RT Book
T1 Syriac sayings of Greek philosophers: a study in Syriac gnomologia with edition and translation
T2 Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium
T2 Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium / Subsidia
JF Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium
A1 Arzhanov, Yury 1979-
LA English
LA Classical Syriac
PP Lovanii
PB In Aedibus Peeters
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663728186
AB "Syriac "Sayings of Greek Philosophers" (SGP) is a corpus of sentences preserved in a number of Syriac manuscripts in the form of different collections and under different titles (until now these sentences were mainly referred to as "On the Soul"). SGP consists of two main blocks of sentences represented by two gnomic anthologies, the "Dublin Florilegium," consisting of short maxims, and the "Tur 'Abdin Florilegium," including longer expositions in moral philosophy, or "counsels." The first introductory part of the book not only describes the textual witnesses of SGP, but also surveys all other extant gnomic materials attributed to Greek philosophers and poets (the Seven Sages, Homer, Plato, Menander, Pythagoras, Theano, etc.), including gnomologia, florilegia, exempla, and doxography. Two chapters of the introduction focus on the pedagogical use of the gnomic materials mainly connected with the new Christian forms of rhetorical education based on the study of the Bible and on the texts of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus. The second part of the book contains a critical edition of SGP on the basis of 15 manuscripts."--
CN BR60.C5
SN 9789042937253
SN 9042937254
K1 Sayings of Greek philosophers
K1 Philosophy, Ancient : Translations into Syriac
K1 Philosophy, Ancient : Influence
K1 Greek literature : Translations into Syriac : History and criticism
K1 Christian literature, Syriac : History and criticism
K1 Christian literature, Early : Syriac authors : History and criticism
K1 Fathers of the church, Syriac