ABSTRACT
The sources for the antique philosophical tradition had hardly changed between the ninth and twelfth centuries: Plato’s Timaeus with Calcidius’s commentary, Macrobius’ commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. But the careful, scholarly attention which these texts began to receive from some of their readers, is new; and it is accompanied by a degree of respect-at times, indeed, reverence-for Plato, which is unparalleled even in the most enthusiastic Platonists of the earlier Middle Ages.
