Preferred Citation
Daniel King, Why the Syrians Translated Greek Philosophy and Science, in Why Translate Science? Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic), ed. Dimitri Gutas, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section One: The Near and Middle
East 160 (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 170–253.
Subjects
- Arab Christians
- Aristotle
- Galen
- George, bishop of the Arabs
- Greek philosophy
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- IV-VII CE
- IX CE
- Jacobites
- Nestorians
- Paul the Persian
- Probus
- Sergius of Reshaina
- Severus Sebokht
- Silvan of Qardu
- Timothy I
- VI CE
- VII CE
- VII-XVIII CE
- VIII CE
- medicine
- primary sources [Syriac] + English translation
- science
- translation
- translations from Greek
- translations into Syriac
Full Citation Information
Permanent Identifiers
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Article
Title: Why the Syrians Translated Greek Philosophy and Science
Author:
URI: http://syriaca.org/cbss/LE4GKM38
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Publication
Title: Why Translate Science? Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic)
Editor: Dimitri Gutas
Place of Publication: Leiden
Publisher: Brill
Date of Publication: 2022
Pages: 170-253
Series
Title: Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section One: The Near and Middle East 160