Porphyry
Porphyry
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Porphyry (ca. 232 – ca. 305)
波菲利 (Porphyry) (约 232 – 约 305)
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Greek author and Neoplatonist.
希腊作家和新柏拉图主义者。
Greek author and Neoplatonist. Of Porphyry’s many writings only his immensely influential Introduction (Eisagoge) to Aristotle ’s ‘Organon’ (logical works) was translated into Syriac. Two versions survive, the first, anonymous, made in the early 6th cent., and the second, in the form of a revision by Athanasios of Balad made in 645. Commentaries on his Introduction by Proba , Dionysios bar Ṣalibi , and Yawsep II survive.
希腊作者与新柏拉图主义者。在波菲利 (Porphyry) 的众多著作中，只有他对亚里士多德 (Aristotle)《工具论》（Organon）（逻辑著作）极具影响力的《导论》（Eisagoge）被翻译成了叙利亚语。现存两个版本，第一个版本匿名，制成于 6 世纪 (cent.) 初，第二个版本是巴拉德的阿塔纳修斯 (Athanasios of Balad) 于 645 年修订的版本。现存有普罗巴 (Proba)、狄奥尼修斯·巴尔·萨利比 (Dionysios bar Ṣalibi) 和约瑟夫二世 (Yawsep II) 对其《导论》的注释。
In two of his works Porphyry draws on a lost work by Bardaiṣan on the Indian Brahmans (‘On Abstinence’ IV.17, and at greater length, ‘On the Styx’, in Porphyrius, Fragmenta, ed. A. Smith [1993], 376F). Porphyry, who calls Bardaiṣan both a ‘Babylonian’ and ‘from Mesopotamia’, mentions that he had acquired this knowledge from an Indian embassy of ca. 218 to the emperor Elagabalus.
在波菲利 (Porphyry) 的两部著作中，他引用了巴尔代桑 (Bardaiṣan) 一部关于印度婆罗门 (Indian Brahmans) 的失传著作（《论禁欲》(On Abstinence) IV.17，以及篇幅更长的《论斯堤克斯》(On the Styx)，见 Porphyrius, Fragmenta, ed. A. Smith [1993], 376F）。波菲利 (Porphyry) 称巴尔代桑 (Bardaiṣan) 既是“巴比伦人 (Babylonian)“又是“来自美索不达米亚 (Mesopotamia)“，他提到这些知识是来自约 (ca.) 218 年前往皇帝埃拉伽巴路斯 (Elagabalus) 处的一个印度 (Indian) 使团。
References
S. P. Brock, ‘The earliest Syriac translation of Porphyry’s Eisagoge’, Journal of the Iraqi Academy, Syriac Corporation 12 (1988), 316–66. (Syr. of anonymous translation)
, ‘Some notes on the Syriac translations of Pophyry’s Eisagoge’, in Mélanges en hommage au professeur et penseur libanais Farid Jabre (Publications de l’Université Libanaise, Section des études philosophiques et sociales 20; 1989), 41–50.
A. Freimann, Die Isagoge des Porphyrius in den syrischen Übersetzungen (1897). (only the opening of Athanasios’s revision)
H. Hugonnard-Roche, ‘Les traductions syriaques de l’Isagoge de Porphyre et la constitution du corpus syriaque de logique’, in his La logique d’Aristote du grec au syriaque (2004), 79–96.
I. Ramelli, Bardaisan of Edessa: A reassessment of the evidence and a new interpretation (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 22; 2009), 91–109.
F. Winter, Bardaisan von Edessa über Indien (1999).
Citation
Sebastian P. Brock. 2011. “Porphyry.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Porphyry.