Retorica pagana e cristianesimo orientale: la traduzione siriaca dell’orazione Περὶ φιλίας di Temistio
No certain knowledge is available regarding the production and reception of the Syriac version of the Themistian oration On Friendship. It is nevertheless possible to obtain some information from a linguistic and stylistic comparison of the two texts and even more from a study of changes made by the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Brepols
2010
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Annali di scienze religiose
Year: 2010, Volume: 3, Pages: 161-188 |
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| Summary: | No certain knowledge is available regarding the production and reception of the Syriac version of the Themistian oration On Friendship. It is nevertheless possible to obtain some information from a linguistic and stylistic comparison of the two texts and even more from a study of changes made by the translator to the original text. Such an analysis has revealed the intention of censuring material explicitly tied to pagan religion and a style of life extraneous to Christianity whereas other references to classical Greek culture and literature underwent only generic revision and no Christian distortions of the text are present. On the whole, the translation denotes a greater interest in the rhetorical aspects of the text than in the contents which seem to have been altered only to the point of making them acceptable and understandable in a different cultural and religious context. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-8775 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di scienze religiose
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.ASR.1.100828 |