Echoes of the Definitions Ascribed to Plato in a Medieval Armenian Compendium
Muradyan, Gohar · 2024
Before 1267 a certain Gregory of Jerusalem compiled an Armenian collection of philosophical texts whose core is 365 definitions covering logic, natural philosophy, ethics and epistemology, translated from a lost or unidentified Greek collection. Definitions are variously ascribed to Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Muradyan traces parallels for 175 of the Armenian definitions and presents 25 that correspond, sometimes as literal translations, to the pseudo-Platonic Horoi, plus three parallels with authentic Plato. She also notes that a passage translated from the Timaeus differs from the known medieval Armenian version.
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Muradyan, Gohar 2024. Echoes of the Definitions Ascribed to Plato in a Medieval Armenian Compendium. Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 45–57 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); eISSN 3041-5063.
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Greek philosophy as Armenians actually received and rewrote it.
Grabar philology by a senior Matenadaran scholar; important for the Hellenizing translation tradition.
Plato reached us in Armenian, and we changed him on the way.
How Greek philosophy was translated, reshaped and preserved in Armenian.
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