CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
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CHAPTER VI.
Platonic Canon, as Recognised by Thrasyllus.
Platonic Canon — Ancient and modern discussions
264
Canon established by Thrasyllus. Presumption in its favour
265
Fixed residence and school at Athens — founded by Plato and transmitted to successors
ib.
Importance of this foundation. Preservation of Plato’s manuscripts. School library
266
Security provided by the school for distinguishing what were Plato’s genuine writings
267
Unfinished fragments and preparatory sketches, preserved and published after Plato’s death
268
Peripatetic school at the Lykeum — its composition and arrangement
269
Peripatetic school library, its removal from Athens to Skêpsis — its ultimate restitution in a damaged state to Athens, then to Rome
270
Inconvenience to the Peripatetic school from the loss of its library
ib.
Advantage to the Platonic school from having preserved its MSS.
272
Conditions favourable, for preserving the genuine works of Plato
ib.
Historical facts as to their preservation
ib.
Arrangement of them into Trilogies, by Aristophanes
273
Aristophanes, librarian at the Alexandrine library
ib.
Plato’s works in the Alexandrine library, before the time of Aristophanes
274
Kallimachus — predecessor of Aristophanes — his published Tables of authors whose works were in the library
275
Large and rapid accumulation of the Alexandrine Library
ib.
Plato’s works — in the library at the time of Kallimachus
276
First formation of the library — intended as a copy of the Platonic and Aristotelian Μουσεῖα at Athens