Plato and Theodoret by Niketas Siniossoglou - 9780521880732

Plato and TheodoretThe Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance\nAuthor(s): Niketas Siniossoglou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521880732, 978-0521880732\nSynopsis\nIn late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by Hellenism and Christianity. Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, Dr Siniossoglou examines the philosophical, rhetorical and political dimensions of the NeoplatonicChristian conflict of interpretations over Plato. He shows that the apologist's aim was to procure a radical shift in Hellenic intellectual identity through the appropriation of Platonic concepts and terminology. The apologetical strategies of appropriation are confronted with the perspective of the intended audience, the Hellenic elite, by means of comparative.