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Nicholas of Damascus - ܢܝܩܘܠܐܘܣ ܕܕܪܡܣܘܩ

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"Historian and peripatetic philosopher, who served as adviser to Herod the Great (74-4 BC). Excerpts from the Syriac version of his compendium covering Aristotle’s works on natural philosophy and metaphysics (‘On the philosophy of Aristotle’) are preserved in ms. Cambridge, Gg. 2.14 (copied in 15/16th cent.?)."1

Names

  • ܢܝܩܘܠܐܘܣ ܕܕܪܡܣܘܩ
  • Nicholas of Damascus
  • Nicolaus of Damascus1

Birth

ca. 64 BC

Death

after 4 BC

Notes

"Historian and peripatetic philosopher, who served as adviser to Herod the Great (74-4 BC). Excerpts from the Syriac version of his compendium covering Aristotle’s works on natural philosophy and metaphysics (‘On the philosophy of Aristotle’) are preserved in ms. Cambridge, Gg. 2.14 (copied in 15/16th cent.?)."1
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  • 1 H. Takahashi, Nicolaus of Damascus, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 307307. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Nicolaus of Damascus