Ancient Greek Philosophy and the East. Selected Bibliography Part I. The Eastern world through the eyes of Ancient philosophers Part II. Classical Greek philosophy in the mirror of the Syrian and Armenian traditions

Abstract

This entry is a fragment of the thematic bibliography on Ancient Greek and Eastern philosophy. The goal of this bibliography is to systematize scholarly publications in Russian and European languages focusing on such topics as (1) testimonies about the acquaintance of Greek philosophers with Eastern wisdom and personal contacts with Eastern sages; 2) evidence about educational trips of philosophers to the East (Egypt, Persia, India); 3) sources in which the question of the eastern origin of philosophy is discussed; 4) the transformation of the Classical heritage in the process of its translation into the Syrian, Armenian, and Arabic languages; 5) ancient and medieval pseudepigrapha.

The “East” within this project is represented by Egypt, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, India, Syria, Judea, the Sasanian Empire, Armenia, the Umayyad Arab Caliphate, and the Abbasid Caliphate. With a few exceptions, the bibliography does not include works devoted to Patristics and Christian literature. An important scholarly goal of the bibliography is to clarify the available amount of information about the ancient philosophical texts lost in the original. The complete bibliography consists of three parts. This issue includes only the first two of them: “The Eastern world through the eyes of Ancient philosophers” and “Ancient philosophy in the mirror of the Syrian and Armenian traditions”. The third part “Classical philosophy in the medieval Islamic world” will be published in the consecutive issue.