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Plato and Theodoret - The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance (Hardcover)
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Plato and Theodoret - The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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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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