Carlos Steel

A critical study of the new edition by C. Luna and A.-Ph. Segonds of Book III of Proclus’ Commentary on the Parmenides in comparison with the Oxford edition of the same text. The study offers a philological discussion of difficult passages where the editors introduce new corrections into the transmitted text. Besides a number of excellent conjectures the editors also make corrections that are not needed and sometimes even deteriorate the text instead of improving it. For some difficult passages alternative solutions are proposed.