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  • ...red to his works, said he wrote [[Commentaries on Aristotle|commentaries]] on most of the works of [[Aristotle]]. ...rphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]] told that Aspasius wrote [[commentaries on Plato]], and that his Aristotelean works were used in [[Plotinus]]' school. ...
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  • ...x philosopher|name=Syrianus|school_tradition=[[Neoplatonism]]|influences=[[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Plutarch of Athens]]|birth_place=[[Alexandria]]|influen ...eavens|De Caelo]]'' and the ''[[De Interpretatione]]'' of Aristotle and on Plato's ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]''. ...
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  • ...merican]] philosopher and interpreter of [[Plato]], who worked extensively on the nature and historical origin of modern symbolic mathematics. ...last=Gourevitch, Victor.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/855896607|title=On Tyranny : Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Koj eve Cor ...
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  • ...erroneously attributed to him, one ''On Emotions'', the other a commentary on Aristotle's ''Ethics'' (really by [[Constantine Paleocappa]] in the 16th ce ...N. |date=8 August 2013 |url-id=aristotle-commentators |title=Commentators on Aristotle }} ...
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  • ...n]]'s [[Justinian#Suppression of religions|Decree of 529 AD]] which closed Plato's [[Academy]] in Athens and other pagan schools. Olympiodorus was the last .... 520. He was still teaching and writing in 565, because in his commentary on [[Aristotle]]'s ''Meteorology'', he mentions a [[comet]] that appeared that ...
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  • ...ope'' – as the basic objection – has also been used by Greek philosophical commentators as well as modern philosophers.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Many Sides: A Protago ...bridge|pages=27}}</ref> This assumption was later refuted due to a mistake on the part of Sextus' interpretation that the Protagorean measure doctrine bo ...
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  • | notable_works = ''On Grief'' ...philosopher to write [[Commentaries on Plato|commentaries on the works of Plato]]. ...
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  • ...ics (Aristotle)|Metaphysics]]'' of [[Aristotle]]. His [[habilitation]] was on [[Nemesios of Emesa]] in 1914. At only 26 years old, Jaeger was called to t ...st Speeches and Lectures''), and his book ''[[Demosthenes]]'' (1938) based on his [[Sather lecture]] from 1934. Jaeger's messages were fully understood i ...
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  • ...works comes chiefly through the doxographical works of later philosophers, commentators, and biographers. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists the followi ...ectly tell us what their predecessors' beliefs were. Plato's ''[[Apology (Plato)|Defense of Socrates]]'', for example, tells us much of what we know about ...
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  • ...st2=Kimon |last3=Tarrant |first3=Harold |title=Olympiodorus: Commentary on Plato's Gorgias |date=1998 |publisher=Brill |location=Leidon, The Netherlands |is ...shed in the ''[[Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum]]'', and lectured on [[Ancient Greek astronomy|astronomy]] and [[Ancient Greek geometry|geometry ...
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  • | influences = [[Plato]] ...Strategikos'' ({{langx|grc|Στρατηγικός}}) - a short but comprehensive work on the duties of a [[general]], which was dedicated to [[Quintus Veranius]]. T ...
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  • ...n 1766. Ruhnken and [[Valckenaer]] were the two pupils of the great master on whom his inheritance must devolve.{{sfn|Smith Reid|1911}} ...more worthy of the chair of Latin. Ruhnken's defence was to publish works on [[Latin literature]] which eclipsed and silenced his rivals.{{sfn|Smith Rei ...
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  • |caption = A portion of [[Phaedrus (dialogue)|Plato's Phaedrus]] from the Codex Clarkianus believed to have been commissioned b ...es]] are credited with preserving many ancient texts, including those of [[Plato]] and [[Marcus Aurelius|Marcus Aurelius']] "[[Meditations]]".<ref>{{cite bo ...
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  • ...that the deme Anagyrous was thoroughly stirred up [i.e. "in uproar" / "out on the street"].<ref>[The Works of] Aristophanes in Three Volumes A further layer of meaning can be guessed at in the pun: some commentators have inferred that a playful (possibly traditional) jibe at the inhabitants ...
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  • ...was a 4th-century philosopher who translated the first part (to 53c) of [[Plato]]'s ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' from [[Greek (language)|Greek]] into ...ronomical]] knowledge.<ref name="grant"/> In the 12th century commentaries on this work were written by Christian scholars including [[Hisdosus]]<ref>Ter ...
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  • ...ht to have traveled to the [[Bactria]]n city of [[Ai-Khanoum]] (Alexandria on the Oxus) in modern [[Afghanistan]]. Clearchus wrote extensively around {{BCE|320}} on Oriental cultures, from [[Land of Israel|Israel]] to [[Persia]] to [[India] ...
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  • ...holar]] and translator known for work on [[ancient philosophy]], notably [[Plato]], [[Parmenides]], [[Thucydides]], and [[ancient Greek religion]]. [[France Cornford was born in [[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]], on 27 February 1874.{{sfn |Hackforth |Gill |2004}} He attended [[St Paul's Sch ...
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  • {{short description|Socratic dialogue written by Plato}} ...ː|z}}; [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by [[Plato]]. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the conc ...
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  • ...monastic monk, in regard to the writings of the philosophical writings of Plato, Aristotle and Plontius.<ref name="BittonKofsky">{{cite book |last1=Bitton- ...hes the "form" of the body retains the power of resuscitating the "matter" on the last day.<ref name = Migne/>{{rp|982}} ...
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  • ...only because the 1st century rhetorical treatise ''[[Longinus (literature)|On the Sublime]]'' was ascribed to a "Dionysius or Longinus" in the medieval p ...[[Fronto of Emesa]], the uncle of Longinus, taught rhetoric at Athens, and on his death in Athens left behind him Longinus, the son of his sister Fronton ...
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