Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translation

Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and TranslationCSCO 669, Subs. 138Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BAC6FPNI/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Yury N.ArzhanovSyriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translationhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BAC6FPNIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/BAC6FPNIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/BAC6FPNILeuvenPeeters2019CSCO 669, Subs. 138Syriac “Sayings of Greek Philosophers” (SGP) is a corpus of sentences preserved in a number of Syriac manuscripts in the form of different collections and under different titles (until now these sentences were mainly referred to as “On the Soul”). SGP consists of two main blocks of sentences represented by two gnomic anthologies, the “Dublin Florilegium”, consisting of short maxims, and the “Tur 'Abdin Florilegium”, including longer expositions in moral philosophy, or “counsels”. The first introductory part of the book not only describes the textual witnesses of SGP, but also surveys all other extant gnomic materials attributed to Greek philosophers and poets (the Seven Sages, Homer, Plato, Menander, Pythagoras, Theano, etc.), including gnomologia, florilegia, exempla, and doxography. Two chapters of the introduction focus on the pedagogical use of the gnomic materials mainly connected with the new Christian forms of rhetorical education based on the study of the Bible and on the texts of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus. The second part of the book contains a critical edition of SGP on the basis of 15 manuscripts. Arzhanov, Yury N. Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translation. CSCO 669, Subs. 138. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. Yury N. Arzhanov, Syriac Sayings of Greek Philosophers: A Study in Syriac Gnomologia with Edition and Translation, CSCO 669, Subs. 138 (Leuven: Peeters, 2019).AhikarAlexander the GreatAntony of TagritApollonius of TyanaGreek philosophyGregory NazianzenIV-VII CEJacobitesJohn of ApameaLucianMenanderPhiloxenus of MabbugPlatoPlutarchPythagorasSahdonaSecundusSextusStomathalassaTheanoThemistiusVII-XVIII CEeducationflorilegiumgnomologiaprimary sources [Syriac] + English translationprophecytestimoniatranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac