{"id":2987,"date":"2010-06-06T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chalcidius\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:46:28","slug":"chalcidius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chalcidius\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalcidius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>halcidius (Calcidius)<\/strong> was a fourth-century Christian neo-Platonist. At the request of Bishop Hosius of C\u00f3rdoba he produced one of the earliest Latin versions that we have of part of Plato\u2019s <em>T<\/em><em>imaeus<\/em>, sections 17a-53c, based on long-lost Greek manuscripts. Chalcidius also gave us a commentary on the text. which was at times more studied than the translation itself. One researcher claims that Chalcidius was possibly Saint Augustine<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest known complete manuscript of a number of the dialogues is known as the <em>Clarke Plato<\/em> (<em>Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39<\/em>, or <em>Codex Boleianus MS E.D. Clarke 39<\/em>), which was written, in Greek,\u00a0in Constantinople in 895<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Digby23 <\/em>codex contains a 12<sup>th <\/sup>century copy of Chalcidius\u2019 Latin translation of <em>Timaeus<\/em> bound with a copy of <em>The Song of Roland<\/em>, which is also kept in in Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Library, can now be read online<sup>(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>We had to wait until the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century for a full translation of all the dialogues, also in Latin, to be produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ficino-marsilio\/\">Marsilio Ficino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201024132307\/https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tribesofatlantis\/Home\/wisdom-of-the-first-book-of-atlanteans\">Wisdom of The First Book of Atlanteans &#8211; Tribes of Atlantis (archive.org)<\/a><\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><sup>\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com\/index.php?topic=21170.0;wap2\">https:\/\/atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com\/index.php?topic=21170.0;wap2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/catalog\/manuscript_4352\" class=\"broken_link\">https:\/\/medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/catalog\/manuscript_4352<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalcidius (Calcidius) was a fourth-century Christian neo-Platonist. At the request of Bishop Hosius of C\u00f3rdoba he produced one of the earliest Latin versions that we have of part of Plato\u2019s Timaeus, sections 17a-53c, based on long-lost Greek manuscripts. Chalcidius also gave us a commentary on the text. which was at times more studied than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,402,2775,975,1229,2776],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodleian-library","tag-chalcidius","tag-e-d-clarke","tag-marsilio-ficino","tag-st-augustine","tag-the-song-of-oland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65993,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/65993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}