Tauros

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Tauros

An ancient philosopher of the Middle Platonist tradition, known today through a small surviving body of classical writing. His work explores big questions about the world’s eternity and the structure of the cosmos.

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Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe : Taurus, the Platonic philosopher, on the eternity of the world. Julius Firmicus Maternus of the thema mundi. Select theorems on the perpetuity of time, by Proclus.

Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe : Taurus, the Platonic philosopher, on the eternity of the world. Julius Firmicus Maternus of the thema mundi. Select theorems on the perpetuity of time, by Proclus.

by Julius Firmicus Maternus, Proclus, Tauros

About the author

Little is known for certain about Tauros as a historical figure. The available records identify him with Lucius Calvenus Taurus, a Greek philosopher active in the 2nd century AD and associated with Middle Platonism.

He is remembered less through a large surviving corpus than through a work transmitted in later collections as On the Eternity of the World. That text places him in the long classical conversation about whether the cosmos had a beginning or has always existed.

Because the evidence is fragmentary, many personal details remain unclear. Even so, Tauros stands out as one of those ancient thinkers whose surviving pages still carry the flavor of philosophical debate in the Roman-era Greek world.