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joshuaissac on Sept 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Ameri...

The works of Aristotle were translated from Greek to Arabic by Islamic scholars in the early Middle Ages, mostly pre-dating the Latin translations, and they were sometimes the source from which the Latin translations were made.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/

jhgb on Sept 25, 2021 [–]

But people never forgot Greek. It was, and still is, a living language. (Not to mention the undesirability of second-hand translations...)

dr_dshiv on Sept 25, 2021 | [–]

Greek Orthodox; Roman Catholics forgot Greek. Until Marsilio Ficino translated Plato to Latin around 1450, Plato had been effectively lost in the west for 1000 years.

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