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Plato wasn't translated into Latin until the middle ages?
by Causality1 5y ago
Plato wasn't translated into Latin until the middle ages?
- dr_dshiv 5y agoUntil c.1450, the only Plato was the Timeaus and some scattered partial translations.
- hihihihi1234 5y agoModern philosophy courses tend to give equal weight to Aristotle and Plato (with a side order of Socrates), but for most of Western history the only pre-Christian philosopher that anyone cared about was Aristotle, who was often simply referred to as "The Philosopher". Plato was largely ignored and forgotten until there was a burst of scholarly interest in him in the 19th century. Source: some random thing I read online somewhere; I might be wrong in the details.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoThis is really not true, sorry. Plato was huge in the Renaissance and his academy ran in Athens (not continuously) from about 400BC-550AD. Platonism had a major influence on the formation and reception of Christianity and Islam, as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism
- hihihihi1234 5y agoYou may be right, I'm very far from being an expert. Was just repeating something I read somewhere.