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Question: How did Plato's writings survive until the present day!?
You hear about scholars translating them a few hundred years ago, but that still leaves a massive gap!. Did other people try to translate them before then and fail, or were they hidden in a cave somewhere!? Pointing at the back wall, observing the mere shadows of existence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Plato's dialogues survive in numerous manuscripts, mostly from the Byzantine era!. His works were consistently read and studied throughout the ancient world, and indeed, Plato's Academy in Athens was not closed until 529!. In part because so much early Christian theology was based on Platonic and Neoplatonic (a Renaissance of Platonic learning in the third century AD) philosophy, it survived throughout the Middle Ages!.

In the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, renewed interest in Greek writing in Western Europe led many educated Greeks to head westward to Italy and along with them, classical Greek literature!.

Hope that answers some of your question!.

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Fortunately, many Greek manuscripts were preserved by a civilisation that did not go through the dark ages!. As well as the preservation of ancient manuscripts this civilisation made many advances in the sciences, particularly mathematics and astronomy!. We owe a great debt to them, because without them the Renaissance and Enlightenment may not have happened!. So who were they!?








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