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  title info:
    title: Testimonies of the Platonic tradition
    sub title: 4th century BC-16th century AD
  title info:
    title: Diachronika tekmēria tēs Platōnikēs paradosēs. English
  name:
    name part: Staikos, K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First English edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: gre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 312 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Testimonies of Platonic Tradition' is, in a way, a continuation of Konstantinos Staikos's recent publication 'Books and Ideas: The Library of Plato and the Academy' (2013). It deals with questions of transmission and classification of Plato's Dialogues from the philosopher's own age down to the 16th century, that is, with the fate of the Platonic corpus. As the chronicle of this journey unfolds, readers will be able to follow the foundation of philosophical schools whose teaching was based on Platonic theories and concepts, in East and West. They will also obtain an overview of the works of commentary and annotation of Plato's works, composed by Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Arab authors in order to elucidate the philosopher's thought. The books makes clear the importance of 'Timaeus' from antiquity onwards, as this work became the bible of Platonism ever since Chalcidius paraphrased the dialogue into Latin and offered a classification of its subjects into categories. In addition, mention is made of the translation of 'Timaeus' and 'Parmenides' into Latin by the Greeks Henry Aristippus and George of Trebizond; the publication of the Latin translation of the philosopher's 'Complete Works' by Marsilio Ficino and the part played by the Platonic Academy of Florence in further transmitting the philosophy of Plato. The text also describes how Marcus Musurus prepared his 'editio princeps' of Plato's complete works and finally deals with the historical period when the debate over the primacy of Plato or Aristotle broke out.
  note: K. Sp. Staikos ; translated by Alexandra Doumas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: In English, translated from Greek.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  classification: 184
  identifier: 9781584563358
  identifier: 1584563354
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150529
    record change date: 20151118082403.0
    record identifier: in00003602916