Priscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia

by Priscian

Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy of the commentators to other cultures.

Tantalisingly, Priscian fully recorded in Greek the answers provided by the Athenian philosophers to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472584139
• ISBN13: 9781472584137
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"