PLATO AND THEODORET by Niketas Siniossoglou ( 9780521300650 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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PLATO AND THEODORET
THE CHRISTIAN APPROPRIATION OF PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE HELLENIC INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE

By:

Niketas Siniossoglou

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0521300657

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9780521300650

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 April, 2011

Series:

Cambridge Classical Studies

Pages:

280

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A summary of the late antique Hellenic-Christian conflict regarding the compatability of Platonism and Christianity.

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In late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by Hellenism and Christianity. Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, Dr Siniossoglou examines the philosophical, rhetorical and political dimensions of the Neoplatonic-Christian conflict of interpretations over Plato. He shows that the apologist's aim was to procure a radical shift in Hellenic intellectual identity through the appropriation of Platonic concepts and terminology. The apologetical strategies of appropriation are confronted with the perspective of the intended audience, the Hellenic elite, by means of comparative discourse analysis. The outcome is a reconstruction of a vital trial of strength between Neoplatonic hermeneutics and the Christian rhetorical mode of rewriting Plato. The volume concludes that the fundamental Hellenic-Christian opposition outweighed any linguistic merging that might have occurred between the two systems, and that this opposition outlived the dominance of Christianity in late antique society and politics.

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