Hisdosus

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Hisdosus (fl c. 1100) also known as Hisdosus Scholasticus, was a writer and scholar who lived in the early 12th century.[1] Nothing is known about his life. A Latin commentary by him on Calcidius' translation of Plato's Timaeus survives in manuscript.[2] The commentary is probably most famous for containing a paraphrase of Heraclitus' comparison of the soul to a spider and the body to the spider's web (DK 22B 67a).[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Terence Irwin, (1995), Classical philosophy: collected papers, page 206. Taylor & Francis
  2. ↑ Codex Parisinus Latinus 8624
  3. ↑ Charles H. Kahn, (1981), The art and thought of Heraclitus, page 289. Cambridge University Press.
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