Petrucci
Teone di Smirne
ISBN 978-3-89665-550-9
englischTheon was a teacher of Platonism and an exegete of Plato's text in the flourishing town of Smyrna during the first and second century of our age (fl. 125 a.D.). The Expositio is the only work of Theon that has been transmitted to us. It is an important witness in order to grasp not only the approach to mathematics (arithmetic, music and astronomy) typical of a middle-Platonist, but also (and above all) the exegetic aims of this project.
Here the Expositio is translated in Italian for the first time, with a deep revisal of the Teubner text.
The commentary shows that this work is a technical exegesis of the Timaeus, an attempt to argue that Plato has grasped in the most authentic way the true structure of the cosmos. On this ground, it is possible to see at work methods, intentions and strategies of a middle-Platonist engaged in the reargumentation of the Timaeus.
Nella fiorente Smirne dei primi due secoli della nostra era, Teone (fl. 125 d.C.) fu maestro di Platonismo ed esegeta del testo di Platone. L'unica sua opera a noi tràdita, l'Expositio, è una testimonianza ampia e importante per cogliere non solo l'approccio di un filosofo medioplatonico alle matematiche (aritmetica, musica e astronomia), ma anche (e soprattutto) le finalità, essenzialmente esegetiche, di questa operazione.
