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So preserved by Christian monks? But then, was it a case of rediscovery later or was the discourse on these philosophers nearly continuous? I'm asking because of the case in India of the Arthashastra, which was 'rediscovered' in the 19th century.
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Interesting. It's why they had to keep contending with it I guess.
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Imagining a MEMRI mullah talking about Aristotle just...doesn't make sense to me lol
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They were never lost, at least not in the Greek-speaking world. Commentarial activity drops off sharply in both quantity and quality after the closure of the Academy in Athens, but is continuous in a sense.
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Considering that Greeks became 'Byzantines' did the Byzantines not comment on them much?
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After the closure of the Academy at Athens, we effectively cease to see commentaries on Plato, because the bitter conflicts with the last generations of pagan Platonists had made him a poison pill. But commentary on Aristotle continues.
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Some of this is due to the general lessening of interest in philosophy in this era. Xtianity did not assign so high a value to it, and times were tough. But Xtians passed on a certain tradition of philosophical commentary to the Muslims.
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This tradition was, as I indicated, centered on Aristotle. But Plato was present in a mediated sense, as epitomes of Neoplatonic thought, suitably monotheized, did circulate in Xtian and Muslim circles. The only dialogue I have heard of Muslims having is the Republic, though.
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Byzantines continued to read and copy manuscripts of Plato in order to master classical literary Greek. It is interesting that Proclus gets copied so much, even translated into languages like Georgian. That may speak to a certain heretical interest in the notorious polytheist.
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When Michael Psellos comes along in the 11th century, though, he seems to be attempting to revive philosophical study of Platonism, as if it had quite died out by then. Not much seems to have come of it. The manuscripts, of course, came West after the fall of Byzantium.
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Much of Aristotle’s work wasn’t translated into Latin until the 13th century and Plato not until the Renaissance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle …
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Sure but even elite Romans spoke Greek mostly, or so I read.
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Aristotle's manuscripts, as the story goes were literally lost in some guys basement for like a few hundred years, (just thought i'd add), we tend to fuck up the important things as humans, I think Cicero relied on primary sources from Aristotle and the Periapatics(Lyceum school)
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Thanks! so they were lost almost immediately but then preserved later on.
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