Question from an ignoramus (me): What were the sources/manuscripts from which we know of Socrates/Plato/Aristotle? Were they ever lost and 'rediscovered'? Were their commentaries on them throughout the ages continually?
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@QuasLacrimas or@PaulSkallas or@Megillus probably know good info on the timeline2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Socrates attested in many sources; Plato Xenophon Aristophanes main “primary sources” but lots of ancient doxography (incl Aristotle)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AngloRemnant and
Plato we would know “about” even from Latin sources but the dialogues were all preserved in Byzantium and copied/translated after council of florence
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AngloRemnant and
Aristotle had a copy of his corpus in Alexandria that was basis for many long quotes/plagiarism in other books but this was accidentally burnt by Caesar’s troops
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The modern corpus comes mainly from a copy kept by Aristotle’s kin in a basement in Anatolia for 200yrs
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It was brought back to Athens by a plutocrat just before Rome conquered, looted it, it was in Pompey’s palace iirc and his librarian embezzled it and put out the modern edition
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AngloRemnant and
Boethius translates the logical parts (organon) and those were in use continuously thru middle ages; various new translations from Greek post-1200, modern edition of whole corpus printed in latin 1496
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Wow that's fascinating. Thank you!.
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