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Document Details : Title: Plato in Syriac Literature Author(s): ARZHANOV, Yury Journal: Le Muséon Volume: 132 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2019 Pages: 1-36 DOI: 10.2143/MUS.132.1.3286532 Abstract : No Syriac translation of any genuine Platonic work has become known thus far, though the name of the Greek philosopher, a number of ideas associated with it, and texts that bear it in the title became an integral part of Syriac literature. All three phenomena, however, should be seen as a product of the specific period of time, the early Christian era and Late Antiquity. We are thus faced with a Syriac image of Plato based on wisdom literature, with Platonism characteristic of the monastic ascetic tradition, and with the texts representing these influences. |
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