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Greek Wisdom Literature and the Middle Ages
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
其他書名
The Lost Greek Models and Their Arabic and Castilian Translations
出版
Peter Lang
, 2009
主題
Foreign Language Study / Latin
Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Religion / General
ISBN
3039117521
9783039117529
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1HEBjpsMpL4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In 13th-century Toledo, King Alfonso the Wise fostered the publication of Castilian translations of certain Arabic works that had in turn been translated from Greek and Pehlvi. In this book, which is the revised English version of the Spanish original published under the title of
Modelos griegos de la sabiduría castellana y europea
, the author studies four of these Castilian translations - the
Libro de los Buenos Proverbios, Poridad de las Poridades
or
Secreto de secretos, Bocados de Oro
and
Historia de la Donzella Teodor
- works of sapiential literature that had an enormous influence in all of Europe. Their Arabic models had been translated from Greek in Bagdad at the instigation of the great caliphs of the 9th century and also in the Fatamid court at Cairo in the 11th century.
The traditional view is that this literature is simply of oriental origin, but the author believes that the models were Greek Byzantine works discovered by the Arabs in Syria and Egypt in the 7th and 8th centuries. Their true origin is to be found in the Greek sapiential literature that developed around the figures of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Alexander in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine schools of philosophy; its influence can frequently be found reflected in authors of Christian literature. A detailed study of themes, vocabulary and expressions in the works themselves confirms these origins.