Plato, Republic 588b-589b VI,5: 48,16 - 51,23 (PR588b-589b)
Severe damage to the top four or five lines of each page of this brief tractate as well as the extremely difficult Coptic in which it is written made this document an unsolved riddle until H.-M. Schenke identified it as a very poor translation of a section from Plato's Republic (588b-589b). Pri...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill Academic Publishers
2012
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| In: | In: The Coptic Gnostic Library - A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, volume 3 |
| Series/Journal: | BrillOnline Reference Works
Coptic Gnostic Library |
| Further subjects: | B
Plato Republic
B Gnostic literature B Nag Hammadi Codices |
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| Summary: | Severe damage to the top four or five lines of each page of this brief tractate as well as the extremely difficult Coptic in which it is written made this document an unsolved riddle until H.-M. Schenke identified it as a very poor translation of a section from Plato's Republic (588b-589b). Prior to this discovery it had been wrongly associated with the title of the preceding tractate by J. Doresse (Secret Books, p. 143). Without recognizing that it was an excerpt from Plato, Krause published the editio princeps and described this writing as an untitled work with Hermetic affinities |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004228900_cgl_aPR588b_589b |