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what? no. if we can read plato and aristotle - and a bunch of others - it's thanks to Catholics monk.
by kome 5y ago
what? no.
if we can read plato and aristotle - and a bunch of others - it's thanks to Catholics monk.
- joshuaissac 5y agoThe works of Aristotle were translated from Greek to Arabic by Islamic scholars in the early Middle Ages, mostly pre-dating the Latin translations, and they were sometimes the source from which the Latin translations were made. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle 2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/
- jhgb 5y agoBut people never forgot Greek. It was, and still is, a living language. (Not to mention the undesirability of second-hand translations...)
- dr_dshiv 5y agoGreek Orthodox; Roman Catholics forgot Greek. Until Marsilio Ficino translated Plato to Latin around 1450, Plato had been effectively lost in the west for 1000 years.