'''Hisdosus''' (fl. c. 1100), also known as '''Hisdosus Scholasticus''', was a writer and scholar who lived in the early 12th century.<ref>Terence Irwin, (1995), ''Classical philosophy: collected papers'', p. 206. Taylor & Francis</ref> Nothing is known about his life. His first name is unknown, but he states that "I call myself Hisdosus, taken from the name of my father."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jeauneau|first=Édouard|title=Rethinking the School of Chartres|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=120|year=2009|isbn=978-1442600072}}</ref>
== History == A Latin commentary by him on Calcidius' translation of Plato's ''Timaeus'' survives in manuscript.<ref>''Codex Parisinus Latinus'' 8624</ref> He comments on the passage in the ''Timaeus'' (34b–36d) that deals with the World Soul.<ref name="j76">{{Cite book|last=Jeauneau|first=Édouard|title=Rethinking the School of Chartres|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=76|year=2009|isbn=978-1442600072}}</ref> The commentary depends on the glosses by the French scholastic philosopher William of Conches on the ''Timaeus'', and it has been supposed that he may have been a pupil of William of Conches.<ref name="j76"/>
Hisdosus' commentary is the only source (albeit in Latin paraphrase) for Heraclitus' comparison of the soul to a spider and the body to the spider's web (DK 22B 67a).<ref>Charles H. Kahn, (1981), ''The art and thought of Heraclitus'', p. 289. Cambridge University Press.</ref>
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