Has an Arabic text of Livy ever been recovered? NO. No Latin text was translated into Arabic other than Orosius.
What ancient Greek or Latin historical writings survive in Arabic? NONE.
Well, that takes care of a lot of work ...
Monday, June 3, 2013
Dimitri Gutas of Yale on the Survival of Ancient Historical Texts in Arabic
Dimitri Gutas of Yale is the American doyen for Graeco-Arabic textual transmission who continued the work of Franz Rosenthal in the same area. I asked him the following questions:
Well, that takes care of a lot of work ...
Well, that takes care of a lot of work ...
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."