From dlupher@ups.edu Sat May 4 10:44:34 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g44HiXw3062582 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 10:44:33 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sat May 04 10:44:32 2002 -0700 Received: from mail.ups.edu (mail.ups.edu [192.124.98.111]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g44HiVre009025 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 10:44:32 -0700 Received: from [207.207.116.56] (wyatt1dhcp56.ups.edu [207.207.116.56]) by mail.ups.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g44HiVc08430 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 10:44:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: dlupher@mail.ups.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3CD3F121.1FAE54F@garts.latech.edu> References: <008f01c1f2ce$d806e5c0$05ea1ec4@al40> <001701c1f2df$2d182370$8d86cd80@ss.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 10:44:31 -0700 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Lupher Subject: Re: Latin translations of Greek texts Bruce Magee asks: >Didn't Boethius translate Aristotle? Or was his work a looser >transmission of Aristotle's ideas? He translated a good deal, if not all, of Aristotle's "Organon." At least he translated "Peri Hermeneias" and the "Categories" (so the Oxford Dict. of the Christian Church, ed. 3) and "Topics" and "Sophistici elenchi" (so OCD3). The ODCC3 says that "his trs. of works of Aristotle are included in the relevant vols. of 'Aristoteles Latinus'." It's too bad that the translations of Plato, Aristotle, Porphyry and Plotinus by Marius Victorinus have apparently been entirely lost. Not only might they be interesting in themselves, but they (along with the story of their translator) have the historical interest of having facilitated Augustine's conversion (see Conf. 7.9-10 and 8.2). David Lupher Classics Dept. Univ. of Puget Sound .