn to a number of other, earlier — A. Gercke (1886), E. Hiller (1871) and later — A. Somfai (2002, 2004), G. Jonkers (2016), C. Hoenig (2018), R. Jones (2018) ones. The eclecticism of Calcidius’ ideas is shown, reflecting, in addition to Platonic ones, a wide variety of ideas that fit into the Greco-Roman scientific knowledge of Antiquity in combination with Christian dogmas.
Maya Petrova (Wed,) studied this question.