Contemporary debate on Plato’s cosmogony often assumes that the ‘literal’ reading of the Timaeus yields an account of creation, while the view that the cosmos always existed is non-literal. In antiquity, Taurus has been seen as a forerunner of the ‘nonliteral’ interpretation. This paper shows, on the contrary, that Taurus’ argument for the sempiternity of the cosmos is a literalist one, relying on a strict linguistic analysis of Timaeus 28b6-8.
Argumentative Strategies for Interpreting Plato’s Cosmogony: Taurus and the Issue of Literalism in Antiquity
Federico Maria Petrucci
2016-01-01
Abstract
Contemporary debate on Plato’s cosmogony often assumes that the ‘literal’ reading of the Timaeus yields an account of creation, while the view that the cosmos always existed is non-literal. In antiquity, Taurus has been seen as a forerunner of the ‘nonliteral’ interpretation. This paper shows, on the contrary, that Taurus’ argument for the sempiternity of the cosmos is a literalist one, relying on a strict linguistic analysis of Timaeus 28b6-8.
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