03-26-2008, 08:31 PM
Thanks for keeping up the good work, I love your site Jona and am happy to see more and more content on it.
Now speaking briefly about Synesius, I had just recently read Boethius, and boy what a tour-de-force that man's writing has been. By contrast Synesius and Late Greeks in general seem to be really.. nothing much to talk about. They started faltering in Second Sophistic but still had some great men during the period (Plutarch, Lucian); with time they just seem to have gotten less and less impressive. Boethius on the other hand is so powerful, even in translation, as to almost defy belief.
Now speaking briefly about Synesius, I had just recently read Boethius, and boy what a tour-de-force that man's writing has been. By contrast Synesius and Late Greeks in general seem to be really.. nothing much to talk about. They started faltering in Second Sophistic but still had some great men during the period (Plutarch, Lucian); with time they just seem to have gotten less and less impressive. Boethius on the other hand is so powerful, even in translation, as to almost defy belief.
Multi viri et feminae philosophiam antiquam conservant.
James S.
James S.
